Brussels Blowout

[Guest]

Re: Brussels Blowout

<<27:51.06>>

Hands down Bob Kennedy has turned in the best performance this year by a US distance runner.

Kennedy will show today's US distance runners how the old guard used to run. Today's US distance runners don't know what it is like to run a 3:49 mile, an 8:10 Steeplechase, and a 13:00 5000meters.
Kennedy is the last of the great holdovers from the 90's.

[michael lewis]

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America needs another Sydney Maree. Import a few distance runners. Why not? They imported their sprinters some time ago.

[Guest]

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The dismay shown over athletes moving around the globe to compete for other countries is trite and banal. Who cares what country they represent? Sanchez is a 100% born and raised American and if he chooses to run for DR, yay for him and yay for them. Hopefully athletics is more about striving for excellence than nationalism. Yes, I want the USA to do well internationally, but I shared in Sanchez's victory as much as Sanya Richard's anchor in the 4x4.

[Guest]

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><<27:51.06>>

Hands down Bob Kennedy has turned
>in the best performance this year by a US
>distance runner.>

As far as I know 27:41 beats 27:51.

[Guest]

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Yes, isn't that what Alan Culpepper ran at Stanford last spring? But shouldn't that mean that if he was peaking right he could have been running 27:20 at worlds where it would mean a lot more (instead of 28:14). It appears that one of the few U.S. athletes who peaked right was Sandra Glover.Certainly, few of our distance runner were performing at their best in Paris....

[Grazer]

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Back to Ayhan: I checked her splits from last year's Europeans, this year's Zürich and the WC, and they are unbelievable consistent. I think she was just a little tired from the rounds. (She was ALMOST caught by Szabo at the Europeans.)

[DentyCracker]

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what were they?