Clifford V Clavin wrote:
Some things are obvious wrote:Double Gold.
Take it to the bank.
For who? Nobody. Gebremeskel will be very difficult to beat in the 5000m, and although Kenenisa will not win gold at 10,000m, he may make the gold medal winner suffer in the 10, so there is unlikely to be a double winner at 5 and 10.
Bekele for Double Gold
If you don't see it yet you need glasses. At any rate, you will. You will.
Clifford V Clavin wrote:
Today Kenenisa turns 30 years old. KB is now well past his peak as a track star. It is time for me to glance into my crystal ball once again.
KB will get the silver medal at 10,000m in London.
KB will not medal at 5,000m in London.
KB will NEVER run faster than 12:54 and 26:40 again. KB will go down as one of the all time greats. KB simply does not have the ability to outkick the best in the world anymore, but he is still a factor and still one of the best currently competing, as evidenced by his silver medal in London.
Sorry but i don't think this trolling attempt really works.
While people on this board like Bekele, I don't think anyone is rooting for him like they are for Webb or Rupp.
Thus, I don't think anyone really cares if you make an absurb prediction about Bekele.
You actually probably would have been better off saying he would win double gold. After your previous trolling attempts knocking the US guys, it probably would have annoyed people more if you had been a huge supporter of an African runner.
Alas, when i opened the thread and saw you had taken the opposite position, i was dissappointed to find you were not as smart a troll as i hoped.
That's why you will notice there have not been that many responses to this thread, and why the responses you do see are not that heated.
He ran 26:43 last year after being injured for over a year and a half. No doubt if he got more quality training in, 26:35 or lower would easily been in the cards. Kenenisa will get double gold. He has unmatched speed endurance and will sh*t on the likes of Farah and Rupp.
Cliffy, I think these predictions are too good to actually be coming from you.
I agree with them across the board.
I can see Farah winning the 10,000 with KB holding on for second.
I don't know if he will even come back for the 5.
He'll let his brother run instead.
It's been years since he has run 12:54 or 26:40 and I can see him limiting his fast attempts going forward.
We may even see him retire after the Olympics like El G at this age.
What about Mo Farah? u goes are putting him out of the 5k medal list. Why?
no doubt mo is a big treat for both 5k and 10k. I gave him 10k second and 1 st for 5k
yes MO is a treat but he will be silver winner at 10k and gold for 5k
mesfin wrote:
yes MO is a treat but he will be silver winner at 10k and gold for 5k
He's a treat if you've got a sweet tooth for lean brown men from somalia. yes please.
bump
dsads wrote:
Sorry but i don't think this trolling attempt really works.
While people on this board like Bekele, I don't think anyone is rooting for him like they are for Webb or Rupp.
Thus, I don't think anyone really cares if you make an absurb prediction about Bekele.
You actually probably would have been better off saying he would win double gold. After your previous trolling attempts knocking the US guys, it probably would have annoyed people more if you had been a huge supporter of an African runner.
Alas, when i opened the thread and saw you had taken the opposite position, i was dissappointed to find you were not as smart a troll as i hoped.
What you fail to understand is that I am being myself when I post, and that I am not taking into account whether the unwashed masses will agree with me or not. To a genius such as myself, it is so effortless to analyze runners and evaluate their capacities and trajectories, and I state the truth, and whether it will be palatable or provocative is of no concern to me. Perhaps even the great Clifford is not a prophet in his own land, but this does not detract from his greatness. These threads should not be about my greatness.
Why would I post that Kenenisa would win double gold when this is so utterly preposterous? Facts are what I deal in, and although Kenenisa will nab a silver at 10,000m, Galen Rupp will be shut out in the medals once again. That is nothing to be ashamed of, as Galen has peaked, although Galen is still closer to his peak than Kenenisa is.
There apparently are rumors that Kenenisa Bekele might run the 10,000m at the UK Trials next week.
http://www.athleticsweekly.com/news/stellar-international-field-for-uk-trials-10000m/
Yo Clifford, you're an arrogant douche.
Clifford A Clavin wrote:
There apparently are rumors that Kenenisa Bekele might run the 10,000m at the UK Trials next week.
http://www.athleticsweekly.com/news/stellar-international-field-for-uk-trials-10000m/
AWESOME. Make it happen JOS!
dsads wrote:
That's why you will notice there have not been that many responses to this thread, and why the responses you do see are not that heated.
Maybe if NO ONE ever responded to this idiots threads AT ALL, he would get tired and go away. How about that?
how about this? wrote:
dsads wrote:That's why you will notice there have not been that many responses to this thread, and why the responses you do see are not that heated.
Maybe if NO ONE ever responded to this idiots threads AT ALL, he would get tired and go away. How about that?
Just cannot help yourself, can you? As usual, you have nothing to say about the thread's subject. Thanks for pretending not to play.
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Cliffy, I think these predictions are too good to actually be coming from you.
I agree with them across the board.
I can see Farah winning the 10,000 with KB holding on for second.
