Official 2019 World XC Live Discussion Thread

World Mountain Champions, Uganda, now win the World XC team title. Me thinks they go back to flatter faster courses.

oooof getting pulled from the course has to be a blow to the ego.

Great performance by the GB men's team, the first british man finishing in 37th . ???.

rojo wrote:

I'm looking ofr the top non-african born runner.

Does anyone know if Spain's Ouassim OUMAIZ ERROUCH was born in Spain?

Robel Fsiha of Sweden in 17th.

I’m not sure why the Americans even send teams over. Women’s team just as bad as men’s.

African nations see it as a sense of pride, US as a burden and pain in the backside.

Totally unprepared for this type of course.

misogynist much? wrote:

deathinparadise wrote:

And now that stupid woman interviewer bugging poor Kamworor

Don't be an idiot. It is a major sports event. Of course they interview the defending champion after the race. Questions were good since Kamwo's English is obviously so-so.

I can't see how the woman is "stupid" as the questions were totally reasonable.

Asking the same question TWICE was bad enough, but no she had to ask again a THIRD time, ridiculous and insulting to Kamworor obviously.

misogynist much? wrote:

deathinparadise wrote:

And now that stupid woman interviewer bugging poor Kamworor

Don't be an idiot. It is a major sports event. Of course they interview the defending champion after the race. Questions were good since Kamwo's English is obviously so-so.

I can't see how the woman is "stupid" as the questions were totally reasonable.

I dind't love the interview. The first question shoudl be "You were unable to three peat, how do you feel after winning bronze." Instead that was the last question and we got a bunch of questions about the course. The order of her questions were inversed. The questions were fine but just totally in the wrong order.

That was the most badass sporting event I have seen in ages. Obiri and Kiplimo stole the show for me. The East African stars are amazing on the track, but they are from another universe in XC.

Xmjxj wrote:

World Mountain Champions, Uganda, now win the World XC team title. Me thinks they go back to flatter faster courses.

Especially since this was supposed to help other countries, but definitely not Uganda. They forgot Ugandans are the best mountain runners. ?

douglas burke wrote:

rojo wrote:

I'm looking ofr the top non-african born runner.

Does anyone know if Spain's Ouassim OUMAIZ ERROUCH was born in Spain?

Robel Fsiha of Sweden in 17th.

He was born in Eritrea, genius.

Tommy2Nuttz wrote:

So,..about the oh so tough course..I hope people like the Brojobs, Radcliffe, Cram etc are feeling like fools today.

Yes it was hard, but seriously, what was the big deal? You people made it sound like it was going to destroy the field, and even ruin XC.

Kiplimo was smiling going up it the first time. They were flying over the roof. Barely any water in the pit and a short muddy section.

Anyway congrats to Joshua Cheptegei, a well deserved victory. He said hes practiced hard on hills in Uganda and it showed.

What are you talking about? We loved the course, said it was tough but fair. Personally, in the future, I'd like to see a course that has more flat on it. This was a little too hilly for me but I never said it would destroy the field.

In fact, there was another thread last night where the guy said exactly what you claim I said. He said the course was like cyclocorss and unreal. I disagreed and said it wasn't that much different than your normal world xc course.

Please read what I wrote as I was pretty much 100% correct

deathinparadise wrote:

misogynist much? wrote:

Don't be an idiot. It is a major sports event. Of course they interview the defending champion after the race. Questions were good since Kamwo's English is obviously so-so.

I can't see how the woman is "stupid" as the questions were totally reasonable.

Asking the same question TWICE was bad enough, but no she had to ask again a THIRD time, ridiculous and insulting to Kamworor obviously.

It was really only twice. Yes, she could have changed directions sooner since he didn't seem to have much to say about the course, but asking about the course is obviously reasonable since it's CROSS COUNTRY.

You probably have no experience with live journalism like this. Interviewing someone in that moment with limited English is a tall order. It was certainly not "insulting" and you might want to evaluate yourself if you think a question is an "insult," snowflake.

Calling her a "stupid woman" was completely out of line.

Also, efforts to get XC into the Olympics will mysteriously taper down. Would definitely have been green lighted ifIngebrigtsen had been competitive.

Army team wrote:

US Army team needs to upgrade. Begin EPO regiment instead of push ups. Our Kenyan Army team went home devastated today!

They did a hell of a lot better than the USA-born runners who couldn't beat them to make the team, or were too cowardly to race XC nationals. True, Blankenship, Centro, all of Schumacher's team...WEAK!

So I found a Spanish article saying Ouassim OUMAIZ ERROUCH was born in Nerja which is on the Southern Coast of Spain. So he's the top non-African born runner.

With a name like that I imagine he's of recent North African descent as Morocco is just 9 miles away from Spain.

The next non-African born runner was Australia's Brett Robinson in 30th.

BTC women had a PATHETIC race today. They should stop showing off on social media and prepare properly.

rojo wrote:

misogynist much? wrote:

Don't be an idiot. It is a major sports event. Of course they interview the defending champion after the race. Questions were good since Kamwo's English is obviously so-so.

I can't see how the woman is "stupid" as the questions were totally reasonable.

I dind't love the interview. The first question shoudl be "You were unable to three peat, how do you feel after winning bronze." Instead that was the last question and we got a bunch of questions about the course. The order of her questions were inversed. The questions were fine but just totally in the wrong order.

That's a totally reasonable comment. I agree. Asking about his feeling on the result would be a good Q1. The course is a good Q2. Basically that's what she asked, in a different order.

Calling her a "stupid woman" over this is absurd. So she took two tries to get him talking about the course, which has been endlessly hyped in the running media. Big deal. Find me an experienced journalist who hasn't had a misfire interviewing a fatigued athlete across language barriers.

rojo wrote:

LetsRun hero Matt Crowe didn't finish. No, he didn't DNF - he was pulled from the course even though he was beating legitimate runners for other teams. Guess they were feared he might get lapped.

Good to see that he's still got a smile on his face.

https://twitter.com/letsrundotcom/status/1111988728774447106

He did not finish.

This is known as a DNF.

I thought someone said it was a LRC singlet? Stragglers is a British club based in West London.