Faith Kipyegon breaking-4 official discussion thread (+watch party/reaction show at 1:55 pm ET)

'I cannot' is right. Whilst I don't agree with the whole sentiment of their post, why are people so happy she failed. I get it, we hate Nike for being an abomination that drains our sport, but I was really rooting for Faith to get close. Maybe we do deserve a failing sport if this is the reaction of the most diehard fans to an attempt like this.

Let’s just say it was a valiant effort that failed, as was widely expected.

closer to 4:03 if not under, I reckon

>protected athlete

>able to dope with impunity

>literal wall of pacemakers

>spring-loaded trampoline cheat shoes

>still fails

lol. lmao even. You hate (love) to see it.

I don't think it makes me a terrible person to be disappointed in this. Yes, she ran faster than anyone has every run before, but she's the World Record holder. She's already run faster than anyone else has ever run before. When Kipchoge made is first sub-2 attempt he got close enough that we could see that it was possible. With this, I think we concluded the opposite (at least until another generation of athletes appears).

If she'd run 4:01.xx I'd figure that she had it in her and another attempt would be in the works. This? Nada.

Can't I feel a little bummed about that?

I watched Geraldo Rivera opening Al Capone's vault live in 1986. It was more exciting because nobody knew the vault was empty ahead of time.

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That's where you have been brainwashed you fool!!!!! Can't you see???????

Why am I feeling like I want to throw up on my pants right now???????????? Why???????

What has my sport devolved into???????????? Really what happen folks????????

I need help seriously..........not mental help but REAL HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

They should've called it Breaking 4:05 and done it last year.

I don't think it would be a bad series for Nike to do this every year, but call it Breaking 4:07 this year and Breaking 4:06 next year and so on. Shows how much taking a second means when you get to times that fast. And showcases running and women and times.

Most people don't even know anyone can run a mile that fast. On youtube hobby jogger shorts, people in comments are super impressed when someone can run 5 mins per mile.

Don’t think many here are happy she failed, just being brutally honest as befits the sport with highest autism spectrum ranking.

100%

I did think it was a little strange that she hadn't been racing into this. You can do all the workouts, under-distance TT's you want but watching her tonight she looked a little sluggish with respect to being under-raced. Just my opinion.

I would take this to the BU track. Seriously. Throw out this stupid "drafting" stuff which is just lab boffin nonsense - I felt she looked uneasy with so many people around her. Some people are better suited mentally to running with a clear track in front of them and this far outweighs any theoretical calculation about a few %'s of wind resistance savings.

Have one guy pacing her, try and run 61.5's through to 1209 and let her go for the final two laps (400m) by herself. I honestly think she could run in the low to mid 4.05's like that.

What a joke. Not even close.

But round numbers are pretty

You're being too kind. It was not a well planned event.

She looked more nervous than I’ve ever seen her look before any race. I’d say that nerves could have added maybe even up to a second or so to the overall time because she definitely wasn’t relaxed at the start. Props to her for the attempt and for handling the pressure better than most of us could. I’d rather see a generational talent try something crazy and fall short than never go for it.

Although, come to think of it, their goal may have been to show how small, weak, slow and inefficient the women WR holder is compared to men, in order to show that men should not compete with women.

If that was their goal, then they did a great job

Guys were simply jogging next to her.

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I’m not sure a time trial stunt where she tries to run low to mid 4:05s is worth the opportunity cost for her.

She could just have a regular indoor season and try to grab the official mile WR (and an indoor World championship in the 1500).

if she did this at BU she would have run 3:36.78