Boling cracks 45 flat.

That’s impressive.

He should still switch to LJ😁

Yep.

I am guessing that he and his coaches know what's best for him

Good to see him get under 45 but he's best at 200m and most competitive relative to the talent in an event at long jump, because the event has been very weak for a long time. His natural event disposition shows in his 400s-he gets out fast, ahead of the 400 guys and then falls back in the last 150-200m.

He looked real ragged the last 70m or so. If he can address that in his training maybe he can go mid 44's soon.

PRs are always nice. But Boling will have to slice at least half a second off this new PR to even make the finals at the trials.

Seems unlikely that a 44.48 will be needed to make the finals at trials.

Probably will be needed to make the team. But possibly not

Boling has the ability to go sub-44. He has very similar 100m and 200m times to Van Niekerk.
Maybe he should track down that old lady in South Africa, I bet she could turn him into a 400m champion.

He’s a world record holder and gold medalist on the track. I doubt he could be either in the field.

This has been said since his freshman Indoor season at Georgia when we all watched him tense up the last 50-70m of every single race. Either he can't be coached, or hasn't ever found a good coach, to teach relaxation when running.

Correct. Boling's time will make finals.

Boling turning into Nick Symmonds the last 50m of every race is actually pretty funny

Sub-45 for the white gorilla is impressive

Keep guessing.

At a fast enough pace, everyone ties up at the end of a 400m. You’ve never heard the phrase, “A bear jumped on his back”?

Nah.

LJ takes an appreciation of technique. MB is not that guy.

He was a little better technically in this race. Hopefully its a turn around for him.

I don't like Matt Boling as a 400m athlete but he is a W.C. gold medalist, B Relay.

If he focused on 200m, as I have stated for a couples years, I see f.a.t. sub-19.80. Issue: 19.79 200m might not make Olympic team.

There is no biological/physiological evidence supporting 400m athletes, extreme positive splitting said race. History of extreme positive splitting 400m, spawned from old 440 yard athletes positive splitting in order to establish position, lane 1.

He has had a few races where he did not get ragged at the end

Nick has to be the least smooth sub 1:43 800k runner of all time

Christian Morales Williams just popped a 44.06 yesterday.

His technique is not good