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6 hours ago 07/08/2024 12:06pm EDT

re: my two pennies

Big Wolfe fan here but totally understand the outcome. Blanks is a strong runner who has the standard. Wolfe is bronze at USA Champs and I think we’ll see him at Olympics in 2028.

Question: wasn’t the Wake Forest invite an honest attempt at the Standard? All the right guys were there. I don’t see it as Milt’s fault that Hocker needed a private 2-man time trial. I think we’d have seen a few guys get the standard if they’d combined those two 5,000 races.

I could be missing information, though. Honestly curious…

5 hours ago 07/08/2024 12:25pm EDT

re: Blanks

I forgot there was a third Olympic qualifying race at BU this winter, at the Terrier DMR Challenge. Grant Fisher ran 12:51, and several others went 13:04-13:06. But Wolfe was running Alex Wilson instead that weekend, helping qualify a DMR team that he wasn't even going to run on at Nationals. They ended up being six seconds under the minimum time, so could have easily done it without Wolfe.

5 hours ago 07/08/2024 12:30pm EDT

re: DMR is fun but costly

Yes. They were loaded in the mile.

5 hours ago 07/08/2024 1:01pm EDT

re: DMR is fun but costly

I'm counting four missed opportunities for Wolfe's coach to help him get the standard:

1. BU Terrier - This was eight weeks after the BU Season Opener, probably a long enough wait to make another attempt.

2. BU DMR challenge - could have brought the DMR team here instead to knock out a qualifier with professional pacers, then have them cheer on Wolfe in the 5000

3. Wake Forest Invite - Cole Hocker, Cooper Teare & pro pacers? But it sounds like some college coaches didn't want their kids racing pros and so Hocker, Teare and their pacers ran all by themselves. Wolfe's coach should have been apoplectic and got him in the fast heat.

4. LA Grand Prix - timing would have probably worked well as Wolfe was coming into peak form. Could have run easily won the 5k at ACCs the week before then easily gotten through the NCAA regional the week after. But his coach had him double the 5 and 10 in a failed effort to win ACCs.

5 hours ago 07/08/2024 1:06pm EDT

re: DMR is fun but costly

DMR is fun but costly wrote:
I'm counting four missed opportunities for Wolfe's coach to help him get the standard:
1. BU Terrier - This was eight weeks after the BU Season Opener, probably a long enough wait to make another attempt.
2. BU DMR challenge - could have brought the DMR team here instead to knock out a qualifier with professional pacers, then have them cheer on Wolfe in the 5000
3. Wake Forest Invite - Cole Hocker, Cooper Teare & pro pacers? But it sounds like some college coaches didn't want their kids racing pros and so Hocker, Teare and their pacers ran all by themselves. Wolfe's coach should have been apoplectic and got him in the fast heat.
4. LA Grand Prix - timing would have probably worked well as Wolfe was coming into peak form. Could have run easily won the 5k at ACCs the week before then easily gotten through the NCAA regional the week after. But his coach had him double the 5 and 10 in a failed effort to win ACCs.

You expecting a North Carolina coach to match wits and chess with a HARVARD coach? Come on, bro.

3 hours ago 07/08/2024 2:37pm EDT

re: RhodeIslandRed

RhodeIslandRed wrote:
Blanks#2fan wrote:
What people don't realize is that to qualify for the Olympics it is NOT top 3 at the USATF track and field trias. Its TOP 3 WITH THE STANDARD. Parker only completed half of what was needed. There isn't really anything to debate here. If USATF only let those into the Trials that had the Olympic Standard, Parker wouldn't have even competed for a spot. Maybe something worth doing in the future so morons don't come onto Letsrun to complain of injustice (I half kid).
Whittni Morgan didn't have either and she's going.
Finishing Top 3 and having the standard should be the ticket to go. World rankings are subjective.

Aren't the rankings calculated by means of a formula that is based upon the athlete's time and place in certain races? It is not as if people are voting who is ranked higher.

3 hours ago 07/08/2024 2:38pm EDT

re: BrainCelll

BrainCelll wrote:
I hate how so many people on the IG posts and message boards can't just let this go, without putting loads of 'justice for Parker', 'it should of been Wolfe', 'what about Parker' comments ffs
The qualification policy didn't change, everyone knew what the rules were (whether you agree with them or not) and Blanks' post-race interview on the topic he was a true gentlemen about it and openly advocated for Parker to go, yet now whenever he opens his phone he's just going to see loads of immature BS comments from people

I really hope people didn't actually write, "it should of been Wolfe"

3 hours ago 07/08/2024 2:56pm EDT

re: fight in the dog

fight in the dog wrote:

THIS

3 hours ago 07/08/2024 3:03pm EDT

re: Hindsighters

Harvard guy studied to the test, NC guy didn’t.

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