Bad Wigins wrote:
He might get injured or just fade away like Conseslus Kipruto.
You mean fade away to World silver and 8:05 in May?
Bad Wigins wrote:
He might get injured or just fade away like Conseslus Kipruto.
You mean fade away to World silver and 8:05 in May?
sbeefyk1 wrote: Every steepler will tell you in a race you hear almost every barrier getting grazed by a foot. It's quite the intimidating sound for rookies. .
Huh?
its pretty pathetic that the moment of the year is someone that failed.
Doesnt say much for Track and field right now
Hingle MacJaminberry wrote:
Bad Wigins wrote:He might get injured or just fade away like Conseslus Kipruto.
You mean fade away to World silver and 8:05 in May?
Yes. Do you suppose a WC silver will be any consolation for never breaking 8:05 again?
Kipruto has little chance for sub 8, ever. 8:01 was his peak. Benabbad missed sub 8 by a whisker, now after his injury will be lucky to ever be that fast again. The same could easily happen to Jager.
The vast majority of sub-8's were run by the 7:55 types - Koech, Shaheen, Kemboi, Boulami. Others don't get that many chances.
Bad Wigins wrote:
Hingle MacJaminberry wrote:You mean fade away to World silver and 8:05 in May?
Yes. Do you suppose a WC silver will be any consolation for never breaking 8:05 again?
Kipruto has little chance for sub 8, ever. 8:01 was his peak. Benabbad missed sub 8 by a whisker, now after his injury will be lucky to ever be that fast again. The same could easily happen to Jager.
The vast majority of sub-8's were run by the 7:55 types - Koech, Shaheen, Kemboi, Boulami. Others don't get that many chances.
maya couda shouda wouda
I agree except Chez isn't American.
oh please wrote:I fear this could be his biggest regret. "Once in a lifetime" races don't happen so often. Wheating running 3:30, Solinsky running 26:59 (though he did run several great 5k right after).
No.
Absolutely not. Maybe you could come to that conclusion after his first 8:06 if he then got injured and disappeared. But he didn't. He's become one of the best and most consistent steeplers in the world over a course of several seasons now.
And he's still healthy, learning, improving, and most importantly, eager.
I wouldn't be the least bit shocked to see him start his season a few weeks later than usual, run a 7:55 and go on to win Olympic Gold.
He peaked too soon last summer and was worn down by Worlds. But in the Paris race he proved he was one of the very best in the world. If he improves again this season, and plans his peak at the right moment, he'll etch his name in the book of greatest American distance runners of all time.
I love how his colleagues at work on the oval backed him up when it was over, and let him know he belonged.
How much of a tool was Birech to po Me his chest like "I'm the man" at the end of the Paris race? C'mon, man.
Agree. Good run for Jager but nothing like Dibaba's run.
Bad Wigins wrote:
Kipruto has little chance for sub 8, ever. 8:01 was his peak.
Say again?
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Bad Wigins wrote:
He might get injured or just fade away like Conseslus Kipruto.
You and I must have different definitions of "fading away."