He set an American record last month in the indoor 5,000 meters. Could he set the 10,000-meter record this weekend?
, finishing second in both races at the Trials. How does he reflect now on Houlihan’s case?
Conscious of how cut-off elite athletes can be, Fisher made an effort in the wake of Houlihan’s case to share more of his life online, becoming more active on social media and“Certain people have distrust for elite runners, but I’ve been trying to make an effort to be a bit more transparent, to pull back the curtain and show people what we’re doing and hopefully gain some trust back,” Fisher said. “It is important to me to inspire people.
In addition to his fifth place in the 10,000 meters in Tokyo, he was ninth in the 5,000 meters. He’ll be 27 at the Paris Games—and his current trajectory suggests he’ll be a major contender.He believed Fisher could break Galen Rupp’s American indoor 5,000-meter record of 13:01.26. So they charted a path to the David Hemery Valentine Invitational on February 12, staged on the lightning-quick track at Boston University.
“He might be the best on the team at actually running the split Jerry gives,” McGorty said. “We did a workout before that 5K, and Grant’s rep [to lead] was an 800. Jerry said two-flat, and his splits were 60.0 and 60.3. He operates with control and composure; they embody who he is as an athlete.”In Boston earlier this month, Fisher showed that in the opening half of his American record attempt, sitting behind the pacers, patiently biding his time.
Six months earlier, Miltenberg and his wife awoke at dawn to watch Fisher’s Olympic final on TV, and shortly after his fifth-place finish in the 10,000 meters he got a call from Fisher’s father, Dan. Both were emotional, recalling that first conversation in the summer of 2014 and how adamant they’d been that the long-term focus would lead to a result like that.
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