When Will Faith Kipyegon Get Some REAL Love on These Boards?

TrackCoach wrote:

She is young, probably only 21 or 22, I know she was junior only 4 or 5 years ago. She won WJR XC at age 16, which is the youngest winner ever. With her speed and strength, I would love to see her race Ayana in a 5K or 10K. Btw, when I first saw her as a junior, she looked like a legit teenager. As good as she is, I don't think she will ever get close to GD's 1500 WR.

she is 23.

She is of the class of Conseslus Kipruto (2012 World Youth Championship in Lille France).

These two are legends (each in his/her own right).

We haven't seen all with regard to Faith. She will be around for long God willing.

NERunner053 wrote:

To answer OP's question because she is not white and/or an American.

NERunner053,

NBC totally ignored her.

One would have been forgiven for thinking that Jenny Simpson had won.

It was disgraceful!

NativeSon wrote:

NERunner053 wrote:

To answer OP's question because she is not white and/or an American.

NERunner053,

NBC totally ignored her.

One would have been forgiven for thinking that Jenny Simpson had won.

It was disgraceful!

Exactly, similar to how these boards reacted, Faith ran a killer race!

El Keniano wrote:

FAITH IS A LEGEND!

also a cutie pie

she ran a HUGE amount wide in this race, virtually in outer lane 1 for most of it, perhaps even occasionally in lane 2 for some parts but i haven't analysed vid

at worst, she ran ~ 13m extra in this race

i certainly thought she was going to lose the last lap sprint as she musta run ~ 4m more than anyone else on it !!!

Faith Kipyegon in her debut back in 2012! Went out in first round and interestingly took down Genzebe Dibaba in that race. Very inexperienced at the time but has since matured in execution of her race tactics.

https://youtu.be/GGbFJdWlI3M?t=1037

At the end of the race Faith collapsed, and Jenny bounced around like a happy teenager. Jenny had more left than she knew. Something I remember from Martina Navratalova, "Bacon and eggs, the chicken gave her best, the pig was committed"

Go Jenny, get that 3:55!

NativeSon wrote:

NERunner053 wrote:

To answer OP's question because she is not white and/or an American.

NERunner053,

NBC totally ignored her.

One would have been forgiven for thinking that Jenny Simpson had won.

It was disgraceful!

very very similar with the doper Gatlin. Everywhere you saw, it was "Gatlin beats Bolt", as if Bolt got silver, absolutely no mention of the kid who actually deserved it, Coleman. I wasn't able to watch the 1500m final, but from twitter/news, I wasn't even able to find out who won. Disgraceful

calculo wrote:

at worst, she ran ~ 13m extra in this race

Just think, it would have been a 4 flat otherwise!!!

Full props to Jos Hermans, he knows how to get his athletes ready.

falconrunner22 wrote:

At the end of the race Faith collapsed, and Jenny bounced around like a happy teenager. Jenny had more left than she knew. Something I remember from Martina Navratalova, "Bacon and eggs, the chicken gave her best, the pig was committed"

Go Jenny, get that 3:55!

Yeah, reminds me of how Genzebe would dance and celebrate after running sub 4. Not dodgy at all.

Not a fan, but a perfect idiot.

Faith is a wonderful person, very humble in spite of her successes, and is one year YOUNGER than her official age (she is born at the beginning of 1995, not in 1994, and became older for being allowed to go to school one year before her real age).

When I go Keringet for following Geoffrey Kirui, she prepares personally my lunch or my dinner, and it's Amazing to see the Olympic Champion peeling potatoes and cooking cabbages and beans for some mzungu like me, who is not her coach.

She has very good education, since had all the road of her instruction in the school (girls only) created by a Dutch Foundation several years ago, school that every year becomes bigger (at the moment there are 120 girls). She is followed, like a daughter, by Lavina Adriano, a lady who is the real "motor" of the situation in Keringet, who is also the responsible of the Training Camp of Global for the girls.

