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How is this not blowing up the board? I get it, everyone loves Emma cause obviously she's great. I get that, but what this Frerichs girl did was absolutely insane. She's a 9:19 steepler. Probably super happy to be on the team and if she make the finals, awesome. She almost f'ing won the race and she did break the old American record. Ran a 16 second pr and missed gold by a second. Just mind blowing. It would be like the American that made the 1500 finals Gregorek would run like 3:29 and get silver in the final. But it doesn't matter Emma mf Coburn wins!!! That's the story and what matters.
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Courtney is awesome! Way to go Courtney!! The Show Me State is proud of you!!!
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Yea to me this a bigger story than the fact Coburn won. Huge improvement from someone who has never been competitive on the world stage previously. Dare I say she eclipses Coburn very soon
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Let us hope she is clean, that much of an improvement at that level doesn't happen very often.
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Her steeple pb is faster than her 3k flat!
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xhamster wrote:
Her steeple pb is faster than her 3k flat!
A groovy chick, Mon! Hope her pee was clean, after that improvement.
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Hopefully. Might have just been adrenaline, the excitement of the moment or just maybe it had been there and just came together at the right time. Still the most exciting race so far.
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Frerichs had the performance of the race. Made the difference with 280 to go, split the Kenyans and dropped their conniving buttocks.
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I still don't understand what we just saw.
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Yeah, that move Frerichs made on the final lap backstretch just made the race. Two Africans dropped back, and Jepkanoi stayed wide at the WJ to push Frerichs out wide. That left the inside move wide open for Emma.
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This is a great performance and deserves praise. All I wanna say it that give credit to where it's due and stay away from double standards. A 15 second PR especially being under 9:20 is huge and would have received negative reaction if it was from an East African
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violasongbird wrote:
Frerichs had the performance of the race. Made the difference with 280 to go, split the Kenyans and dropped their conniving buttocks.
Great tactical move from a young lady who rose to the occassion.
Exactly. I just mentioned the same thing in the long thread about this race. No telling how much differently it would have played out if Frerichs hadn't recognized that opportunity, and it spurred Coburn to go with her.
280 is almost precisely correct. I didn't mention the distance remaining in the other thread because I was thinking it was less than 300 but more than 250.
I'm sure it was adrenaline and simply superior tactics. If Frerichs had stayed back with the same type of low-end goofs she normally runs alongside, she would have acquired their caliber again.
There is room in the women's distance races. I'll continue to emphasize that. Not necessarily to push the world records much lower but for more women to run consistent laps and hang near those records. A Chinese 16 year old was within a few seconds of Katie Ledecky last week in the 800 at world championships. That would have been unthinkable less than a year ago. But as more countries and athletes prioritize the distance races in both running and swimming it will be obvious that the old conventional wisdom was crap. -
I thought she was going to win.
I though I saw a Billy Mills moment happening. -
Quigley would have been right with her like she always is, 1-2-3 was a real possibility if not for the bone headed official putting the cones in the wrong position.
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Courtney is not on anything but smart, hard training. My wife worked with her for two + years while she was in KC. She was running 15 miles/week in high school, only 5 years ago, so her upside is terrific. Only since going pro has her training increased greatly, but remember, she solo'd 9:25 a year ago at NCAA's. Never injured, and only a bad race early this year from food poisoning. I am totally confident in her running on ability and training.
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violasongbird wrote:
Frerichs had the performance of the race. Made the difference with 280 to go, split the Kenyans and dropped their conniving buttocks.
Great tactical move from a young lady who rose to the occassion.
"[C]onniving buttocks?" Are those anything like knitting eyebrows? -
yup I'm a huge Coburn fan too and now Courtney but we have to put this through the same filter as if it was an east-african
could have easily been the track quality or weather too, the commentators keep saying how cool it is there
so how many other PRs (PBs) were set in this race from all runners?
because it reminds me a bit of when Ayana destroyed the 10,000m record in Rio but as a side-effect caused so many huge PRs it was ridiculous, I think Huddle broke the North American AR by nearly double-digits in that race?
side-question: why aren't east-africans as dominant in the steeple as the 5000 ? even before this race, they won but not by huge margins -
The Kenyan and Ethiopian women in the chase are mostly too slow on the flat, so it is kind of a refuge for their B level runners. Some of those girls are around 8.45-8.55, on the flat, not competitive. Some of those girls have very ooor hurdling technique, like the Bahraini/Kenyan who literally jumps each barrier, with a weird two feet together action, insane!
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Sorry but that has to be by far the most suspicious result of the games so far, just as they were starting to look clean-ish. 9.20 to 9.03 in one go? destroying all the Kenyans? It is quite outrageous that LR fans are lapping this up without question compared with all the innuendo they chuck around about any other country (or Rupp).
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I agree. I didn't expect Emma to win but she was running at a level she's been at before, so I wasn't shocked, but Courtney was in a whole new world. Major, major props to her -- lots of guts and brains.
1-2 in the women's steeple -- never would have expected it. Great performances b both of them!
