Grant MF Fisher doesn't have a MF medal. He doesn't deserve the MF status. Calm down y'all. He hasn't done anything worthy yet. Call me when he medals.
Valid points, but we also had several months of severely reduced testing during Covid restrictions, and thus most likely increased doping coinciding with the introduction of the super spikes.
Coming off the final turn in the 5000, Ithought Grant was going ot medal. That being said, the two guys who he lost to today weren't even in the race. The Ethiopians in their wisdom decided to punish their best men's and women's 5000 runners for not medalling in the 10,000 by banning them from the 5000. Plus the guy who won today was sitting out Worlds trying to get eligible for Spain.
Benard Lagat's record is history as Fisher judged things perfectly and then closed in 57.7. GRANT MF FISHERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR Official 2022 Monaco DL Discussion thread: Will Grant Fisher break the 3000 AR, Will...
I am not surprised. Today's 3000m result is why, on this site the night before 5000m final, World Championship, I begged G. Fisher to take the lead on penultimate lap and race penultimate lap sub-59. At a minimum, today's result shows us Grant Fisher should have been either shoulder to shoulder with J.I. from 4000m split or no further than 1/2 a stride behind J.I. from 4000m to 4700m. J.I., a superior 800m man would outkick G. Fisher 19 of 20 times they race 5000m but today's performance backs up my statements that G. Fisher should have gone for it at W.C., 5000m final.
Grant had a great run today but was still 3 seconds off the win. I don’t think he should have tried to push any harder at Worlds, he was right where he needed to be and unfortunately had a stumble. Jakob would very likely have won in sub-7:25 if he had competed today (anyone know why he didn’t?), there’s just not much Grant can do against someone like that. He’s shown great progression in the past year and is a legit medal threat at 5k/10k, but unless he takes another step forward I don’t see him beating Jakob in a 3k or championship 5k.
Grant MF Fisher doesn't have a MF medal. He doesn't deserve the MF status. Calm down y'all. He hasn't done anything worthy yet. Call me when he medals.
I’m trying to hate your post but it is true. He has to win something to really put an exclamation point to his epic season. Times are great but it has to amount to beating people. It reminds me of my 2016 Warriors: Best regular season win total, numerous records and amazing stats during the regular season but no NBA title. Some sort of consolation left for Fisher would be winning the diamond league final or so.
Coming off the final turn in the 5000, Ithought Grant was going ot medal. That being said, the two guys who he lost to today weren't even in the race. The Ethiopians in their wisdom decided to punish their best men's and women's 5000 runners for not medalling in the 10,000 by banning them from the 5000. Plus the guy who won today was sitting out Worlds trying to get eligible for Spain.
To be fair, Aregawi was pretty bad in that 10,000. I can see why they lost faith in him. Across the board, Grant was the rare guy who didn’t have his performance drop a good chunk from the 10 to the 5. Aregawi has to prove himself as a championship racer.
I am not surprised. Today's 3000m result is why, on this site the night before 5000m final, World Championship, I begged G. Fisher to take the lead on penultimate lap and race penultimate lap sub-59. At a minimum, today's result shows us Grant Fisher should have been either shoulder to shoulder with J.I. from 4000m split or no further than 1/2 a stride behind J.I. from 4000m to 4700m. J.I., a superior 800m man would outkick G. Fisher 19 of 20 times they race 5000m but today's performance backs up my statements that G. Fisher should have gone for it at W.C., 5000m final.
Grant had a great run today but was still 3 seconds off the win. I don’t think he should have tried to push any harder at Worlds, he was right where he needed to be and unfortunately had a stumble. Jakob would very likely have won in sub-7:25 if he had competed today (anyone know why he didn’t?), there’s just not much Grant can do against someone like that. He’s shown great progression in the past year and is a legit medal threat at 5k/10k, but unless he takes another step forward I don’t see him beating Jakob in a 3k or championship 5k.
As for jakob he has Euro champs starting next week
Shock that Jerry had GF return to racing so soon. Would have thought the 1st time we would have seen him spike up again post worlds would have been in a team time trial at BU in Feb
Grant MF Fisher doesn't have a MF medal. He doesn't deserve the MF status. Calm down y'all. He hasn't done anything worthy yet. Call me when he medals.
Lol, American distance runner breaks the American record. Random Internet person says, "He hasn't done anything worthy yet." Give me a break.
Grant Fisher rocking the gold chain went old school. Forget the pornstache and mullet, the gold chain is back baby! I need to pick one up before my next race.
Grant MF Fisher doesn't have a MF medal. He doesn't deserve the MF status. Calm down y'all. He hasn't done anything worthy yet. Call me when he medals.