3000 starts in an hour.
Any links? Much appreciated. Good day Brits!
3000 starts in an hour.
Any links? Much appreciated. Good day Brits!
The meet is live now on BBC3:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/athletics/default.stm
(UK viewers only). 3k up in 5 minutes. Looks like you US viewers are out of luck unless you have a VPN.
can you post updates on the race? this sucks.
For Americans, little consolation
This is a guy doing tweets for the BBC:
http://twitter.com/tomfordyce?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
Probably the best we got
800m in 2:01 for rabbit
2:03.7 for Rupp. Farah, Lagat behind him.
2:32 for the 1000k the rabbit is not 15 yards in front. Not doing the best job
1600 Mbishi 4:06 4:08 for main pack, Rupp 1st American in 3rd
5:11.01 Mbishei still leading. RUpp 2nd Chris Thompson 3rd. Lagat, Mottram all right there.
about 5:45 with 2 to go
Rupp leading now with 600 to go but everyone is there. Slow pace now.
Everyone a tthe bell 6:45 61.93 for that lap. about 10 guys together.
Collis Birmingham to lead
Lagat easily won the last 100m. Birmingham was in front. Lagat went by him easily and Farah gave chase.
Results coming
Bit surprised Farah didn't strike early off such a pedestrian pace. Hard to imagine him outkicking Lagat.
Lagat
Farah
Kiptoo 3rd I think
Birmingham 4th?
Rupp 5th
Thompson 6th
Two Things:
A) Thank you for posting updates. Keep'em coming if you could be so kind.
And 2nd, I'm glad I didn't pay universal sports to watch a paced race. It's just not sport. However, I will gladly watch for free if anyone finds a link for U.S. viewers.
Jaycee Are wrote:
Two Things:
A) Thank you for posting updates. Keep'em coming if you could be so kind.
And 2nd, I'm glad I didn't pay universal sports to watch a paced race. It's just not sport. However, I will gladly watch for free if anyone finds a link for U.S. viewers.
how was a paced race so slow? i know it was raining, maybe that had a lot to do with it but several of these guys nearly split that last week!
what about this wrote:
how was a paced race so slow? i know it was raining, maybe that had a lot to do with it but several of these guys nearly split that last week!
It was slow because pretty much everyone these days is trained to just sit behind a rabbit. No Moorcroft's in this group.
Sorry this wasn't on for people in the US without a VPN.
1 LAGAT, Bernard USA 7:40.36
2 FARAH, Mohammed GBR 7:40.75
3 KIPTOO, Mark Kosgei KEN 7:41.56 SB
4 BIRMINGHAM, Collis AUS 7:42.39 PB
5 RUPP, Galen USA 7:43.24 PB
6 THOMPSON, Christopher GBR 7:43.34 PB
7 KOGO, Micah Kemboi KEN 7:45.66
8 MOTTRAM, Craig AUS 7:45.87 SB
9 MBISHEI, Titus KEN 7:47.84 PB
10 BLINCOE, Adrian NZL 7:49.21 SB
11 GALA, Mumin SOM 7:49.65 PB
12 CURTIS, Bobby USA 8:04.12
13 MCLEOD, Ryan GBR 8:13.94
SIMOTWO, Suleiman KEN DNF
Intermediate times:
1000m Simotwo, Suleiman (KEN) 2:32.55
2000m Mbishei, Titus (KEN) 5:11.04
Farah did close his 5,000 with a blazing 1200, though. I know 3K is not his distance, but he could've worked the crowd into a frenzy and maybe stolen one with a move at 800 or 1000 to go, no?
wejo wrote:
what about this wrote:how was a paced race so slow? i know it was raining, maybe that had a lot to do with it but several of these guys nearly split that last week!
It was slow because pretty much everyone these days is trained to just sit behind a rabbit. No Moorcroft's in this group.
Sounded like Rupp at least made a half @ss effort to stretch it out from 800 or more out, but everyone else just content to let that play to Bernard in a snail time?
I guess I understand Farah thinking he has a shot at beating Lagat over a last lap, but even Birminghams move on the last lap was futile at that point if he thought he might win. If he was just doing it to place as high as possible that is fine, but if he thought that was the best was to win after a 2:39 middle 1000, no chance. Bernard just jogged for 6.5 laps and then ran a build up 400.
The other kenyans were silly for letting that unfold.
Probably is windy. London rarely produces fast distance times.
Men's 400m hurdles
Bershawn Jackson 48.12 over Javier Culson's 48:17.
Culson was ahead down the stretch and even off the last hurdle and Jackson has such a great finish.
1 JACKSON, Bershawn USA 48.12 0.210
2 CULSON, Javier PUR 48.17 0.224
3 GREENE, David GBR 49.09 0.181
4 GAYMON, Justin USA 49.10 0.167
5 WILLIAMS, Rhys GBR 49.85 0.176
6 GORDON, Jehue TRI 50.07 0.182
7 SÁNCHEZ, Félix DOM 50.22 0.241
8 VAN ZYL, Louis J. RSA 50.64 0.203
Men's 100m heats on now.
here is the link: mms://85.111.3.55/ntvspor you can open it with windows media player; I'm in US and it works well for me. cheers!
awesome. thank you!