8 athletes in the top 10 are from East Africa, and 6 of them from Kenya. Interesting. I guess it has to do with the rampant culture of juicing in the NCAA, given that they live nowhere near Kenya...
I wonder how many of them will use the Leonard Korir model of perusing their Olympic dreams: go to the US for university, get your free degree, realize you have no chance of making an Olympic team in your home country, get fast-tracked for citizenship in the US, qualify for US Olympic team. Your dreams become reality!
All of the best American collegiate distance runners opted for the 5000m this time, so that Samuel had the 10000m free and clear for him, though he took a lot of risk in not breaking down the field earlier, despite having a 1 minute advantage in pr over the field. This was probably because of the various trials and the Olympics coming up, but the field was missing last year's double 5k/10k champ, the collegiate 5k/10k record holder, the reigning NCAA xc champ, and one of the fastest rising stars in Parker Wolfe. On the positive side, that means that the 5000m final will be a doozy.
8 athletes in the top 10 are from East Africa, and 6 of them from Kenya. Interesting. I guess it has to do with the rampant culture of juicing in the NCAA, given that they live nowhere near Kenya...
It was like that quite frequently 10-20 years ago, only recently were there not many east Africans finishing at the front of the NCAA. Now this year swung heavily back to a lot of east africans at the front.
What poor sportsmanship. Even Gault flagged that he "even had time to celebrate before crossing the finish line." Why celebrate and taunt your opponents before the finish? Fair enough, he is a freshman and hopefully still has time to learn, but the officials should have disqualified him for that horrendous showboating.
8 athletes in the top 10 are from East Africa, and 6 of them from Kenya. Interesting. I guess it has to do with the rampant culture of juicing in the NCAA, given that they live nowhere near Kenya...
Big difference between 28:10 Kenyans and 26:50 Kenyans. NCAA system gets the scraps. These guys are likely not even top 300 amongst their countrymen. There’s some guy living in a mud hut right now about to go out to herd goats that is completely unknown to the world that would absolutely destroy every one of these guys. In fact, there’s probably 100 undiscovered just like him. These guys were just lucky and got their chance.
Yeah the differenc ebetween 28:30 and 26:55 is big. The problem is that many of these guys are not 28:30 guys (they raced in 28:30 in a tactical race, but it is like saying that Jakob is a 13:09 5K guy because he won with that time in Budapest, which of course would be a dumb statement).
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