nic etry wrote:
Axc wrote:Centro 1:43.9
you heard it here first
Too bad he still had 45 meters of running at that point
9th 1:49.29 DFL
I know, it's like clockwork, his first Euro race every year is a stinker. Time change etc., is not kind to him. Totally not surprised, 3rd year in a row. He hit 500 and went in slow motion.
Centro had no business being in that race. He was struggling trying to keep up with the 2nd to last guy @ about 600 meters in.
nic etry wrote:
Axc wrote:Centro 1:43.9
you heard it here first
Too bad he still had 45 meters of running at that point
9th 1:49.29 DFL
Centro did not look like he belonged...what do you think his 400m PR is?
I'd guess that first lap wasn't far off of it. Webb was a 47.xx guy, that's why he time trialed well and ran the 800 in 1:43. Centro has to be about a 49.xx guy.
Amos being helped out as he walks off the track
wel... wrote:
until someone beat him, stfu maybe?
dfbb wrote:Bercause Farah does this EVERY race. The women run fast sometimes. Sometimes they run slow. Farah's races are all the same.
I think what you meant (in English) was... "Until Mo Farah is beaten, you should stop criticizing the way he runs." I agree, but proofread your posts maybe?
agip wrote:
buncha morons
they run slow, pack up, crash out and then get outkicked as usual
how hard is it to NOT let Mo do what he always does?
boring and disappointing
If you really want an answer, here goes:
It is VERY hard to not let Mo do what he always does. Mo is not going to take the pace, but he IS going to follow the pace (any pace), and 99% times out of a hundred, he is going to come by some time in the last 1000 and make it very hard to beat him. He signed up for a DL 5000 with TEN PEOPLE who'd run under 13. Despite this, like always, he managed to make them play his game and beat them all without having to even show all his cards. There are very few athletes so good that taking them against the field (when the field is this good) is a reasonable bet. Farah is one of them.
Women's 1500 pacer was terrible ... 61/67 for 2:08 at 800.
Can't really blame the women for laying off that ...
That's not a bad outing from Rudisha though. It's a season's best by a bit, is it not? Slowly but surely finding some form.
ismael kirui wrote:
wow can anyone tell me the definition of insanity?
Yet again all the idiots running the 5k let Mo dictate the end of the race. If any of them actually think they can beat him this way they are delusional. Yes Gebrewett got him 4 or 5 weeks ago but that was because the young Ethiopian by mistake changed the plan and went really really hard with 400 to go. Becoming the normal crappy we on't follow the pacers ad then let Mo dictate the ending 5k.
Where are the Races from yester year like I ran to win worlds in 1993?
It's a race, not a chess match. If they want to beat him, they're going to have to beat him between now and August. If they don't walk onto the track as the strongest runner, they're not going to walk off the track number 1.
I suspect Farah, like the other NOP runners, has really been working on his speed this year. In the past he would never have let anyone pass on the last lap because he probably did not have the speed to re-pass. Now he does. This makes him even harder to beat in the WC.
agip wrote:
stop centro
centro stopped
dfl
today is a good day
better holster that pistol, young man.
CoachDB wrote:
Ni mo foofy wrote:A DL victory? Seriously. He was celebrating like it was the WCs. He's is a bozo. This proves once and for all Farah is a fraud. Not even close to the GOAT.
He'a a great racer but a p***y runner.
Please post a youtube channel of all your gutsy track performances, okay?
Get back to us when you run under 14.
He was celebrating a return to the top position of the podium. Clearly he was enjoying the return to victory, and victory itself. And maybe a sense of vindication at all the British tabloid bs, which is about 100 times more extreme than US supermarket tabloids.
You don't know what you are talking about mate. You can sum up all the scum of the british press and you won't get anywhere near fox news.
Centro (and Asafa) goes home devastated...and maybe WADA with Gatlin blowing everyone away early.
otc looking like a bad move for aman...
Farah's sweetspot is the 3000m. I don't think he has the stones to handle a hard from the gun pace at 5000 or 10000. I think Rupp can beat him at 10000, but Rupp has to gamble and go from 3200m out.
sc42 wrote:
agip wrote:buncha morons
they run slow, pack up, crash out and then get outkicked as usual
how hard is it to NOT let Mo do what he always does?
boring and disappointing
If you really want an answer, here goes:
It is VERY hard to not let Mo do what he always does. Mo is not going to take the pace, but he IS going to follow the pace (any pace), and 99% times out of a hundred, he is going to come by some time in the last 1000 and make it very hard to beat him. He signed up for a DL 5000 with TEN PEOPLE who'd run under 13. Despite this, like always, he managed to make them play his game and beat them all without having to even show all his cards. There are very few athletes so good that taking them against the field (when the field is this good) is a reasonable bet. Farah is one of them.
yeah well sure but you'd think a couple kenyans, whereever they were from, would say hey you know what let's work together and see if we can get ahead of Farah because I am tired of being outkicked.
Farah didn't MAKE anyone play his game - they just did it.
well in the end farah doesn't have the initials MF for nothing
alh359 wrote:
Centro had no business being in that race. He was struggling trying to keep up with the 2nd to last guy @ about 600 meters in.
He had plenty of business being in the race. He's a 1:44 guy who has a World championship silver at 1500 and is from America.
He didn't run like he had any business bein the race but he had business being in it.
TomorrowLand wrote:
Amos being helped out as he walks off the track
Did Rudisha lose the battle but win the war tonight???
somebloke wrote:
CoachDB wrote:Please post a youtube channel of all your gutsy track performances, okay?
Get back to us when you run under 14.
He was celebrating a return to the top position of the podium. Clearly he was enjoying the return to victory, and victory itself. And maybe a sense of vindication at all the British tabloid bs, which is about 100 times more extreme than US supermarket tabloids.
You don't know what you are talking about mate. You can sum up all the scum of the british press and you won't get anywhere near fox news.
Ask Amanda Knox, bloke.
We're talking papers, not TV. Ergo, you're writing our of your arse.
No one watches Fox Spews here, and millions read the tabloids over a real newspaper in the UK.
See: Murdoch Tabloid Celebrities etc. Mobile Phone Tapping massive scandal.
CoachJD wrote:
Farah's sweetspot is the 3000m. I don't think he has the stones to handle a hard from the gun pace at 5000 or 10000. I think Rupp can beat him at 10000, but Rupp has to gamble and go from 3200m out.
Except due to wind resistance any leader loses their advantage. Farah just needs to sit on the heels of anyone who tries to lead and that person does at least 4% more work, which at their caliber is all the difference Farah needs to win regardless of who it is.