Chris Woods says Marco Arop is among the greatest 800-metre runners of all-time and can repeat as men's champion this week at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo.

The coach's ongoing challenge is to convince his Canadian athlete and the national record holder of this belief.

"There are special people that are generational that can close their eyes and don't believe when they're shooting the ball at the basket it's going to go in, but it goes in," Woods said on a Zoom call last week before joining Arop in Japan.

"Marco knows what he's capable of, for sure. I still think that he can surprise himself. I believe he has something in him, and it's not that he believes it isn't there but he's like, 'Not me, right?' He can't believe he possesses [a certain level] of talent.

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