Ranking lists aren't the full story of our sport, but most of the best top them. We'll do a bit of delving and see:
1 how many '11 World Champs topped the lists & comment on the exceptions
2 how many '08 OLY gold topped the lists & comment on the exceptions
3 how many who top the lists will gold in Ldn OLY? We'll see, & nearer the time finally predict possible golds.
Please do join in - if so prompted.
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Daegu ranking
winner 2011
100 Blake 5
- No.1 Bolt, and 99% of us would have predicted him for gold - if he hadn't false started; what will his nerves be like, if he makes the Ldn OLY 100 final?!
200 Bolt 2
- No.1 Blake, a late-season revelation, though Bolt, for 2011, did want to do only what was necessary to win
Big 100/200 questions: will Blake have the measure of Bolt in 2012? Have we seen the best of Bolt or will more emerge?
400 James 2
- No.1 ex-druggie Merritt 2nd in Daegu
800 Rudisha 1
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1.5k Kiprop 1
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5k Farah 1
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10k Jeilan 18, on the day won by a surprise whisker
- No.1 & WR holder Bekele DNF, and topped the list late in the season; he was emerging from injury
MAR Kirui 42: wins Championships: 1st Berlin too ('09)
- No. 1, new WR holder Makau, is 3-years new to the event
110H Richardson 4: gold on the day; a rising star
- No.1 RObles crossed the line 1st in Daegu (but disqualified), and Xiang (ranked 2nd) might have been 1st if not impeded ..
400H Greene 7
- No.1 Zyl 3rd in Daegu
StCh Kemboi 2
- No.1 Kiproto 2nd in Daegu
20kW Borchin 4
- No.1 Zhen 4th in Daegu
50kW Bakulin 1
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400r JAM 1
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1600r USA 1
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HJ Williams 1
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PV Wojciechowski 1
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LJ Phillips 2
- No.1 Watt 2nd in Daegu
TJ Taylor 1
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SP Storl 6
- No.1 Armstrong 2nd in Daegu
DT Harting 2
- No.1 Kovago 15th in Daegu so not even in the final
HT Murofushi 3
- No.1 Pars 2nd in Daegu
JT Zordo 2
- No.1 Thorkildsen 2nd in Daegu
DEC Hardee 2
- No.1 Eaton 2nd in Daegu
WOMEN in Daegu - to follow
