ex-runner wrote:
Subway Surfers Addiction wrote:
Geb had plenty of opportunities to break it and never got close.
El Guerrouj gave it everything and was primed for that and wasn't even close.
Bekele wouldn't have been able to run faster than El Guerrouj at that distance.
No way Mo is running 7:21.
The reason the record is 7:20 is Komen was on alot of sauce and he was perfectly designed to run slightly slower than 1500m pace for a few minutes extra.
Come on, El G was close. One and only one attempt with much less than perfect pacing (only got him a bit over 1500m) and he runs within 2.4s of the time. First time running the event and he pops a 7:23. That's damn close. Cram in the commentary said he will for sure get it if he tries again.
I don't think he even broke 7:30 again did he? He won Indoors WC in, I think, 2001, and I know he ran 7:34.high in 2004.
His WR attempt was in 99 and he didn't retire til after Athen 2004. So in five more years he never even got close to it. Nor did his 5000m performances indicate anything like 7:20 fitness. Komen broke 7:30 five times in a year and a half, lol.
The only way he'd ever run 7:20 was if Komen had paced the race for him, and he could draft the entire race until 200m to go. Worked for Geb. :)