dd wrote:
Because an olympic silver medal, in most any distance, is a pretty good surrogate marker of 1) talent 2) ability to perform under pressure 3) ability to take on the best in the world and beat almost everyone 4) train intelligently to peak for a big race.
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1. This was not a big race and
2. any distance? So Carl Lewis should be taken seriously for a 15k? TWILL couldn't break 2:11 in the marathon. Something that 40 plus americans have done. However, none of those marathoners have ever run faster than TWILL for 15k. The 2 events are eons apart.