Official Day 2 2016 London Diamond League Live Discussion Thread

Butchart is going to the olympics you wally.

Remembers When wrote:

Mo is not in a "slow" era. Some of the Ethiopians competing now have run 12:40s, but for whatever reason, they just cannot run against him.

Yes, he is. How many fast times in the 5000 have been done outside that 2012 Paris race the last few years?

Remembers When wrote:

Mo is not in a "slow" era. Some of the Ethiopians competing now have run 12:40s, but for whatever reason, they just cannot run against him.

He is in a slow era. Those Ethiopians are not consistently in that shape. Nor does anyone consistently run under 13.

fmmfmf wrote:

Remembers When wrote:

Mo is not in a "slow" era. Some of the Ethiopians competing now have run 12:40s, but for whatever reason, they just cannot run against him.

He is in a slow era. Those Ethiopians are not consistently in that shape. Nor does anyone consistently run under 13.

Yeah they only go under 13 min when Mo Farah ain't around, get the f out of here with that bull shit

Come on Rojo do a bit of research before you post! Butchart won the british trials.

biib wrote:

Rato_ wrote:

No one is saying he is the GOAT you moron. If he double golds in Rio however I think we can say he is the GOAT championship runner in the 5/10.

No, Bekele and Geb were still better at championships. Even Sihine might have been better.

Did sihine ever win gold? If not he was not better at championships. Pull the stick out of your behind.

Yeah I think Pole Vaulter is mixing up races. The 12:59 with a 52 at the end did happen I believe, but Lagat's 12:53 can with a 53 last lap...as he trailed Farah who also ran a 53. Pole Vaulter just doesn't want to admit this was an impressive solo performance.

tony the tiger wrote:

Yeah they only go under 13 min when Mo Farah ain't around, get the f out of here with that bull shit

Try rereading my post.

Spaghetimonster wrote:

Did sihine ever win gold? If not he was not better at championships. Pull the stick out of your behind.

Not winning gold doesn't mean he was not better than Farah. You need to look at the context of those medals. Sihine was competing against Geb and Bekele. Farah has no competition on that level.

wejo wrote:

Anyone else think the first km split was off?

They're saying 6:11 at 2km

No because there are no hurdles the first lap, and the last 1k was the same as the 2nd.

3:01 ~ 3:10 ~ 3:10

biib wrote:

Spaghetimonster wrote:

Did sihine ever win gold? If not he was not better at championships. Pull the stick out of your behind.

Not winning gold doesn't mean he was not better than Farah. You need to look at the context of those medals. Sihine was competing against Geb and Bekele. Farah has no competition on that level.

To say Sihine was better as a championship racer is quite a stretch.

However, Bekele won his own Olympic double in much more impressive fashion (his 5000 gold was absurd) and the only reason he didn't get double Oly gold twice was because he barely lost to El G, who was WAY WAY BETTER than anyone Mo has ever beaten.

P.S. Mo did look great today in the heat and it's going to be a tall order for anyone to beat him. Doping stuff aside, he is an outstanding runner who has had quite a peak these last few years and my hat is off to him for that.

rojo wrote:

Is this the greatest 5000 that's every been runin the middle of the day in 80 degree temps? I know it's not sunny in London but he's killing it.

Thoroughly agree... Temp in stadium was 25C (77F). I think that kind of performance is worth a 12'45" in normal conditions.... Farah's haters need to chew on that.... and then some more...

jflo wrote:

Farah threads always have allegations of doping and I have a controversial idea.

If Farah wins the 10k an 5k at the olympics with great times, and if he would be willing to go through it, give him an exception to take PEDS, and track his progress. If there is no improvement do we can assume he was doping already, but if he goes into Bekele, Gebrselassie , Koech territory, would we be willing to accept that they were the dopers?

What happens if he takes drugs and gets worse? This would prove that drugs don't work at all, that all the drug talk is simply brainwashing and hypocrisy.

KAV wrote:

Thoroughly agree... Temp in stadium was 25C (77F). I think that kind of performance is worth a 12'45" in normal conditions.... Farah's haters need to chew on that.... and then some more...

77 is not hot for a 5000. It wasnt even sunny according to Wejo.

Is result list update for the 5k?

On phone and not showing up at Diamond league siite.

Intergalactic wrote:

To say Sihine was better as a championship racer is quite a stretch.

Why is that quite a stretch?

Times:

7:29

12:47

26:39

Championships:

From 2002-2008, Sihine won gold or silver. When he won silver, it was usually because Bekele was in the race. Farah would at best be winning silver if Bekele was in these current races. Also, Sihine was competing against much stronger competition than Farah facex - Bekele, Wanjiru, Kipchoge, Tadesse, Haile, etc. The 10000m especially is weaker.

How do you work that out if they won less golds. This fact will be undisputed if this happens, you lets run trolls will just have to live with it.

biib wrote:

Rato_ wrote:

No one is saying he is the GOAT you moron. If he double golds in Rio however I think we can say he is the GOAT championship runner in the 5/10.

No, Bekele and Geb were still better at championships. Even Sihine might have been better.