HRE wrote:
Lopes style wrote:He can just try to do both. Many guys have done the Olympics and then closed out the year with a fast Marathon.
Shorter followed up Munich with 2:10 at Fukuoka two months later. I'm with you. It's not an either/or kind of thing.
I just looked up the dates for both 1972 and this year.
1972 - 09/10 Oly Mar 12/03 Fukuoka = 84 Days between
2016 - 08/21 Oly Mar 12/04 Fukuoka = 105 Days between
It stands to reason that an extra 21 days this year is significant. (Unless you argue that Reid can't comeback like Shorter could.)