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Expectations, expectations...

Posted by simon on 8/29/2007 on simon's blog

Alan Webb describes coming eighth in the 1500m world championship as "a colossal breakdown".

Huh? The race was won by new American citizen Bernard Legat (born in Kenya and a member of the famed Nandi tribe). Webb was 0.95 seconds behind !

No disgrace. Legat is 32 and tactically superb. Webb is the new boy. But he is disconsolate: "I thought I had more left than I did. I wish I could learn a lesson
from that, but I learned nothing. I got nothing out of it. If I wanted
to get seventh, I would have run for seventh and gotten seventh, or
whatever the hell I got. I didn't come to get seventh, I came to get
first. I didn't."

* Quotes from USATF athlete interviews.

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