Every country races a DMR at their best athlete's peak. Who wins?

Kenya:

1200- ngeny

800- Rudy

400- nr holder

1600- lagat

England

1200- Coe

800- cram

400-?

1600- ovett

MURICA

Webb

Gray

Johnson

Ryun

Pure destruction

Unless USA gets lagat too. Then move him to the mile and jim to the 12

murica wrote:

MURICA

Webb

Gray

Johnson

Ryun

Pure destruction

G. Britain.

Ovett

Coe

Black

Cram

Algeria would be pretty great too

1200- Taoufik Makhloufi ( PROUD LION) - 2:13 1k

400 - Malik Khaled - 45.13

800 - Djabir Saed - 1:43.09

1600 - Nourredin Morceli - 344.39 mile, and 3:27 1500

Kenya.

I don't know who would run the 400 and the 800, but Morocco would have El Gerouj AND Aouita!

Kenya's B team would be book-ended by Asbel Kiprop and Silas Kiplagat.

Just something to ponder for a moment.

John Henry wrote:

Kenya.

Isn't this where all those Kenyans come from?

John Henry wrote:

Kenya.

And it isn't really even close. Rushida dominates the 800m. Lagat, Kiplagat, Kiprop and Ngeny gives you 4 guys sub 3.28.50 to pick from, and Kiturs 44.18 is good enough.

Slow guys like Ryun, Coe and Ovett are not going matter.

... Morocco had a 45.03 400 guy and a 1:43.25 800 guy; it's over, RIGHT?!

Guy O'Leighken wrote:

I don't know who would run the 400 and the 800, but Morocco would have El Gerouj AND Aouita!

Guy O'Leighken wrote:

I don't know who would run the 400 and the 800, but Morocco would have El Gerouj AND Aouita!

800 Amine Laalou 1:43.25

400 Benyounès Lahlou 45.03

I think for USA you go Steve Scott over Jim Ryun.

Mo>Cram 3:28

1200 - Webb

800 - Gray

400 - Johnson

1600 - Lagat

Take out the Kenyan A Team (Ngeny, 400 NR, Rudisha, Lagat), and it gets more interesting (total domination otherwise).

Looks like the most promising teams are

Kenyan B team (Kiplagat, Gitonga, Bungei, Kiprop)

Morocco (Aouita, Lahlou, Laalou, El G)

GBR (Coe, Thomas, Ovett, Cram)

America (Ryun, Johnson, Gray, Lagat)

maybe Ethiopia? (Gebremedhin, Bezabeh, Aman, Wote)

The team with the fastest miler wins - and the best tactical miler at that - because no team will have the balls to time trial the 12, 8, and 16 legs. I'd take Ryun on his best day but he didn't have too many of those, so I'd go with New Zealand anchored by Snell followed closely by Morocco anchored by El G. then Algeria with Morcelli who had to make up just too much of a difference after the 400 leg to let him put his long kick to the best use. If the guy doesn't have a gold in the OG or WC, he's not racing with this group regardless of his PR. GB has a chance of a top three if they anchor Coe but they run Cram instead and he ends up leading at the bell and getting swallowed up. Winning time around 9:10-9:15.

If I was coaching Morocco I'd put Aouita at the mile. He was a serious gamer, and I think his times were much slower than they could have been. He stopped racing 5K completely because no one could give him a race. El G would be a solid and competent lead off!

I see what your saying but I think I take El G 5 championship golds at 15 over Aouita at 0.