Exactly what I was going to say. He should contact Dave Brailsford and get on the Team Sky fat loss cocktail
Exactly what I was going to say. He should contact Dave Brailsford and get on the Team Sky fat loss cocktail
observer111 wrote:
Jos Hermens gave him at least two bottles from the bag he had with him as he rode on the back of the motorbike. There were at least two guys on bicycles next to the lead pack with JURY on the back of their shirt/bib - therefore KB should have been DQ'd for talking the bottles from Hermens. And at one point KB was pointing at Hermens and telling him to give him the bottle
Maybe that's what happened. He was DQ'd and he stopped.
Oh Please wrote:
Wolf's Bane wrote:
Bekele moved to the roads too early in his career. He was still on top of the world and decided to step off the track even though he's more of a 10k/xc specialist. Well it turns out, he isn't as good over half marathon. Now he can't really cope with not being the world's best so he can't finish any races. Kind of understandable, as a world record holder, you don't want to just be another elite, but that's the level Bekele is out now.
The last time Bekele was at the top of his game was 2009 when he again dominated the 5000 and 10000 at the World Champs.
Since then, he has had a handful of "ok" races, off the top of my head, the 26:43 WL in 2011 when he had essentially not raced in almost 2 years, the half marathon in 2013(?) when he beat Farah and an over the hill Geb, his debut marathon in Paris where he ran 205 flat, mostly solo, and the exceptional and unexpected 203 flat in Berlin, which is now two years old.
So we're talking 9 years now where Bekele having a great race is more of an exception not the rule. But the guy has the mentality of a champ, after all he has a ridiculous amount of hardware. He even said himself a couple years ago that he didn't want to run with "weaker runners" when referring to 206 marathoners. That says all you need to know there.
Bekele will keep trying to be or run with the top dogs and he will keep getting dropped or DNF.
Actually, I don't think it'll be much longer. He will try a spring marathon, and if it's another DNF, he will retire.
definitely inconsistent since 2009 with as you said, a handful of great moments thrown in.
I do think he'll keep going until 2020 for last chance of Olympic glory
Tron wrote:
Oh Please wrote:
The last time Bekele was at the top of his game was 2009 when he again dominated the 5000 and 10000 at the World Champs.
Since then, he has had a handful of "ok" races, off the top of my head, the 26:43 WL in 2011 when he had essentially not raced in almost 2 years, the half marathon in 2013(?) when he beat Farah and an over the hill Geb, his debut marathon in Paris where he ran 205 flat, mostly solo, and the exceptional and unexpected 203 flat in Berlin, which is now two years old.
So we're talking 9 years now where Bekele having a great race is more of an exception not the rule. But the guy has the mentality of a champ, after all he has a ridiculous amount of hardware. He even said himself a couple years ago that he didn't want to run with "weaker runners" when referring to 206 marathoners. That says all you need to know there.
Bekele will keep trying to be or run with the top dogs and he will keep getting dropped or DNF.
Actually, I don't think it'll be much longer. He will try a spring marathon, and if it's another DNF, he will retire.
definitely inconsistent since 2009 with as you said, a handful of great moments thrown in.
I do think he'll keep going until 2020 for last chance of Olympic glory
Maybe as a sumo wrestler.
FFF wrote:
Tron wrote:
definitely inconsistent since 2009 with as you said, a handful of great moments thrown in.
I do think he'll keep going until 2020 for last chance of Olympic glory
Maybe as a sumo wrestler.
haha...seriously though, I'm sure he wasn't in great shape for this race but didn't too overweight to me compared with pics in his prime
DC12 wrote:
Exactly what I was going to say. He should contact Dave Brailsford and get on the Team Sky fat loss cocktail
That's an interesting remark. Many people consider everyone at the top dopes, or every East African, or everyone not from one's own country, or the people they don't like for no specific reason... But if Kenenisa doped, why would he not take something to lose fat, if he was indeed overweight? It's difficult to be certain about anything, but having a bad day now and then and putting on some weight at times looks like what happens to a non-doper. That's a glitter of hope in this rotten world of sports. Imagine if the best runner ever was actually clean.
grox wrote:
DC12 wrote:
Exactly what I was going to say. He should contact Dave Brailsford and get on the Team Sky fat loss cocktail
That's an interesting remark. Many people consider everyone at the top dopes, or every East African, or everyone not from one's own country, or the people they don't like for no specific reason... But if Kenenisa doped, why would he not take something to lose fat, if he was indeed overweight? It's difficult to be certain about anything, but having a bad day now and then and putting on some weight at times looks like what happens to a non-doper. That's a glitter of hope in this rotten world of sports. Imagine if the best runner ever was actually clean.
