Oly Trials Marathon Re-Run?

not my real name wrote:

this x10000. Also applies to every person on, and off, the team.

douglas burke wrote:

L. Korir is probably better than Abdi And J. Riley NOW, but the Marathon is unpredictable and he was NOT BETTER on THAT DAY.

What does "better" even mean, in this context?

If L. Korir isn't faster in the races that are important, how is he "better"?

They qualified for the Tokyo Olympics. Would it open up lawsuits of it were to be rerun? The losses for an individual could not just be missing the Olympics but also other opportunities such as contracts and bonuses and notoriety which are key for athletes.

They need to keep the marathon team they have.

I agree with you. We ran our trials in the marathon and the top three finishers on each side earned the right to represent the US In Japan. Don't take that away from them...

Here's an idea. Why doesn't the IOC invite countries to send up to six athletes per gender in the marathon?

Thus giving countries like the US the option to either run a second trial, or award a place to a form athlete. Others can stick to their original three, or select 3-6 from hereon according to each individual country.

Surely no harm in potentially doubling the size of a marathon field from say, 80 to 160. That would look like a very low key road race under normal circumstances.

There pages and still nothing about discus!

That's what happened then. Folks made the team at a sea level trials at the LA Coliseum?. Then there was a 2nd trials at altitude since the Olympics were to be in Mexico City at a track carved out of the redwoods. I know someone who made the team at the 1st trials,but not the second. The second trials determined the actual team. If the Marathons are run in Sapporo on a flat course so if there bis a rerun it should be on a course like that.

Riley can make top 3 in any race they rerun. He was top American at Chicago and is on same path as Rupp with the surgery he had to cure his problems. Stinson May love to see a rerun if he can get things fixed.

Which male and female showed greatest improvement in Atlanta? I'd pick them for the team in a re-run

They qualified for the 2020 Olympic marathon. If they don’t have one all bets are off . The 1980 Olympic qualifiers didn’t get to run in 1984. I would say have a half marathon 6 weeks before the the Olympics . If the qualifiers run 1:06 for men , 1:13 women they are in . Also run the next 10 at/large finishers from this year’s trials . If one of the qualifiers can’t meet the time standard in the half , the highest finisher among the at large goes in his place .

I think it would weaken the trust people have in USATF if they rerun the Trials for just a 1 year delay.

canonlicense wrote:

I think it would weaken the trust people have in USATF if they rerun the Trials for just a 1 year delay.

So, just from a business perspective, they succeed more from honouring their team selection.

A 3-year delay, probably they earn more from hosting a new Trials and sending a better team than they save from avoiding the conflict.

canonlicense wrote:

I think it would weaken the trust people have in USATF if they rerun the Trials for just a 1 year delay.

Wait, people actually trust and like USATF?

Unfair wrote:

They need to keep the team they have. All three earned and trained for their spot. You only get ONE chance to race at the Olympics, so why should you get more then one chance to qualify. All 6 men and woman deserve to run wether it’s in 2020 or 2021.

+1

Beyond all this conjecture over right and wrong and honor, the real dilemma is that nobody would bid to bring back almost 500 OT qualifiers to race again. Hell, nobody's putting up the money with a year or less lead time to bid on organizing a marathon for a few dozen OT qualifiers, as is the fantasy of some here. LRC ain't putting up that dough-re-mi. No time, no money to slap together a re-run race ergo no re-run race. That's the real nuts and bolts of the situation, the rest is just subjective blather.

Better question is why do we even have one race to determine it? Why haven’t we adopted the same method for qualifying that the Japanese use ?

.InjuryProne. wrote:

Better question is why do we even have one race to determine it? Why haven’t we adopted the same method for qualifying that the Japanese use ?

For plenty of very good reasons that have been explained on this board previously ad infinitum.

BOHICA wrote:

.InjuryProne. wrote:

Better question is why do we even have one race to determine it? Why haven’t we adopted the same method for qualifying that the Japanese use ?

For plenty of very good reasons that have been explained on this board previously ad infinitum.

Okay so hypothetically speaking if someone breaks the American Record this fall it would be better to not include them in the team ? There’s a difference between what is fair and what is best for the team.

Did someone say “Rerun”?

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