rojo wrote:
What are your 4 Grand Slam and 3 Triple Crown events?
They don't exist. They should be manufactured. Run track races on the dirt in conjunction with the kentucky derby, preakness, and belmont stakes.
People don't care about these things except for the fact that someone told them to. Put up a million dollars (or whatever the horses get) for winning the race. People would watch.
Just another guy wrote:
1. 20K race walk
2. Color run
3. Rock n roll half DC
4. Tough muddier
Ahh... But which color run? How many colors qualifies? Soo many important questions!!!
The Insider wrote:
The Triple Crown would look something like:
World XC (dosen't every distance runner want to win this?)
London Marathon (toughest marathon to win)
Olympic 5k (toughest track distance race to win, in my opinion)
Those three encompass three different surfaces, at 3 different distances, while still being theoretically possible due to them falling at times of the year where recovery/training are still doable.
I could've, in theory, seen Gebresallasie or Bekele pulling this off. For someone like Kwamaor, I don't think he'd be fast enough to win the 5k, where as Farah wouldn't be strong enough to win the London Marathon. Which would mean that only the very best of the best could pull it off, again in theory. Shouldn't that be what the Triple Crown is all about?
I like this structure a lot, but if you wanted to make it a Grand Slam, you could easily add a World Indoor 1500 or 3K to give you four distinct environments at four high quality events.
Rockgip wrote:
The Insider wrote:The Triple Crown would look something like:
World XC (dosen't every distance runner want to win this?)
London Marathon (toughest marathon to win)
Olympic 5k (toughest track distance race to win, in my opinion)
Those three encompass three different surfaces, at 3 different distances, while still being theoretically possible due to them falling at times of the year where recovery/training are still doable.
I could've, in theory, seen Gebresallasie or Bekele pulling this off. For someone like Kwamaor, I don't think he'd be fast enough to win the 5k, where as Farah wouldn't be strong enough to win the London Marathon. Which would mean that only the very best of the best could pull it off, again in theory. Shouldn't that be what the Triple Crown is all about?
I like this structure a lot, but if you wanted to make it a Grand Slam, you could easily add a World Indoor 1500 or 3K to give you four distinct environments at four high quality events.
I dont imagine anyone would EVER win that. Nobody's going to win the OG 5k and the London marathon in the same year.
Olympic or World Champ over 1500
Olympic or World Champ over 5000
World Cross win
Marathon Major
Rod Dixon is probably the closest to that.
Ward 8 wrote:
World Cross
Rotterdam
Fukuoka
Lopes could have done this in '85 if he didn't shut things down after Rotterdam.
I like the thought of having different triples.
100, 200, 400
800, 1500, 3k
5k, 10k, Half
World XC
London
Olympic 10,000m
A major WR
In a career.
How about this Craig Virgin inspired triple? He didn't quite do this, but he came close, albeit over two years.
World XC champ (80, 81)
Boston Marathon (2nd 81)
Top 10,000m time for the year (80)
Damn that 1980 boycott.
Switch Boston with a fall marathon for a modern version?
World xc title(xc)
indoor distance race at Millrose
Great north run (roads)
Brussels 10k (outdoor track)
1. Track Marathon
2. Beer Mile
3. Color Run
My grandson would consist of
1. Marathon
2. World XC
3. 10,000M olympic gold
4. 1,500M olympic gold
I think WC/Olympic 10k, world cross country championships, and world half marathon championships would be the most realistic triple. The marathon is too long and 5000m too short for today's athletes to realistically have a chance.
I don't expect anyone to be able to repeat Zatopek's 5k, 10k, marathon triple in modern times under any reasonable conditions, and, at least on the men's side, it seems that the era of heavily juiced athletes who could have and did complete various triples is over. I think that the last triple on the men's side would be Bekele with the world cross, Oly 5k, Oly 10k triple in 2008. On the women's side, however, there is Genzebe Dibaba....