Any discussion of men's AOY this year would be a total bore. Ergo, we must amuse ourselves by making the choice of No. 2 as the most important!
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Originally posted by ghAny discussion of men's AOY this year would be a total bore. Ergo, we must amuse ourselves by making the choice of No. 2 as the most important!
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KB has pretty good credentials. He won both golds, made both races, especially the 5000, ran pretty fast Championship times (records), ran by far the fastest 10,000 basically solo, was not defeated very often, and even had a good XC race, for what that is worth. What's not to like.
Maybe we should try Third? None of the field events had nearly as dominant a set of performances, with the HJ being the best of the events with some good competitions. I might be slighting the field events because my faulty memory and my lesser familiarity - I might need to be corrected, but you do not need to whack me on the head, ok?.
Robles is probably the strongest credentials, with a WR and very strong season, although he did falter a little bit and his #1 competition was out with injury to everyone's disappointment.
Clay deserves consideration
Merritt does also.
The 400h was a nice battle ground with good supporting performances in the 400 and 4x400 (these do count for AOY even if not for the event rankings)
Steeple #1 did not even get to run in the OGs after missing out at his trials. No Mark under 8:00
The 800 and 1500 are mixed; at least the 800 had some great performances and some very promising faces, but the 1500 lacked many things
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Open-ended question to all: what would it take for Robles to get second over Bekele? Be undefeated? Win the 100m as well in the Olympics?
Now that I think of it more, Robles did run 7 times under 13.00 and ran the two fastest times ever (granted one was tied with Liu's old WR). Though he lost a few times, he did put run against his main competitors more than Bekele I think.
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Originally posted by joeltetreaultOpen-ended question to all: what would it take for Robles to get second over Bekele? Be undefeated? Win the 100m as well in the Olympics?
Now that I think of it more, Robles did run 7 times under 13.00 and ran the two fastest times ever (granted one was tied with Liu's old WR). Though he lost a few times, he did put run against his main competitors more than Bekele I think.
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Originally posted by 26mi235KB has pretty good credentials. ... was not defeated very often, and even had a good XC race, for what that is worth. What's not to like.
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Originally posted by joeltetreaultOpen-ended question to all: what would it take for Robles to get second over Bekele? Be undefeated? Win the 100m as well in the Olympics?
Now that I think of it more, Robles did run 7 times under 13.00 and ran the two fastest times ever (granted one was tied with Liu's old WR). Though he lost a few times, he did put run against his main competitors more than Bekele I think.
(The deleted contents included a thorough and irresistable mathematical proof
by me that a 5000/1000 double is worth less than an 800m gold.)
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