Ben True at Worlds

Is Ben True still the only American to win a Diamond League 5000? Only non-Kenyan?

Anyways True is a tough and experienced runner. If he goes I wouldn't be surprised with a very good result but definitely don't have high hopes.

crosscounts wrote:

Is Ben True still the only American to win a Diamond League 5000? Only non-Kenyan?

Anyways True is a tough and experienced runner. If he goes I wouldn't be surprised with a very good result but definitely don't have high hopes.

#1 who cares

#2 I like Ben a lot and hope he does well. The distinctions are whatever. He's a good runner on his own. Could care less that he finished 7th. He works hard and he'll try to mix it up with the best in the world.

Ben going to worlds makes more sense than Drew going to worlds. We already don't pick the team using the top 3 finishers at USAs, so it makes more sense that we would just pick the three guys with the fastest times.

True is the most pointless runner ever. Never competitive on the world stage and no real potential for any future improvement. He is bland Which makes him a favorite on here like him but I would rather we just send two to worlds.

True is the next best American option to compete internationally, post above is bogus. He’s the best we’ve got now.

Mello seeds wrote:

True is the most pointless runner ever. Never competitive on the world stage and no real potential for any future improvement. He is bland Which makes him a favorite on here like him but I would rather we just send two to worlds.

Yeah let's not send the guy who just ran 13:09 in June. Total waste.

Mello seeds wrote:

True is the most pointless runner ever. Never competitive on the world stage and no real potential for any future improvement. He is bland Which makes him a favorite on here like him but I would rather we just send two to worlds.

Posted this on another thread but I'll post it here too

Just to be clear, for anyone who watched the DL Zurich race, the announcer said True miss a whole 6 weeks this summer due to an injury. I presume it to be after the Oslo DL when he ran 7:39. I was actually thrown off by the fact that he did no racing from then til USA's and something was just off about him at USA's like he had an injury or something. He did.

He didn't look fantastic at Zurich with his 13:18, but I think he's rounding into form. Honestly, there were a lot of people in that race that didn't look good. Chelimo (13:14), Balew (13:21, has won 2 DL 5k's), Butchart (13:24, 6th at Rio), McSweyn (13:32, 13:05 last year), Ingebrigsten (13:30, multi time Euro medalist), etc so I wouldn't read too much into it. He was 4 seconds behind a 2x global medalist. He beat some studs in this race.

He's supposed to run the non DL 5k in Brussels (although since he's running WC's now, maybe he should train and skip it) so that should give us more info as to his fitness. He got 6th at 2015 WC and won a DL 5k (because you said he's never competitive on the World stage) so lets not act like he can't mix it up with the best.

THISDUDE wrote:

Since Drew Hunter is now out of worlds is Ben True in. He was the next person who had the standard at USAs. I can’t believe the US might send a 7th place finisher to a major championship!

He had achilles issues during the race, educate yourself.

Ben True is in awesome shape this year unless that achilles stuck around for a while longer. He looked super fit back in the spring at Stanford, and I wouldn't be surprised if he is close to 13:05 shape come championship time. He ran 13:04 last year, by the way. Somebody on this thread needs to give him some credit. He's not going to medal, but I bet he's a better runner than Woody right now. He might beat everyone but Chelimo at worlds (from the US)

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