Coevett wrote:You're an idiot, this has been gone over several times recently
no
idiot is reversed
In 1981, Coe ran ONE 800m paced race
laughable !!!
he ran 13 of them !!!
not one was he leading gun-tape
Big-Man needed NO pacers in 1'40.91 !!!
Wilson needed NO pacers in 1'42,67i !!!
both run after hard rounds !!!
so why the f***ck did coe desperately need pacing ???
Rusihda, Kipketer etc ran/runs maybe a dozen each year, with other sub 1:44/5 guys every time
utter nonsense
they smashed out truck loads of 1'40/1'41/1'42s
coe did it twice, both times on mickey mouse 6-lane tracks & 1 with no auto-timing !!!
a travesty of a clocking !!!
What part of this is too much for you and Venti's brain to handle?
eh ?
you are talking nonsense
beg/borrow steal a 1'42+ on a proper 116/84 with 8 lanes for coe
fetch it
oh hang on !
we have it :
utterly crushed by Cruz trying to limpet but blown away :
https://youtu.be/gj7PdjvgZy4?t=287Coe had three years (four if you include 1978) at his 800m peak where he could set his fast times
13 efforts in '81
apart from mickey-mouse firenze, he never broke 1'45 in a stand-alone 800 !!!
he failed to run fast unless paced by a giant on a mickey-mouse track
In that three year period he maybe had half a dozen paced races where he was trying to or had to run a fast time
utter nonsense
who needs pacers ???
Big-Man needed NO pacers in 1'40.91 !!!
Wilson needed NO pacers in 1'42,67i !!!
why the f***ck did coe need them ???
why he never run anywhere as quick even with them ???
his fastest 800 on a proper 8-laner was 1'43.0 crushing by Cruz
Rushida/Kipketer had/have had maybe 50 or more
utter nonsense
they were running in serious $$$ era where win more important than clock
Wilson never pushed hard in '96 until after winning golden-4
he then ran 1'41.83 !!! in rieti in semi-tactical run & even more incredibly 50+ finish in a 1'42.17 !!! in tokyo when golden-4 title already won
that last run in mid-september !!! was worth 1'41-low off 2s +ve splits !!!
if he coud run that well beyond end of even rieti, what on earth you think he couda run earlier in year if not risking a loss of golden-4 ???
In the year Kipketer finally broke Coe's world record, he'd already made FIVE attempts on it that season alone
utter drivel
he ran indoor WR twice in same meet !!!
he claimed he only ran the meet, the WIC !!!, to show his coach that he Wilson was in shape to for outdoors !!!
he couda run 1'40+ if this had been 1-off paced run in zurich
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rp-IDEo4eh8as for 5 runs until he ran 1'41.73WR off total jog between 400 - 600, he already had run 1'42.67i in 100% proper meet as it was WC !!! so, running slower in warm-up outdoor meets until he came close to this were meaningless
his whole focus was WC to atone for disgraceful barring from atlanta, then to smash WR in zurich
In 81, Coe smashed his own world record
unknown mickey mouse track with no auto timing
i laughed when i heard about it that evening !!!
what part of zurich or brussels or rome or eugene or berlin or london was this utter nonsense firenze ???
an utter disgrace of a meet & run
which was already out of sight of any other runner on the planet
a hugely poor 2 or 3y era when caballo inescapably injured, same with beyer, ovett disinterested in non-glory 800
and then spent the rest of the season trying to outdo Ovett over 1500m/Mile
utterly laughable !!!
i spent season expecting him to show a 800 of 1'42+ or better on proper track with auto-timing & after numerous attempts he didn't break 1'45 !!! in a stand-alone 800
as well as competing in European Cups and meaningless GB VS Portugal etc meets
each an opportunity to run 1'42+ & he showed nothing but 1'45+++ crap
he showed firenze was utterly worthless, mickey-mouse track with no auto-timing
Coe ran low 1:43 when he was 32 or something and had long been more of a 1500m runner
nonsense
you clearly never followed his career back then
his only being ever was as a 800'er
if he'd ever moved up to 5k as promising in early/mid-'80s, anyone with a clue following him back then knew that at 1st semi-serious obstacle, he woud scurry immediately back to 800
this was his laughable fight-or-flight reflex !!!
the reflex was never fight but flight straight back to 800 !!!
If he had been a specialist 800m runner
is this a joke ???
that's what he was, but ran some decent 1500/mile
you forget kaki a total 800 specialist ran 3'31.76 in his 1 really serious career effort ???
let alone been on modern tracks
iaaf rules for decades+++ mandate 65% energy return, so you will go nowhere here
better competition/pacing
utter drivel
Big-Man needed NO pacers in 1'40.91 !!!
Wilson needed NO pacers in 1'42,67i !!!
why does coe ???
what if Big-Man/Kip had got it ???
more years of health, he probably would have ran 50 sub 1:43s (and still be the WR holder)
utter total drivel
he never broke 1'43 once in his life on a proper 8-laner
in fact he got crushed by Cruz on his quickest run on an 8-laner !!!