real coach wrote:
not a tard wrote:A 20 year old is running better than an 18 year old? Stop the presses!
Cain made a WC final as a 17 year old. At 17, Wilson was still racing high schoolers.
Ajee has two world champs gold medals - WY and WJ. Cain has none - hopefully next week she will have her first. Wilson has been brought along somewhat slowly out of the limelight of huge hype and AlSal over indulgence (like indoors with Mary). Both are phenomenal athletes, but at this moment I would take Ajee's current career over MC's any day - I don't know who Ajee's coach is, and that is how it should be (they are doing a great job with her). In two years, when both will be Seniors, hopefully at the Olympics, and when age-group is no longer an issue, we will see where they stand.
Sadly for Mary, somehow I think this will all be about Al - just like it is for all of his athletes. He is a fine coach, but needs to step back and let the athletes take the limelight - he had his running career, it should be about his athletes now, not him.
How's the weather up there in Seattle today at the Brooks office?