If you listen to the interview you can sense that Julian understands 2021 was a hard year for his team. Sport isn’t perfect. That said he had four athletes finish in the top 10 at the Tokyo Olympics in events ranging from 800 to the Marathon. Osako, Rogers and Hull were all brilliant at the Games. If that’s a bad year, than I’ll look forward to what a good year looks like.
When you're the best funded track team on planet earth, four athletes with top ten finishes is a pretty low bar. Especially when you have 3 athletes who medaled in the previous champs.
Koko would be a 4:15 miler if coached properly. I'd have her doing 20-second hill sprints and eating a minimum of 1 lb of peanut butter, 1 liter of 6% milk and 1 lb of salmon per day.
Koko would be a 4:15 miler if coached properly. I'd have her doing 20-second hill sprints and eating a minimum of 1 lb of peanut butter, 1 liter of 6% milk and 1 lb of salmon per day.
If Koko had been in the 2019 Monaco mile race when Hassan ran WR she probably would have run 4:15 or faster (because she beat all the people behind Hassan in Zurich and/or Birmingham later that season). Koko was almost never injured until summer 2020 and had been junior world class since 2015-16 already. She ran 3:59 basically solo with a negative split at 20 in 2017 more than a year before joining NOP. If Julian and the team cannot keep her healthy, it is definitely a blatant failure to develop one the greatest non-African born distances talents of our or any time. Hire another nutritionist or mental coach or two or whatever it takes.
It appears that PJ is starting to feel the pressure. Zero competitive Americans male or female above the 1500/mile. This is a group that was started by Alberto Salazar to “bring back American marathoning”
That wired article is a great reference point. They have lost their way.
As much as I like Klosterhalfen as a person, truth be told, she only has herself to blame for running herself into the ground by underfueling for years now - this has been an issue way before she joined Pete's group. It was only a matter of time until her body broke and the injuries starting cropping up.
Sure, coach of a kid who moved to the US as a 20 year old (college age) has zero responsibility for her staying healthy. Compare how Brooks handled Ostrander vs how PJ has handled Konstanze.
I would think this might be harsh if not for the way Julian has failed Jordan Hasay. He expressed complete bafflement over her very poor performances lately, and doesn't seem to recognize what seems obvious re Jordan's health. He is enabling her.
Koko would be a 4:15 miler if coached properly. I'd have her doing 20-second hill sprints and eating a minimum of 1 lb of peanut butter, 1 liter of 6% milk and 1 lb of salmon per day.
If Koko had been in the 2019 Monaco mile race when Hassan ran WR she probably would have run 4:15 or faster (because she beat all the people behind Hassan in Zurich and/or Birmingham later that season). Koko was almost never injured until summer 2020 and had been junior world class since 2015-16 already. She ran 3:59 basically solo with a negative split at 20 in 2017 more than a year before joining NOP. If Julian and the team cannot keep her healthy, it is definitely a blatant failure to develop one the greatest non-African born distances talents of our or any time. Hire another nutritionist or mental coach or two or whatever it takes.
You clearly don't understand how eating disorders work and how they destroy an athletes ability to improve and stay healthy the older they get. It's not an easy road for anyone involved, but I can assure you, at the end of the day, the responsibility falls on the individual with the disorder. It's also highly likely Klosterhalfen has received an enormous amount of medical support and resources from multiple entities, including her current coach. Attributing Klosterhalfen's lack of progress to Julian is a pathetic misunderstanding on your part of how these things work. Please refrain from making any further comments regarding this young women's struggles, as you know nothing at all on the subject.
Neither do you nor anyone else without inside information. I am not the one making dubious medical diagnoses...
I am mainly stating that someone ran extremely well without injuries for several years before joining NOP and for almost two years with Julian but then started struggling since summer 2020.
What else is Julian going to say? I'm a terrible coach and I can't reverse the years-long decline of those two? Btw the entire Julian group with the exception of Rogers had terrible seasons last year, full of injuries/poor performances. Brazier -- injured, finishes last at the Trials. Engels finishes 4th at the Trials, doesn't make the team, losing to two college runners. Efraimson runs terribly, doesn't make the Trials finals. Rowbury, injured. Koko, injured the previous fall, doesn't even contest the 5,000, a distance she medalled at at the World Championships, runs the 10,000 and finishes 8th.
If you listen to the interview you can sense that Julian understands 2021 was a hard year for his team. Sport isn’t perfect. That said he had four athletes finish in the top 10 at the Tokyo Olympics in events ranging from 800 to the Marathon. Osako, Rogers and Hull were all brilliant at the Games. If that’s a bad year, than I’ll look forward to what a good year looks like.
A coach is judged by the performance of his athletes. One doesn't need or expect Julian to acknowledge the bad 2021 his athletes had. Koko went from being a 5,000 bronze medalist in 2019 to 8th place in her lesser event. Hull finished second to next to last in the 1500, and wasn't even the fastest Australian -- that would be Hall. The only "brilliant" athlete from Julian's group was Rogers. It's probably not a coincidence that Rogers aside, the international athletes had the least bad seasons very likely because they had national coaches to rely on for coaching in addition to Julian. All the American athletes except Rogers, who relied 100% on Julian for coaching, had bad seasons. Whose fault is that?