I asked Chelimo, who is in NYC to run the USATF 5K champs on Saturday, who his pick for the win in the marathon is on Sunday. He said Geoffrey Kamworor for an interesting reason.
“I just saw him today, I can see the man is in shape,” Chelimo said of the reigning NYC champ. “I can tell. Like really I just saw his facial features, I saw him, the way he looks like and trust me, I can know.”
He said he felt the same way looking at Mo Farah before the 5,000-meter final in Rio, though I pointed out that it didn't take a genius to predict Farah would win that race.
More on Chelimo and Matthew Centrowitz here;