Cyberrunner
How many times did win Marius Bakken any 10000m european challenge title, or indoor track 800m, 1500m, 3000m european or world titles or outdoor track 800m, 1500, 3000m steeple or 5000m or 10000m or marathon titles or european half marathon titles or world half marathon titles, or any golden league meeting win in any distance event, or any 800m, 1500m or 3000m steeple or 5000m, 10000m and marathon olympics during the same your 5 years period or any other period that you want to consider. ZERO, NULL ! But dozens of europeans they did that during the same period. During that same last five uears period period how many european or world cros country titles Marius Bakken did win? ZERO, but douzens of europeans did and not all cheaters or false europeans as you try to argue. What any other importnt run did he wins in road. cross or track indoor or outdoor during the same 5 year´s period ?
As far as i know marius did once a final in big continental games. You see to be consider best than the other or in the kevel of the oether you need to WIN THEM quite a lot.
I don´t need to send you a complete list from those clear and true born europeans that did it among the best world competitions - but nor Marius. I wish that one day he will do, but actually Marius need a bit more than to do some interstimng performances in private runs.
By private runs i want to say the meetings whe n marius did that, aren´t not open runs neither that you need to have a qualify to be there. That runs are runs when the agents and managers rules, and invitational runs. I can prove to you that if Marius were an sfrican guy with the performances he did he hardly have permit to run in Rome or Oslo meetings as neither the national federations have permission to put a good runner there - so that aren´t real runs as Big games, they are quite private runs under IAAF rules. they are false runs as you call to those who cheat with drugs or those who aren´t from the continent that they run.
The true runs are big games - anyone that did national selection and international qualifying are their by his own right.
And please, distance running is not 5000m strictly. Distance running are all distance from 800m up to the marathon and 100kilos included that´s what´s the IAAF international rules determine as official distances. And also no runner deep analysis is based just in chrono performances.
Once again I need to say that nothing moves me against Marius. I wish him the best. I think he is a good runner wit some margin of progression and also with a bright future ahead, But please it misses him a lot yet to be in the top of europe.
Thus i can´t agree with your conclusions. That are illogical and tends to your arguments, that 6 years in a single distance, without considereing any big win or international champioship and also 5 years. I know why you didn´t said 6 years, or 10 years, because that can turn your argument against you: very clever !