Lagat 3'29.30 ! [ancient thread revived]

[15mph]

Re: Lagat 3'29.30 !

Here is the current IAAF top ten ranking in the 1500/mile. Remember this race is not included. So Webb may even move up a position.

1. (1.) Daniel Kipchirchir KOMEN 84 KEN 1382
2. (2.) Bernard LAGAT 74 USA 1362
3. (3.) Ivan HESHKO 79 UKR 1346
4. (4.) Alex KIPCHIRCHIR 84 KEN 1333
5. (5.) Rui SILVA 77 POR 1315
6. (6.) Rashid RAMZI 80 BRN 1282
7. (7.) Suleiman SIMOTWO 80 KEN 1280
8. (10.) Alan WEBB 83 USA 1276
9. (8.) Daham Najim BASHIR 78 QAT 1269
10.(9.) Laban ROTICH 69 KEN 1264

[James Fields]

Re: Lagat 3'29.30 !

"3:32.52 for webb is a pb I believe. . . I'm sure he wouda loved to have got into 3'31 territory, but there is still time - Berlin is probably his last race this season?
-------
Webb's position on the most recent IAAF Rankings, probably improved by Rieti mark, would put him on a start list for World Athletics Final in Monaco which is after Berlin. There will be about $87,000 US dollars to be divided by top placers in that race.

[eldrick]

Re: Lagat 3'29.30 !

that's why i put in "probably"

i wasn't sure if he'd qualify for waf & even if he did, that race doesn't have pacers, so he won't get a pb in it

i'd expect berlin ( or do they still have that osaka meet ? ) as his last shot at a pb this year

[800man]

Re: Lagat 3'29.30 !

So after years of Amercian middle-distance frustration, here's Alan Webb, the most promising talent to come along in decades. He overcomes early adversity and continues to steadily improve as much as we can realistically hope. Then just as he's reaching true world-class level, right before hitting AR potential, only a few years from having legitimate medal-hopes, along comes this Kenyan interloper to ruin the party.

~Thanks alot Bernard.

Let's hope Lagat gets a nice doping ban ASAP.

[Daisy]

Re: Lagat 3'29.30 !

>Let's hope Lagat gets a nice doping ban ASAP.

E pluribus unum

Unless you are a world class miler from Kenya ????????

[800man]

Re: Lagat 3'29.30 !

I mean, if this were an event completely devoid of talent we would be happy to have an import who can hang with the big dogs... (See Meb Keflezighi) ...but Lagat's defection couldn't come with worse timing. The only positive here is that Lagat's career may end while Webb's still in his prime...hopefully.

[skyin' brian]

Re: Lagat 3'29.30 !

here we go again

[desiredscreenname]

Re: Lagat 3'29.30 !

Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses ... as long as they compete in an event we're lousy at.

[800man]

Re: Lagat 3'29.30 !

Lagat is neither tired, nor poor.

[SQUACKEE]

Re: Lagat 3'29.30 !

>but Lagat's defection couldn't come with worse timing.

i think it couldnt be better. webb and lagat are friends and can only help each other to run faster. it would be interesting to hear what webb thinks of having this years fastest 1500 runner on his team.

[15mph]

Re: Lagat helps US 1500

Lagat is an interloper with a purpose. Lagat will push Webb like Maree pushed Scott in the early 80's. We are probably going to see the fastest US championship 1500 ever next year.

In team points the US 1500 team is ranked third in the world. We can thank Lagat and to some extent Webb for that. Both these runners of course are ranked in the IAAF top ten.

Face it the 1500 is by far and away America's best distance event. Actually, it is not even close. Only Kenya had more A standard 1500-meter runners in 2005.

I suggest you look at Lagat's addition to the US 1500-meter squad as a positive. With Lagat, Webb, Myers, Lukezic, and Rankin the US could surpass Spain in the 1500. All it would take is for somebody like Myers to break into the 3:50 mile zone. Imagine if either Lukezic or Myers made the finals at World Championships.

The 1500 is where the action is in US distance running.

[Jacksf]

Re: Lagat 3'29.30 !

So what is the 1500m record by a native-born American?
I don't have anything against immigrants (as both of my parents are), but honestly it is hard to consider established athletes that come here as grown adults as 'American' record holders.
All this passport trading is slightly ridiculous at this point.

[Bob R]

Re: Lagat 3'29.30 !

>> it would be interesting to hear what webb thinks of having this years
>fastest 1500 runner on his team.


This is what he said in May (no talk of "defections" or interlopers):


http://www.american-trackandfield.com/n ... ments.html

[Daisy]

Re: Lagat 3'29.30 !

>http://www.american-trackandfield.co...bbcomment.html

Thanks for the link Bob.

Webb added, "But since he has lived in the U.S. so long, gone to an NCAA college, and been a friend to me, he has been an American all along."

And why are we worried about Lagat if Webb is not?

[SQUACKEE]

Re: Lagat 3'29.30 !

thank you bob!
its a wonderful feeling to be right at least once in my life.