Just saw on Instagram that Cooper Teare won a two man race against Thomas Vanoppen of Belgium (who also ran a PB of 3:36.78) and pretty much solo’d 3:32.16. The Olympic 1500m squad just got even more difficult now that Cooper’s shown he’s in the best shape of his career so far. We have four big contenders for the team in Nuguse, Hocker, Kessler, and now Teare. Scary to think that at least one of these names will miss the 1500m team.
not solo he had hole locker pacing
From that group, Nuguse and Hocker seem the closest to "locks" for the team, with Teare and Kessler battling it out for a third spot (both have decent 1500m PRs, both not entirely consistent on bigger stages with the exception of Hobbs' great showing at his latest World Indoors). Still, the beauty of the USA Olympic Trials is that they'll all still race...we won't know until we see who is better on the day!
Well it is not impossible that one of the 4 is missing because of an injury...and another doesn't qualify because randomness of the event.
yessireee wrote:
From that group, Nuguse and Hocker seem the closest to "locks" for the team, with Teare and Kessler battling it out for a third spot (both have decent 1500m PRs, both not entirely consistent on bigger stages with the exception of Hobbs' great showing at his latest World Indoors). Still, the beauty of the USA Olympic Trials is that they'll all still race...we won't know until we see who is better on the day!
I could see colin sahlman in the mix too depending on if he is able to beat adam spencer, ethan strand and UW trio at outdoors
results can be found