Rising athletes - Fabian Fiege

On this blog, sometimes we invite people to share something with us, a story, something about themselves, news or anything else that they would love to talk about. Fabian Fiege from Germany, who now is a sophomore student-athlete at the University of Memphis, and considered to be one of the young up-and-coming athletes in college track and field would like to share his views on the event 800m with us. Enjoy good people!

Mohawk fellas!!!! You already know! I was done, and he (Fabian) was about to execute 

Regional Qualifier Fabian Fiege

Hey everybody, I am Fabian and a former teammate of Abdi at the U of M. I also run the 800m like him and PR last season in my freshman year with a 1:49.83.

I am back in Memphis for a little more than 1 week but missed the first meet XC due to Bronchitis -.-, but I am getting back maybe I can run the next XC meet 

I don't really know what to talk about but maybe a little about how the 800m race changed in the last couple of years. All the young Africans changed this distance tremendously!!! If you think about Rudisha (23 years old), Aman (18 years) or Amos (18 years)....It is insane, Rudisha ran WR at the 2012 Olympics in 1:40.91 and Amos got second in 1:41.73 WJR!!!! Only a few weeks earlier Amos won the Junior Worlds in Barcelona injured! These times are far away from what any European can run at the moment.... To me it seems like the 800 is not a middle distance more at big international meets. They dont run it as tactical like they did 12 or 8 years ago, where Schumann and Borsakowski were able to win with a kick. Nowadays it is more like sprinting the whole way....I wonder if any European will be able to catch up with the African dominance, I mean you saw on the 1500m that you can run in the front as a white person (Manzano, Centro) so for me it would be interesting if they would meets where a distance like 1000m would be offered. I think the best 800m runners nowadays are 400/800 runners and not 800/1500 anymore like at Coe's or Cram's times (except "El Caballo" Juantorena 76) so this distance would make it possible for both group of runners to compete against each other "on a fair level"...

Well anyways I gotta finish HW on labor day, I hope you enjoyed reading 

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