Grant Fisher Should be Ashamed of Himself

OED wrote:

Ridgemonter wrote:

So a paced race where everyone one is single file and rabbits peal off like a rocket launch is exciting for the average fan? Every distance race longer than a mile is boring for the average fan until the last couple of laps. To them there was no less nothing happening in this race than any other race. There were lead changes. People moved up or down.

Personally, I found it fascinating. Would someone break? Would they just wait until the last lap? Will they do this in the 3k as well now?

I’m not saying I don’t like a fast race, but the wave-light 3 pacers races get a bit monotonous. The Olympics and WC races far more exciting. IMO.

Last night’s race and a paced, fast race are not the only two options. A competitive race where guys are challenging each other, trying to break the other guy during the race is what should have happened last night. You know, guys actually racing a 5k. Instead we got a race where high school Danny Simmons would have lapped the winner.

OED wrote:

Ridgemonter wrote:

So a paced race where everyone one is single file and rabbits peal off like a rocket launch is exciting for the average fan? Every distance race longer than a mile is boring for the average fan until the last couple of laps. To them there was no less nothing happening in this race than any other race. There were lead changes. People moved up or down.

Personally, I found it fascinating. Would someone break? Would they just wait until the last lap? Will they do this in the 3k as well now?

I’m not saying I don’t like a fast race, but the wave-light 3 pacers races get a bit monotonous. The Olympics and WC races far more exciting. IMO.

Last night’s race and a paced, fast race are not the only two options. A competitive race where guys are challenging each other, trying to break the other guy during the race is what should have happened last night. You know, guys actually racing a 5k. Instead we got a race where high school Danny Simmons would have lapped the winner.

Kickers usually win wrote:

Grant Fisher Disser wrote:

It’s not so much the scrub kick today. It’s that Grant is beginning to show that he is a liar.

He told Letsun yesterday he expected the pace to stay honest and that there was no way the alternative would happen even though everyone is doubling back. That was a lie.

He insisted to Letsrun after the race today that there is no way that the 3K will go that slow with so many guys with a lot to gain. This is clearly a lie. He said essentially the same thing less than 24 hours ago about the 5k. Why would we believe him now when he told the exact same lie yesterday? He thinks we’re idiots.

He made up every kind of excuse to not run World Cross last year. Those were lies. His lack of participation had nothing to do with preparing for the Olympics and there not being the right incentives. He just didn’t want to get beat. Why not just say that? It would have been refreshing.

He’s lied in countless other interviews too. He usually downplays his goals with this stupid aw shucks false humility. He’s too dishonest to say what he really wants; to crush everyone every single time because he believes he’s the best.

I don’t trust Grant at all. He’s got this slick demeanor with pre rehearsed interview answers with this phony Joe Biden smile. I get the feeling Grant never says one true thing.

Your post is kind of insane.

OED wrote:

Ridgemonter wrote:

So a paced race where everyone one is single file and rabbits peal off like a rocket launch is exciting for the average fan? Every distance race longer than a mile is boring for the average fan until the last couple of laps. To them there was no less nothing happening in this race than any other race. There were lead changes. People moved up or down.

Personally, I found it fascinating. Would someone break? Would they just wait until the last lap? Will they do this in the 3k as well now?

I’m not saying I don’t like a fast race, but the wave-light 3 pacers races get a bit monotonous. The Olympics and WC races far more exciting. IMO.

Last night’s race and a paced, fast race are not the only two options. A competitive race where guys are challenging each other, trying to break the other guy during the race is what should have happened last night. You know, guys actually racing a 5k. Instead we got a race where high school Danny Simmons would have lapped the winner.

vzxczvxc wrote:

Hallelujah Praise the Lord Fisher is a cheat wrote:

1. Kicks cannot be improved after the age of 21. It can only be maintained and declined.

2. Fisher in no way should or could improve his kick with respect to himself or with respect to any other past present and future competitor after the age of 22 without the aegis of drugs.

3. Fisher improvement of his kick also comes from having once no kick at all. Those legit athletes who did improved their kick had actually come from having some form of pernicious kick previously. Example Matt Tegenkamp. Fisher had none.

4 Fisher is 26 this year.

The OP is justified.

From 2017:

"Stanford sophomore Grant Fisher won the men's 1,500 meters at the Pac-12 Track and Field Championships at Hayward Field on Sunday and became the ninth individual in school history to win a men's 1,500 or mile at the outdoor conference meet.
Fisher, a returning first-team outdoor All-America in the 5,000, won a tactical race in 3:54.67 and became the first Stanford 1,500 champ since Garrett Heath in 2008.
Fisher tucked into the front pack in the slow early-going and was in a close third coming to the bell before unleashing a 51.81 final lap to outdistance Oregon runner-up Blake Haney, who finished nearly a second back."