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OhOh
Track and Field News Predicts Olympic Winners 4/6/2012 1:00PM Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
Save for the Kenyan-American Lagat not one US athlete is expected to medal in a middle distance or distance event at the London 2012 Games, and I think they are being very generous predicting that one medal for Lagat. So America can put a man on the moon, but can't find a US born athlete to compete and win a distance medal at track and field's premier games. You all got that? Discuss.

http://www.trackandfieldnews.com/index.php/special-article-right-ad-only/1007

http://www.trackandfieldnews.com/index.php/special-article-right-ad-only/1008
Who cares?
RE: Track and Field News Predicts Olympic Winners 4/6/2012 1:34PM - in reply to OhOh Reply | Return to Index | Report Post

OhOh wrote:

Save for the Kenyan-American Lagat not one US athlete is expected to medal in a middle distance or distance event at the London 2012 Games, and I think they are being very generous predicting that one medal for Lagat. So America can put a man on the moon, but can't find a US born athlete to compete and win a distance medal at track and field's premier games. You all got that? Discuss.

http://www.trackandfieldnews.com/index.php/special-article-right-ad-only/1007

http://www.trackandfieldnews.com/index.php/special-article-right-ad-only/1008


Yeah because Olympic medals in distance events are the true barometer of a country's success. Kenya and Ethiopia can have their distance medals. We'll continue to enjoy throwing out more food than those countries consume, while watching commercials with their skinny kids begging for money.
Aghast
RE: Track and Field News Predicts Olympic Winners 4/6/2012 5:24PM - in reply to Who cares? Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
You're a very mean and cold person inside. Karma can be equally unkind.
lpd
RE: Track and Field News Predicts Olympic Winners 4/6/2012 8:23PM - in reply to Who cares? Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
That's why Americans are fat and are epic failures on the track.
Toronto
RE: Track and Field News Predicts Olympic Winners 4/6/2012 8:58PM - in reply to OhOh Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
Why is it important that they be "US born"?
Cynical.
RE: Track and Field News Predicts Olympic Winners 4/7/2012 5:31AM - in reply to OhOh Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
Pretty out there marathon prediction.
Bigger fish
RE: Track and Field News Predicts Olympic Winners 4/7/2012 5:44AM - in reply to Cynical. Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
Wow! So the Kenyans can sharpen a stick and make fire, but they can't win a medal at any distance under 800m?

Looks like a decent medal count for the US.
watchout
RE: Track and Field News Predicts Olympic Winners 4/7/2012 6:47AM - in reply to Who cares? Reply | Return to Index | Report Post

Who cares? wrote:Yeah because Olympic medals in distance events are the true barometer of a country's success. Kenya and Ethiopia can have their distance medals. We'll continue to enjoy throwing out more food than those countries consume, while watching commercials with their skinny kids begging for money.


We get it, you don't like to compete... so why are you here?
bruinboy
RE: Track and Field News Predicts Olympic Winners 4/8/2012 4:57PM - in reply to watchout Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
Trey Hardee WILL NOT beat Ashton Eaton!!!!
Whey
RE: Track and Field News Predicts Olympic Winners 4/8/2012 5:06PM - in reply to OhOh Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
.01 off the world record and he still isn't the favorite. What more can a man do?
thew b
RE: Track and Field News Predicts Olympic Winners 4/8/2012 5:23PM - in reply to Whey Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
not one of those predictions will be correct.
Realistic
RE: Track and Field News Predicts Olympic Winners 4/8/2012 5:27PM - in reply to bruinboy Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
Trey Hardee is pretty good in case you didn't notice.

Even if Eaton hits his LJ/HJ/100/110 PR's he still has a fight.
Concerned Citizen
RE: Track and Field News Predicts Olympic Winners 4/8/2012 6:19PM - in reply to Realistic Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
How do they have Anita Wlodarczyk not even medaling in the women's hammer? That list is BS.
I am just saying
RE: Track and Field News Predicts Olympic Winners 4/8/2012 6:25PM - in reply to OhOh Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
Sort of funny that a magazine that has such trouble with facts (example:. giving Salazar credit for races he never ran in their articlr on him) would venture to make predicts 4 months in advance of an event.

First learn to fact check then maybe we'll be intersted in what you have to say. Get that right for a while and then after a while maybe your predictions will be relavent.
Queton C.
RE: Track and Field News Predicts Olympic Winners 4/8/2012 7:15PM - in reply to OhOh Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
Not a single one of the predicted marathon medalists will even make the Olympics. Silas Kiplagat will get no less than second. Mo Farah is walking away with at least one gold. Robles will win gold. There is so much wrong with these predictions.
There is another possibility
RE: Track and Field News Predicts Olympic Winners 4/8/2012 10:30PM - in reply to Queton C. Reply | Return to Index | Report Post

Queton C. wrote:
... Mo Farah is walking away with at least one gold. Robles will win gold...


With Lagat and possibly Bekele in the 5000 and Jeylan plus possibly Bekele in the 10000 (along with the rest of the East Africans) it is not at all obvious that Farah will win gold. It would not be entirely shocking if he did not medal at all.
speaker of truth
RE: Track and Field News Predicts Olympic Winners 4/9/2012 1:04AM - in reply to There is another possibility Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
I think it is pretty far in advance to make predictions, especially before the outdoor season has really gotten underway. My guesses for golds would be

100 - bolt
200 - bolt
400 - james
800 - rudisha
1500 - kiprop
steeple - kipruto
5000 - farah
10,000 - farah
marathon - Geb! (in my heart).....but I'd really guess geoffrey mutai

as I don't know much about women' sprints, i'll skip them

800 - semenya
1500 - uceny
steeple - zaripova
5000 - dibaba
10,000 - dibaba
marathon - radcliffe! (for realz)
L.A. SUCKS
RE: Track and Field News Predicts Olympic Winners 4/9/2012 1:10AM - in reply to speaker of truth Reply | Return to Index | Report Post


1500 - uceny



Uceny ? No way. L.A. SUCKS!
USC is in Watts
RE: Track and Field News Predicts Olympic Winners 4/9/2012 2:21AM - in reply to OhOh Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
blah blah blah USC Jesse Williams, USC Allyson Felix blah blah blah
Trollist
RE: Track and Field News Predicts Olympic Winners 4/9/2012 2:51AM - in reply to USC is in Watts Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
As usual, the senile dinosaurs at TFN suck it up again.
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