Athletics is lucky Komen's career wasn't long or 2000 to 10000 would be untouchable records. Whether or not he doped, he allowed us to witness someone sprint a 3000m and just victimise the 1997 5000m world championships. Yes, I know Haile outkicked him quite a lot but if he's had a few more years he would have put the records out of reach.
Honor Roll of Near Misses
3,000 Meters
Daniel Komen 7:20.67 Kenya
Hicham, el Guerrouji 7:23.09 Marocco
Ali Saidi Seif 7:25.02
Haile Gebrselassie 7:25.09 Ethopia
Keneshia Bekele 7:25.79 Ethopia
Mohammed Mourhit 7:26>62 Belgium
These times are PR's of each athlete..
Komen Fan wrote:
Athletics is lucky Komen's career wasn't long or 2000 to 10000 would be untouchable records. Whether or not he doped, he allowed us to witness someone sprint a 3000m and just victimise the 1997 5000m world championships. Yes, I know Haile outkicked him quite a lot but if he's had a few more years he would have put the records out of reach.
But when did someone last attempt Komen's record?
800ftw. wrote:
Komen Fan wrote:Athletics is lucky Komen's career wasn't long or 2000 to 10000 would be untouchable records. Whether or not he doped, he allowed us to witness someone sprint a 3000m and just victimise the 1997 5000m world championships. Yes, I know Haile outkicked him quite a lot but if he's had a few more years he would have put the records out of reach.
But when did someone last attempt Komen's record?
Boy is that a stupid question...when did someone last attempt to beat Flo Jo's records?
vincent 44 wrote:
Honor Roll of Near Misses
3,000 Meters
Daniel Komen 7:20.67 Kenya
Hicham, el Guerrouji 7:23.09 Marocco
Ali Saidi Seif 7:25.02
Haile Gebrselassie 7:25.09 Ethopia
Keneshia Bekele 7:25.79 Ethopia
Mohammed Mourhit 7:26>62 Belgium
These times are PR's of each athlete..
Komen's record is obviously very strong, but have you watched Bekele's PR? Definitely didn't get the advantage of having pacers like Komen had. it was very pedestrian at the start. He took off with 3.5 laps to go
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTL6OyY5kG8&t=343sHow would a longer career lead to faster records by Komen?
El Guerrouj and Gebrselassie ran during the same period as Komen and their track careers both went at least until 2004 and El G set his 1500 record in 1998 and Geb set both his 5 and 10 records in 1998.
Neither never ran faster again though they ran for years after that.
Komen ran as fast as he ever was going to.
I could spend hours just watching Kennster run.
This thread is nonsense because Komen is about to lose his world records.
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