Masterclass. Cooper Lutkenhaus wins US title #1. 1:46.68

Great run for Dolan.

A few weeks ago, he was losing a race to a Upenn freshman. Now he's on the world championship team.

Actually, I didn't look. Does he have the standard?

Decisive victory. He looks confident this year. Spring break in Poland!

No standard AFAICT

So I looked it up. He doesn't have the qualifier.

Nowhere close. It's kind of wild. A guy who wouldn't even make NCAAs in the 800 right now (sb of 1:47.20) just finished 2nd at USAs in the pro ranks and some good pros showed up. Still a great race for him.

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So does that mean he won't make the team?

Anyone see if Isaiah Harris avoided shaking hands with Cooper?

Why would he avoid it? Is there some background info here?

Imagine the Monday morning announcements at his high school. Right after congratulating the math bowl team right to great job to junior Cooper for becoming national champion! 🤯

Just remember he obviously avoided it two weeks ago in North Carolina. Idk if that’s Cooper-specific or Harris is just a sore loser.

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There's already an official thread.

It's not Cooper specific. Harris did the same to Jewett at the Olympic trials, literally shaking his head and refusing the handshake after Jewett offered twice. This was after they both failed to advance out of the semis, and if anything Harris impeded Jewett in the final 100.

Harris is just a sore loser, I remember someone tried to help him up at USAs after the race and he just ignored him

Yup. Probably pissed because he thought he was gonna be the next big thing. Hasn't improved in years. Meanwhile current Penn Staters are running times he wished he could as a pro, and Lutkenhaus is cleaning up and making him look afool.

I’m more impressed with his 1:44 than today’s race. He and Harris were the only ones that had times in the top 10 last year. Outdoor meets against Brazier, Hoppel and Hoey will be far more exciting to watch.

Harris has actually always been a sore loser and a runner who shoves and cuts off people, always unnecessarily physical — the Olympic Trials video from track level showing him going from the inside of lane 1 out to lane 4 and physically blocking Jewett, and then refusing a handshake from the always chill Jewett after was just removed from Youtube - probably because Harris saw it posted here a couple of weeks ago. Not to forget Harris at Nats one year when he viciously cut off Murphy attempting to teip him. Murphy ran the last 100m on pure hate and mowed Harris down. And a couple of weeks ago Harris did an about face to avoid shaking Cooper’s hand. He’s just one of those guys.

They shook.

I thought he looked a bit off today -- nerves plus running the heat yesterday. Plenty good enough against this crowd, but he'll need to be better to win in Poland.

Of course it was a blue ribbon fantastic run by any other teenager's standard!

Nobody has a Cooper-specific problem. I mean, just listen to the kid, he's 100% genuine and humble.