The Athletics Thread

[iBanesto]

Cole Hocker lmfao. The Simon Gerrans of distance athletics.

The others deserve that for bunching everything up so much. He is the punishment that other athletes get for cowardice. Major championship races are often slower paced because people are used to pacemakers on the commercial calendar and don't want to take up the pace, but he won the Olympic 1500 because Kerr and Ingebrigtsen were too busy trying to make each other do the work, and here too many people were unwilling to make pace - and possibly offered Ingebrigtsen too much respect given the lack of form he's shown, as when he was pacing the group got all bunched up, that meant he still had enough in the tank to unleash a monster last lap.

Yeah I don't really rate Hocker.

He ran a 3 second PB in the 1500 m Olympic final in Paris. If he wasn't American, most people would be suspicious of that performance.

 

[Red Rick]

Van Niekerk doing a 43.26 split in rain so heavy the inside lane is completely flooded is batshit insane tbh. He didn't even race the regular 400m

 

[tobydawq]

Femke Bol will switch to the 800m from next season.