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Simple. This is because dibaba and Vivian are kickers. There is no incentive to drive the pace if you have finishing kick. It's not about her being less mentally strong. Why use extra energy to drive the pace when you can kick to l win?
And as mentioned, dibaba solo a 2:18 w/o pacers. Something that Keitany has not even done before. All Keitany's fast times come from pacers.
I think that Keitany will beat dibaba in London. But what you say about dibaba is certainly not true. And your choice of words is too extreme to describe the female GOAT
The female GOAT? Not at the marathon, and not at 10000m. The marathon belongs to Mary K as the greatest off all time in my book, and Ayana smashed the WR at 10000m and beat Dibaba while doing it ( and I'm not a ayana fan ..). If you're saying she is the greatest all-around female distance runner( which you did not specify), then I'll agree to that. But she is not a WR seeker. That is not her style. She destroyed her opponents, not the clock.
Ayana seeks to destroy the WR every time she runs, so does Mary. Haile was the same way, and so is Bekele. That is why they all have a NUMBER of insane, fast times. I'm just simply saying to you that Dibaba does not go after time or WRs like that. That is not her strategy. Maybe it has changed, I don't know, but her history speaks otherwise.
This is not a battle for me. I like both runners, but with male pacers running in london, I just don't see Dibaba wanting any parts of that, or being able to hang with mary. At a death pace in the rak half marathon, dibaba got dropped hard at the 8th or 9th mile. And that was a race with MALE PACERS.
We shall see, bro.