Mottram WOW!!!!!! best interview ever

Buster for President!

Mark can follow him around and be his press secretary or something just give us more mottram.

he's so BALLer

what happened to all the Mottram-haters on letsrun??? man, he used to get bashed big time 'round here. :P Mottram has been THE man for a long time peeps! and yeah, this boy is mad hot.

Webb [as delicate as a pressed flower] beat the crap out of Buster last weekend.

we will put mottram to the likes of gebremariam and tariku.

he should work hard to reach to sileshi and kenenisa and do not forget there are plenty of kenyan who beat mottram many time.

better not to talk to much s***t head

HAHAHA...WOW HE SAID BALLS!! OMG....THAT IS THE BEST INTERVIEW EVER....

Get over it, Mottram is a tool.

actually, that wasn't the interview being referred to. They were referring to the flocasts interview, not the nbc one. And no, Mottram dominates.

Dauby wrote:

Get over it, Mottram is a tool.

So, Dauby, would you be pot or kettle?

I love distance runners talking tough. Those two interviews are hilarious.

Hmmm. I wonder if all these people jerking off Mottram right now would feel the same if a guy like Geb or ElG or Bekele were on an interview and told the camera guy to fuck off, or made the claim that they had the biggest balls of all the competitors. Ha ha ha. Can you imagine Geb saying something like that? No class, grow up.

"Better than average"

Who does he think he is, Paul Hogan?

"That's not a knife.."

Mottram is the ultimate professional, arrogant and cocky, who can back it up a fair amount of the time. He is intense, witty and aware of his surroundings. He is used to being worshipped like a God in Europe, and when Flocast conducts interviews in their usual casual style (which is great by the way), he is shocked by the lack of formal respect. The BBC takes a quite different approach. Flocasts simply forgot this guy is not some young American at the Stanford Invite who is flattered to even be recognized. Learning experience for them to step up to big time track.

not the ticket son wrote:

I love distance runners talking tough. Those two interviews are hilarious.

Hmmm. I wonder if all these people jerking off Mottram right now would feel the same if a guy like Geb or ElG or Bekele were on an interview and told the camera guy to fuck off, or made the claim that they had the biggest balls of all the competitors. Ha ha ha. Can you imagine Geb saying something like that? No class, grow up.

I don't ever recall Mottram telling the camera guy to "f*** off". He joked with the guy at the beginning by saying "If you're nice...and you don't f***in' annoy me this time". It was pretty obvious that Mottram was just having some fun with the guy. If he was such a big jerk then why did have the decency to give a lengthy interview to some no-name kid?? You prudes need to get a life. Mottram is very professional. Just because he drops a curse word here and there does not make him any less so.

And, btw, I don't think he claimed to have bigger "balls" than his competitors. Please show me where he said, "I won because I have bigger balls than these pussies". He was talking about himself. He was simply saying that it took guts for him to run an 8:03. He may have very well agreed that it took just as much guts for Teg to run an 8:07 PR (which I think it did).

I certainly don't think Craig is the best runner in the world. But it's ridiculous to bash him just because he's a bit cocky.

Am I missing something here? I saw on the frontpage that Mot had given "the best interview ever", and on the board that this other clip was equally hilarious. I can't watch vids at work so waited with eager anticipation until I got home. But these are utterly lame.

Maybe it's a yank thing. In the UK I don't think someone saying "it's about the size of your balls" would have raised much more that mild amusement at the choice of phrase, I certainly can't imagine anyone going into the bizarre raptures about it that wejo seems to have done. As for the casual use of the f word before the interview had started, this is a complete non-event, only someone under 11 years old should think it worthy of comment.

grover wrote:

and when Flocast conducts interviews in their usual casual style (which is great by the way), he is shocked by the lack of formal respect. The BBC takes a quite different approach. Flocasts simply forgot this guy is not some young American at the Stanford Invite who is flattered to even be recognized. Learning experience for them to step up to big time track.

Yeah, but here's an idea: why not treat EVERYONE you attempt to interview as someone who is not "supposed" to just be flattered to be recognized? That's the vibe I get from many of these Flocast interviews. The dude is well-intentioned I'm sure, but comes off like he thinks the people he is gracing with his presence should be thrilled he's interviewing them, and thus put up with the bulljive. I like the Flocast stuff, but c'mon, let's keep it real here.

If he was referring to his own "guts" then that's even worse, somehow.

The whole guts thing is so corny, anyway. He ran 8:03 because of his fitness, nothing else. It would be a hell of a lot less corny if he had gone up there and said, I've been running a lot and won because I am fit and was mentally focused. Not, yeah I've got big balls and lots of guts. Corny, not cool.

By the way, he put himself out there to get bashed when he went on tv talking about his nuts. And that Flocast interview was maddeningly trite.

I do agree with you on one point, we both probably need to get a life.

Thank you for your time.

PS The guy who used the word "yanks" is also corny. Much like saying "thon" or "brewski".

The thing that sets Mottram apart is he is not an elf, built like a girl.

grover wrote:

Mottram is the ultimate professional, arrogant and cocky, who can back it up a fair amount of the time. He is intense, witty and aware of his surroundings. He is used to being worshipped like a God in Europe, and when Flocast conducts interviews in their usual casual style (which is great by the way), he is shocked by the lack of formal respect. The BBC takes a quite different approach. Flocasts simply forgot this guy is not some young American at the Stanford Invite who is flattered to even be recognized. Learning experience for them to step up to big time track.

Big Time Track?

Come on what does that mean?

Track is not big time and that is one thing that is holding it back. The people in charge try to pretend they are football and blackout Flocasts eventhough the true fans are dying to see what they are doing.

CM directs the majority of his aggression towards himself. He never slags off anybody but himself.

In NY he was pissed at himself.

In OR he was pleased with himself and glad to have a positive signpost in his prepartions.

Like he said its 2.5 months until the real deal. He wants a gold medal. He'll get a final indication in the 5k in Aus before the WCs (middle of winter there so who knows about conditions). Like most athletes, he is flying blind until the gun goes off in Osaka.

Lets be clear - he takes the piss of HIMSELF almost all of the time. And thats what makes him a great personality.

Off the Grid wrote:

CM directs the majority of his aggression towards himself. He never slags off anybody but himself.

In NY he was pissed at himself.

In OR he was pleased with himself and glad to have a positive signpost in his prepartions.

Like he said its 2.5 months until the real deal. He wants a gold medal. He'll get a final indication in the 5k in Aus before the WCs (middle of winter there so who knows about conditions). Like most athletes, he is flying blind until the gun goes off in Osaka.

Lets be clear - he takes the piss of HIMSELF almost all of the time. And thats what makes him a great personality.

Who said anything about doing a 5000m in Australia?