bulldog35 wrote:
Hey Sarcasm! I believe both Flanagan and Willis got the most out of there potential at the Olympic games.
Willis took that confidence and using it now being quite dissapointed when he loses to the likes of Lagat and has looked incredible indoors.
Flanagan is a superb runner with great form and her effort at the Olympics was commendable. Rupp performed well at the Olympics as well but you didn't see Willis celebrating his personal indoor mile time losing to Lagat did you?
Try this numbnuts. Let's say Willis races in New Zealand, breaks at 25 year old record by Rod Dixon or John Walker and nearly wins the race against Lagat. The New Zealand press ask him to stand next to his record for a photo. You think he says "no thanks"?
That would be disrespectful to the former record holder and the people of New Zealand by basically saying, sorry your records don't mean sh#t.
To put it more into perspective, it would have to be in a situation where Lagat is in his prime as a 3:48 (or better) indoor miler and Willis has an all time PR of 3:54. The race unfolds to 3:50.10 for Lagat and 3:50.19 for Willis. Now you have something in the same from of reference as Rupp's race against Daba.