So are Souleiman and Symmonds primed for a fight for Gold after that Semi?

Bang is going to win it. Did you see his semi? Looked totally unfazed. Out for a 143 jog. Symmonds and Soul Man were efforting in their race.

Solomon 142.6

Soul Man

Nick S.

Gold, silver, bronze.

What about Aman, people are forgetting about him. Also,the Pole Lewandawski may surprise.

For my top three I'd like to see (in no particular order):

Soul Man - only man with big enough balls to try the double

Bosse the BOSS

Aman

The Americans are obvious cheats and dopers, especially Solomon who was a consistent 1:45-1:46 guy until 2 years ago.

Ha ha, yes, afternoon drinking not a good idea. Aman will medal and bump Nick I'm afraid. No lock win though.

Aman is an absolute lock, unless he seriously screws up. People just don't notice how good he is. He runs 1:43 at will and has been saving up a 1:42 all year.

Remind us what medal he took home from London.

It looks like it could be an epic final.

Symmonds has made the final in the last four major championships, running consistently in the 1:43-1:44 range. Nobody else has done that. To see him as a medal contender here is no surprise at all. Solomon ran 1:49 in high school ten years ago, and 1:45 in college. To improve three more seconds over the following 6 years with a new coach (Johnny Gray) is not unreasonable. If anyone is suspicious in the doper category it would be Soul Man who has dropped his 800 PR from 1:47 to 1:43 this year. He has the same coach as Makhloufi.

we do know that Gray's coaching will bring 1:50+ hs guys down to 1:46-8, and Solomon found the perfect coach for his abilities. All comes out in the end so why bother thinking about other reasons.

Aman, Symmonds, Solomon will medal. Not even gonna try to figure out order.

quote]Chef Gordon Ramzi wrote:

The Americans are obvious cheats and dopers, especially Solomon who was a consistent 1:45-1:46 guy until 2 years ago.[/quote]

Symmonds has run 1:42 or 1:43 every year for the last 5 years straight.

2005: 1:48.92

2006: 1:45.83

2007: 1:44.54

2008: 1:44.10

2009: 1:43.83

2010: 1:43.76

2011: 1:43.83

2012: 1:42.95

2013: 1:43.67

The only outlying performance is 2012, which is when he got dragged along in the fastest race of all time, in one of the few performances where he drafted rather than running 2/3 of the race out in lane 2. Symmonds shows no evidence of being dirty.

800 analyzer wrote:

Remind us what medal he took home from London.

Same medal as everyone else in the final.

Remind me who else has beaten Rudisha, run 1:43 nine times in 2 years, or has a better PR.

bolder1 wrote:

Symmonds has made the final in the last four major championships, running consistently in the 1:43-1:44 range. Nobody else has done that. To see him as a medal contender here is no surprise at all. Solomon ran 1:49 in high school ten years ago, and 1:45 in college. To improve three more seconds over the following 6 years with a new coach (Johnny Gray) is not unreasonable. If anyone is suspicious in the doper category it would be Soul Man who has dropped his 800 PR from 1:47 to 1:43 this year. He has the same coach as Makhloufi.

None of Aden's guys EVER got caught taking anything.

Soul man has only been running since 2009, and is mostly a miler, so a big improvement on the 800 is no real surprise.

And the guy is cool. Have you heard the interview with him? His English is just terrible but he still tries and smiles. Plus he has the balls to double. I'm hoping he'll win.