Let's say he wins the 5000/10000;double next year and moves to the marathon full time as he plans. If he wins gold but doesn't run an all-time great time, let's say 2:05:17 while finishing third in London in 2018 or 2019, would he be placed ahead of Geb and Bekele in people's minds? He'd have 7 outdoor world golds and 5 Olympic golds with 3:28 to marathon gold range.
Geb has two Olympic golds and some former, super doped WRs.
Mo has four Olympic golds, and as a clean athlete is not capable of/interested in chasing Geb's EPO times.
Mo is the Goat.
Bekele will get another world title in the marathon maybe the world championships this coming year or after that, he'll also eventually get the wr in the marathon Mo won't ever catch him unless he has a much larger margin in global titles and next year is pretty much Mo's last year so that won't happen.
No amount of medals will ever make Mo ahead of Geb and Bekele.
Mo can only focus on 1 race per year. Geb and Bekele were able to dominate the circuit, regularly run fast times, set records without rabbits, AND win the championship(s) at the end of the year. And they did this against much more difficult competition. Like I said, Farah has to focus an entire year solely on the championship race at the expense of everything else. That's why he will never be on their level.
Also, Farah's range is no better than Geb or Bekele's. Geb and Bekele have MUCH faster marathon times and similar 1500m ability. Geb ran 3:31 indoors and Bekele ran 3:32 with a 53 or 54 first lap. Farah was paced perfectly for 100% of his 3:28.
How are the trees dying in Beaverton?
ggvgv wrote:
No amount of medals will ever make Mo ahead of Geb and Bekele.
Mo can only focus on 1 race per year. Geb and Bekele were able to dominate the circuit, regularly run fast times, set records without rabbits, AND win the championship(s) at the end of the year. And they did this against much more difficult competition. Like I said, Farah has to focus an entire year solely on the championship race at the expense of everything else. That's why he will never be on their level.
Also, Farah's range is no better than Geb or Bekele's. Geb and Bekele have MUCH faster marathon times and similar 1500m ability. Geb ran 3:31 indoors and Bekele ran 3:32 with a 53 or 54 first lap. Farah was paced perfectly for 100% of his 3:28.
True dat to all of it. Abraham Chebii, Stephen Cherono, Sileshi Sihine, Daniel Komen, Salah Hissou, Paul Tergat. The list goes on. All of these athletes were stronger in 5k or 10K than Mo Farah.
Dopebot needs to add another stopwatch-holding sketchy coach to his stable before he can run a 2:05 marathon.
Then he'll have the 2nd fastest marathon PR of any Olympic champion ever, behind only Kipchoge
RIP: D3 All-American Frank Csorba - who ran 13:56 in March - dead
RENATO can you talk about the preparation of Emile Cairess 2:06
Running for Bowerman Track Club used to be cool now its embarrassing
Great interview with Steve Cram - says Jakob has no chance of WRs this year
Hats off to my dad. He just ran a 1:42 Half Marathon and turns 75 in 2 months!
2017 World 800 champ Pierre-Ambroise Bosse banned 1 year for whereabouts failures