Johan Cronje broke 20year old South African 1,500 mark in Doha with his 3:33.46

LetsRun.com wrote:

http://www.supersport.com/athletics/sa-track-and-field/news/130510/Cronje_breaks_SA_record

Supersport wrote:

Johan Cronje (3:33.46) broke the 20-year-old South African record in the men's 1 500 metres, finishing eighth in the opening leg of the Diamond League season in Doha, Qatar, on Friday night...

Johan Landsman set the previous national mark of 3:33.56 in Zurich, Switzerland, in August 1993.

Appears he's using the Bubka technique and bringing that sucker down sloooooowly.

Eight placer -- but first white finisher in the race -- Cronje gets notice from letsrun.com. The first seven finishers? Not so much

that's a brilliant discovery!! you should now go ahead and pump up the achievement of the 7th place finisher.

hiydeeho wrote:

that's a brilliant discovery!! you should now go ahead and pump up the achievement of the 7th place finisher.

Why would I do that?

If I were Letsrun and the 7th placer was the first white guy, then sure, I would do it.

But I am not Letsrun and the 7th placer was not white.

I look forward to the Letsrun focus on Lemaitre the first time he breaks 10.00 this year and finishes 5th in the race

Cool, so to appease you, maybe there should be no talk of any achievements performed by whites?

I don't know, did the 7th place person break any sort of significant mark? I would think the South African 1500 record breaking performance is of at least some interest?

Lemaitre too? Has this guy gotten under your skin or something? I would think if he breaks 9.92 and gets French record again or breaks 9.86 and gets the European record, I would think it would be kinda significant no?