Young gun Cameron Myers 支援する in 活動／戦闘 at Lakeside
The numbers don't 嘘（をつく）.
Such have been the astonishing strides taken by Canberra schoolboy Cameron Myers in 2023 the comparisons with alltime 広大な／多数の／重要な Jakob Ingebrigtsen have been both 必然的な and valid.
Myers first 発射 to prominence in Melbourne in February when he clocked three minutes 55.44 seconds in the mile at the Maurie 工場／植物 会合，会う.
It was the fastest-ever mile by a 16-year-old and made Myers the second-youngest 走者 ever to break the magical four-minute 示す behind only Ingebrigtsen, the Tokyo Olympics 1500m gold medallist and two-time 5000m world 支持する／優勝者.
Myers has already bettered the 1500m qualifying 基準 for the Paris Olympics, having clocked 3:33.26 in a race in Poland in July won by 非，不，無 other than the 広大な／多数の／重要な Norwegian.
"I used to compare myself more to Jakob than I do now," Myers told AAP.
"Now I'm more comparing myself to myself and I'm not making that comparison to Jakob any more.
"明白に he's a 広大な／多数の／重要な 競技者 and it's 冷静な／正味の to be in the same conversation as him.
"But I'm more about comparing myself to where I was 12 months ago and to keep on 改善するing."
Now 17, Myers returns to Lakeside Stadium on Saturday night where he will be one of the 星／主役にする attractions of the Zatopek:10 会合，会う in the 3000m.
He also 計画（する）s to run a few 800m races over the 国内の season, but the 最初の／主要な 焦点（を合わせる） remains the 1500m, an event where Australia 誇るs enviable strength in depth.
Evergreen Stewart McSweyn, Adam Spencer and Myers have all bettered the Paris Olympics qualifying 示す, while 連邦／共和国 champ Olli Hoare is 予定 支援する in 活動／戦闘 soon after 回復するing from a groin 傷害.
That 飛行機で行くing run in Poland in July also earned Myers a 位置／汚点／見つけ出す at the world 選手権s in Budapest.
But after 協議 with coach 刑事 Telford, the Year 11 student turned 負かす／撃墜する the 招待する.
"On one 手渡す I 手配中の，お尋ね者 to run and I 手配中の，お尋ね者 to 実験（する） myself, but on the other 手渡す I would have to have stayed in Europe for another six weeks," Myers said.
"I was in 頂点（に達する） form at the time I ran the qualifier so having to kick on for another six weeks would have been difficult and I may 井戸／弁護士席 not have been at my best.
"It was a difficult decison to make but it was the reality of the 状況／情勢.
"Had I only run the world 基準 it might have been a different 決定／判定勝ち（する） but having come away with the Olympic 基準 I was content with it."
The feature events of the Zatopek:10 are the 10,000m races which 二塁打 as the 国家の 選手権s.
The men's field 含むs two-time defending 支持する／優勝者 Jack Rayner and Tokyo Olympian Patrick Tiernan.
The women's 10,000m 顔触れ is 長，率いるd by two-time 勝利者 Rose Davies and Caitlin Adams.
Now coached by Craig Mottram, the 23-year-old Bendere Oboya makes her 競争の激しい return in the women's 600m.
Olympic １０種競技 bronze medallist Ash Moloney will contest the 棒高跳び and 砲丸投げ.
