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At the US Track & Field National Championships (World Team Trials), Cooper Lutkenhaus, a 16 year old sophomore finished 2nd in the men's 800m final, and will compete at the World Championships in Tokyo next month. He'll apparently be the youngest Team USA world teamer in history, and may be the most talented American middle distance runner since the great Jim Ryun 60 years ago. Incredibly, he ran a 1:42.27, knocking 3s off his own U18 and U20 World Record (set last month at the Texas state meet). He's now the third fastest American ever, and only 1.4s off the world record (David Rudisha - Kenya - 1:40.9, set in the 2012 Olympic final). Mind, a few months ago, his personal best was a 1:47.x. Blisteringly fast for a high schooler, for sure, especially one who only started running competitively in 7th grade, but not world class. 1:42.27 would have won every World Championship final to date, as well as every Olympic final until last year. As an aside, he even managed to make Donovan Brazier's incredible comeback victory a sidestory. Brazier, the 2019 World Champion and one-time American record holder, only returned to racing in June, after injuring his achilles tendon at the 2021 Tokyo Olympic Trials. Injured until earlier this year, he was widely believed to be essentially retired until suddenly returning this summer.

Necessity is the Mother of Invention. —Plato The Big Red, smarter than the average Bear..

What a stupid comment. If you could prove he’s a pedo then there would be enough to put him in prison.

Or... you could try to imagine how dominant we would be were we to focus on only teo styles, MFS & MGR rather than three (those two + Folkstyle).

When you go to your frat's Halloween dance party your senior year, already in a "sublime and elevated" mental state, and hit it off and eventually hook up with the hot brunette in the bouquet of baguette costume, only to learn the next morning that she is a freshman and turned 18 months ago, that is one thing. But when you serially target and message freshman girls en masse, like what Carter is alleged to have been doing? yeah that's a little odd.

They have assisted suicide there.

The baked bread w/oil really makes it. That and tons of good good real Parmesan reggiano ..not that Kraft crapola. edit. Crusty rustic bread is the best.

Now you know how we all feel about your Great Depression claims

The amount of coffee one must drink to pop an NCAA caffeine test is insane. Pills are the most likely culprit, because if you shot-gunned 6-8 cups of coffee just before a race you would probably be going to the toilet and not the starting block. Did anyone on Drury notice their teammate talking like Boomhauer from King of the Hill during the meet or was this standard procedure for this kid?

You’re reasonable all right. Bahahahahahahhaha. Smfh

To be fair, if I took all those fun substances I would still not place sixth at women's NCAAs so I'm not going to throw any shade into that pool. But if you got me hopped up on 5 shots of espresso then all bets are off!

I don't think I can pass that test most mornings. But how about the Brazilian woman who tested positive for SIX substances at their Olympic trials ? https://swimswam.com/ncaa-d2-champion-rafaela-raurich-given-four-year-ban-after-testing-positive-for-six-substances/ All that and her best finish was a sixth?

Alex jones is a certified crack pot. At best lol.

Alex Jones claims that pedo Trump tried to bribe him into shutting up about the epstein files. He's an extreme winger conspiracy whack job so not a lot of credibility but my best guess is that this is true since bashing trump is not typically the top of his agenda. Or is it? Since they're both fellow winger whack jobs.

As a journalist you should not lead with a bias statement. Now for you the reader you are free to think whatever you want. But if journalists are telling you what to think then it is no wonder all the dummies who can't think for themselves just tow the TDS line.

Hey DH, not sure you've been around long enough to see my posts on this. My posts have been emphatically to produce the files and let the public decide about them. I don't care who is in them, get them out there. Is that a strong enough reaction for you? Everyone else has been just as emphatic. The Ds and leftists are late to this game now that they have orange man to hate. They had 4 years and now all of the sudden this is the most important thing and everything else is nothing but a distraction? Give me a break. mspart

Hamiti had just competed recently before this. Albeit, just a dual meet. But he was probably exhausted. Hope he fills out to 86kg nicely

Technically you can't speak to other schools if you aren't in the portal that would be considered tampering. Joining the portal also allows your team to not honor the scholarship. You can theoretically just transfer and walk on anywhere without joining the portal. In reality none of these rules are closely enforced. If a big school wants to contact you they will. If a coach wants you off the team, you'll be off the team. "DNC's" get contacted. Portal makes it easy to organize but it's still the wild west.

Big shout out to Gannon Buhr for winning the Professional Disc Golf World Championships in Nokia, Finland at only 20 years old! Those are the only other world championships I care about.

The latest cope from the left. When cancel culture doesn't work, pretend nobody is offended. Everyone knows the truth, but RV is trying to gaslight everyone on this forum to think nobody on the left actually cares.

I'm not sure what to make of the criticism of the team from Gaines, Lochte and Phelps. Clearly, there are leadership issues at USA Swimming - regardless of who is the acting CEO, who thought it was a good idea to book the training camp in a country known for contaminated food, communicable illness and general disorder? - but they also questioned members' training habits and sense of entitlement in a way that I'm not sure is fair. The reality is, for probably the first time in my lifetime, the best male and female swimmers in the world are not from the US. Plus, men's swimming is much more competitive than it ever has been. (Women's swimming remains, for the most part, a US-Australia dual meet.) And, the US swimming community seemed to understand in their heads but not their hearts at the Olympics and going in to this year's Worlds that the men's team is between generations. Ultimately, I'm very optimistic for the men's team at the next worlds and the LA games. (The resulys from the World University Games were outstanding.) The women's team will keep on keeping on as long as Walsh, Douglass, Ledecky, Smith, et al keep swimming and so long that China doesn't find any more 12 year old superheroes.

Feel this was an unnecessary shot at Brown . . . But I'm certainly not smart enough for any Ivy League school so take my thoughts w/ a grain of salt

it was a fairly obvious attempt to crap on PSU in a ham handed fashion.

Look for my guy Brady Roark to make some noise and sneak on the podium for SDSU.

But your back posting unsubstantiated nonsense again.

You sure know a lot about being a pedo. Hmmmmmmmmmm

FWIW, Jack Alexy split a 45.95 100m anchoring the US 4x100 Medley to a bronze medal.

Well, I can't resist. In 1956, I read the book "100 Greatest Sports Heroes" and the three bios that impacted me the most were Frank Gotch, King of Wrestlers; Bob Mathias, King of the Decathlon, and Johnny Weissmuller, The Human Fish. I have written books about Gotch and became friends with Mathias late in life...and corresponded a bit with Weissmuller, who after setting 67 swimming records became even more famous as Tarzan in 12 movies. BTW. Dan Gable was a standout swimmer as a youth until he channeled all his energies into antoher sport.

OR One of my favorites: (Spanky, from the Little Rascals, throwing money out the window!) D3

That's quite the reach. You're predicting the #1 seed true freshman, 3rd place finisher, and Final X wrestler to win? The thread title is 125 dark horse. Who is your prediction at 165?

Your streak is alive! mspart

Way to ruin another thread.

Winners- Yeah my understanding is a little wonky for sure. However, I know there was some stuff in place that keeps some kids from competing for sure. I think it is in place to keep kids here competing for USA. I also think kids that represent other countries also cannot attend the OTC. IDK. I would bet Willie has some insight on it.

I’m a little skeptical of Mineo’s reporting here. I don’t think that things get proven at a preliminary hearing and Sasso’s attorney waived the preliminary hearing. So I don’t know how anything could have been proved at this particular preliminary hearing. Pretty much nothing happened yesterday and things are just proceeding. He does appear to be facing three misdemeanor charges and one summary offense. Next court date is 8/28.