ALAN WEBB 1:51.91 ACCEPTED AT USA INDOORS

NostradamusMan wrote:

Webb will be mid-pack, running around 1:49-low or even 1:48-high. It will be encouraging in some respects. But the posters here will declare it everything from "he's back" to "he's finished," neither of which are true. In late March or early April, he'll have a few 3:38-3:40 performances, finishing towards the front but never winning. He'll bust out one promising 3:34 or 3:35 before the trials. Some will say he's a contender for trials. But when the pressure is on, Webb will put on a little fight around 1000m but then lose focus and fade to about 6th or 7th.

Alright homeboy. Ima bookmark this thread, & when Alan wins the 1500 at the trials ima rub it in yo pathetic whiteboy face

coach d wrote:This IS a former 1:43 800 guy, remember. Now that he's competing in NC, I can't help wondering if maybe they're actually planning to compete in the 800 for the Olympic trials because it might be easier to make the team, and the training might be less stressful (particularly in terms of volume).

Five guys ran 1:44 last year, and another five were close behind. Many of them were 5-10 years younger than he is. He's working on racing 800s because 800 meters is what they race in most championship 1500s.

It looks like they took the top 18 times of those who entered end Webb had the 18th best time of those that entered.

The qualifying time was 1:50.2, his entry shouldn't mean anything when he's 2 seconds off that time. No other athlete that doesn't run for Nike would have gotten in with that time. The USATF is a joke.

Dude it was Bernard Lagat and he qualified with a 5000m time...

what?!?!?! wrote:

Did you see the 3000m acceptance? Some guy got in with a 13:07!! How did that happen? I could run that.

toro wrote:

It looks like they took the top 18 times of those who entered end Webb had the 18th best time of those that entered.

So if I put my name on the list for the 3k @ 8:10 they would take me because they only have 10?

xcplayer wrote:

Dude it was Bernard Lagat and he qualified with a 5000m time...

what?!?!?! wrote:

Did you see the 3000m acceptance? Some guy got in with a 13:07!! How did that happen? I could run that.

I'm guessing your pretty dense to not realize he was joking

stuck with match.com wrote:

I'm guessing your pretty dense to not realize he was joking

On this site, that would be a dangerous assumption.

Ummm, 2:10 800 and 4:45 1500 isn't close to qualifying for the women's races.

Running in the Rain wrote:

Perhaps he was confused and was thinking he can run in the women's race

De wrote:

The same guy ran 2:10 4:45

Clear corruption. The U.S. Attorney General should act. Now. It parallels the unfair advantage of hidden drug use.

If I were King I would have let him in with no time.

In events where there are "A" and "B" standards, athletes who have met the "B" standard are listed as "provisional." If there are not enough "A" qualifiers to fill the field size, only then will "B" qualifiers who have declared be offered entry into the meet in performance rank order.

what?!?!?! wrote:

Did you see the 3000m acceptance? Some guy got in with a 13:07!! How did that happen? I could run that.

You are an idiot...look at the name. Its Bernard Lagat. Thats what lagat ran in the 5k.

Nike <3 wrote:

The qualifying time was 1:50.2, his entry shouldn't mean anything when he's 2 seconds off that time. No other athlete that doesn't run for Nike would have gotten in with that time. The USATF is a joke.

Brandon Johnson, listed as unattached, got in with a 1:51 also.

Webb has scratched.

I guess we can go back to the injured/washed up talk now.

stuck with match.com wrote:

I was there he'res what happened. I talked to his friend eric and he said Webb felt relaxed so they let him in because if he didn't feel relaxed he would have run much faster. True story.

Is it possible to be this boring? Are you that bad of a troll? Repeating yourself and others over and over, where is the creativity? Get out of here until you have some new material kid.

Nike <3 wrote:

It's the arbitrary manner in which USATF accepts athletes that is the issue. At Outdoor Nationals this past year, they didn't even fill heats, despite having people there with the B standard who had run the A standard the previous year. The lack of transparency with entrance standards is ridiculous. Either have a standard, or don't, but don't selectively allow athletes in just because they run for a certain shoe company. At the end of the day though, this is only going to make them look worse when Webb doesn't even make it out of his heat.

This comment is dead on.

There isn't even a B standard for indoors. There's just the standard to get in, and the automatic qualifiers (top 3 from indoors last year, people with iWC standard, people with medals from Worlds/Olympics). The fact that any non-qualified people are getting in is ridiculous... but of course it's all on the men's side. The women's committee seems to generally do a better job of playing by the rules.

The US now has Centos (3:53 last week!), Lagat, Lamong, and a few other top milers. Why all this concern for Webb. The US will be fine at the Olympics with any handful of sub 3:35 guys. This isn't 2000-2003, where the US was sourly lacking in the 1500.