A Duck wrote:
Wheating was not a lock two years ago...to those who knew about his injury struggles.
Wheating was coming off of the previous year where he ran 1:44 and 3:30.
And going into 2011 USATF he had won a couple of invitationals including beating a stacked field at Oxy.
Here's the Letsrun preview for that race:
http://www.letsrun.com/2011/usa-wheating-0623.php"2011 USATF Men's 1,500m Preview: The "Unbeatable" Andrew Wheating Takes On A Stellar Field"
Wheating went on to finish 4th.
Interesting that they didn't have Centro or Manzano picked to make the top 5.
I also want to note that, like this year, no one had the A standard going into the meet for 2011.
Centro, of course, went on to get a WC Bronze that year.