some stats wrote:
You need to write more clearly. You said nothing about the need to have a 10k with 2 5ks in your original post. Those performances listed are not just "fine", but AMAZING. And I am not being negative about Solinsky's performances AT ALL, I think his first two races are awesome, and his third solid (but not incredible). This is not taking anything away from him, just being even-keeled about his races and firmly keeping in mind the previous history of US athletes in track. Let's try to give credit to the past!
I wrote clearly. I put up a 10k a 5k (two of the best distance performances we have on the IAAF scoring table) plus an American soil 5k, which the nattering nabobs called "embarrassing" Nothing about my post discredits the past. For you to casually dismiss Solinsky's incredible race yesterday is sad. In all of the 5000 races ever run in this country, only a mercenary American has ever run faster than Solinsky did yesterday. That is incredible.
As I've said once, and I'll say it again, all of those performances by those other athletes are fine, but no American has ever strung together three races the way Solinsky just did. What's scary, is that I think his next 5000 will be even more incredible.
1) AR in the 10000, 1st American under 27:00
2) #3 Alltime 5000, 5th American under 13:00
3) #2 Alltime American on home turf