I don't know if he will even come back for the 5.
He'll let his brother run instead.
It's been years since he has run 12:54 or 26:40 and I can see him limiting his fast attempts going forward.
We may even see him retire after the Olympics like El G at this age.
Well, Kenenisa did run 26:43 last year, showing Galen Rupp how it's done, but, yes, Kenenisa is showing signs of having lost his dominance. It happened to Geb, and now it's happening to Kenenisa. Just the idea of Kenenisa finishing near or even behind Galen Rupp is the most palpable illustration of how far he's fallen. However, it is smart for Kenenisa to race himself into shape. KB will be formidable at 10,000m in London. KB will get the silver, but it's going to take a true stud to beat him.
Not sure why anyone is particularly annoyed about these predictions.
They're slightly negative about KB's chances, but not altogether unreasonable.
i found out the article from the following web site
http://adeel.blogspot.com/2012/06/can-kenenisa-bekele-win-third-straight.html
it is rather intresting. waht do you say?
Can Kenenisa Bekele win a third straight Olympic title?
It has been nine years since Kenenisa Bekele became the world's best distance runner on the track, beating the man who just might be the greatest runner ever to do it at the 2003 World Championships. In a way, Bekele's accomplishments on the track are almost the equal of Haile Gebrselassie: both have four world titles at 10,000-metre along with two Olympic gold medals. Bekele has five consecutive World Cross Country titles, along with his consecutive Olympic and World Championship doubles, while Gebrselassie has a world indoor title at 1,500 metres to go with multiple world records in the marathon.
If I had to guess, I would guess that Bekele's career on the track will end much like Gebrselassie's, with Bekele remaining good enough to contend but lacking the finishing speed that made him invincible at 10,000 metres for nearly a decade. In Gebrselassie's case, age was the culprit, while Bekele appears to have been undone by injuries. Both, however, have come up against younger rivals who are just faster on the last lap.
Bekele played a big role in getting Gebrselassie off the track, since Gebrselassie simply couldn't compete with his kick. Bekele ran a clumsily-paced 13:00 last week in Oslo, finishing fifth in 13:00. While it's a sign of improvement over his previous 5,000 in that he closed faster, Bekele also finished behind four Ethiopians, including Imane Merga, Tariku Bekele and last year's 5,000 m bronze medallist Dejen Gebremeskel. If Gebremeskel needed to make it clear that his medal from Daegu wasn't a fluke, he did it by beating about a dozen of his countrymen by running a 53-second last lap.
Bekele is no doubt racing himself into shape after a very slow 3,000 to open the year in Doha, and he also ran world-leading time in the 10,000 a week after last year's world championships, but Olympic titles are given out for strength and untouchable finishing speed. The past twenty years of track have given us runners like Paul Tergat, Zersenay Tadese, Sileshi Sihine and even Haile Gebrselassie, who were strong enough to challenge for the win but came up short on the last lap or the last half-lap.
It's possible that Bekele will find the fitness he needs to dominate at what might well be his last Olympics, at least on the track, just as Hicham El Guerrouj managed in 2004. However, his best performance since the 2009 World Championships has been his 26:46 10,000 last year, when he struggled just to win the race. That race was not a substitute for a world title; if the World Championships had been run on that day in Brussels, there's no guarantee that Jeilan, Farah and Merga wouldn't have beaten him anyway.
I will be rooting for Bekele to win a third-straight Olympic title and while his fitness isn't great, I don't think his competition is all that great in the 10,000 outside of Mo Farah. Farah been stellar so far this year, handily beating Bekele in Oregon. However, outside of Farah, the competition isn't so intimidating for Bekele. His brother Tariku will likely be on the team, but Tariku only narrowly beat his brother in Oslo, and I wouldn't count on that result to hold at 10,000 metres in the Olympics. Assuming that the world champion Ibrahim Jeilan is injured and not running, the other Olympic spot appears to be filled by Lelisa Benti.
Kenya held its Olympic trials at the Prefontaine meet in Eugene this month, and the winner was Wilson Kiprop in an unpaced 27:01, though runner-up Moses Masai will probably be a bigger factor. Masai has a personal best of 26:49, a bronze at Berlin and narrowly missed a bronze in Beijing as well. Zersenay Tadese is a perennial threat, and has run a 59:34 half marathon so far this year, along with a fourth-place finish last year. I would be shocked if he won, but he might play the important role of pushing the pace. Galen Rupp, along with Tadese, would be candidates for making the race fast over the final kilometres, which would presumably suit Bekele, since he's unlikely to win in a kick at the bell.
It appears that while Bekele wouldn't have made the Ethiopian team had they run a no-exceptions, American-style trial at Hengelo or even today, but he might come up with enough fitness to beat Farah, Masai, Kiprop, Rupp and anyone else who might be a factor. I just wouldn't count on it, and I would consider it a mild surprise.
Posted by Adeel at 12:07 PM
today i heard on FM 102.1 ameharic sport programme interview that kenenisa will compete at london daimond league for 10k and paris 5k