Looking forward to seeing what happens when Mo tries to go to the front to slow it down with this bunch in the London Marafon.
Looking forward to seeing what happens when Mo tries to go to the front to slow it down with this bunch in the London Marafon.
Mohammed is a fraud
Crushing blow wrote:
Looking forward to seeing what happens when Mo tries to go to the front to slow it down with this bunch in the London Marafon.
https://youtu.be/hhleA4mo-qU
You do know he's already done the London and didn't even attempt to go with the lead group?
Your comment is inane wrote:
Crushing blow wrote:
Looking forward to seeing what happens when Mo tries to go to the front to slow it down with this bunch in the London Marafon.
https://youtu.be/hhleA4mo-qUYou do know he's already done the London and didn't even attempt to go with the lead group?
Yep, more than aware.
It's a good retirement gig for him. And looks like that moving back to England to spend more time with the family shtick didn't last too long.
Training with Abdi. Interesting.
Crushing blow wrote:
Looking forward to seeing what happens when Mo tries to go to the front to slow it down with this bunch in the London Marathon
Your comment is inane wrote:
You do know he's already done the London and didn't even attempt to go with the lead group?
But they didn't wait for him.
Blushing Crow wrote:
Mohammed is a fraud
Hey! Brits don't cheat!
That puts him at a disadvantage compared to all the Africans.
At least EPO does not work. Otherwise Mo might not even win in London.
Blushing Crow wrote:
Mohammed is a fraud
The fraud is a 41yo elite still running pr's...or his other AZ buddy making a us oly team as a master.
It seems that Mohamed has been able to sneak cleanly away to Font-Romeau or Ethiopia.
So Farah gives a realistic expectation of top 10 and you guys try to rip him for it...?
ex-runner wrote:
So Farah gives a realistic expectation of top 10 and you guys try to rip him for it...?
because all Mo does is talk about being a "champion"
It's like the Lebron vs Jordan debate. Jordan was a killer who was out to slaughter everyone he faced. If Mo was really the GOAT he wouldn't be shooting for anything less than being the GOAT in the marathon. He never went for fast times on the track, and he will get exposed in the marathon. If he fails, he fails and that is okay, but more people would respect him if he went for it and failed than if he never tried at all to do something great.
Moby wrote:
ex-runner wrote:
So Farah gives a realistic expectation of top 10 and you guys try to rip him for it...?
because all Mo does is talk about being a "champion"
It's like the Lebron vs Jordan debate. Jordan was a killer who was out to slaughter everyone he faced. If Mo was really the GOAT he wouldn't be shooting for anything less than being the GOAT in the marathon. He never went for fast times on the track, and he will get exposed in the marathon. If he fails, he fails and that is okay, but more people would respect him if he went for it and failed than if he never tried at all to do something great.
I don't agree.
He had great success on the track. More success than any other distance runner in terms of medals I believe.
Now he uses the term 'retired' to describe his career but would still like to get top 10 in the stacked London Marathon field.
I'm not sure Farah is actually concerned with being called a GOAT or not. That's just a fixation people have here on letsrun. He stated himself on more than one occasion that he cannot get those 5000/10000m records and hence never tried.
He has loads of medals, lots of fans worldwide and a bunch of British records I'm sure he's proud of.
Farah was probably a 12:45/26:35 guy in his prime but running those times doesn't get you anything unfortunately apart from a headline in the papers "Farah fails WR attempt".
Moby wrote:
ex-runner wrote:
So Farah gives a realistic expectation of top 10 and you guys try to rip him for it...?
because all Mo does is talk about being a "champion"
It's like the Lebron vs Jordan debate. Jordan was a killer who was out to slaughter everyone he faced. If Mo was really the GOAT he wouldn't be shooting for anything less than being the GOAT in the marathon. He never went for fast times on the track, and he will get exposed in the marathon. If he fails, he fails and that is okay, but more people would respect him if he went for it and failed than if he never tried at all to do something great.
