Hodgkinson ran her 1:55.88 NR after rounds. Rogers ran her 1:56.81 PB after rounds. Rudisha ran the 1:40.91 WR after rounds. Brazier ran his 1:42.34 AR after rounds. Vebjorn Rodal ran 1:42.58 after rounds. Ralph Doubell equaled the 800 WR after rounds. Alberto Juantorena broke the 800 WR after rounds. Pamela Jelimo ran 1:54.87 after rounds. The British, American and Canadian women’s 1500 records were all run after rounds. Ingebrigtsen ran his 3:28.32 AR after rounds. Herb Elliott smashed the 1500 WR after rounds. Josh Kerr ran 3:29.05 after rounds. El Guerrouj ran 3:27.65 after rounds. Sifan Hassan ran 3:51.95 after rounds and winning the 10k gold.
Maybe rounds aren’t too negatively impactful for a well trained mid distance runner.
Last year was uniquely generous with 2 days of rest between the semis and finals. In general, it’s a good point though. I do think for Mu at least we can generally expect her SB to not be in the final of a championship 800m. She has to set the pace and run strategically so she can shift gears with 150 to go. She can exceed her times with a pacemaker leading her out 500 meters. Meanwhile if Keely/Ajee/Raevyn get a clean run and peak properly they have a nice setup to run a SB/PB.
"Uniquely generous with 2 days rest between semi and finals".
Care to point me to the last time any event from 800m and up had semi and final on consecutive days in either world champs or Olympics?
She ran a poor tactical race. Got heavily boxed, allowed too many to come around her just after the bell so she had to run a lot more distance to get out of the box. She'll need to learn from that, keep herself positioned better. I still think she'll medal but this is a warning for her: she can't let too many bodies get between her and Mu in Eugene
She's gonna need to go back intime and reselect her genes because otherwise she ain't gonna beat Mu.
"Uniquely generous with 2 days rest between semi and finals".
Care to point me to the last time any event from 800m and up had semi and final on consecutive days in either world champs or Olympics?
So a poster corrected you but the standard setup is to have one day off between semis and finals aka semis Tuesday final Thursday. Last year it was 2 full days off and that IS unusual. 72 hours is a lot of recovery times and I think it helped the athletes.
Yes Moraa likes to go out ** harder ** the first 200 than Athing. This will be very interesting because could we see Athing running in second place after the break? It reminds me of the brief period in Rudisha's career when he was being challenged for the lead at 200 within the 800. Either way Keely is going to have to position herself well behind those 2 and get used to a sub-27 split.
I think she'll just have to let Mu and Moraa go. They're both 49/50 second 400m women, Keeley runs 51/52. If she goes with them, she's playing their game. Her strength is a negative split with a 58 first lap and I've seen nothing this season to suggest she would do better running any other way
58 with a negative split is 1:56. Tell me how many times Keeley has run a 1:56?
I think she'll just have to let Mu and Moraa go. They're both 49/50 second 400m women, Keeley runs 51/52. If she goes with them, she's playing their game. Her strength is a negative split with a 58 first lap and I've seen nothing this season to suggest she would do better running any other way
58 with a negative split is 1:56. Tell me how many times Keeley has run a 1:56?
Last year at the Olympics she ran 1:55 going out in like 58.5 and closing in around 57.3
58 with a negative split is 1:56. Tell me how many times Keeley has run a 1:56?
Last year at the Olympics she ran 1:55 going out in like 58.5 and closing in around 57.3
wasn't really answering the question of how many times. If it is her strength to run negative split 58/?? If you are using a sample of one thats kinda a weak case
Some facts for the racist posters attempting to smear Moraa just because she thoroughly and convincingly beat their great white hype Hodgkinson.
1. No, she didn't come out of nowhere. She won a silver medal in the 400m at the world U18s in 2017.
2. No, she's not male, even though she used to rock a very short haircut like many rural Kenyan girls.
3. Like the other young Kenyan 800m prospect Emmanuel Wanyonyi, she had a tough rural life, with various obstacles and challenges obtaining a formal education, therefore struggles to express herself in English, more than even the average Kenyan athlete.
The other problem is that in the Olympics, the example given, all the top three finishers ran a negative split, so Keely can't rely on that as a differentiator.
A treat for all you haters: Watch a 17-year-old Moraa more than hold her own running the anchor leg of the 400m mixed relays against the smarter Brazilian and Jamaican teams who used male anchors. And, oh. In case you don't notice, the Brazilian boy chasing her down is none other than current 400m Hurdles star Alison dos Santos.
Remember this is also the case because US/UK ousted the prime track & field contender-Russia. The recent Olympics & WCs will have an asterisk as long as Russia is out.
There were also asterisks when Russian women were IN the 800. Several Russian women won medals and then were busted doing drugs and their medals were given to others.
Sure, it might seem like too great a gap between Mu and Wilson given how close the U.S. final was, but that was a great race for Wilson and a lukewarm one for Mu. Similarly, while Wilson ran better at USAs than Hodgkinson in Stockholm, that’s just one race apiece and I think we’d all take Hodgkinson based on their last 12 months’ bodies of work.
Seems fair to me. I’d note that Rogers is under a lot of pressure from the Ethiopians Welteji and Hailu who are in good form.
You have to give Keely the benefit of the doubt but she’s going to have to be realistic about her race plan and run a smarter race than she did in Stockholm.
In the WC final there won't be 10 runners and there won't be a rabbit. So Keely should have an easier time with her tactics.
What was up with the pacer? First she somehow got behind at the start and had to run through the field impeding Moraa, and then she got in the way again when she pulled to the side and cut Moraa off again.
The pacer wasn't smart enough to know that at 450 meters she should have left lane 1 going towards the infield, not going towards lanes 2 and 3.
Just going to put it out there. There seemed to be no stronger shoe in for a gold medal in Eugene than Keely and she was clearly beaten today by a better runner.
I voted for Mary Moraa in the LRC poll. Will I get 99 virgins in heaven for my successful pick?
