link to the show.
link to the show.
wannabepro25 wrote:
Mcsweyn has a kick? Woah
Not really. We had to go back and watch the last lap again as John Kellogg said to me after it was over, "Something hat to be wrong with those splits. Based on what they were announcing on tv, the last lap would have been only 57."
We timed it in 57.5 for McSweyn. 29 then 28.5.
5 sections wrote:
This is her 3rd race in a DL this season and against an international field and the 3rd time she is an also ran
Actually, she finished 3rd among the females in the race. Pretty good.
wannabepro25 wrote:
Mcsweyn has a kick? Woah
It's not a kick. It's just the endurance that paid for him in the race.
3:33 is like jogging for Mcsweyn.
What surprised me is the performance of the Kenyan Kipsang. Isn't him that ranked 4 at Tokyo?
rojo wrote:
wannabepro25 wrote:
Mcsweyn has a kick? Woah
Not really. We had to go back and watch the last lap again as John Kellogg said to me after it was over, "Something hat to be wrong with those splits. Based on what they were announcing on tv, the last lap would have been only 57."
We timed it in 57.5 for McSweyn. 29 then 28.5.
That might be the slowest last 400 in a diamond league 1500m. Weird with guys like Katie and Kipsang in the field. Post Olympic burnout I suppose?
One thing is sure Mcsweyn is a consistent runner. At least in the last two years.
run of the mill wrote:
5 sections wrote:
She does not look like the same runner she was in June
This is her 3rd race in a DL this season and against an international field and the 3rd time she is an also ran
Her pb is only 22 0. She's not really fast enough in the 200 to win a DL meet, let alone a medal.
Yep, 4th is where she would be expected to finish. The first 3 are just faster.
Nakaayi's gold seems more and more like one of the flukiest wins in distance history. Probably the flukiest 800 win since Nils Schumann.
kreig wrote:
run of the mill wrote:
Her pb is only 22 0. She's not really fast enough in the 200 to win a DL meet, let alone a medal.
Yep, 4th is where she would be expected to finish. The first 3 are just faster.
And if Noah Lyles was in the race we would expect her in fifth. The other four would just be faster.
rojo wrote:
Before the tv window, there was a non-DL 800.
https://twitter.com/MVDbrussels/status/1433849027972435974
Hopefully, there's video of this somewhere.
Funny how Stewie is last off the line and has to pass the entire field in the next 50m. Great to see him take the W finally, with Hoare closing well.
Amy chance you guys can address the Shelby issue? I have not tuned in yet.
Jimmkner wrote:
Will Nyonsaba establish herself as the biggest threat to Hassan? Nyonsaba is a stud.
Literally!!!
THOUGHTSLEADER wrote:
Jimmkner wrote:
Katir looks like he is doped up agsin.
Katir is now officially in the RTP, so for the people who think he was rocket fuel doping...those days are over. He kicked too early today, for sure but overall looked pretty solid I would say.
Eh, he's grimacing at 3:33 pace and his legs turn to jelly in the home straight and yet 2 months ago he ran 3:28 as though he jogged it, on a trajectory that saw him improve 8 seconds in less than 12 months.
And you think he looked solid tonight?
I suppose the scary thing is that Katir is very likely still doping, only having to microdose instead of full throttle as he surely was for most of the pandemic.
Add 8 - 10 seconds to the times of El G, Ngeny, Lagat and the other full throttle EPO era frauds.
Why you gotta put DSD athlete on the homepage? She changed events. Leave it alone.
Gothenburg wrote:
Eh, he's grimacing at 3:33 pace and his legs turn to jelly in the home straight and yet 2 months ago he ran 3:28 as though he jogged it, on a trajectory that saw him improve 8 seconds in less than 12 months.
And you think he looked solid tonight?
He still beat Adel Mechaal who ranked 5 in the Olympic final.
What about Mcsween ranking 7 in Tokyo and his change of performances ... hmm?
El Keniano wrote:
Hopefully, there's video of this somewhere.
I spent hours yesterday trying to find it. There is no trace of it anywhere.
Muleño Mohamed Katir, eighth in the 5,000 meters at the Tokyo Olympics , returned to competition yesterday at the Brussels meeting of the Diamond League , where he finished in seventh place in the 1,500 with a time of 3: 34.50.
The young man from Murcia, who had to run with shoes that are not his usual ones due to problems in the studs , made a bad start, passing the first 400 in the last place. From that moment he began to go back, although he had to go to second street several times to do so, making a greater wear than his rivals. Already in the 800 meters Katir was placed in the eighth position to then initiate a very distant attack that led him to be first at the beginning of the last turn on the track .
The Muleño, who this year has broken three Spanish records , launched himself for the victory on the counter-goal straight, but in the last 200 meters he began to show the effort and was overcome by several rivals, finally finishing in seventh place in a date that the Australian Steve McSweyn won with 3: 33.20. Katir will compete again next Thursday in the last meeting of the Diamond League season, which will be played in Zurich.
Katir explained at the end of the race that "the sensations were going very well", but the problem arose because the nails of his shoe "did not grip well. I spoke with my sponsor, Asics, and I have run with some Nike shoes that are special for 400-meter tests, which has made me go fatal, very loaded in the final part, "he explained. The Muleño stressed that "I did not have a bad race, it was good, but it was that I was a wreck with my shoes," he ended up saying.
Source:
https://www.laopiniondemurcia.es/deportes/2021/09/03/moha-katir-septimo-belgica-diamond-56923824.html