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How do you know the Americans aren’t doping? Oh that’s right, you don’t. In fact, you don’t know anything.
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How do you know the Americans aren’t doping? Oh that’s right, you don’t. In fact, you don’t know anything.
Yip, they spend way too much time on the wheelchair racers
runnER/DR wrote:
Chepngetich and Hassan are 2 minutes behind Rupp and Mantz at the half. Either those women completely fall apart or they're doped to the gills.
It just shows the state of US men’s distance running not anything about doping. This is ok so far but we could be better.
Rupp and Mantz side by side
runnER/DR wrote:
Chepngetich and Hassan are 2 minutes behind Rupp and Mantz at the half. Either those women completely fall apart or they're doped to the gills.
How do you figure?
Women's WRs in distance events are all 10-11% behind men's.
The relevant comparison is to elite men, and these women are as far behind elite men as expected.
It is not their fault fact that Rupp and Mantz are not running elite performance.
"His stroke is so long"
How come Pacer 1, Pacer 2 and Pacer 3 were not able to keep up with the requested pace for more than 5k ?
runnER/DR wrote:
Chepngetich and Hassan are 2 minutes behind Rupp and Mantz at the half. Either those women completely fall apart or they're doped to the gills.
Clearly never occurred to you that a top class women's marathoner and world championship placed women athlete at the peak of their powers could run fast times compared to US athletes who have struggle lately. Don't you think telling women that their wombs will drop out and they won't be able to have children if they ran further than 800m for much of the history of competitive running might have blunted competition for a while?
Imagine if the NFL was broadcasted at this level
nysouthrunner wrote:
Legitimately the worst marathon coverage I've ever seen. Also, nothing but respect to wheelchairers, but their coverage needs to be cut 90%.
Try watching Houston sometime.
TMADDDHASFNE wrote:
The more I see wheelchair coverage the more I’m opposed to it being part of these running events. It’s unlikely there are more than 25 elite wheelchair athletes in the world, of those the top ones have superior equipment so the rest are disadvantaged. For a sport that wants to raise awareness for the disabled overcoming obstacles it may be doing the opposite as it seems to promote cheating and not equity.
This is a great point. And to think everyone complains about how expensive super shoes are. How about a $30,000 racing wheelchair?
Seems like it would be more appropriate to attach them to the back of cycling races
HobbyJogging wrote:
Yip, they spend way too much time on the wheelchair racers
Seemed like a reasonable amount. It was an intriguing race.
Des Linden 01:12:53 at halfway
VaporBoi wrote:
I bet there are other regions you can set it to. I just picked that one since someone said it worked
I set mine to Chicago and I'm streaming the local broadcast, no problem.
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Wheelchair racers have been involved in road races since at least the early '80s. I can't remember it as being an issue to anyone back then
Kiptum and Mateiko thru 25k in 1:12:04 (2:01:38 pace)
HobbyJogging wrote:
Yip, they spend way too much time on the wheelchair racers
Hopefully we get interviews from the top 10 wheelchair race finishers