>As I said to Mr. Caine in an earlier post on the same subject, can you give
me a better choice? I actually think there are a couple (Mackowiak wasn't in
my top 10, but your original question was what credential he might have, so i
gave one) who might have better cases, but none of them really fit the
profile of a "true world ranker."
But if you're going to be so quick to condemn a choice, I think you need to
be prepared to back up your strident commentary with a viable alternative.
It was not a vintage year at the No. 10 level in the 400.
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I can think of a couple of others and we may be on the same page. It was not
a vintage year at the No. 10 level in the 400. If your basing the credentials
on making the sacto final, making the Olympic games, making the Olympic final
(as I saw you state in an earlier post) than that allows for more people to
be considered.
But a true definition of how good your choice would be, is to ask the guys
who actually run the 400 if they think he was the number 10 guy in the world.
Based on the criteria that you gave me I can think of two quickly. Angelo
Taylor and Hamdan Al Bishi. BTW I stole this quote from you earlier "And
Jewell went onto finish 5th in the season-ending GP Final. How did she get to
the final? By performing better than Kirkland in the year's GP meets." I
didn't see Mackowiak in the GP final. Taylor beat almost all of the top 400
runners this year and dipped under 45 on two seperate occasions. Al bishi won
world juniors, dipped under 45, made the semi final in the OG etc. I could
also throw in some more but you would probably attempt to shoot them down
because they didn't make the Olympic team or Olympic final but if Mack was
American we probably wouldn't be having this conversation in the first place.
If MacWEEK was a number 10 than he should have lined up with the top 400
runners at some point during the year outside of the Olympics and proved it.
If your going to rank him by his OG performance than that's fine as well.
Just keep it the same throughout the rankings.
Is there a purpose to a season of races? Why do you mention the GP final in
the hurdles race but than still consider to rank those in other events who
don't run any grand prix meets? Are the athletes supposed to "hunt" him down
in order to prove they are having a better year than him?
DMC
Fortune does not change men; it unmasks them.