But, of course, it's very easy to speak about persons you don't know anything about, you never met, you never spoke together.

Jenny Simpson and Laura Muir are two very correct persons, and absolutely have (both) very high respect for Faith, who Always is friendly with everybody. Maybe this is the reason because nobody speaks very much about her, before the Championships, in spite of the fact she clearly showed herself as the best specialists (and the most consistant) of the next 3 years.

About her final, I want to remind people currently surprised that her last 800m in Rio, when won Olympics, were in 1'57", a time that among all the athletes in the final only Caster Semenya and Sifan Hassan had on the official distance (never Jenny Simpson or Laura Muir).

You have to fell shame for your mentality, and I'm disgusted to read Attacks like your on this site.

Pay no attention to that troll, Coach Renato. Thanks, nonetheless, for that very cool insight into Faith's personality off-track (Pelare patate lei stessa? Una ragazza stupenda👍🏾). She really does seem like a truly lovely person whose success has not got to her head. So happy for her.

I hope she tries to chase some fast times next year, now she's won everything.

I also notice that Jenny Simpson is always praised for her tactical mastery on this site while Faith, who's been more successful and is therefore better gets no such props.

El Keniano wrote:

I also notice that Jenny Simpson is always praised for her tactical mastery on this site while Faith, who's been more successful and is therefore better gets no such props.

Faith is superior period. Jenny needs ideal tactics while Faith could get away with a mistake here and there.

For all the talk that NBC favored Simpson she wasn't even called approaching the wire. Rick Allen totally missed her move. Craig Masback bailed out Allen by emphasizing Simpson's finish a few seconds after the race ended.

On the British version the play by play guy identified Simpson on the inside and called her finish as it happened. Then they spent a long time focusing on the head on replay while specifically looking at Simpson's eyes as she evaluated what Hassan was likely to do...sliding out of not. That overseas version actually spent considerably more time praising Simpson's tactical history before the race and following the race than anything NBC did. Naturally NBC was going to follow the flag gig.

Anyway, as Hassan and Faith broke clear I rooted for Hassan because I like her more, and I generally prefer the runner who competed indoors to prevail, but I fully expected Faith to win. Benefit of a doubt to the recent Olympic champion, more often than not. I was shocked when Ato Boldin tried to pretend the 110 meter hurdles final was an open matter. Not close. I would have been surprised at anyone other than McLeod. Same deal in the women's 400. I expect Miller-Uibo to defeat Felix more decisively this time.

El Keniano wrote:

I also notice that Jenny Simpson is always praised for her tactical mastery on this site while Faith, who's been more successful and is therefore better gets no such props.

I agree 100% that Faith is underrated and the most consistent 1500m star for quite a long time, but the reason that Simpson gets praise is because her great tactics get her medals, not her fitness. As another poster pointed out, Faith can make mistakes and still medal, not so for Jenny Simpson. If the 1500m had been a diamond league like time trial race, Faith would have won or gotten second to Hassan; Simpson would be lucky to be in the top 5, yet she gets silver in the race.

I, too, am surprised that Faith doesn't get more love on these boards. We're in an era of tremendous women's 1500 depth, from the current WR-holder to some great, medal-winning Americans to Hassan, who's run 3:56 and 1:56 (!). It's not easy to be consistently better in the big meets.

I'm also surprised Vivian Cheruiyot doesn't get more love, as she's had an insanely good career.

Faith, maybe due to her diminutive stature and quiet personality( not cocky), is almost unnoticed at the start line and during the race. She is like the hare in those African stories(cunning and versatile) racing against the elephants of the jungle. She only gets noticed when she closes the line first. Hassan is a great athlete but her association with Al Sal and her cockiness is slowly making me not like her. Simpson is a humble athlete and deserved that silver, Muir deserved a medal too and wish there was a way to get her that bronze. She is a very humble person and works very hard.