Mahavishnu1500 wrote:
What he really means is, "my athletes are better at time trialing, so we will run away from everybody early." This in turn makes the race very boring to watch. The wildest, craziest races come down to a kick, such as the 2016 Olympic 1500. In addition, doped to the gills athletes such as El G decided to limit competition in the last lap by taking it from 800m out. So the new dominant group fresh out of EPO riddled Kenya dominates the 1500m out of nowhere, doesn't do long runs, hammers short intervals 3x week, and doesn't even do warmup jogs because its too difficult mentally for their athletes. Wow
Nobody wants a "crazy" race, except for a few buffoons on this website.
People watch the best run so they can see something superhuman. Look at Bolt and Farah. They're the biggest recent stars, and the biggest examples of this. Every casual fan expected them to dominate their competition every time (regardless of whether or not it was actually likely), and they came to watch them anyways. People didn't attend meets to see Farah and Bolt compete. They came to see them win.