No love for Dibaba from fellow competitors?

Women's 1500m is easily the most doped doped event in track

Every single previous performance on the all-time list from 3-50 to 3-56 was doped

Now a supposedly clean dibaba sits atop that motley crue

Go figure huh..

was that carol lewis commentating??

info wrote:

was that carol lewis commentating??

BBC commentators Steve Cram, with Tim Hutchings

What were they laying down on the track?

dasfjasdfjsdf wrote:

Quit the conspiracy theories, I think Kiprop got some extra love because the competitors knew him very well and knew he'd been out of action for a while. Congratulating a friend on a comeback is easy to do. Congratulating someone you don't really know very well may be a bit harder. And Dibaba was basically in a different race from the rest of them whereas Kiprop was more competitive with the group. It stands to reason that it would take a little bit longer for the women to congratulate each other.

There is no conspiracy theory. Most of the women in that race have previously lost to athletes who were later busted for doping. Soboleva, Cakir, etc. They should be skeptical.

Mr Anderson wrote:

nobody seemed to congratulate her in the moments following the race.

They had also run the race, so they were kinda pooped.

Dibaba didn't stop for long at the end. After hugging Chanelle Price she set off on a lap of honour and didn't stop until they dragged her onto the podium half way down the home straight. The other women didn't get a chance to congratulate her.

There was a nice little cameo as the flower girl ran back to get a bouquet of flowers and crashed into another flower girl running in the opposite direction. So Dibaba ended up with a rather squashed bouquet.

lklklklklk wrote:

dasfjasdfjsdf wrote:

Quit the conspiracy theories, I think Kiprop got some extra love because the competitors knew him very well and knew he'd been out of action for a while. Congratulating a friend on a comeback is easy to do. Congratulating someone you don't really know very well may be a bit harder. And Dibaba was basically in a different race from the rest of them whereas Kiprop was more competitive with the group. It stands to reason that it would take a little bit longer for the women to congratulate each other.

There is no conspiracy theory. Most of the women in that race have previously lost to athletes who were later busted for doping. Soboleva, Cakir, etc. They should be skeptical.

+1

female 1500 runners have seen so much doping that they are probably very skeptical. carp.

Reminds me of the first time I saw Genzebe, Tirunesh 5000m WR

http://www.letsrun.com/photos/2008/oslo/imagepages/image58.php

xcvxc wrote:

Don't know why you made another thread. I personally don't see why this matters. A World Record was broken. That is what matters.

The OP is an obsessive misogynist. He keeps starting new versions of this thread, trying to get everyone to talk about how men are down bros and women are jealous b's. This has got to be like his fourth attempt; and it's by far the most subtle, which is why it's still here.

Price was the hand picked Rabbit also Nike sponsored by the baby Sister of the Baby Faced Assasin.

Kiprop has been a very sympathetic figure ever since Ramzi robbed him of his moment atop the Olympic podium in '08. He also seems to have an unsteady career, running bad races aoften, but keeps coming back from setbacks.

Genzebe is the young, terrifying threat to every record from 800-10,000. There is as much fear and intimidation around her amongst her competitors as empathy or certainly sympathy.

aloof loners wrote:

info wrote:

was that carol lewis commentating??

BBC commentators Steve Cram, with Tim Hutchings

I was joking.....dont know if u r familiar, but C Lewis wasnt the best announcer in my opinion, ESPECIALLY for any non sprint race. Announcers in Europe are way better than any US announcer

Mr Anderson wrote:

Although Dibaba's race was more impressive than Kiprop's, how about the stark contrast in reactions from fellow competitors. Outside of Dibaba grabbing Hassan for a hug, nobody seemed to congratulate her in the moments following the race. The rabbit/pacemaker did come up and congratulate her afterwards but I assume they are cohorts.

It seemed like a large portion of Kiprop's competitors immediately congratulated him after the race.

Of course, we are not shown much post-race coverage (Dibaba).

Is Dibaba just not as well liked as Kiprop? What's the scoop?

The scoop is you are reading into things what you want. You said a large portion of Kiprop's competitors immediately congratulated him after the race. The word portion suggest not all did so. So What if, lets say, 4 runners in the Kiprop race didnt congratulate him? Can we assume that those 4 have a problem with Kiprop? No, of course not.

There are a myriad of reasons why you might not go immediately congratulate someone for a great race.

you are shy, you are too tired, you're about to barf, you didnt want to intrude, you are mad at your own race results, you were pumped by your new PR, you were congratulating someone else that had a great race, you didnt have a chance to do so untill later, those that congratulated each other knew each other...making contact more natural, you never met the person, media was in the way/surrouning him and it would be silly to run over there and shake his hand, you actually hate Kiprop and think he is a cheat, your gay and Kiprop turned down your advancement in the hotel the night before....who knows....now please apply the above possibilities to the Dibaba post race "aftermath."

they kind of say, "Dibaber" in their British accentstake two announcers. both the EXACT level of ability as a broadcaster. one is from the USA one is British with an accent. who is better?i'd say the Brit every time.go.

aloof loners wrote:

info wrote:

was that carol lewis commentating??

BBC commentators Steve Cram, with Tim Hutchings

does she speak any english? maybe there's a big language barrier. i feel like i've seen her respond in broken english before though...and she would know how to say "thank you"

Mr Anderson wrote:

Although Dibaba's race was more impressive than Kiprop's, how about the stark contrast in reactions from fellow competitors. Outside of Dibaba grabbing Hassan for a hug, nobody seemed to congratulate her in the moments following the race. The rabbit/pacemaker did come up and congratulate her afterwards but I assume they are cohorts.

It seemed like a large portion of Kiprop's competitors immediately congratulated him after the race.

Of course, we are not shown much post-race coverage (Dibaba).

Is Dibaba just not as well liked as Kiprop? What's the scoop?

BB c-note wrote:

take two announcers. both the EXACT level of ability as a broadcaster. one is from the USA one is British with an accent. who is better?

BBC commentators Steve Cram, with Tim Hutchings

The ones with the most experience at running at world level. Or, indeed, world record level. It isn't nationalism, or even a Geordie accent fetish. Please, enlighten me - which US commentators have Crammy and Tim's pedigree?

I would gladly give her a hug.

J.R. wrote:

I would gladly give her a hug.

I would give her a good rabbiting