Official 2016 Shanghai DL Live Discussion Thread

tj wrote:

Getting very bored with the All-Africa drug fests on display in both the men and women's (in the mid and long distances).

Just isn't very interesting..even for an avid track fan..

If it's not interesting for you now, then why have you stuck around through the African domination of the last, I don't know, few decades or so?

Prince Harry out of the pole vault

Kupers finishes ahead of Rudisha. Is Rudisha done?

Is that so? wrote:

tj wrote:

Getting very bored with the All-Africa drug fests on display in both the men and women's (in the mid and long distances).

Just isn't very interesting..even for an avid track fan..

If it's not interesting for you now, then why have you stuck around through the African domination of the last, I don't know, few decades or so?

It is much more marked now than it ever was before.

Edris wins, just under 13 minutes.

No he ran 1:44.8 in Aus. Very weird race today, watch it when it's on youtube. Problems with the start, should have been called back.

Where is the new Komen Geb Tergat Bekele

They all seemed to appear before the biological passport

Edris in 12:59.97. Kejelcha and Gebrewit did not look good. Nice PR for the Ugandan Cheptegei in second. I think Longosiwa and Edwin Soy sauce looked over the hill.

tj wrote:

Is that so? wrote:

If it's not interesting for you now, then why have you stuck around through the African domination of the last, I don't know, few decades or so?

It is much more marked now than it ever was before.

Hardly.

White guys are placing higher in the 8/15 than they have in years.

Gebbriwetwetwet is done

He must be 50years old

It looked like Embaye thought he was already finishing one lap too early. He did well to get 4th place in the end.

The runner in 4th Abadi Embaye ran 13:02.49 is listed by Tilastopaja AND IAAF as born in 1999

Makloofy v Kiprop is the big one this year

asdfdgjdfgrg wrote:

It looked like Embaye thought he was already finishing one lap too early. He did well to get 4th place in the end.

I was surprised he faded so quickly after that burst of speed, just as he entered the last lap. That would explain it.

What happened with Symmonds? awful start in the 800m.

I agree Bad Wiggins. It's great to see the gorgeous Lalova is still competing!

pay more attention wrote:

tj wrote:

It is much more marked now than it ever was before.

Hardly.

White guys are placing higher in the 8/15 than they have in years.

Really? We've been watching different DL races in the mid to long D?

What about the womens' races?

I think we'll have to agree to disagree on this one. For me personally, it has become boring watching all-African races (with maybe the top European or American coming in towards the end of the field in the mid-long D races). I would enjoy it more if I didn't think doping wasn't endemic in Africa. They do have some incredible talent (and - in my opinion - a genetic advantage), but it is all too obvious that doping programmes are enhancing these genetic advantages to the point of invinceability.

Maybe you don't find watching these All-African dominated races boring? I'm just saying I do, and I'm pretty sure a lot of people agree with me.

Is that so? wrote:

tj wrote:

Getting very bored with the All-Africa drug fests on display in both the men and women's (in the mid and long distances).

Just isn't very interesting..even for an avid track fan..

If it's not interesting for you now, then why have you stuck around through the African domination of the last, I don't know, few decades or so?

The last few decades? How much do you know about track?

In the Olympic 800 meters, from 1996 to 2004 the gold medals were won by Rodal, then Schumann, then by Borza...none of them African..

Well, the 800m still has highly competitive non-africans.

Rodal only won the OG b/c Kipketer wasn't there.