Zurich sucked this year

Byers didn't "occasionally" steal anything. He stole 1 race, that's it, and it was slower than this years Weltklasse.

Thanks for explaining the joke.

Actual headline on the above linked article:

"American Runner Sanya Richards Sets World Record for 400-meters at Weltklasse Golden League Meet"

Honestly, I find fast times WAY MORE EXCITING than jog-and-kick, unrabbited races. I wanna see who's fastest AT THEIR FASTEST. Plus, more guts involved if you ask me. If we need rabbits to help the fastest in the world along, so be it. Anyone else feel this way?

Mr. Cat wrote:

Honestly, I find fast times WAY MORE EXCITING than jog-and-kick, unrabbited races. I wanna see who's fastest AT THEIR FASTEST. Plus, more guts involved if you ask me. If we need rabbits to help the fastest in the world along, so be it. Anyone else feel this way?

Yes, of course. The idea that it's "easy" for any old runner to get towed along to, say, a 3:31 or 12:55 time is just dumb. The fast races prove that the winner is really the best over the full distance.

the no rabbits idea was a complete dud. even in wc's and olympics you occasionally get team tactics pulling an el g to a fast time, but at zurich it was all bad in the distances. the zurich champion? what a distinction. it was also close in time but very far in distance to wc's, a deadly combination. hopefully, we'll see some impressive times in brussels and rieti soon.

jonesy wrote:

the no rabbits idea was a complete dud. even in wc's and olympics you occasionally get team tactics pulling an el g to a fast time, but at zurich it was all bad in the distances. the zurich champion? what a distinction. it was also close in time but very far in distance to wc's, a deadly combination. hopefully, we'll see some impressive times in brussels and rieti soon.

They have the right idea. Rabbited races are shit. Fast non-rabited races are as good as it gets IMHO. What they need to do is make most of the prizemoney dependent on breaking a certain time. e.g. $3000 for the win, $15,000 for the win in under 3.35.

They are on the right track, but it will take a while to gets things right.

I don't think Zurich's problem this year was unrabbited races. I think the main problem is the meet was 5 days after Worlds.

Bekele wasn't running so what good is a rabbit going to do? El Guerrouj retired last year.

A rabbit is not going to make Asafa Powell or Tyson Gay run.

Zurich's problem was a few stars skipped the meet.

1500-5k running on the men's side has been extremely weak this year in terms of times. I don't think a rabbit would have made the guys all of a sudden get much faster.