I hope this fires up the American athletes. ESP has a superior 3000m by 4 seconds (8:20 vs 8:24) and almost identical PRs before today (3:55.99 vs 3:55.97.) Hiltz, Mackay, and ESP should be able to look at this and think it's possible for them too.
Also: Yes, it's the shoes obviously. Probably 4 seconds for a women's 1500m.
the shoes are living rent free in your head. They have existed for many years now and certainly existed last year when Hull ran her former PR.
She always has shown tremendous guts in races, not afraid to go out hard and take chances. She deserves this for making every race entertaining.
Even Kipyegon was looking back the whole last 400m while running her world record because she didn't expect Hull to be there.
It's so so very funny to read positive reactions like this to a **5 second** PB vs. the reaction to the Algerian and Frenchman on the 800 thread lolllllll
What in the world was that?? Everyone has had supershoes for 5 years now, those don't explain year-to-year drops of this magnitude anymore, much less month-to-month. Is she just coming along at the right time?
Also since I'm an American so I view everything through that lens: she was giving ESP all she could handle earlier this year, and ESP just frontran a 3:55 after 2 5ks and 2 1500s. Is she ready to drop something like a 3:51? I was really hoping she'd be competing for a medal this year, but now there are 4 women between 3:49.0 and 3:50.9 and ESP isn't one of them. Hull is certainly a medal favorite after that race. I was hoping ESP would be in contention too, but Kipyegon was so far behind those pacers that she wasn't getting any drafting benefits, and she still crushed Hull that last 200m and almost ran a 3:48.
Perfect pacing (wavelight and Kipyego), perfect footwear (supershoes), the perfect day, and an attitude of "F it, I'm hanging on as long as possible... don't care if I crash, spectacularly."
When I watched the vid, I already knew Kipyego was going to break it, but when I saw Hull right behind her early, I was pretty much screaming at her HANG THE F ON!!!!
Kipyegon’s wr thread is all doping this and doping that but hull gets nothing but praise….
Look at the pic of hull finishing. She is surprised and not even tired. Compare that to Muir, always dead and in pain. This sport is a joke.
Cram after his WR:
"And when we got to the bell, I remember thinking, 'I am feeling so good here.' I just floated around the last lap." [It was done in 53.16!!]
"There are moments in anyone's sporting career where you almost can do no wrong. Running a world record should be one of the most difficult things you ever do in your life. It should be physically on the edge, demanding, and yet, that night for me in Oslo, it seemed like one of the most simplest and easiest things for me to do, physically, my career, I couldn't be any better."
Look at the pic of hull finishing. She is surprised and not even tired. Compare that to Muir, always dead and in pain. This sport is a joke.
Yep.
It’s the total absence of pain or any evident fatigue. Watch her down the home straight. Wasn’t in the slightest amount of distress.
1) Then why didnt she go a lot faster?
2) are you a runner yourself? Prob not. Ok, sometimes your best races “feel” the easiest because of psychological/emotional factors. So reading someone’s expression to k ow if they are doping or not- I don’t think that’s reliable, to say the least.
Kipyegon’s wr thread is all doping this and doping that but hull gets nothing but praise….
Look at the pic of hull finishing. She is surprised and not even tired. Compare that to Muir, always dead and in pain. This sport is a joke.
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Jessica actually was celebrating Faith's WR, look at her mouth as Faith's time flashes...gotta love 💕 Jessica (who just became a SERIOUS Silver 🥈 medal threat).
The Americans should’ve been over in Paris today mixing it up in this event. I don’t think any of our ladies have a chance of making the podium in the 1500.
Look at the pic of hull finishing. She is surprised and not even tired. Compare that to Muir, always dead and in pain. This sport is a joke.
Yep.
It’s the total absence of pain or any evident fatigue. Watch her down the home straight. Wasn’t in the slightest amount of distress.
If I had to pick a single person who I think is doping among the stars of women's athletics, it would be Tsegay. She has, by far, the most pained expressions of anyone when she races. It doesn't mean anything
