Scherer vs Symmonds 600m

Why have I not seen this before?

That was awesome!
600m duels between buddies are the BEST!

that was a tactic by symmonds, works for him sometimes in the 800 where people sit around not wanting to take the lead. Cmon what happened to the PRE guts.

Would he really run faster if he ran any differently???
finish? Gone Earlier? There is nowhere to go when Scherer split 48. for the quarter. Symmonds runs extremley smart, and that is why he is fun to watch race.

1;14 is sick!

never be as popular in the U.S. as basketball, football, baseball etc. no matter how many 'best athletes in the world' are participating. People here are simply not entertained by watching folks run around in circles as fast as they can. It's just too extreme of a sport for the average person to be able to relate to. They don't know what it feels like to tie up at the end of a 400/800/1500 etc. so they can't appreciate watching the effort as much as we do. But watching someone win the game by making a 3 pointer at the buzzer? That's something everyone gets.

1:14.41 for scherer
1:14.47 for symmonds
i dont know why they couldnt just put up these results

those are jasari 3's not zoom victory

he should have gone a little earlier

looks like they were around 1.13

zoom victorys i believe

spikes on symmonds?

More people are interested in watching Tiger vs. Rocco in a playoff in golf than they are in watching Scherer vs. Symmonds. Pro athletics is doing fine, just not in the U.S. Attendance at the Berlin Golden League meeting was 60,000+. And this wasn't an anomoly. There are simply too many sports (golf, basketball, baseball, football, hockey, auto and motorcycle racing) featuring the best athletes in the U.S. (world) for people to be bothered by watching watered-down athletics events in the U.S. featuring, well, athletes who are not the best in the world. Only the top U.S. sprinters (, Wariner, Richards, Felix, Lee, Carter, Spearmon, Merrit, Clement, Jackson, Trammel, Williams, Edwards, Trotter), some field eventers (Walker, Hoffa, Cantwell, Nelson, Stucysinski, Reese, Jonas), and a VERY small number of distance runners (Hall, Flanagan, Meb, Kastor, Abdi) are the some of the best in the world. That's what people will pay to see. The best. Symmonds will never be the best in the 800 in the world. He won't even crack the the top 3, whereas the above athletes have achieved that distinction in their careers. I'd love to be wrong, Symmond's is a gutsy runner, but there are 19 yr olds overseas who can roll out of bed and beat him all day long. Now people will pay to see vs. Powell, Bolt vs. Spearmon, Merrit vs. Wariner, Edwards/Lee/Williams/Felix v. Campbell-Brown/Stewart, Hall vs. Tergat/Cheriyout, Walker vs. next highest ranked vaulter, Stucyzinski vs. Lebedyva, Hoffa vs. Cantwell/Nelson, etc. Oh, and the comment about sprinters posturing, yes, it's not the best behavior, but be inclusive in your criticism of U.S. athletes and watch same posturing of the U.S. swimmers in Athens. One went as far as to spit in the water/lane of a competitor (on camera) before a race. Also, more recently, watch how Sarah Bowerman didn't bother to be gracious enough to congratulate Sally Kipyego (Kenyan) after the latter beat her for 2nd place in the 1500 at the NCAA's, while Bowerman does congratulate England (from UK), who took first place. So, it's not just U.S. sprinters. It's people. Some are good and gracious and good sports. Others aren't.

Yeah maybe he would do better if he ran a faster even pace obviously he isn't fatigued at the end of the 800 and especially that 600

symmonds relies too much on his finish...

false start?

What was the final time?

this should be televised!! we just don't know how to market this sport. This would have been huge. This is why T&F isn't very big in this country. We don't televise the good stuff and when we do it isn't always polished. All the flipping posturing of the sprinters. too many false starts. We never see ANY field events for some reason, however they always show them on the Golden League meets. We will never rise above our "non-revenue" status if we don't start to get creative. We need pro teams/club competing against each other (on TV), we need more duels like this (on TV), we also need more coverage of the BIG personalities (like Mottram, Greer, Nelson, Robinson, etc). Flotrack does a good job of this, but we are talking what less than 2% of the entire population is in on this. Sorry for my rant. I just know the track and running communities are capable of so much more.

good run from both symmonds and scherer