Hicham El Guerrouj is back baby! Runs Community Mile in Oxford

Imagine your hobby was boating, hunting, fishing, cycling, or motorcycling? The cheapest piece of serious equipment for those sports is more expensive than the most expensive super shoes.

So, if you are going to buy a pair of shoes for a race, why would you sacrifice "free speed" just to save $100? Super shoes are faster. The price of the race entry (per race) is more than the difference between a pair of "meh" running shoes and the superhoes.

Unless you simply can't afford them, I don't see why a person wouldn't buy them.

You constantly complain about threads being "rekrunnered" but it's you who calls him in. You really miss him, don't you? 😉

So you are answering your own gruddji threads.

I learned something yesterday about the North African talents and the Britannic Clubs

They are hostile and destroyers of talents.

Ask these names:

Mohamed Salah (he needed to be bright in Italy to be considered by England Clubs)

Hakim Ziyech (a bright talent from Ajax destroyed by Chelsea) now he brighting with hundred of lights again in Galatasaray.

Now here is my gift and I give 100 years before England can generate this talent.

Morocco currently has 4 players playing the big roles in the most great European FC ...

The next revolution will be soccer with the genius Berkani Faouzi Lakjaa.

Lol, it was a joke. And it's my thread anyway, so I'm free to rekrunner it all I like.

But I'm pretty sure that Crammy beat El G in this race, as I seem to recall he ran a sub 6 minute mile quite handily only a couple of years ago.

So the official Crammy vs El G head to head is 1 - 0.

So you are saying Cram took EPO? Wow!

To go from 3:43 to 6:39 is appalling. He was juiced to the max back then.

Indeed. It's incredibly fascinating the difference in general public perception between an obvious doper who was never (gets love and praise) caught because it's easy to get away with and a busted/convicted doper who is shunned and booed by a lot, but also gets love and praise from a more understanding and forgiving demographic.

For El G, a 5:30 mile, even nowadays, it's a walk in the park.

Remember, Fermin Cacho ran a 42 minutes 10k last month with (allegedly) 3 months of basic training. And Cacho is older and slower than el G.

Fake news. Passant_Account started the thread. Anyways only the real rekrunner is allowed to rekrunner away, nevermind who started the thread and who didn't.

Since using my new computer with French interface I'm getting older articles about El Guerrouj from the French medias:

and

https://www.lavoixdunord.fr/1458953/article/2024-05-05/hicham-el-guerrouj-inquiet-pour-l-avenir-de-l-athletisme-il-faut-tout-repenser

Wrong article.

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The Moroccan will attack on Wednesday, as part of the Paris meeting, the world record for the mile still held by Noureddine Morceli in 3'44''39

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Athlétisme. Hicham El Guerrouj est bien le nouveau maître absolu du demi-fond mondial - Le Temps

Le Marocain s'attaquera mercredi, dans le cadre du meeting de Paris, au record du monde du mile encore détenu par Noureddine Morceli en 3'44''39

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Oh completely juiced. I understand that he did not put forth a 100% maximum effort for this event, but even still a 6:39.......

It was a community fun run and he’s been retired for 18 years. You people are ridiculous

You still trying to find a breaches to him even at 20 years later and aged 49?
He didn't came to Oxford to demonstrate, he moved on long ago. He did exactly what do your Brits save their honors when they are not in the game.

In this interview of 2002 he was already announcing he will retire in 2006.

I'm superstitious person but I tend to think that the town of Berkane is "miraculous" by its talents.

Already in the 70s / 80s they had a great soccer scorer called Boushaba.

And its the only small town that won at 2 times the CAF league in 2020 and 2022 and they won the super African cup in 2021.

A lot of current instances are ranking Faouzi Lakjaa as the greater African sport director of all times.

The lack of a comma does wonders.

"The Bannister family were also in attendance with their father, who died in 2018, no doubt casting a nod of approval from the heavens."

The vast majority of Morocco's World Cup men's team were born and/or raised in Europe and developed in their systems.

What will you look like 45 years from now?

I have been against this for years but the manager of the federation see it differently as a sort of economic integration with Europe.

There is Yousef En-Neysri (the best Moroccan scorer in the history of the UEFA Champions League with 9 goals) that comes the Academy Mohamed 6 of Football.

It's also surprising to see that the current best British player has Zinedine Zidane as idole.

To think that the people that are trying to denigrate anything that comes from North Africa are only in this site.