He might have been off the juice for a couple of years, but that doesn't mean he didn't do it.
C'mon, he's from the heyday of EPO and at the top of the game at that point, and you tell me there's a glitter of hope he's clean?
Come back to reality.
I understand your suspicion about the early noughties. But if he doped then, why not continue to do so now? If the remarks about his weight are correct, my understanding it that several PEDs will make you shed weight, training or no training.
Maybe it was just those half-tights. But he did look a bit bigger than I'm used to seeing him..
I think he could loose a few kg.
Maybe he is still on the 90s drugs. The cyclists from the 90s who were loaded up on EPO were not as lean as the cyclists today who are stripping weight but still retaining power. Is it just diet or is there something else?
Reminds me of 2002 when Geb ran within a minute of the marathon world record drinking only water during the race (with no other intake).
Just another bizarre twist to Kenny's day thanks to Jos. wrote:
Did Kenny accept one of those drinks Hermens was offering him?, if he did he would have been disqualified anyway, seem to remember reading somewhere that drinks, gels, etc taken along the way form other than the official stations was not allowed. You'd think Hermens would've known this.
Remember he was allowed to do it with Gebreslassie back in the day, but not allowed now.
Apparently, you can take corticosteroids and claim you have had a local injection to treat a muscle injury to justify a positive test. Thyroid hormones are still not banned. And that's just what the layman can read about in the news.
El Keniano wrote:
Tron wrote:
Maybe it’s the spandex shorts...
That must have been first time I’ve ever seen him wear them
He seemed very uncomfortable with them, to be fair. He kept tagging at them the entire race. I think Jos made him wear them because they seem to work for Kipchoge.
Ha ha h aha ha!
By the way, I found Bekele to be a bit 'heavy' which means fat.
He seemed overweight and a bit chubby/ bulky to me.
Shaken Bravey Syndrome, or Rupp-Certified Saladbar? wrote:
SDSU Aztec wrote:
Maybe Bekele has an enough of an ego that his place and time would have been an unacceptable humiliation for him. Kind of a "no mas".
Reading this, you just know that he is a Nike athlete.
No heart.
Maybe he is taking notes from Mr DNF himself, Galen Rupp.
By Mr. DNF, you mean: Did Not Forget to collect that hefty $300,000 salary that you wish you could make.
George213 wrote:
Sprintgeezer wrote:
Another entry into the LRC Inarticulation Hall of Fame.?
Rofl, you're right.
Wrong, "inarticulation" refers to speech, which makes you and Sprintgeezer idiots.
Ha!
Bekele as I told you two months ago, just got his last paycheck.
‘No mas’
‘No mas’
Duck under the ropes, walk back to the hotel room.
Your running was massively fueled by PED’s.
Oh well.
grox wrote:
if Kenenisa doped, why would he not take something to lose fat
Drugs are the answer to everything for you morons.
Stupid Americans. wrote:
grox wrote:
if Kenenisa doped, why would he not take something to lose fat
Drugs are the answer to everything for you morons.
*morans
DC12 wrote:
Maybe he is still on the 90s drugs. The cyclists from the 90s who were loaded up on EPO were not as lean as the cyclists today who are stripping weight but still retaining power. Is it just diet or is there something else?
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DQ9tPYqXUAEnsZC.jpg
Does this guy reek of dirty or what? I think he realizes we all know he's dirty but doesn't give a sh1t anyway.
I know. Those 90s cyclist were so heavy.
http://www.velominati.com/2012/07/evanescent-riders-of-the-90s-bjarne-riis/
Jakob Ingebrigtsen has a 1989 Ferrari 348 GTB and he's just put in paperwork to upgrade it
Is there a rule against attaching a helium balloon to yourself while running a road race?
Strava thinks the London Marathon times improved 12 minutes last year thanks to supershoes
NAU women have no excuse - they should win it all at 2024 NCAA XC
How rare is it to run a sub 5 minute mile AND bench press 225?
Mark Coogan says that if you could only do 3 workouts as a 1500m runner you should do these
Move over Mark Coogan, Rojo and John Kellogg share their 3 favorite mile workouts
Am I living in the twilight zone? The Boston Marathon weather was terrible!
