Robby Andrews will become the next Sebastian Coe. American mile domination is back!!!

I agree with another poster that he has the Fermin Cacho style .Cacho had a nasty kick as evidenced in his 1992 gold medal. He also ran 3:28 so he wasn't a slouch.

The way Andrews just glided to the lead from ~200m out was impressive. If the pace is slower at the olympics and he decides to run 1500m - don't be surprised if he Andrews pulls a Billy Mills and busts through Kiprop and that other Kenyan for the gold. It could happen.

I don't know about that? Seb Coe was already Seb Coe at this stage of the game...A world record holder by the time he was 22....

My boy is on the mends!!!

confederate joe wrote:

My boy is on the mends!!!

"mend"

I was stoked to see him make the team, but he will never run much faster. He is tapped out. Maybe run a 1:45 and 3:34 again, but never make an Olympic team. He was VERY LUCKY this year.

ScaryDumb wrote:

I was stoked to see him make the team, but he will never run much faster. He is tapped out. Maybe run a 1:45 and 3:34 again, but never make an Olympic team. He was VERY LUCKY this year.

Wrong

Andrews will never be a force on the world stage (medal or at least a legitimate threat to medal). But he has a good shot at making the US team several times over the next 6 - 8 years.

He might be able to become the Nick Symmonds of the 1500, but Coe wasn't kicking to place. This isn't meant as a criticism of Symmonds. He's been very good when the 800 field internationally has been stunning. I don't think the 1500 field is nearly as good internationally, but I don't see Coe kicking for major wins.

Steve Cram wrote:

He will own the American mile record within 3 years.

Let's see . . . .Coe set the first of his world records at age 23.

Andrews is 24 now. If he gets the American record in three years . . . . yeah, I see how you make the Coe comparison.

So people are saying that Robby will:

(1) Become a blood doper;

(2) Develop toxoplasmosis secondary to steroid use weakening his immune system;

(3) Become a hypocrite conservative politician and try to remove funding from the most respected media organization in the world;

(4) Travel around the world trying to cover up rampant violations of the World Anti-Doping Code (Russia, Jamaica, NOP)

I don't think Robby has it in him.

Larry Dickman wrote:

Steve Cram wrote:

He will own the American mile record within 3 years.

Let's see . . . .Coe set the first of his world records at age 23.

Andrews is 24 now. If he gets the American record in three years . . . . yeah, I see how you make the Coe comparison.

Actually, Coe was 22 (born September 29, 1956) when, in the summer of 1979, he set WRs for 800 meters (1:42.33, on July 5), the mile (3:48.95 on July 17) and 1500 meters (3:32.03 on August 15).

While breaking the current WRs in any of those distances is beyond the reach of Robby Andrews, in my opinion--at least if he wishes to remain a clean athlete (the current WRs are the product of significant pharmacological intervention)--some of the times above, if not all of them, are challenging but possibly realistic goals...

the world record was 3:50

Andrews is a far better human than Coe

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Larry Dickman wrote:

Let's see . . . .Coe set the first of his world records at age 23.

Andrews is 24 now. If he gets the American record in three years . . . . yeah, I see how you make the Coe comparison.

Actually, Coe was 22 (born September 29, 1956) when, in the summer of 1979, he set WRs for 800 meters (1:42.33, on July 5), the mile (3:48.95 on July 17) and 1500 meters (3:32.03 on August 15).

While breaking the current WRs in any of those distances is beyond the reach of Robby Andrews, in my opinion--at least if he wishes to remain a clean athlete (the current WRs are the product of significant pharmacological intervention)--some of the times above, if not all of them, are challenging but possibly realistic goals...

So, Coe was 22 in 1979 when he ran 1:42.33 and 3:48.95, but Ventolin thinks that he could not have legitimately run 1:41.73 two years later at 24 when he also ran 2:12/3:47???

Yea.Ok. wrote:

Coe was consistently good for over a decade. Robby hasn't done crap yet besides get lucky in one race.

He actually wasn't. In fact he was so bad for a couple years the British press wrote him off before the 1984 Olympics. After three years to start his career, Coe was inconsistent the rest of his career, particularly over 1500.

Les wrote:

Yea.Ok. wrote:

Coe was consistently good for over a decade. Robby hasn't done crap yet besides get lucky in one race.

He actually wasn't. In fact he was so bad for a couple years the British press wrote him off before the 1984 Olympics. After three years to start his career, Coe was inconsistent the rest of his career, particularly over 1500.

Even in his worst years, Coe was still a threat. In 82 he was still #1 at 800m, won a European silver and was part of a WR. In 83, when I'll, he still managed to run 1:43. When suffering several injuries in 85 he still managed 1:43.0, 3:32.1, 3:49.2, times that would all have been WR's at the start of 79.

He was European indoor champion at 800 in 77 at age 20 and World Cup silver medalist at 1500m ( as well as running 2nd fastest 800 of the year ~ 1:43.3) in 1989 at age of 32. That's pretty consistent running for over a decade in my book. And Andrews hasn't hit those heights once in any year yet.

Over half the world's population have toxoplasmosis in their system.

There is no evidence that Coe blood doped or used steroids.

Where are all the cases of known steroid users developing toxoplasmosis?

Can't think of one!