• Pteradactylitis
      • RE: Lausanne Diamond League is only five days away 7/6/2019 9:34AM - in reply to Jnl
      • Pteradactylitis
      • Jnl wrote:

        Hotdogeater wrote:

        Aussiestatman wrote:

        six under 3.31.4 not done since 2015, only 5 times in history, 3 in monaco.

        Why can't U.S. guys run sub 3:30 regularly?

        Because no one does it regularly, and only one country does it with some semblance of frequency.

        One country as in Kenya? Morocco is very close, they have 40 and 34 sub-3:30 performances, respectively. All other countries together only 25, crazy to think how dominant those two have been at this event.
    • Jnl
      • RE: Lausanne Diamond League is only five days away 7/6/2019 10:18AM - in reply to Pteradactylitis
      • Jnl
      • Pteradactylitis wrote:

        Jnl wrote:

        Hotdogeater wrote:

        Aussiestatman wrote:

        six under 3.31.4 not done since 2015, only 5 times in history, 3 in monaco.

        Why can't U.S. guys run sub 3:30 regularly?

        Because no one does it regularly, and only one country does it with some semblance of frequency.

        One country as in Kenya? Morocco is very close, they have 40 and 34 sub-3:30 performances, respectively. All other countries together only 25, crazy to think how dominant those two have been at this event.

        One country as in Kenya. Morocco never does it these days, and something like 30 of those 34 performances are one guy.
    • TrackCoach
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      • RE: Lausanne Diamond League is only five days away 7/7/2019 12:36PM - in reply to macdaddy
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      • macdaddy wrote:

        wkjfbgiwjbgwe wrote:

        Murphy is so consistent. He can run 1:44 and 3:36/3:52-4 all day. This bodes well for the rounds. He also seems to handle traveling across the world really well.

        Positive spin for a 5th place finish

        re: "He can run 1:44 and 3:36/3:52-4 all day"

        Go back and look at the WC and Olympic finals, consistent 1:44 and 3:36 are the athletes who make the finals. Making finals favours athletes who are consistent versus one-off winners.
    • falconrunner22
      • RE: Lausanne Diamond League is only five days away 7/7/2019 3:39PM - in reply to Agreed
      • falconrunner22
      • Oh, yeah, the US could have a blazing 4x100 line-up.
    • Aussiestatman
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      • RE: Lausanne Diamond League is only five days away 7/7/2019 7:15PM - in reply to Hardloper
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      • Hardloper wrote:

        He's not running Monaco

        Is he on the start list now?