Rí Rá agus Rualie Bualie wrote:
rojo wrote:Heat #2 .
Kirprop looked great!!!!
But how about Olionaird wr however you spell it. From NCAA goat to world championship final.
Who are you calling a goat?!! For a man who is suppossed to be in charge of this website, describing an athlete as a goat could be construed as libel.
Ciarán had an infection at NCAA outdoors. Dont forget that he was a medal prospect, having cantered to 28.32. I dont think he is losing too much sleep at having run a bad race at a collegiate event. He has bigger fish to fry, and by comfortably taking the scalps of big names like willis, higuero and mekonnen he has done just that.
His team lost the team title by 1 point and he didn't score. I'm sure he was gutted by that.
The thing is he's always had my utmost respect as clearly he was gutted by that performance. You could tell he wanted it badly.
Ever since, I watched a tape of his acc 1500 victory, I'be been a big fan. To me his struggles at ncaas, make this all the more impressive.
But if you don't think that a world championship finalist not scoring at ncaas is a huge failure, then clearly you don't understand how much the ncaa means to the collegiate athletes. I'm sure at the time he wasn't thinking "Oh i'll be going to worlds later in the summer - no worries." I mean the guy was aa 5k/10k at the time and was nowhere near the A standard in either event.