yes, he did. :/
yes, he did. :/
just like Mo fanboys keep believing Mo is invincible. Salazar, Aden and smuggling haven he is stay near will keep him that way.
sounds good but.... wrote:
just like everyone keeps saying kamworor will give Mo a run for his money....
SamiTheEthiopian wrote:
I did not see the race but someone has put this on twitter:
10.000 m Hengelo | Trials ETH
➊Yigrem Demelash 26'51"11 WL y PB
âž‹Tamirat Tola 26'57"45
➌Abadi Hadis 26'57"88 PB
K. Bekele y @perez_chiki DNF
The top 3 absolutely destroyed the rest.
The odd thing was with about 2k to go, the 4th at that time dropped massively, almost to a walking standstill.
With ~3k to go a figure with the hunch-backed form of Jeilan appeared to be trying to catch back up at least 60+m back from the lead 4-5. Might not have been Jeilan though.
Abadi Embaye
17 years old
run 26:57,88
the future
The future of what? Doping, age cheating, both???
age cheating is so old of a excuse, you cant explain why they still compete into their "40s", suddenly they are the age they say, but when they are younger its cheating.
Samuel DeChamplain wrote:
age cheating is so old of a excuse, you cant explain why they still compete into their "40s", suddenly they are the age they say, but when they are younger its cheating.
Very few do compete into their alleged 40s.
When Haile first came on the scene, everyone said he looks like he's 30 and he's age cheating. Twenty years later he was still running fast.
graceful_admin wrote:
Matta99 wrote:I wonder if some of those DNFs were actually DNSs. There were also a handful in the women's race
Maybe.
From what I could tell in the last few miles, the leaders were switching around and running very erratically.
So while the pace from kilometer to kilometer was roughly even - I think - there might have been constant mini surges and slow downs that threw off Jeilan, Bekele, Merga, Alamirew. Not sure what happened exactly.
Seriously who the hell are these people who actually finished the race? No one recognizable ended up even finishing?
Bizarre.
doot doot wrote:
graceful_admin wrote:Maybe.
From what I could tell in the last few miles, the leaders were switching around and running very erratically.
So while the pace from kilometer to kilometer was roughly even - I think - there might have been constant mini surges and slow downs that threw off Jeilan, Bekele, Merga, Alamirew. Not sure what happened exactly.
Seriously who the hell are these people who actually finished the race? No one recognizable ended up even finishing?
Bizarre.
So is this it for whose on the team? Or is it somewhat time based as well? I guess that means Jeilan who has looked good in all races except today is out for Rio as well
Does anyone know when Bekele actually dropped out?
Tron wrote:
I guess that means Jeilan who has looked good in all races except today is out for Rio as well
Surprisingly bad race for another guy who just happens to be Jama Aden's friend...
Tron wrote:
doot doot wrote:Seriously who the hell are these people who actually finished the race? No one recognizable ended up even finishing?
Bizarre.
So is this it for whose on the team? Or is it somewhat time based as well? I guess that means Jeilan who has looked good in all races except today is out for Rio as well
Does anyone know when Bekele actually dropped out?
I don't think this was the only Ethiopian qualifying race for 10000m.
It's one of 3 or 4 that they have planned.
Yigrem Demelash was last in the hengelo trials last year with 28:18....the tables have turned
graceful_admin wrote:
Tron wrote:So is this it for whose on the team? Or is it somewhat time based as well? I guess that means Jeilan who has looked good in all races except today is out for Rio as well
Does anyone know when Bekele actually dropped out?
I don't think this was the only Ethiopian qualifying race for 10000m.
It's one of 3 or 4 that they have planned.
They make these poor b@stards race multiple TEN K'S to qualify? Doesn't sound right. This race was hyped as the trials.
Cmon Man wrote:
The future of what? Doping, age cheating, both???
Can't speak to doping, but if you've actually seen him, he actually looks like he's 17 (or at the very least, not 30).
graceful_admin wrote:
Tron wrote:So is this it for whose on the team? Or is it somewhat time based as well? I guess that means Jeilan who has looked good in all races except today is out for Rio as well
Does anyone know when Bekele actually dropped out?
I don't think this was the only Ethiopian qualifying race for 10000m.
It's one of 3 or 4 that they have planned.
So is there another chance for anyone to attempt?
I bet he ran a sub 5:00 right out of the womb!
graceful_admin wrote:Demelash ran 26:56 in 2012 and a 59:49 half on March 20th of this year
so, he runs 26'50 in a still tactical race in temperate weather but huge pressure
Kamwo in cardiff was in 58-mid/high shape if not tripped at start & couda probably pushed to 58-flat/low if he attacked from gun & not duelling with other kenyan for long time
this in the most terrible weather a global road race has ever been run in !!!
what 10k shape for
Kam !?
If the mentioned splits are correct he closed in around 52 sec.
25:49 vs 26:51:14.
Sounds about right given the fact that number 2 was 6 secs back
calculo wrote:
graceful_admin wrote:Demelash ran 26:56 in 2012 and a 59:49 half on March 20th of this yearso, he runs 26'50 in a still tactical race in temperate weather but huge pressure
Kamwo in cardiff was in 58-mid/high shape if not tripped at start & couda probably pushed to 58-flat/low if he attacked from gun & not duelling with other kenyan for long time
this in the most terrible weather a global road race has ever been run in !!!
what 10k shape for
Kam !?
Who knows. Why don't you make a separate prediction thread? Then we can point and laugh at another failed prediction. You'll be 1 for 201 at that point.