Pretty much between these two. Just don't see anyone putting up a serious challenge to the both of them.
Thoughts anyone?
Pretty much between these two. Just don't see anyone putting up a serious challenge to the both of them.
Thoughts anyone?
There is a nice little rivalry brewing there.
Kiplagat's two best times are better than Kiprop's PR.
Kiplagat won the Trials last year and did that finger wave at the finish.
Kiplagat out raced Kiprop and looked very savvy yesterday.
Kiprop has those two Gold medals where it counts and that great speed.
I'm calling Kiprop this year.
It's going to come down to positioning and tactics and how the race goes.
Kiprop will be considered thefavorite, though.
Ugh. Okay, I'll be the one to get it out of the way.
Centro.
Seriously. I'm not saying Centro will win. But you asked if he would put up a serious challenge and I think he could. Centro has been training and improving too if you haven't noticed.
Duh. Kiprop.
Dude looks to be the best runner in most championship races not because he is the fastest in terms of pr, but always finds a way to play is cards right and make it to the next round and ultimately win.
No chance or I'm crazy.
Which could be possible.
Didn't Kiplagat do the same thing in 2008? Fast times early, then ran scared and blew his wad in the rounds.
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i know those 2 smoked him yesterday, but it is very early in the season.
I'll play devil's advocate here and say Kiplagat--and for reasons similar to those favoring Kiprop.
Kiplagat has not proven himself a strong runner when it comes to tactics; this is in part because of tactics, timing and positioning, and in part because of Kiplagat's relatively long stride and the challenge that poses to accelerating too quickly at the end of a race (this did him in at Worlds last year, when too strong of a push right around the 1200 mark left him unable to respond to Kiprop's surge with 200 to go).
But there's nothing more powerful to an athlete's training and competition than recognizing a deficiency like this and working to fix it in some smart ways. In that spirit, I suspect Kiplagat will do somethings in future big races to improve on some of the tactical deficiencies that kept that WC gold medal just out of reach last year:
1) Working on speed work, specifically the kind of speed work that will emphasize late-race acceleration, such as we saw in the final 100 of that Doha race
2) Taking the race out harder earlier--even if it's just 57-58 for the first lap instead of 60.
But how does this bode for Centrowitz?
Silas said he made tactical mistake last year, hi race-plan was to take it out hard if the pace is slow 700m from finish, he didn't do it and it broke down to kickers race and Asbel just got more raw speed. If He did run hard from 700m to finish he would have taken gold and Centro wouldn't have gotten bronze. It's going to be very close in London. Off the record anyone else think Asbel should go for 1000m WR ?