Official 2020 London Marathon Women's Race Live Discussion Thread

Hall with the quick finish with her cheater shoes. Put an asterisk next to that performance.

U know nothing jon snow wrote:

Hall with the quick finish with her cheater shoes. Put an asterisk next to that performance.

Lol seriously doubt they are better than alphaflys

Flipp wrote:

Hall was down by 40” at 40k. Made up 200m in the last 2.2k.

Does anyone know what the biggest the gap got?

Got it:

Down by 2:15 at 25k, 2:17 at 30k. Down by 2:11 at 35k.

Got some messages from Iten and Kapsagat asking me ‘who Hall is?’

Did Flanagan finish? She is staying in Europe to run the world half on the 17th in Poland.

Seidel probably would have been better by a minute if she didn't have to poop. Looks like she had a lot left at the finish. She'll be 2:22 by Tokyo.

Flipp wrote:

Flipp wrote:

Hall was down by 40” at 40k. Made up 200m in the last 2.2k.

Does anyone know what the biggest the gap got?

Got it:

Down by 2:15 at 25k, 2:17 at 30k. Down by 2:11 at 35k.

Correction: 2:15 at Half, 2:17 at 25k and 2:11 at 30k.

She didn’t leave any at the finish. She got to the port-a-potty in time.

Flipp wrote:

Flipp wrote:

Hall was down by 40” at 40k. Made up 200m in the last 2.2k.

Does anyone know what the biggest the gap got?

Got it:

Down by 2:15 at 25k, 2:17 at 30k. Down by 2:11 at 35k.

Commentator just said "what a shame a crowd was not here to see that amazing finish by Hall..."

Wonder if a cheering crowd would have been enough to alert the gal Hall chased down?!? :-)

Mention the bad weather and the number of turns next to the asterisk as well.

Flipp wrote:

Hall was down by 40” at 40k. Made up 200m in the last 2.2k.

Does anyone know what the biggest the gap got?

Hall was 2:17 back at 25k.

rojo wrote:

Amy Cragg said that Kosgei just had an amazing race. I don't really agree with that. She was nearly 5 minutes off her pb.

What's harder to do? Hall 3rd here or Cragg 3rd at Worlds?

She did have a great race. Conditions were terrible, training was hard given the uncertainty.

With all of this, Brigid had a great race and close to some of the best times ever. This addiction with PBs is ridiculous and shows no understand about conditions.

In case anyone hasn't seen it yet, here is another feed replay:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xv0li-OG68E

henryronoisthegoat wrote:

rojo wrote:

Amy Cragg said that Kosgei just had an amazing race. I don't really agree with that. She was nearly 5 minutes off her pb.

What's harder to do? Hall 3rd here or Cragg 3rd at Worlds?

She did have a great race. Conditions were terrible, training was hard given the uncertainty.

With all of this, Brigid had a great race and close to some of the best times ever. This addiction with PBs is ridiculous and shows no understand about conditions.

Conditions couldn't be that bad if Sara ran a PB. It was not an 'amazing' race. This is what's annoying about some American commentators. Everything has to be 'amazing.'

So as here on letsrun there always is a lot of bashing on Nike now what about the fact that Hall ran in Protoypes today that only she has? I do not wanna take away something from her performance as this whole shoe debate is getting boring and all of the elites have some type of "supershoe" BUT I do wanna point out that those regulations by World Athletics are a joke again. They cannot seem to enforce the prototype rule so why even have one ???? This is NOT about shoes giving an unfair advantage it is about the fact that they have RULES that basically are not taken seriously by anyone.

Women 2020 London Marathon Results

Place Name Country Time

1 Brigid KOSGEI (KEN) 2:18:58

2 Sara HALL (USA) 2:22:01

3 Ruth CHEPNGETICH (KEN) 2:22:05

4 Ashete BEKERE (ETH) 2:22:51

5 Alemu MEGERTU (ETH) 2:24:23

6 Molly SEIDEL (USA) 2:25:13

7 Gerda STEYN (RSA) 2:26:51

8 Sinead DIVER (AUS) 2:27:07

9 Darya MYKHAYLOVA (UKR) 2:27:29

10 Valary JEMELI (KEN) 2:28:18

11 Edith CHELIMO (KEN) 2:29:03

12 Ellie PASHLEY (AUS) 2:31:31

13 Natasha COCKRAM (GBR) 2:33:19

14 Naomi MITCHELL (GBR) 2:33:23

15 Tracy BARLOW (GBR) 2:34:42

16 Tish JONES (GBR) 2:36:25

17 Lindsay FLANAGAN (USA) 2:37:16

18 Bo UMMELS, (NED) 2:39:54

results.virginmoneylondonmarathon . com /2020/?pid=leaderboard_miles&pidp=leaderboard_nav#

nice

rojo wrote:

Amy Cragg said that Kosgei just had an amazing race. I don't really agree with that. She was nearly 5 minutes off her pb.

What's harder to do? Hall 3rd here or Cragg 3rd at Worlds?

You don't agree?? Awful weather running one of the fastest woman's only record..

Harsh man

good old bbc. Now we have the pesky women out of the way on lowly BBC2 we can go to the proper channel (BBC1) and watch the real race.

Its disgusting.

Defund the beeb.

hr measurement wrote:

Flipp wrote:

Got it:

Down by 2:15 at 25k, 2:17 at 30k. Down by 2:11 at 35k.

Commentator just said "what a shame a crowd was not here to see that amazing finish by Hall..."

Wonder if a cheering crowd would have been enough to alert the gal Hall chased down?!? :-)

She was done, made zero attempt when Hall came up to her