George Mills will win the 1500m at the Olympics

George was similar at 800 when he was training VERY differently, he's approaching 200km a week currently

i disagree - he ran 147.3 (1 sec slower than Yared's pb) indoors at the beginning of last year on a non-BU track. More aerobic training doesn't necessarily worsen 800 ability.

Yes but one guy ran 3:43 and beat the other by almost 4 seconds. Yared’s 800 he basically sandbagged, he can go faster.

The problem for Mills will be making the British team, which is, by far, the most competitive in the world. Having said that, Mills has progressed amazingly since he started living and training at altitude. And he is virtually guaranteed an only pic place in the 5000 as Britain will likely only have three men who have the standard. The question is if he tries for both he 1500 and 5000 at the trials as this will mean racing three races over two days (the British champs usually only lasts two days), one of which will be the ridiculously competitive 1500 final. In his favour in the 5000, I think he could just sit on the shoulder of the leaders for 4600m and outkick them all easily.

But what an amazing progression he's had in the last year, congrats to him.

I think if he runs the 1500 and fails to make the team, he can be placed on the 5k team automatically if they dont have 3 other guys with the world standard.

Yes, UKA has a discretionary place for every event (first two across the line at the trials then the third spot is discretionary). But UKA has repeatedly made weird decisions with that place, Mills would probably not want to leave it to chance.

There is actually a chance Britain has at least four men with the standard for once. As well as Mills and Atkin, Jack Rowe is running well (7:38 for 3k yesterday) and possibly Charles Hicks. I'd even throw James West in there, he's progressed well since switching coaches

I think he is a really good outside bet. His momentum towards the end of last season was tremendous.

As I've posted here before, he still likely has quite a bit of upside now that he is in a great training camp. He missed two entire seasons in his late teens after being one of the best juniors in UK athletics history.

There is a real chance of a clean sweep for GB in the 1500m.

An smaller but not unrealistic chance of a Pattison, Burgin, Hussey clean sweep in the 800.

This take.

Kerr and Wightman should make the team and then Mills has to contend with Gourley and the others narrowly behind.

They’re more likely to miss the podium entirely in both events than to sweep either one lol

When I wrote this I hadn't even seen that Mills had just run a 12:58 5000m. I wonder if he will double in Paris?

Maybe in the 800m, but very unlikely that no Brit will medal, although the depth is so great.anything could happen.

Look at Mills! Look at Mills!

What is his training setup now? Is he still with OAC Europe? On Instagram Robert Farken was in Saint Moritz and Mills was in South Africa, and this race was very OAC USA heavy

It's going to be interesting to see where Wightman is at. A year without racing at his age is a big deal. I certainly wouldn't put him as a certainty at this stage. But there's little to choose between Gourley, Mills, Giles, Stonier, and Hayward. Then there's people like Elson and Copeland who are under the radar but dangerous.

That's the usual swing for OAC Europe: summer in Switzerland, winter in South Africa. A lot of British athletes from other teams go to South Africa for winter training

Orania?

Double Ts are paying off. I saw an interview with him and his Swedish (?) coach. They were talking how it took some time to figure out all the T training (not to do too fast to keep high volume.)

Don't rule out Matt Stonier making the team, 3.31 last season u23 and arguably improved more than anybody last year. It's not nailed on that anyone makes the team.

Lets not get the cart ahead of the horse young whippersnapper. The Olympics are 6 months away