That race in London is why I hate Mo Farah

smh, here we go... wrote:

Does the name Isaiah Kipkoech Koech ring a bell? What about John Kipkoech?

No?

Exactly. No one really cares about a fast time. The guys i listed ran 12:48 and 12:49, which is wayyy faster than Farah's pr, but no one remembers their name except seeing them on the all time list.

That's right. Farah will be remembered, not as the GOAT, but as a gold digger. He is no inspiration to me.

Let the man play on the track with the boys, while the men are on the road running sub 2:05. He doesn't stand a chance there and he knows it. He's trying to squeeze every penny out of his track career which is his last career

Weight wrote:

smh, here we go... wrote:

Does the name Isaiah Kipkoech Koech ring a bell? What about John Kipkoech?

No?

Exactly. No one really cares about a fast time. The guys i listed ran 12:48 and 12:49, which is wayyy faster than Farah's pr, but no one remembers their name except seeing them on the all time list.

That's right. Farah will be remembered, not as the GOAT, but as a gold digger. He is no inspiration to me.

Records are broken, medals aren't. Events are races not time trials.

If you respect someone for running fast in a manufactured race with pacers over a Gold medal Olympian you are in the minority.

I respect anyone who pushes himself to the limit and sets new goals for himself. That's not Farah. He's not moving forward. Same thing over and over. I have more respect for a runner that gets last, yet has a new pb, than a runner that gets first and doesn't even try to get a pb.

Weight wrote:

I respect anyone who pushes himself to the limit and sets new goals for himself. That's not Farah. He's not moving forward. Same thing over and over. I have more respect for a runner that gets last, yet has a new pb, than a runner that gets first and doesn't even try to get a pb.

Then go watch hobby joggers and leave the elites to the normal people.

Improver wrote:

Weight wrote:

I respect anyone who pushes himself to the limit and sets new goals for himself. That's not Farah. He's not moving forward. Same thing over and over. I have more respect for a runner that gets last, yet has a new pb, than a runner that gets first and doesn't even try to get a pb.

Then go watch hobby joggers and leave the elites to the normal people.

No, I will watch real elites- Bekele, Kipchoge, Kipsang. Those are real men.

Farah is only admired by Brits. He knows it, that's why he always plays the card "I like to represent my country..blah...blah.. crap". Real inspirations are admired globally. Like Bekele, Geb, Kipchoge, Kipsang and many more athletes who refused to stay in their comfort zone.

Take Kipchoge for instance. Man could have gone to win another London marathon, but he's been there already. He wanted to achieve something new.

Weight wrote:

Improver wrote:

Then go watch hobby joggers and leave the elites to the normal people.

No, I will watch real elites- Bekele, Kipchoge, Kipsang. Those are real men.

Bekele hasn't set a 5k or 10k PB since 2005, longer than Farah

Weight wrote:

Farah is only admired by Brits. He knows it, that's why he always plays the card "I like to represent my country..blah...blah.. crap". Real inspirations are admired globally. Like Bekele, Geb, Kipchoge, Kipsang and many more athletes who refused to stay in their comfort zone.

YAWN

If Farah annoys so many armchair morons then he must being doing something right.

You have hit the nail on the head! Those people who flocked to the Olympic Stadium on Sunday were not, on the whole, the diehard athletics fans. they attended the trials the previous weekend (not that many of them these days!).

They came to see Mo win a race and probably couldn't care less who he beat or in what time. I've said before that us Brits are world champs at watching sport live; most people are attracted by the occasion rather than the quality of what is actually being played out in front of them. Watching on TV, I was struck by how poor some of the fields were on Sunday, compared to the usual Diamond League fare. But listening to the BBC you would never have realised that!

And, yes, Farah will win two golds in London precisely because he races very sparingly "on the circuit" and is 100% at his best for the championships, not having left that crucial 2-3% on the tracks of Europe and Asia.

Weight wrote:

I respect anyone who pushes himself to the limit and sets new goals for himself. That's not Farah. He's not moving forward. Same thing over and over. I have more respect for a runner that gets last, yet has a new pb, than a runner that gets first and doesn't even try to get a pb.

Nah, I don't like him either and many here don't. My reason for disliking him as an athlete is I think he's actually been harmful to British athletics. Not only did he almost certainly intervene so as to influence non-selection of Vernon for the past World Championships, he puts nothing back into British sport. I've been at a few training camps where the British team athletes would be training, and you'd never see Mo anywhere. The other team athletes would mix with us slightly lesser mortal beings, be friendly, etc.. Never seen Mo. Never seen him visit a local school or his local track or running club. Never seen him put his name behind keeping a track open. He's only interested in furthering his own career and his own family.

He is so feted by the media here he has probably worked out that he can be as selfish as he likes and not bother appearing in his own country when it doesn't suit him because all he basically has to do is be the way he is and he is politically correct enough for those in charge of the left wing media in the UK to worship him.

What makes it worse is the sickening way he is shoved down our throats by the politically correct media at all turns. Every time he is on tv, you have to listen to the British commentator repeatedly saying 3 or 4 times that he's the greatest British sportsman of all time. The whole race commentary is basically about how wonderful he is. The rest of the field is forgotten.

I'm not saying he's not a good runner, with a sprint finish. I just find him particularly uninspiring. I find Usain Bolt inspiring, for example. Not Mo. I can't imagine young UK runners thinking "well, this is Mo's background and where he came from and I will try to emulate it". He is so far removed now from British athletics as not to be really part of it, other than in team name only.

mark b wrote:

And, yes, Farah will win two golds in London precisely because he races very sparingly "on the circuit" and is 100% at his best for the championships, not having left that crucial 2-3% on the tracks of Europe and Asia.

You're criticising him for being smart and at his best where it matters? Odd.

Thats because hes in a race not a time trial. The point of a race is to go for the win. GREATEST RACER OF ALL TIME

I share some of the same bored feelings toward Farah. Yes, the blazing last laps are fun to watch, but even more so in a fast race. No comparison to Geb or Bekele in their prime.

Another 13:xx and high 27:xx gold in London will not impress me. Unlike the MJ / Lebron debate, you can directly compare the greats from recent eras in track with a clock. Go for the WR if you want to be in the same sentence as Kenny and Haile.

Bolt also ducks competition outside of championships, but at least holt got some of his Championship wins with dominating WR times.

El Keniano wrote:

ukathleticscoach wrote:

So he should do what Muir did and give his rivals the psychological advantage.

Rudisha and Kiprop don't dodge and frequently enter races they fully expect to lose when not in peak form. Doesn't make the competition fear them any less come championships.

I know Rudisha specifically demanded that Amos not be added to the field in either Birmingham or London a couple years ago. Sounds like ducking to me.

The fact that so many people have something against Farah is a proof that there is something wrong with him. You don't see these kind of threads about Bekele or Kipchoge or Geb or Kipsang. How come?

So instead of explaining how Farah is a winner blah blah, think why people talk against him

Weight wrote:

He's not moving forward. Same thing over and over.

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