St. Pierre and Nuguse did the exact same thing in their 1500 finals, and too many people who should know better are misunderstanding why they didn't win. Both competitors know they are the best in the country at their race. Both knew that the only way they missed the team was to let the race go slow and have something weird happen. Both athletes led from the front from the early stages of the race to force a FAST race, knowing the consequence of doing so. Both pulled a bunch of people to new PRs. And both paid for front-running a meet record-breaking race in the final 200m and got passed, yet had sufficiently exploded the field by that point that their top-3 status was never in any doubt. Mission accomplished x2. Neither athlete will run that way in Paris, OBVIOUSLY. Yet snap judgment reactions have Hocker and Hiltz being the US medal hope favorites coming out of trials. I think that's flat wrong in both cases. To be clear, OF COURSE Hocker and Hiltz can medal. They're great too. But it's not even a question in my mind which pair of Nuguse/St. Pierre vs. Hocker/Hiltz I would select as far as pair most likely win one or two medals. Give me Yared & ESP any day of the week.
Teare and Hocker are not endurance trained runners. Except for Teare's single year with Bowerman (when he trained more), both of them have trained 50-60 mpw for the last three years. Bob Kennedy can tell you how that turns out.
Thank you guys for all of these live reaction shows during these trials. I’ve watched them all!
St. Pierre and Nuguse did the exact same thing in their 1500 finals, and too many people who should know better are misunderstanding why they didn't win. Both competitors know they are the best in the country at their race. Both knew that the only way they missed the team was to let the race go slow and have something weird happen. Both athletes led from the front from the early stages of the race to force a FAST race, knowing the consequence of doing so. Both pulled a bunch of people to new PRs. And both paid for front-running a meet record-breaking race in the final 200m and got passed, yet had sufficiently exploded the field by that point that their top-3 status was never in any doubt. Mission accomplished x2. Neither athlete will run that way in Paris, OBVIOUSLY. Yet snap judgment reactions have Hocker and Hiltz being the US medal hope favorites coming out of trials. I think that's flat wrong in both cases. To be clear, OF COURSE Hocker and Hiltz can medal. They're great too. But it's not even a question in my mind which pair of Nuguse/St. Pierre vs. Hocker/Hiltz I would select as far as pair most likely win one or two medals. Give me Yared & ESP any day of the week.
Cole is faster in the final run, is finish is formidable.
There was four finals?
There was too many finals?
Hobbs Kessler did not run 1:43.64. He ran 1:42, your title says so.
Teare and Hocker are not endurance trained runners. Except for Teare's single year with Bowerman (when he trained more), both of them have trained 50-60 mpw for the last three years. Bob Kennedy can tell you how that turns out.
Rojo complaining about the greatest single hour of American track in Trials history. GTFOH Rojo.
Also, "anyways" is never right.
NOT her FOURTH straight WR in a row in Eugene.
'21 - Eugene
'21 - Tokyo
'22 - Eugene
'22 - Eugene
'24 - Eugene
Eck cetera.