Rrrrrr wrote:
https://youtu.be/ObuT3QHwBwU
The natural place of Rupp- lapped. Lol
Peak EPO use.
Rupp walked down Bekele in the home stretch five years later. These days, Rupp would crush Bekele in the mary.
Phantasy Star wrote:
Peak EPO use.
Rupp walked down Bekele in the home stretch five years later. These days, Rupp would crush Bekele in the mary.
There was this in 2011 @2:39
https://youtu.be/RKt5QCSpsroI will take 70 percent fit Bekele any day than 100 percent fit Rupp. 2007 is when Rupp starts to become an experiment tool to Salazar. After this lap they increased the doze pretty nicely
Trigger wrote:
I will take 70 percent fit Bekele any day than 100 percent fit Rupp. 2007 is when Rupp starts to become an experiment tool to Salazar. After this lap they increased the doze pretty nicely
Rupp is more than one-second per lap slower than Bekele over a 10k. That means Bekele would finish his 10k WR while Rupp still had nearly 1/2 lap to go.
Rupp is three-minutes slower than Bekele over the marathon. That compares exactly with how far behind Rupp is in the 10k--just about three-minutes slower.
Rrrrrr wrote:
https://youtu.be/ObuT3QHwBwU
Holy crap that was a 55s last lap which included pulling way back the last 10m.
It wasn't that his 55-sec final lap was impressive, because I've seen guys like Cova close in 52-53, but it was that Sihine actually had Bekele on the ropes and Bekele was hurting bad and had to dig. That's what makes a champion. He never gave up after that 61, 63, then made contact and trusted Sihine had gone too hard, too early.
Lots of future stars in that race - Ritz, Rupp, Bairu... Abdi had a phenomenal race hanging as long as he could. Tadesse runs like a damn bullet, like's he's over the handle bars of a bike.
kjlj wrote:
It wasn't that his 55-sec final lap was impressive, because I've seen guys like Cova close in 52-53, but it was that Sihine actually had Bekele on the ropes and Bekele was hurting bad and had to dig. That's what makes a champion. He never gave up after that 61, 63, then made contact and trusted Sihine had gone too hard, too early.
Lots of future stars in that race - Ritz, Rupp, Bairu... Abdi had a phenomenal race hanging as long as he could. Tadesse runs like a damn bullet, like's he's over the handle bars of a bike.
^This. Tadesse actually started as a competitive cyclist. That´s probably why he never had the chance to develop leg speed for track. He relied on his huge engine.
Tadese could potentially literally be the best triathlete.
kjlj wrote:
It wasn't that his 55-sec final lap was impressive, because I've seen guys like Cova close in 52-53....
When has Cova (or "guys like him") closed in 52 - 53? I'm pretty sure the answer is: never.
ritz was in there getting lapped too
Trigger wrote:
I will take 70 percent fit Bekele any day than 100 percent fit Rupp. 2007 is when Rupp starts to become an experiment tool to Salazar. After this lap they increased the doze pretty nicely
Rupp > Bekele since 2012 - fact.
macdaddy wrote:
Trigger wrote:
I will take 70 percent fit Bekele any day than 100 percent fit Rupp. 2007 is when Rupp starts to become an experiment tool to Salazar. After this lap they increased the doze pretty nicely
Rupp > Bekele since 2012 - fact.
KK > Rupp of 2018
macdaddy wrote:
Trigger wrote:
I will take 70 percent fit Bekele any day than 100 percent fit Rupp. 2007 is when Rupp starts to become an experiment tool to Salazar. After this lap they increased the doze pretty nicely
Rupp > Bekele since 2012 - fact.
no way Rupp would have won the 2013 Great north run, or the 2014 Paris marathon or the 2016 Berlin marathon.....
said88 wrote:
kjlj wrote:
It wasn't that his 55-sec final lap was impressive, because I've seen guys like Cova close in 52-53....
When has Cova (or "guys like him") closed in 52 - 53? I'm pretty sure the answer is: never.
Bekele has closed in 52-53 numerous times
said88 wrote:
When has Cova (or "guys like him") closed in 52 - 53? I'm pretty sure the answer is: never.
Cova was fast. I saw him close in 53 in Los Angeles.
Who is this Saheen that Costas keeps referring to?
Paying attention wrote:
said88 wrote:
When has Cova (or "guys like him") closed in 52 - 53? I'm pretty sure the answer is: never.
Cova was fast. I saw him close in 53 in Los Angeles.
That's astonishing. In the Olympic final Cova's last lap was 58.8. I don't know his last lap in the heat...
Tron wrote:
said88 wrote:
When has Cova (or "guys like him") closed in 52 - 53? I'm pretty sure the answer is: never.
Bekele has closed in 52-53 numerous times
And Bekele is one of the "guys like Cova"?