#321 - NCAA Track Champs, Cole Hocker Injury + Parker Valby Impresses, USA Best 800/1500 Country?

Go, uh, hopefully experience it for me and you, but at least go watch-

Yes

... or just absolutely.

We'll see.

But anyway, so we already touched on Diamond League a bit.

Uh, Yared Won Rubat, he, uh, had the dream mile taken from him in Oslo.

Did you see that, uh, finishing photo?

I did.

He actually thought he won, uh, when he crossed.

Dude, I saw the photo.

I thought he won, too.

But it, it was, they got the same time, and they, well, on the board it showed him, I think, winning.

Yeah.

Like, he, like, came up first-

He celebrated

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but then upon further review, yeah, they, uh, said, "Nope," uh, uh, "Timothy Cheruiyot won." So that was, that was brutal.

But also at that race, Cooper Luckinhaus beat, uh, Wanyoni, uh, who's, like, seen as the best 800 guy in the world, like, the future world record holder, like, probably.

Um, and Cooper Luckinhaus won his second Diamond League, age 17, uh, which is crazy, so maybe he's the next world record guy.

Yeah, no-

I'm thinking it

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I think the way that Cooper is progressing, uh...

I remember, I think last pod we talked about, you were like, "Is the 800 gonna go down this year?" And I was like, "I, I don't see it happening this year." Um, but the way Cooper, like, is progressing, just in confidence and, like, his ability to run with the top pros, like, I think it could happen, um, within the ne- with the, like, this year or next year.

Uh, I think one thing you saw, I mean, he beat Marco Arop in the previous-