David Rudisha (1:44.90 sb) returns to his winning ways in Hungary

The rabbit went out in 47.76? I am assuming nobody was with him...

However, the article states that Rudisha closely followed the pacemaker...would one then assume that DR's 3rd 200m was close to 30 seconds?

Clock stopped (400m split) about 20m before the rabbit hit the line. Prob 50 point

JRinaldi wrote:

Clock stopped (400m split) about 20m before the rabbit hit the line. Prob 50 point

Yes that would make more sense...

But is he on the Kenyan team this year?

routine 47.x for the first 400m, walk in the park, just glide the rest of the way, take em out in the straight. routine.

Star wrote:

But is he on the Kenyan team this year?

He's the defending world champ, so automatic bye.

Typical David Rudisha, starts the season off slow and then rounds into form in the middle of the season. It's almost like clockwork

He didn't really push to hard, got the legs going and produced a quality finish.

I would say he is in 1:43 form right about now, and will be around 1:41/1:42 form come WC. I don't think he will ever get close to his WR time

Race vid here, first lap looks like high 50.xx or low 51

https://youtu.be/bRygq4sD-Ew

Woody KinPAID wrote:

Star wrote:

But is he on the Kenyan team this year?

He's the defending world champ, so automatic bye.

Not automatic

Rotich is the defending Diamond League champ, which is a wildcard like WC champ.

Thing is, each country only gets one wild card and Kenya has two in the 800.

They can send 4 total.

Rotich was 4th at the Kenya trials.

Rudisha didn't run the Trials.

If you were objective, you take top 3 plus top wildcard. Rudisha would be out.

I don't know if Kenya made a decision to drop the guy who finished ahead of Rotich and put Rudisha on the team.

That's my question.

Why would you leave out the defending World Champ and winner of the last two Olympic finals, for an athlete that has never won medal of any colour (Rotich)? Rudisha is a lock on one of the spots any day of the week.

you don't seem to know a lot about kenyan politics

the Big-Man isn't from a big tribe & has no great support in the fed

last year he had to make desperate finish to take 3rd in olympic trials knowing that if he got 4th he wasn't going to get any favors like Kamwo in 10k & woud be out of the 800 in rio

i think it is actually likely that rotich who is from a bigger tribe is going to get the wildcard & Big-Man won't go to london making team Korir/bett/saruni/rotich

the fed will justify it on Big-Man not having run fast this year

it will all come down to who has fastest 800sb by deadline

if it's rotich, fed will justify it by saying he has the quickest sb

the only chance Big-Man has got is to go run a 1'43+ in next coupla weeks or he's out !!!

Did you watch the Kenyan Trials? Rudisha did...from the stands, because he has an automatic bye.

the fed is nonsense with no sympathy/clue about form

they threw away 2 golds at 5k in '92/'96 by excluding their mega-talents who were ill at trials

in '92, this was meant to be ceremonial triumphal homecoming for 5k winner but the germans made mistake of inviting the best 5k talent we'd seen at the time as cannon fodder & here is brief clip of that 3k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqr6a_eyNsY

if not for rubbish 5'04 pacing but more like 5'00 at 2k he wouda run ~ 7'24/7'25

later in brussels i expected him to annihilate 12'58wr but it was execrable pacing to 3k, little more than a jog & off that he put in the most impressive last 2k to be seen for a good few years to come & finished in an astonishing 13'01 when i thought 13'10 wouda been good going after 3k split

he was in 12'50 / 12'52.5 shape in koln/brussels but didn't go to games

( he was better in '92 than even when he ran his pbs in mid-'90s )

then in '96 we have kid who was ill in trials, finished ?4th in 5k & didn't go to atlanta but few weeks after games just happened to run :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKA-whL8XgE

no one is telling me that those 2 guys coudn't have run away to 5k gold in '92 & '96 !!!

same logic tells me that big_man is behind the 8-ball when it comes to being picked for london...

Rudisha has already been named to the Kenya WC team for London.

it's all provisional at the moment

not the most recent article but best source had saruni in team as of end of last month

http://www.nation.co.ke/sports/TalkUp/London-Worlds-Kenya-team-looks-unstoppable/441392-3991588-4ok81/index.html

Star wrote:

Not automatic

Rotich is the defending Diamond League champ, which is a wildcard like WC champ.

Thing is, each country only gets one wild card and Kenya has two in the 800.

They can send 4 total.

Rotich was 4th at the Kenya trials.

Rudisha didn't run the Trials.

If you were objective, you take top 3 plus top wildcard. Rudisha would be out.

I don't know if Kenya made a decision to drop the guy who finished ahead of Rotich and put Rudisha on the team.

That's my question.

Yes, obviously.

That's *why he didn't run the trials.*

🙄

JRinaldi wrote:

Why would you leave out the defending World Champ and winner of the last two Olympic finals, for an athlete that has never won medal of any colour (Rotich)? Rudisha is a lock on one of the spots any day of the week.

Why would the US leave defending champions Dan O'Brien off and Carl Lewis off of the 1992 Olympic team?

Because they didn't make top three at the Trials.

Objectively, Rudisha should not be on this year's Kenyan team.

Subjectively, hell yes I would take Rotich or the third place guy off the team and add Rudisha.

This comes down to Kenyan politics.

They did not set up a process for Rudisha and Rotich before their trials.

They claimed that top 3 finishers are automatic, which means either Rotich or Rudisha doesn't go. And Rotich raced, so he should go.

Unless they officially declared Rudisha over Rotich before the meet, which they did not.

This is also an IAAF issue. If they offer two ways to get a wildcard, they should let up to 5 per country in an event.

The funny thing is, the reigning Olympic champ doesn't get a wild card. In this case, that is also Rudisha but imagine if Alfred Kipketer won last year and wasn't top three this year's trials.

But this is once again about Athletic Kenya not establishing clear selection rules before their trials.

Does anyone actually know what calculo is talking about ever?