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Happy for Stan. Has come close many times. Deserves the win. Great race.

Great job by the NYRR official making sure Biwott didn't get to have an authentic moment to celebrate and pushing him back to the start finish line to fulfill media duties.

they completely missed Meb finish. i hate this coverage.

How is coverage consistently so bad for major marathons?

Don't these idiots learn? I get the impression they just don't care or there are not enough viewers.

ESPN MISSED MEB'S FINISH

somebloke wrote:

ESPN MISSED MEB'S FINISH

I saw him finish. Right behind Tsegay and Kauwuchi

bummmmer wrote:

they completely missed Meb finish. i hate this coverage.

WHAT?

That is brutal.

Nice shot of Kawauchi in his usual histrionics not looking at Meb when the veteran congratulates him.

It did appear as if Kawauchi here was exaggerating his tiredness at the finish for effect on his countrymen. I am a fan, nevertheless, and he had a fine performance in a race where the leader was out well over 66.

Nomadic wrote:

Happy for Stan. Has come close many times. Deserves the win. Great race.

Hahaha!! This is our warmup!

Editing for Biwott for finally getting that deserved major win. Kamworor, though is for the future.

NYRR FTW! wrote:

Great job by the NYRR official making sure Biwott didn't get to have an authentic moment to celebrate and pushing him back to the start finish line to fulfill media duties.

Usual garbage from those officious pricks. They also screwed up the finishing tape and sent multiple top-5 runners down the other side of the road.

What a bunch of know-it-alls and whiners

jjjjjj wrote:

It did appear as if Kawauchi here was exaggerating his tiredness at the finish for effect on his countrymen. I am a fan, nevertheless, and he had a fine performance in a race where the leader was out well over 66.

Agreed. Theatrics aside, and more importantly, it was a great run.

Who is this family posing with the medallists but not even bothering to shake hands or so much as look at them?

It's the Russian "system" v. the Kenyan "wild west". We won't even have a chance to know the real situation until Kenya gets out-of-competition blood testing. And meanwhile the Ethios operate out of huge "black box". Make no mistake, putting the Russians on a "blacklist", whether fair or not, is a HUGE precedent in the battle against PEDs.

rupp-certified salaadbar wrote:

Sorry, even if many Kenyas were doping, that is nothing like a doping SYSTEM organized and covered up by the actual Russian Government. Think a bit.

rupp-certified salaadbar wrote:

Usual garbage from those officious pricks. They also screwed up the finishing tape and sent multiple top-5 runners down the other side of the road.

How about taking a big gulp of STFU ya whiny prick. All you do is piss and moan.

It's true that the officials can be officious pricks, and it's true that Mr. D. Katz (the guy who moved them back) actually is an officious prick by nature, but honestly, you don't want celebrating runners in front of the finish line if you can help it.

I wonder how many training days Ethan Hawke put in for this race.

rupp-certified salaadbar wrote:

Who is this family posing with the medallists but not even bothering to shake hands or so much as look at them?

The Rudin family. If you can figure out how this google thing works, look them up and the relationship with the race.

Enuf of the bellyachin, anyone got results?