Was it that easy to beat Mo after all?

Several idiots chiming in here. Farah is 34 and he had to run a very hard 10000m. This is not so easy as one ages. Recovery is more challenging. All of those guys challenging on the last lap were fresh. Some of you are so stupid that you might just as well ask whether it has been easy to beat Bolt after all...

I actually thought Butchart was trying help much like Rupp always did with 550m to go. Look at the 1980 10,000m final, I always thought that the Ethiopians (I'm a neutral in all of this) would be best to replicate this strategy where they disrupted Viren's long drive. On the international broadcast Steve Ovett explained it as an Ethiopian "sling-shot" team tactic, where Kejelcha went off sprinting hard to stretch Mo early then Edris would go hard over the last 200m. âž¡What was Kejelcha thinking?

Gotta bee wrote:Just another area Bekele is better in, he could front run and set the pace Mo can't, he usual only goes to the front for a few seconds to slow things down and show himself until the last 600 really

Bekele would have never let himself be in MO's position, plus he wouldn't have let Pat get that gap would have been on that move in the blink of an eye.

Well considering Bekele won two golds, one silver, and one bronze in 5000m races, while Mo won five golds and one silver, Mo is by far the better 5000m runner.

Newsflash - Andrew Butchart wasn't in that race for the greater glory of Mo Farah.

Easy to beat ?

Gilmore Dr wrote:

I don't know.

HIs personnal best aren't amazing.

Yep, sub 3:30, sub 13, sub 27, just an average fellow.

Devil Dog wrote:

Gotta bee wrote:Just another area Bekele is better in, he could front run and set the pace Mo can't, he usual only goes to the front for a few seconds to slow things down and show himself until the last 600 really

Bekele would have never let himself be in MO's position, plus he wouldn't have let Pat get that gap would have been on that move in the blink of an eye.

Well considering Bekele won two golds, one silver, and one bronze in 5000m races, while Mo won five golds and one silver, Mo is by far the better 5000m runner.

12:37 > 12:53

Edris ran great. I don't think he'd say it was easy. Congrats to Edris for a job well done.

A good chance Mo wins the race if he'd let Butchart by instead of sprinting to keep him at bay (with over a lap to go.)

A rare tactical fumble for Mo. Yes, he could have recovered from it in years past and won anyhow.

Devil Dog wrote:

Gotta bee wrote:Just another area Bekele is better in, he could front run and set the pace Mo can't, he usual only goes to the front for a few seconds to slow things down and show himself until the last 600 really

Bekele would have never let himself be in MO's position, plus he wouldn't have let Pat get that gap would have been on that move in the blink of an eye.

Well considering Bekele won two golds, one silver, and one bronze in 5000m races, while Mo won five golds and one silver, Mo is by far the better 5000m runner.

Farah record in the 5 000m is the 64th performance of all time.

Count the number of times Bekele has run faster and come back to apologize.

nn wrote:

Mo will be great at the marathon too.

believe it when I see it

Subway Surfers Addiction wrote:

Kejelcha went off sprinting hard to stretch Mo early then Edris would go hard over the last 200m. âž¡What was Kejelcha thinking?

He was thinking that it is better to be in front of Farah than behind him. Letting Farah into the lead is suicide, that's how they always lose. And it worked, except for his error in yielding lane 1 at the end.

there was no deliberate box-in of mo

he said he coudn't live with kjelcha's pace before the bell & all he coud do was stay behind him as he was stretched to the limit

kjelcha even drifted wide in homestretch giving mo plenty of room but he had nothing to match edris

no box-in

mo simply got hammered by quicker guy on last lap, but it wouda been different result without that 10k crumbling his legs

if bernie once went intrinsic 50-mid/high in a 12'59, mo sure as hell couda gone 51+ in a 13'30+ if fully rested

Bad Wigins wrote:

[quote]Awsi Dooger wrote:

How do you know it was unintentional? There are other British runners who openly dislike Farah. Maybe Butchart resents him too.

Because listened to the interview Butchart' gave to the BBC immediately after the race.

His 3:28.8 and 3:28.9 performances in the 1500m, lead me to doubt he has the potential to be great at the marathon.His 2:08 in London was a good result for him. I will be impressed if he runs sub-2:06.

nn wrote:

Mo will be great at the marathon too.

Holy sh*t, an actual real fan of Mo

No you are just going to get beat eventually. Could have happened in any of his 10 gold races.

If Mo raced Edris 5 times this season he'd beat him 4/5 times.

Reminds me of Edmonton when the Kenyans used team tactics to beat Geb.

Also LoL to whoever said Mo is better than Bekele because he has more watered-down golds.

It was probably intentional for Kejelcha to be the lead Ethiopian during the tactics, since the bigger guy would be toughest to get around

Awsi Dooger wrote:

It was probably intentional for Kejelcha to be the lead Ethiopian during the tactics, since the bigger guy would be toughest to get around

IDIOT! Kejelcha is tall....this does not make him "toughest to get around."