She ran the 5k and 1500 back-to-back in portland a few weeks ago. and by back to back i mean like minutes apart.
She is actively training to prepare for the effort and fatigue required to run a minimum of 3, but fingers crossed 4 events at the olympics.
Tapering, resting and targeting specific tweaks at this point is for all the other athletes putting their eggs in one basket.
Sifan, while history may eventually regard her controversially, is attempting to do a great thing for the modern era of the sport.
4 would be crazy. 1500 final then next day marathon lmao. I think she could realistically do the 5, 10, marathon triple though. 5 marathon double is most likely imo
Unconventional or not, I don't question her. Hassan tends to get it right. The one exception was 2022. But it's easy to forget the situational influence at play that year. Not only was Hassan mentally exhausted after Tokyo, but Niyonsaba was looming over women's distance and seemed like she would toy with the field in every race. That happened post Olympics in fall 2021 and carried over into early 2022, when Niyonsaba easily dispatched Kipyegon in a sprint finish.
Then Niyonsaba got hurt and pulled out of Eugene only in the final weeks.
I've always been convinced Hassan would have been much better prepared in 2022 minus the Niyonsaba factor. It wasn't surprising she bounced back in 2023 once that was out of the way.
In looking at the FBK 1500 entries I'm surprised to see Diane Van Es and especially Likina Amebaw. Both of them are having the year of their life. But neither one fits the 1500. Van Es probably wants to make a home appearance and soak up the reception after the surprise 10,000 silver at European Championships. Amebaw is more difficult to figure. She is a cross country specialist who has done better than ever on the track this year, but at considerably longer distances than this. It's possible one of them will be a pacer.
personally I'd love to see her do all 4. logically it makes no sense form a performance perspective, but she doesn't need to do anything more to prove to us she is one of the best athletes of all time, instead now with this we would get to see someone undertake a challenge unlike anything we've seen in decades
and regardless, I dont believe that even if she just focused on one event nowadays that she would be able to beat Faith in the 1500 or Gidey/Tsegay in the 5000.
Siffan is talented enough that she HAS a chance to beat anyone from 1500m to 10000m if she has fresh legs and only doing track training. It's IMPRESSIVE but she is trying to do too many triples and lessening her chance in every event.
Unconventional or not, I don't question her. Hassan tends to get it right. The one exception was 2022. But it's easy to forget the situational influence at play that year. Not only was Hassan mentally exhausted after Tokyo, but Niyonsaba was looming over women's distance and seemed like she would toy with the field in every race. That happened post Olympics in fall 2021 and carried over into early 2022, when Niyonsaba easily dispatched Kipyegon in a sprint finish.
Then Niyonsaba got hurt and pulled out of Eugene only in the final weeks.
I've always been convinced Hassan would have been much better prepared in 2022 minus the Niyonsaba factor. It wasn't surprising she bounced back in 2023 once that was out of the way.
In looking at the FBK 1500 entries I'm surprised to see Diane Van Es and especially Likina Amebaw. Both of them are having the year of their life. But neither one fits the 1500. Van Es probably wants to make a home appearance and soak up the reception after the surprise 10,000 silver at European Championships. Amebaw is more difficult to figure. She is a cross country specialist who has done better than ever on the track this year, but at considerably longer distances than this. It's possible one of them will be a pacer.
Thats an interesting take, but honestly I don't think Hassan was really thinking that much about Niyonsaba beyond that of the other top distance competitors. She was good, obviously, and there was contraversy, but I don't really see how this affected Hassan mentally such that she couldn't perform at her normal level. Kipyegon now is certainly more dominant than Niyonsaba back then.