Mo Farah never claimed to be GOAT. Calling himself a champion, although it seems to have needled some people on this forum, is not unreasonable since he has a lot of championship wins to his credit.
I don't know what his legacy will be in the end, maybe another Yifter. But no-one on here moans about Yifter not chasing records? And no-one starts endless straw-man arguments about Yifter being/not being GOAT.
In the long term, what people think about Mo partly depends on whether they think the WRs in question were doped. Again most people here seem to think they were. Maybe Mo thinks so too. Funny how everyone seems to call Mo a doper, if that was so surely he could have had a cracked at the doped WRs??
No pleasing some folks ;-)
Exactly he could give all the bs to get more people to watch.
He's doing the right thing setting a realistic target. I'd guess 2:05- 2:06
Read my lips wrote:
In the long term, what people think about Mo partly depends on whether they think the WRs in question were doped. Again most people here seem to think they were. Maybe Mo thinks so too. Funny how everyone seems to call Mo a doper, if that was so surely he could have had a cracked at the doped WRs??
No pleasing some folks ;-)
You just solved your own argument. If Mo thinks the WR's were doped, or at the very least knows everyone thinks those records are doped AND suspects him of doping, then why would he go after those records? It would only add suspicion to his name.
He could go after the records and run very fast IMO. I have no idea if he doped or not, but I think he was too afraid to chase records to add more suspicion and heat to his name. He was able to run just fast enough to be considered great and win championships, but not so fast that it is obvious he is doping.
ex-runner wrote:
I'm not sure Farah is actually concerned with being called a GOAT or not. That's just a fixation people have here on letsrun. He stated himself on more than one occasion that he cannot get those 5000/10000m records and hence never tried.
He has loads of medals, lots of fans worldwide and a bunch of British records I'm sure he's proud of.
Farah was probably a 12:45/26:35 guy in his prime but running those times doesn't get you anything unfortunately apart from a headline in the papers "Farah fails WR attempt".
I actually like the Lebron vs Jordan comparison. Mo loves the attention. Him and Lebron are obsessed with tooting their own horn on social media. All Mo says is "that's what champions do," and how much he sacrifices to be great. It's a self obsessed image. Real champions of the sport are fearless, which Mo has not proven to be. My problem is not that he has not gone after WR, but that he has routinely dodged top competition and/or rabbeted races against top tier athletes at 5k/10k. That is just indisputable. Expecting him to run 12:37 is admittedly crazy, but he never even went after 12:50 when he has beaten guys who have run under 12:50.
Mo was always content to take a pay check to win watered down races, and training to kick really hard. I am not diminishing what he has accomplished, because he is brilliant. Imagine if Mike Tyson or Ali would show up for the Olympics every 4 years, and in between would do small time fights against hometown scrubs for huge cash sums. They would still be great fighters, but that would obviously be disappointing for fans everywhere. it just goes against the spirit of competition
Of course he couldn't get the records. He's actually a 3:34/13.0x/27.1x guy.
PS- the shifter was 40 years ago. Most people here don't know much about anything before 1988 or so.
People. Yes, Farah might be a little hyped but consider this:
He pulled off the quadriple-double, being the first man in history to do so (He was 5000 and 10000 champion in 2012 London, 2013 Moscow, 2015 Beijing, and Rio 2016).
He holds 9 British records, 6 of those being European records, with 1 of those being a WORLD RECORD (2 mile indoors (8:03.4!))
He's ran 3:28.8/12:53/26:46.
notthe GOAT wrote:
I actually like the Lebron vs Jordan comparison. Mo loves the attention. Him and Lebron are obsessed with tooting their own horn on social media. All Mo says is "that's what champions do," and how much he sacrifices to be great. It's a self obsessed image. Real champions of the sport are fearless, which Mo has not proven to be...
Meanwhile... after a world tour following Berlin, Eliud Kipchoge has disappeared, living simple and training hard in Kenya, readying himself to mop the floor, err roads, in London with all of these other guys. Including the "also ran", Sir Mo Farah.
I personally don't think anyone has a chance of defeating Kipchoge in London this year.