LateRunnerPhil wrote:
Dairyland wrote:
Why are you using Jakob getting DQ’d as evidence that you were right that lewandowski would win? You said Marcin would destroy Jakob in a kick! That did not happen
No, I admitted that he lost fair. Lewandowski also accepted his defeat and congratulated Jakob who found a way to beat him (go to the front early, keep a very hard pace, "run the kick out of him"). Lewandowski could not beat him in a kick because he had nothing left. A fast-twitch runner who has to use all his anaerobic energy just to stay on pace has no kick left. If you watch the race again, you could see that Lewandowski was falling back to 4:00+ 1500m pace when he was leading in the beginning, he wanted to make it as slow as possible so it becomes a 400 TT at the end which he would win with enough energy left.
The DQ is fair, Jakob tried to pass on the inside why would the 2nd Polish runner let him pass there? He was going for a medal himself. Then he tripped and stepped outside of the track which is a DQ. Without that, Jakob might have had more problems to go to the front that early and Lewandowski could have kept up the "4:40/mile jogging" a bit longer which might have given him the edge.
Had he not been bumped by Rozmys, Jakob would have reached the front even earlier because he wouldn’t have needed to slow down and then move to the outside to pass. He was going to win the race regardless. Stop clinging to this ridiculous notion that Lewandowski had any chance of winning and just admit that your prediction was terrible.