Spiderpig wrote:
It wasn't a knock, it was assessing his performances on the world stage honestly. He hasn't been a success. What's the alternative to being a success? As for my point, it only arose because you possibly misstated your own. Just saying he's "consistent" is really open-ended.
Last post, man. With regard to your point about him not being a success: I disagree. I don't know what you expect from a 21 or 22 year old kid at championship meets these days. But I consider his making the 1500 final in 2005 a "success" for the kid. The top guys in that race were out of his league. The fields are ridiculously tougher than they were back in the day of the guys that (only) you are comparing him to. It's certainly not black and white: it's not all success or all failure, unless you are Pre or a Pre disciple.
My point was not open-ended at all. I was not talking about his being "consistent" on "the world stage". I was talking about his consistent and steady improvement in 1500 times over the past 3 years. I don't really understand how you failed to pick up on that in my initial post. The subject was Webb and doping, and I was using his consistently improving 1500m times as a defense. No mention of championship races, as they are pretty much irrelevant in the case of times. And that's all I have to say about that.