Hilarious how Americans are winning 800-10k medals out of nowhere and the forum is just full of people crying when any nation bar Kenya or Ethiopia wins a medal
The forum is full of Americans.
When they get beaten = "other nations must be doping."
When they get surprise medals and PBs = "nothing suspicious going on here."
It should be like Eurovision where they factor in the judges vote and the audience vote to get the final score. Except it's performance on track + how hot you are - congratulations on gold Georgia Bell and sorry about your DQ Faith Kipyeagon.
Grafter, Muir, can't grab a medal, but PRs in another global final (3:53.37). Unfortunately, it came at the expense of having Georgia Bell beat her to the line in a British national record of 3:52.61.
Muir lost a medal there by going out so slow. She had to expend so much energy getting back in touch with the pack. Still an awesome run for her
I think the point you're missing is that Fisher's progress has been clear and consistent over a number of years (same goes for SML, who others have thrown out there). If there is an American that suddenly shows up running 1:41s out of nowhere then I will call BS on it.
Let her emotions get the best of her. Idk what Ethiopia was thinking in general these whole games.
I mean, I think the loud and clear message is that they need to move to an actual trials system. Their committee sends far too many athletes that can run fast in a time trial but have ZERO racing acumen.
That said, too many folks (*cough* Tesgay *cough*) have too much stake in the current system to see them make this change, which, unfortunately, means that we will keep seeing the same results in the years ahead.