From @liam_bp on twitter:
“Andy Bayer took 4th at the 2017 US Champs in the steeple. He was 4th in the '16 Olympic Trials and fourth in '15, too. In '12, he was 4th in the 1500.
Four times, he just missed making a global championship team.
But NOT TODAY. Bayer is heading to Doha in the steeple.”
What an inspiring story of perseverance. Really happy for the guy.
mad props, that's awesome.
TBH, I thought he had maybe retired after so-so last year and only 8:24 s/c - I hadn't noticed anything from him this season.
Saw him take the lead and hoped he would go all the way through. He did have a comfortable lead on the 4th placed guy and could have jogged it in. It was pretty warm out there. Tough for spectators and athletes alike.
Major props. He was surprisingly cavalier about it though. Said he knew what kind of shape he was in, knew his competition and figured he was going to be Top 3. He ran like it too.
HoosierDoo wrote:
From @liam_bp on twitter:
“Andy Bayer took 4th at the 2017 US Champs in the steeple. He was 4th in the '16 Olympic Trials and fourth in '15, too. In '12, he was 4th in the 1500.
Four times, he just missed making a global championship team.
But NOT TODAY. Bayer is heading to Doha in the steeple.”
What an inspiring story of perseverance. Really happy for the guy.
Does at Liam_bp realize the ONLY reason he's going is that that our best steepler is staying at home?
My thoughts exactly. I like Jager and hate to see him out, but today it helped Bayer
asfdsfdsf wrote:
HoosierDoo wrote:
From @liam_bp on twitter:
“Andy Bayer took 4th at the 2017 US Champs in the steeple. He was 4th in the '16 Olympic Trials and fourth in '15, too. In '12, he was 4th in the 1500.
Four times, he just missed making a global championship team.
But NOT TODAY. Bayer is heading to Doha in the steeple.”
What an inspiring story of perseverance. Really happy for the guy.
Does at Liam_bp realize the ONLY reason he's going is that that our best steepler is staying at home?
That’s how sports work. A part of the game is staying healthy and making it to the finish line. The Raptors won the NBA title because the Warriors lost Durant AND Thompson. Happens every year in the NFL. A good team suffers horrible injuries and they suck. Every year in track high school phenoms go to college and get hurt for 4 years straight only to never be heard from again. Point is, you gotta cross the finish line to make the team. If Jager didn’t cross the finish line (or start the race) he wasn’t good enough today.
No doubt he's on the team because no Jager but it's still cool regardless to see a guy finish 4th so many times get a USA kit. Our top-4 steeplers are head & shoulders above the rest. If Jager is in there, it's still a 4 person race so it's tough to the the number 4 of that group. Gotta be happy for someone like him.
Media coverage was an embarrassment.
More coverage of the 3rd place white finisher than the 1st 2 Kenyn born placers.
Bump.
Dude has been low key in awesome shape for years and has an impressive body of work. This year the stars aligned with the competition (no Jager) and his health. I don’t mean that as a slight either, health and availability is a skill.
It sure did seem that the 1st and 2nd place runners were completely ignored on behalf of Andy. Great story of Andy's getting 3rd but not in place of the winner of the race. At least on appearances it seemed like the White guy got the press.
Persistence pays off. He can thank Jager for being injured, Huling for retiring, and Cabral for effectively retiring by going to law school.
Jager can thank his injury he wasn’t there today.
He would have lost.
Not and Keneni both broke the stadium record which was held by Jager.
They are on another level
jjmather wrote:
It sure did seem that the 1st and 2nd place runners were completely ignored on behalf of Andy. Great story of Andy's getting 3rd but not in place of the winner of the race. At least on appearances it seemed like the White guy got the press.
They did the same thing in a couple of other events as well. The announcers paid more attention to Allyson Felix getting 6th in the 400 than the winner. I'd imagine if the blade runner in the men's 400 made the team it'd be similar.
Angel's Pulse wrote:
mad props, that's awesome.
TBH, I thought he had maybe retired after so-so last year and only 8:24 s/c - I hadn't noticed anything from him this season.
He ran 8:16 in Rome last month.
Coverage wrote:
Media coverage was an embarrassment.
More coverage of the 3rd place white finisher than the 1st 2 Kenyn born placers.
All that coverage for Bayer? Where was the coverage for all the other numerous 3rd place finishers?
Also Hager wasn't running. He would have been 4th again.
Coverage wrote:
Media coverage was an embarrassment.
More coverage of the 3rd place white finisher than the 1st 2 Kenyn born placers.
+1
Typical of NBC
evlogía wrote:
Coverage wrote:
Media coverage was an embarrassment.
More coverage of the 3rd place white finisher than the 1st 2 Kenyn born placers.
+1
Typical of NBC
Yeah, let's make this racial. My goodness. What a disgraceful post.
NBC is looking for stories. Did you notice how much attention they gave to the black 6th place finisher in the women's 400?
Juice Springsteen wrote:
Bump.
Dude has been low key in awesome shape for years and has an impressive body of work. This year the stars aligned with the competition (no Jager) and his health. I don’t mean that as a slight either, health and availability is a skill.
Yes his 'impressive" body of work is a very pedestrian PR of 8:22 and never making a world's team. It's a joke to think that Bayer would have made it with Jager. He couldn't even keep up with For and Kenebai .
He's a 4th place runner in life.
LetsRun.com wrote:
evlogía wrote:
+1
Typical of NBC
Yeah, let's make this racial. My goodness. What a disgraceful post.
NBC is looking for stories. Did you notice how much attention they gave to the black 6th place finisher in the women's 400?
This is typical lets run propaganda. First in Felix's race was also won by an African American.
There was a story of Bor's first championship and he fact that he serves our country. But let's focus on a washed up white guy who only got 4th because the best runner is injured.
Why does Letsrun seem to pretend there isn't racism...you guys lead the charge for White Power