If you finish top-3 in the US at any distance you should get to go imo. You're plenty battle tested if you emerge from a race like this. I don't like how fields have been trimmed down the last few cycles. It's the Olympics. Let countries decide the best way to choose 3 athletes to send. Smaller countries can send a handful of athletes even though they're likely to get rocked. That's why heats exist. A local 5k runner got to represent Cape Verde in 2012. So what, he wasn't competitive but he didn't affect the race. & we're not even talking about athletes like that. We're talking about keeping someone out over 10 seconds. It's not like this race was a time trial in cool conditions. Dude showed he should get a shot on the world stage.
FYI the Penn Relays Summer Showcase meet on Saturday, which is on the World Athletics Global Calendar, is going to be the meet where Corrigan makes his attempt on the Olympic standard of 8:15. Penn confirmed to us that they have added a steeple and that Corrigan will be running.
That's great, but what is the weather looking like? like the other poster said, if it's 90F & sunny, he wouldn't be running a fast time.
They should schedule the steeple in the coolest part of the day/night.
Well, I think it’s more like verifying that the meet is going to meet the world athletics requirements and submit everything before 60 days.
For instance, meets have run into the problem of not having the correct rail. If they set up a time trial and he runs the time, but the rail or the timing system isn’t up to standard and it wouldn’t count anyway.
World athletics already approved this meet, you just add an event and you know that it’s gonna count for the standard. I feel like it’s a safer bet than setting something up on your own(which obvi you can’t do because of the 60 day thing).
I think the weather might be an issue here. Says 88 and rain, which is definitely gonna change before Saturday. Problem on the East Coast this time of year is typically the humidity, which I assume someone from Utah doesn’t get to experience as often.
If it rains, that could knock off enough of the heat so that the humidity isn’t quite as suffocating.
Wind is also sometimes a problem at Penn but if he has a couple pacemakers, they could probably take most of it.
FYI the Penn Relays Summer Showcase meet on Saturday, which is on the World Athletics Global Calendar, is going to be the meet where Corrigan makes his attempt on the Olympic standard of 8:15. Penn confirmed to us that they have added a steeple and that Corrigan will be running.
Does this mean maybe Rojo will STFU now about freaking Uzbekistan?
FYI the Penn Relays Summer Showcase meet on Saturday, which is on the World Athletics Global Calendar, is going to be the meet where Corrigan makes his attempt on the Olympic standard of 8:15. Penn confirmed to us that they have added a steeple and that Corrigan will be running.
Thanks for the relevant information! Now the key will be if Eyestone has arranged for pacers to make sure the first 1K split isn't 3 minutes like it was yesterday.
FYI the Penn Relays Summer Showcase meet on Saturday, which is on the World Athletics Global Calendar, is going to be the meet where Corrigan makes his attempt on the Olympic standard of 8:15. Penn confirmed to us that they have added a steeple and that Corrigan will be running.
Wouldn't it be amazing if Evan Jager agreed to pace the first 2K for Corrigan at Penn? Let the best man go to Paris.
How do you make this work in practice? Which countries get to sen their top 3s and in which event?
Should the US get to send 3 in all events? What about the men's javelin?
I don't necessarily agree with some of the reductions in field sizes... but adding 100s more athletes to the program isn't going to happen. If anything, track is going to face pressure to drop the number of athletes
If you finish top-3 in the US at any distance you should get to go imo. You're plenty battle tested if you emerge from a race like this. I don't like how fields have been trimmed down the last few cycles. It's the Olympics. Let countries decide the best way to choose 3 athletes to send. Smaller countries can send a handful of athletes even though they're likely to get rocked. That's why heats exist. A local 5k runner got to represent Cape Verde in 2012. So what, he wasn't competitive but he didn't affect the race. & we're not even talking about athletes like that. We're talking about keeping someone out over 10 seconds. It's not like this race was a time trial in cool conditions. Dude showed he should get a shot on the world stage.
You just don't know how this works.
Countries get slots based on how strong they are in events.
US usually gets 3, the max.
Country can pick those 3 any way they want, as long as they are Olympic qualified.
US chooses to do trials.
Small countries with 0 qualified athletes period, get to send 1 athlete for all t&f for the Olympic spirit.
Generally, but not always top 3 at us trials will be Olympic qualified - but not always.
Purpose of the whole process is to avoid clogging the heats with slow runners. An 8:28 steeple is not a medal contender.
FYI the Penn Relays Summer Showcase meet on Saturday, which is on the World Athletics Global Calendar, is going to be the meet where Corrigan makes his attempt on the Olympic standard of 8:15. Penn confirmed to us that they have added a steeple and that Corrigan will be running.
Wouldn't it be amazing if Evan Jager agreed to pace the first 2K for Corrigan at Penn? Let the best man go to Paris.
FYI the Penn Relays Summer Showcase meet on Saturday, which is on the World Athletics Global Calendar, is going to be the meet where Corrigan makes his attempt on the Olympic standard of 8:15. Penn confirmed to us that they have added a steeple and that Corrigan will be running.
FYI the Penn Relays Summer Showcase meet on Saturday, which is on the World Athletics Global Calendar, is going to be the meet where Corrigan makes his attempt on the Olympic standard of 8:15. Penn confirmed to us that they have added a steeple and that Corrigan will be running.
Do we have a sense of whether he might be able to punch his ticket at this meet without hitting the standard? i.e. if he wins but runs 8:20something might there be enough bonus points to get him in the rankings?
FYI the Penn Relays Summer Showcase meet on Saturday, which is on the World Athletics Global Calendar, is going to be the meet where Corrigan makes his attempt on the Olympic standard of 8:15. Penn confirmed to us that they have added a steeple and that Corrigan will be running.
Do we have a sense of whether he might be able to punch his ticket at this meet without hitting the standard? i.e. if he wins but runs 8:20something might there be enough bonus points to get him in the rankings?
He's like 118th, I don't think he can do anything to get the rank
FYI the Penn Relays Summer Showcase meet on Saturday, which is on the World Athletics Global Calendar, is going to be the meet where Corrigan makes his attempt on the Olympic standard of 8:15. Penn confirmed to us that they have added a steeple and that Corrigan will be running.
Do we have a sense of whether he might be able to punch his ticket at this meet without hitting the standard? i.e. if he wins but runs 8:20something might there be enough bonus points to get him in the rankings?
He needs 1190 or more.
Top 3 performances which will contribute to his 1162pt, 79th world ranking: 1. USAs final 8:26.78: 1137pts +50pts for 3rd place in a B level meet. =1187 2. USAs heat 8:21.22: 1161pts +0 (no additional points for heats). =1161 3. Big 12 champs 8:29.24: 1125pts +12pts for 1st place in a F level meet. = 1137 Final scoring: 1187+1161+1137=3485, 3485/3=1162 (rounded up)
1161, 1187, 1222
12 for 1st F
8:15 is worth about 1190, so unless he gets 20 bonus points in addition to the win (1190 + 20 + 12 = 1222), he needs the time standard