Official 2026 Lievin live discussion thread - Keely goes for the WR + live video show at 4:20 pm ET.

It’s during work hours on a Thursday. This is an American site…

We call them FREEDOM FRIES here.

We'll be going live at 4:20 pm ET.

Work just gets in the way of life.

There are a couple of YouTube channels carrying coverage live.

Search "Lievin 2026", then filter to 'live'.

1:16 at 500m (W 1500) is flying

And then a 34.00 second lap...Flotrack stream is good this time

It's on the WA page for free if you have a VPN and have a UK IP address. I got mine from the Brojos.

Letsrun.com/vpn

Lights are supposed to kinda solve this for the pacers, but too many seem to freelance. My only real takeaway is that GHB is in reasonable shape and happy to frontrun from 600 out. Feels like Hiltz could beat her for sure. Haylom is highly beatable for whoever the US sends to get the third medal. Looks like F. Hailu is running the 3,000 and that is probably ESP's top competition for gold there.

Before the TV window began and before the results site broke, there was a stacked women's 3000.Oh wait, they are showing the replay right now so I won't spoil it.

Ok. Here is the 1st page of results.

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Last year's world indoor champ at 3k, Freweyni Hailu, who was 6th at Worlds in the 1500 outdoors, won it .

Battocletti had her own lights for the European record but she didn't dig very deep late and missed it by .03.Antone watching on flotrack? Can you rewind it - or is it only live? On the WA site, you can't rewind.

Will be interesting to see Moe Berg vs tough competition

Pattison ran a weird race. All the way in the back entire time only to kick massively for third in a B race. 1:46.04.

B heat, Navasky Anderson and Kebenei went for it but couldn't hold onto a hot pace. Ended up being slow and only the winner Stepanov hit the modest World Indoor Q of 1:45.89. I'm not sure how fit Pattison truly is but he ran very conservative and didn't really give himself a chance to win. He does already have the standard so I guess that's whatever.

Crestan remains a man to beat. 1:43.91 FTW.

It was interesting that despite the new start, this one still went out crazy fast (right on 24-flat). Most of the field survived it but can't have been ideal pacing-wise especially for the guys who went wide (Moula namely).

Probable because of the novelty, as guys are still guessing how fast they have to go out to position themselves well later during merging. Indicates a lot that during WC it will boil down to who can go out fast AND die the least during the last 80m. Crestan seems to be the type.

Those who will be sensible with their pace during first 400m will be too far back in the end to contend for the win.

I think he has to be viewed as the favorite for World Indoors over Cooper assuming Cooper makes it. In good form, seasoned racer.

They went out hard today.

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splits today:

Crestan
23.97
50.13 (26.16)
1:17.33 (27.20)
1:43.91 (26.58)
1st two splits were for rabbit. Crestan was a little behind.

Cooper's splits over the weekend
24.89
50.56 (25.67)
1:57.56 (27.00)
1:44.03 (26.48)

Live results site seems to be down now.