Hunter Bell struggles with double difficulties after the London Diamond League 800m | won | athletics

What does a 1500 m specialist so far do if he can't stop winning over 800 m? Of course, call the experts. When she closed a remarkable first full season as a runner with an Olympic 1500 -M bronze in Paris last summer, Georgia Hunter Bells seemed to be determined. Why change a successful formula?

But she and the victory over 800 m in London on Saturday have a second win in her last two Diamond League races over the distance after winning in Stockholm last month.

The problem for the World Championships in Tokyo in September. Should she adhere to the event where she won her Olympic medal, should she address the shorter race over two rounds or should she have a bold double in recent years that has increasingly fallen out of fashion?

Helpful, she has the perfect sound board in her contact book: “I could actually contact Kelly Holmes and see what she thinks.”

Holmes, who still won 800 m and 1500 m gold in 2004, initially contacted Hunter Bell after the Paris games last summer. Since then, the relationship has developed into something that resembles a mentor and a mentee. After triumphing over a strong field in the London stage in 1 minute 56.74 seconds of the second fastest time of her life-is Hunter Bell to hear what Holmes thinks about everything.

“Make the double [at the world championships] is an option because the schedule is actually quite generous for it, “she said.” There are real days. An event is completed before the second start. But I just think it's really difficult and you could stuff your chances of both. So I don't know. Many people can have their opinion, but there are very few who actually did it. I would like to see what Kelly has to say. “

There is an additional factor. Keely Hodgkinson, who will return from a thigh injury in the coming weeks -800 -M times have stagnated. In contrast, more and more 1500 -M women continue to break new ways.

“You have to look strategically at the events,” said Hunter Bell. “The 1500m is even faster than last year. I didn't think that was possible, but it has again. While the 800 m is not as fast at the moment as last year. So if you try to get a medal, what is the best thing you can do?”

Elsewhere, the expected battle of the British runners were unable to enter the 1500 m men, since the young Kenyan increase Phanuel Koech was directly directly in the house to win the 60,000-person sales quantity through the outkicking world champion Josh Kerr directly to win.

The 18 -year -old Koech had never driven a 1500 m race before the last month, but now has three of the six fastest times in the world this year after he had met 3: 28.82. Although Kerr followed him most of the race, he was not able to keep pace in the house and took second place in 3: 29.37. Former world champion Jake Wightman became fourth, while George Mills fell with 200 m.

Kerr is always bullish and remains confident that Wightman's world championship title will remain in Great Britain. “Yes, 100%,” he said. “The title lives here and will continue to live here for next year.”

He added from his own run: “Well, not great. In general, I really liked it, as I felt during the entire race. I waited up to about 120, but this power was not quite there. We will be there. I know I can make a big leap in the next few months.”

Charlie Dobson recorded the scalp of the British compatriot and the Olympic silver medalist Matt Hudson-Smith to win the 400 m in a personal best 44.14, and became the second fastest European of all times, while Morgan Lake won the high jump in the best 1.96 m season season.

Julien Alfred von Saint Lucia ran a worldwide 21.71 to defeat Dina Asher-Smith in the 200 m, and the Olympic champion of America, Noah Lyles, became second over 100 m behind the Obliquet Sevilla of Jamaica, which was 9.86.

Before the campaign started, the 4×400 m team of the British men received an extraordinarily late upgrade of gold medals 28 years after the 1997 World Championships 28 years after the 1997 World Championships. Great Britain initially became second place, only so that the American winners later freed his title after Antonio Pettigrew, who died in 2010, confessed to doping between 1997 and 2003.

“On the one hand, it is a real shame that it took so long,” said Thomas. “But on a personal level it is really nice today. My son is here today. I had no children back then. It really felt special.”