It's literally the shoes. You can't compare to pre-trampoline show era. Need a separate category of records
AREGAWI > Cheptegei in Lausanne. 12:40.45!!! What a 5000.
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RejectedRyan2 wrote:
Said it then and I'll say it now. Aregawi can and will threaten the 5k and 10k world records. thats why hes my goat
He's close to WR 5k shape right now after a race like that. He led for the last 7 laps.
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Tommy2Nuttz wrote:
A sweet combo of hi tech shoes and wavelights
Aregawi ran faster than the wavelights when the pacers dropped out. These lights, in this race, had little bearing on his running 12:40. 12:55, maybe.
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Loppas wrote:
Its obvious dude wrote:
Testing in Kenya.
Not testing in Ethiopia...
Let's hope times are changing!
Sure hope times are changing. I have doubts though… until Wada, AIU set up shop it will once and a while hit and plenty of misses.
Problem has been getting testers to want to go into Ethiopia (civil war going on), and if so, then having proper refrigeration/portability from airport back to western European lab in a timely way in order not to damage samples.
Ethiopia has been the new Kenya for a while.
Bigger problem is the drug mafia in eastern African countries of distance running notoriety. This includes the coaches, agents, doctors, pharmacies, politicians and sport administrators on the take or exercising extortion, suppliers to said avenues, kickbacks, hush money, threats to those that provide information and to their extended family members, acceptance culture of cheating/breaking laws to get ahead as that is what the political and military class has been doing all along and if you are not part of that class it’s acceptable to behave the same way to claw ones way out (so to speak).
The same the facts and reality.
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Its obvious dude wrote:
Sure hope times are changing. I have doubts though… until Wada, AIU set up shop it will once and a while hit and plenty of misses.
Problem has been getting testers to want to go into Ethiopia (civil war going on), and if so, then having proper refrigeration/portability from airport back to western European lab in a timely way in order not to damage samples.
Ethiopia has been the new Kenya for a while.
Bigger problem is the drug mafia in eastern African countries of distance running notoriety. This includes the coaches, agents, doctors, pharmacies, politicians and sport administrators on the take or exercising extortion, suppliers to said avenues, kickbacks, hush money, threats to those that provide information and to their extended family members, acceptance culture of cheating/breaking laws to get ahead as that is what the political and military class has been doing all along and if you are not part of that class it’s acceptable to behave the same way to claw ones way out (so to speak).
The same the facts and reality.
I wonder what drugs Ethiopians were using when they were dominating world XC in the early 80s, or when they had a guy break the marathon WR running barefoot in 1960. They must be way ahead of the curve pharmaceutically.
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Its obvious dude wrote:
Loppas wrote:
Let's hope times are changing!
Sure hope times are changing. I have doubts though… until Wada, AIU set up shop it will once and a while hit and plenty of misses.
Problem has been getting testers to want to go into Ethiopia (civil war going on), and if so, then having proper refrigeration/portability from airport back to western European lab in a timely way in order not to damage samples.
Ethiopia has been the new Kenya for a while.
Bigger problem is the drug mafia in eastern African countries of distance running notoriety. This includes the coaches, agents, doctors, pharmacies, politicians and sport administrators on the take or exercising extortion, suppliers to said avenues, kickbacks, hush money, threats to those that provide information and to their extended family members, acceptance culture of cheating/breaking laws to get ahead as that is what the political and military class has been doing all along and if you are not part of that class it’s acceptable to behave the same way to claw ones way out (so to speak).
The same the facts and reality.
The “Civil war” in Ethiopia would have zero bearing on testers conducting their business. The war was restricted to the Tigray region in the North and whilst it’s true that the majority of the top female runners hail from Tigray, they all live and train in Addis these days. When the disruption kicked off Tsegay and Gidey who preferred to train in Mekelle (largest city in Tigray) immediately relocated to Addis and have been there ever since.
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code5800 wrote:
Cheptegei got second in 12:41.
What are these times????
How is they thread by rojo on the board but the OP is code5800?
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RejectedRyan2 wrote:
Said it then and I'll say it now. Aregawi can and will threaten the 5k and 10k world records. thats why hes my goat
Aregawi wasn’t even winded. Its supernatural.
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*** wrote:
How is they thread by rojo on the board but the OP is code5800?
They merge threads sometimes when they have the same content. Don't ruin it tho. I'm team Rojo.
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John Wesley Harding wrote:
Gebrhiwet came from 1.7 seconds behind Bekele with 200 left to beat him by .01. Too bad I doubt we’ll ever get to see video of the finish.
An image of the battle:
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NorseMN+ wrote:
RejectedRyan2 wrote:
Said it then and I'll say it now. Aregawi can and will threaten the 5k and 10k world records. thats why hes my goat
Aregawi wasn’t even winded. Its supernatural.
The explanation is more banal than that.
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code5800 wrote:
Cheptegei got second in 12:41.
What are these times????
We see these threads again and again now, for so many different events. Doping is way ahead of testing.
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