Hopefully Ritz will be healthy and well trained, but USATF better not send him to Bejiing to drop out when we have plenty of other A runners.
What is the list of potential replacements?
Hopefully Ritz will be healthy and well trained, but USATF better not send him to Bejiing to drop out when we have plenty of other A runners.
What is the list of potential replacements?
Khannouchi
Lemkuehle
Brown
It goes by order of finish at the Olympic trials.
How deep? Dont you have to have the A?
secondchances wrote:
How deep? Dont you have to have the A?
every one who has run under 215 from septemer 1st 2006 until now, the usa will go down the line of olympic trials finishers if someone drops out, the list off the top of my head so there is probably more
kk
lehmkuhle
browne
n. jennings
i am pretty sure only those 7 went under 215 at the trials.
A. It'd be KK
B. It's not going to be KK, as Ritz will run.
doug burke wrote:
secondchances wrote:How deep? Dont you have to have the A?
every one who has run under 215 from septemer 1st 2006 until now, the usa will go down the line of olympic trials finishers if someone drops out, the list off the top of my head so there is probably more
kk
lehmkuhle
browne
n. jennings
i am pretty sure only those 7 went under 215 at the trials.
Others with the A:
Verran
Young
Abdi
Gilmore
...and Cabada
and Hussein, Sawe, and Shay
First of all, the question is moot. Dathan IS running. He is not seriously hurt. He is simply being cautious which is smart. He is here in Grand Rapids and I had a chance to talk with him yesterday about his current situation.
The USATF says that you MUST have finished the trials to be eligible. Your place finish at the trials in order of IAAF eligible athletes is the order.
IAAF says that you must have run sub 2:15 or been top 25 at OSAKA.
That means that Fernando, Gilmore Sawe, Hussein and all others that did not cross the finish line at the trials are NOT eligible to participate in the Olympics by USATF rules.
Khalid is the alternate. 4th at Trials
Jason Lehmkuhle is next. 5th at Trials
Dan Browne is next. 6th at Trials.
Jenkins is next. 7th at trials.
8th-11th did not run sub 2:15 anytime during the qualifying window and are not eligible.
Mike Morgan is next 12th at trials. Finished 23rd in Osaka.
Clint Verran is next 18th at trials with a sub 2:15 during the qualifying period.
I believe that those 6 along with the 3 qualifiers are the only 9 that have met both the USATF (finishing the trials) and the IAAF standards for the games.
Kevin Hanson wrote:
IAAF says that you must have run sub 2:15 or been top 25 at OSAKA.
....
Mike Morgan is next 12th at trials. Finished 23rd in Osaka.
From the IAAF site, it's just the top 20 from Osaka, so no Americans there, if that's truly the case!
http://www.iaaf.org/OLY08/standards/index.htmlNot that it's likely to come down to that...
Still plenty of time for anyone who wants it to get that A. I see Stockholm's coming up. That's a qualifier.
smell my watch wrote:
Still plenty of time for anyone who wants it to get that A. I see Stockholm's coming up. That's a qualifier.
I doubt that any of the American runners who needs a qualifier will get it in Stockholm. The Stockholm course is very slow and the weather in notoriously unreliable. Sometimes it´s ridiculously hot (like last year) or extremely windy.
From Stockholm wrote:
I doubt that any of the American runners who needs a qualifier will get it in Stockholm. The Stockholm course is very slow and the weather in notoriously unreliable. Sometimes it´s ridiculously hot (like last year) or extremely windy.
I'm an optimist!
Who do you think finished out of the top 7 will need a qualifier?
King of the short bus wrote:
Who do you think finished out of the top 7 will need a qualifier?
Keflezighi will, just in case 5 or more of the top 7 get injured.
I won't be surprised if Nike arranges a highly coincidental series of "accidents" in which Hall, Sell, Khannouchi, Lehmkuhle, and Jenkins are all hurt, thus leaving an all-Nike team of Ritzenheim, Browne, and Keflezighi, if he can qualify.
Meb, are you out there? We'll see you in Stockholm! And Beijing!
I am not certain that the US would not send someone to the Games if they did not compete at the Trials if the alternative was to not send a full team. They would be the last to fill the slot and would only go if there were two A qualifiers and no other A qualifiers that had finished (or run) the Trials. However, I am not certain of this and am not sure that we will ever know unless the situation arises and, as you have indicated, it will not.
it will be dean karnazes