Only one was b9g and regardless, it was their first meet. As Mike has said, OHB and shotput are pretty much within a 1m deviation. I don’t know many athletic guys that can’t throw at least 13m with the 16lb, let alone 12lb.
Even if he lived in Europe, money in what events? You can only compete in so many decs and there’s only a few events he’s even competitive at the international level in as an individual. Appearance fee to do what? Get killed in basically any individual event?
I am pretty sure Mike means with adequate shot put training, which means about 3-4 years in the multi-event world. You can only do so much.
As for the latter yes, and he would get killed in the 100m, but his appearance money would for his throws, he’s an oly medalists and WC gold medalist which hold more weight in Europe, because Clay is a freak at 5’11” and 185 lbs to do the things he does throwing. Clay has attained the Oly ‘B’ standard in many of the Decathlon events and believe he has the ‘A’ standard or is close in a couple of those.
