I'm thinking yes. Watching Jordan win the finals with the flu against the Jazz was pretty amazing. So were a couple of Tiger Woods' performances. But if Hall won I think it would definitely be the best sporting event I have witnessed due to the fact that Americans haven't come close in Boston in so long and that despite his success he is kind of a Cinderella. What do you think?
this is a setup race for hall to win and goucher too - it will be like a pro team playing against high schoolers.
What are you...10?
I agree the field is not as deep as London or NY but come on...high schoolers? Robert K. Cheruiyot is nothing but a stud distance runner. Come to think of it all 3 of the Cheruiyots are better then Hall.
flounder wrote:
this is a setup race for hall to win and goucher too - it will be like a pro team playing against high schoolers.
25 years old, excuse my igonorance.
hallsell wrote:
25 years old, excuse my igonorance.
It's not your ignorance, it's your inexperience. Still at 25 , I would think you would have experienced some pretty impressive sporting events. That is, assuming you've been paying attention and not in a coma.
Not for me. I'm not going to be witnessing it.
In any case, I think it would be tough to top the 1972 OG 10,000 (which I also didn't "witness"--i.e. didn't attend live--but which I saw on tv).
The "best sporting event you've witnessed" is pretty subjective, so if you think so I'm fine with that. More objectively, if some Kenyan wins again, there will at best be a small article in the sports section of most newspapers. If Hall wins there will be a significantly larger article in the sports section of most newspapers. In either case the headline article will probably relate how the regional pro baseball team made out. Caveat, if you're looking at a Boston area paper, the marathon might be the headline.
He will finish about 10th which is pretty good.
Americans really do suffer from superiority complex.......you really think Hall can beat Robert Cheruiyot?.....why can't you accept reality,Hall is not yet in cheruiyot's league,not even the superb Evans cheruiyot( chicago winner) is in robert's league even though they are training partners.
No Way wrote:
I agree the field is not as deep as London or NY but come on...high schoolers? Robert K. Cheruiyot is nothing but a stud distance runner. Come to think of it all 3 of the Cheruiyots are better then Hall.
2 of the Cheruiyots are but one is a 2:07:4x guy with no other credentials and recently ran a 64 minute 1/2 marathon. So I think Hall is better then him. But the other 2 are at least as good as Hall.
The best sporting event ever? Not hardly, I'm rooting for Hall but it wont even be the best we've seen in Boston.
Remember the Curse of the Bambino? 86 years of heartbreaking losses then the biggest comeback in baseball history. Happening between the biggest rivals in sports.
Didn't we have an Olympian break the record for winning gold metals less than a year ago?
Hall winning Boston might make my top 10, but it will be toward the bottom of the list.
Fat Boy wrote:
He will finish about 10th which is pretty good.
YES but forget that Hall will win...never will go over Africans...NEVER
The guy with the first or second best PR in the field and a sub hour half mary and home field advantage wins, and you would call that the best sporting event cinderella story ever?
Man there are some idiots out there. Hall will probably run a new course record and still come in 3rd. This race is definitely not set up for him to win. It's probably one of the most competitive Boston races ever. You've got the Boston and Chicago champs running, both of who are smart and can run much faster than they have already run. You have Merga, who is liable to go out at 1:01 pace and kill everyone and you have a 20yr old kenyan who has run 2:07 in his only marathon ever. Hall is going to need to run the race of his life to take this one.
Nothing will be more impressive than Viren falling down in the 10k setting a world record and coming back 2 days later to put Pre in his place.
Swing low, sweet Cheruiyot
Comin' for to carry me home
god often chooses to reveal himself by the blonde guy who finishes 10th in the Olympics.
Olé!
No Way wrote:
I agree the field is not as deep as London or NY but come on...high schoolers? Robert K. Cheruiyot is nothing but a stud distance runner. Come to think of it all 3 of the Cheruiyots are better then Hall.
Last year Hall ran faster than all 3 Cheruiyots.
I'm with Bill Squires, pulling for Hall or Goucher to win:
http://www.bostonherald.com/sports/other_sports/marathon/view/2009_04_17_Bill_Squires_pumps_U_S__chances/cough cough blood doper