55.63 last lap
55.63 last lap
My man Shadrack stepped up big time. Great from Korir as well.
so who picked the 10000m exactly as it finished for the prediction challenge?
idk lol wrote:
Er... wrote:Ahmed 27:02 Canadian NR. Great run!
What happened to Patrick Tiernan?
last place in 29:23... no idea what happened
Long, long season finally came back to bite him. Trying to peak for cross country, NCAA track and World Championships is too many times in one year. Don't think another NCAA athlete was in that race. It's too much. Still a great year for him.
Les wrote:
idk lol wrote:last place in 29:23... no idea what happened
Long, long season finally came back to bite him. Trying to peak for cross country, NCAA track and World Championships is too many times in one year. Don't think another NCAA athlete was in that race. It's too much. Still a great year for him.
He did not run NCAA track
Physio. wrote:
You know it's bad when the British need a Somalian to lift their spirits
Because Mo was such a good runner before he came to Britain...
This shows how ignorant (and even kind of racist) you are, Mo came to the UK well before he started running.
I hate mo wrote:
I still hate mo, but I have to give props that that was one of the best championship 10ks ever, and the best we've seen in a long time. Nobody had the kick in the end. However, if Cheptegei and Kamworwor make the pace fast again in the 5k, he is more vulnerable their as he will face Edris and the 18 year old Barega of Ethopia, both have huge kicks, something that everyone besides mo in this race lacked.
Yes, the 5k here will be the fulfillment of the long anticipated prophecy of track fans, Mo will be beaten in the 5k.
Chemilo will jump out to an early lead bringing them through the first lap in 59 seconds and a first kilometer of 2:32. He will continue his push bringing them through 2k in 5:06. Then Kamworwor will take control of the race, he will push through the next Kilometer and keep the pace rolling. Mo will make several Attempts at slowing the race down, but is never able to take the lead, they role through 3k in 7:40.
Now the fearless Cheptegei will take the lead, and drop a 60 second lap to up the pace. Several athletes are struggling, but Cheptegei keeps rolling. He pulls them through 4k in 10:12.
Mo tries to take the lead with 800 left, but Cheptegei begins to push the pace faster. Again at 600, mo tries to slow it down to save for a kick, but Edris now comes and begins to accelerate to the bell. Behind him is Barega.
They begin their kick, and with 200 left Barega takes over the lead and storms home, mo has nothing left and is left in the dust. first is Barega in 12:40, second is Edris in 12:42, third is Cheptegei in 12:44, Mo finishes in 4th in 12:46.
I see it now, the young Ethiopian will save our sport helped by the saints Kamworwor, Cheptegei, and Chemilo, and lead by the old man Edris. He will take down the evil Mo bot!!!!!
This must be the deepest 10000m ever, or very close. 7 guys under 27 in a
very uneven race. This suggest that there is a new drug on the market.
The top four in the first heat are certainly tough, but they're the only ones in that heat who have run 4:00 or better. The second heat has seven runners who have run 4:00 or better, including five sub-4:00 runners. If I was a 4:03 runner hoping to grab one of the qualifying spots (it's top five plus two fastest), I'd rather be in the first heat. (That's based on the fields; in general, of course, I'd rather be in a later heat, since they usually go faster.)
Are Hilarious wrote:
Some of you guys are hilarious. You make Mo the target of your complaints about tactics. Shouldn't these experienced world class guys with faster PRs than him EVER be able to devise tactics to defeat him?
Who has run faster than 26:46? 🙄
Galen wasn't in the race.
Does Z. Tadese run track anymore?
Mo was spectacular again. Very strong in the race and Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia all couldn't take him down. What does this guy have to do to get respect. TEN golds?!? Just because he is somali born, Americans berate him as a brit (are there not foreign born Americans on the us team? Jesus there were two in the race tonight!)
Or there are complaints that he hasn't run as fast as other great Olympic champions. While I agree this is true, who cares! He runs to win! Did Americans snub centrowitz when his 1500 last year was the slowest winning time? No and nor should they! Great runners know it's about the place, not the time. Who cares what he runs, the whole field is trying to beat him and they collectively and individually Cannot do it. My hats off to mo. A great run, yet again.
Les wrote:
idk lol wrote:last place in 29:23... no idea what happened
Long, long season finally came back to bite him. Trying to peak for cross country, NCAA track and World Championships is too many times in one year. Don't think another NCAA athlete was in that race. It's too much. Still a great year for him.
I'm interested to see Knight in the 5k for this reason
Can't hate on Farah anymore. This, for once, was a proper race. Happy for Joshua Cheptegei too and Paul Tanui has been consistent year after year. Kam is better suited to cross country and roads.
Papa gino wrote:
Mo was spectacular again. Very strong in the race and Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia all couldn't take him down. What does this guy have to do to get respect. TEN golds?!? Just because he is somali born, Americans berate him as a brit (are there not foreign born Americans on the us team? Jesus there were two in the race tonight!)
Or there are complaints that he hasn't run as fast as other great Olympic champions. While I agree this is true, who cares! He runs to win! Did Americans snub centrowitz when his 1500 last year was the slowest winning time? No and nor should they! Great runners know it's about the place, not the time. Who cares what he runs, the whole field is trying to beat him and they collectively and individually Cannot do it. My hats off to mo. A great run, yet again.
I don't care if he comes from Mars. He's a protected drug cheat and supremely dislikable person.
Only a few very outspoken (multi-posters) dislike the Army Kenyans. Don't make this a race issue, cucks.
If he obviously had so much in the tank today like people are constantly saying why hasn't he EVER time trialed anything but an indoor 2 mile? Think about it. You're top dog. Hot shit. "Unbeatable." -- but never willing to test the limit? What kind of mindset is that? Is there seriously no curiosity in Mo's own head about what is possible for him? And if there isn't, why? It's just stupid. The hallmark of the Mo era: Fvck "What If...?" count the medals.
I think Farah Should kick off his Road Career with the 5th ave Mile. AM I right? Maybe not in his pay range but it would be cool to see him bust out a fast mile on roads.
I'm not a fan (mainly due to his personality) but from the stuff he's put out on social media, I honestly expected the guy that finished 16th to do better.
Mo was running incredibly easy. Those surges must have taken something out of Cheptegei, Tanui, and Kamworor. That was not the vintage Kamworor of the Cardiff Half in the rain when he won big after the fall at the start. Still, no getting around that Mo is head and shoulders above this generation of 10000m runners. He was tripped about three times, at least once in the last lap but went through in somewhere between 53 and 55. Suffice it to say, however, that the pace needed to be consistently fast the whole way to possibly drop him and though the weather was good, 65 degrees at the start, the pace accordioned back and forth, and high 26:40s is in his roundhouse. His 26:30s might have strained him more. So, he retires from the track 10000m, it seems, with just one major loss in his last six years of championships, 2011-12,13, 15, 16, 17. And he shows no sign of slowing at 34 years old.
idk lol wrote:
Er... wrote:Ahmed 27:02 Canadian NR. Great run!
What happened to Patrick Tiernan?
last place in 29:23... no idea what happened
Mo Ahmed ran faster than any North American runner in the 10k and set a Canadian National record. Congratulations!
El Keniano wrote:
Can't hate on Farah anymore. This, for once, was a proper race. Happy for Joshua Cheptegei too and Paul Tanui has been consistent year after year. Kam is better suited to cross country and roads.
Yes have to agree - mad props.