Official 2018 London Marathon Live Discussion Thread

Keitany and Dibaba go out fast early by 10k just the two of them then they blow up Dibaba out Keitany just holding on to 3rd heat/humidity and not to mention a little bit of wind has shaped the women's race!

25 and lots of sun, hot as hell for a marathon!

All due respect to Farah. Speculation aside, no matter how well-founded, he's run a strong race so far and there's no sign of the wheels falling off. The press coverage he gets here in the UK is insane... I can't even imagine what the pressure has been like for him.

But it seems like he's been doing the right shite out in Ethiopia and is pulling a respectable performance when many of us thought he'd struggle to ever stick with the big boys in a major marathon.

Although I don't know what he was thinking with the arm warmers and bottle fiasco haha

Mo wanted to beat up a guy on a motor bike and thus there went his race!

The trackers seem to have stopped working? WTF?!

How can Paula and that dude seriously think that Mo isn't going to blow up?

Jonathan Gault wrote:

As Kevin Hanson pointed out on Twitter, the elite men hit 5k 26 seconds faster than they did at Breaking2.

13:48 is suicidal.

Yes but isn't it like 100 feet downhill. So add like 18 seconds.

Where's my boy Bekele?

How many years before Almaz Ayana starts to do this.

Ayana, Dibaba, Keitany and Cheruiyot in the marathon will be epic

timtam wrote:

Mo wanted to beat up a guy on a motor bike and thus there went his race!

Kipchoge is WINNING, not Mo losing. You IDIOT.

rojo wrote:

OK. I just re-woke up. What did I miss? It looks like what I predicted happened.

Carnage due to the heat?

SOmone give me a cliff notes version.

NBCSN did a literally 8 minute Sarah Sellers phone interview (I rewound my DVR during a commercial to check).

I haven't been able to see much of the race despite the fact I've been watching it the entire time.

I'm now begging Nike (or anybody) to start sponsoring commercial-free races.

wtfunny wrote:

OMFG is there a free stream available that doesn’t keep cutting out? Tvcatchup drops out continually.

It's working fine here:

You might want to try this one, it has several channels:

Kipchoge is impressive as hell. To watch him run a marathon is to look at a work of art.

gathernomoss wrote:

The trackers seem to have stopped working? WTF?!

How can Paula and that dude seriously think that Mo isn't going to blow up?

That man is Steve Cram. You IDIOT.

rojo wrote:

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Yes but isn't it like 100 feet downhill. So add like 18 seconds.

Where's my boy Bekele?

4th maybe? Behind Farah? Not sure.

BBC doesn't really cover placing and leaderboard doesn't update very often.

rojo wrote:

OK. I just re-woke up. What did I miss? It looks like what I predicted happened.

Carnage due to the heat?

SOmone give me a cliff notes version.

Read the thread!

Or the Scientists of Sport live posts?

:)

People running long distances as fas as they can. It’s a race. Some are slowing down and some are stopping.

Weather conditions are the same for all runners.

Jonathan Gault wrote:

Half marathon for the men.

That's the fastest first half in a marathon, ever (not counting Breaking2). We are going to see some carnage over the second half. It's now 70 degrees and sunny.

1 KIPCHOGE, Eliud (KEN) 3 18-39 02:02:01 +00:00 01:01:00

2 KITATA, Tola Shura (ETH) 8 18-39 02:02:01 +00:00 01:01:00

3 KAROKI, Bedan (KEN) 9 18-39 02:02:01 +00:00 01:01:00

4 BEKELE, Kenenisa (ETH) 2 18-39 02:02:03 +00:01 01:01:01

5 WANJIRU, Daniel (KEN) 1 18-39 02:02:03 +00:01 01:01:01

6 KIRUI, Abel (KEN) 6 18-39 02:02:03 +00:01 01:01:01

7 FARAH, Mo (GBR) 13 18-39 02:02:07 +00:03 01:01:03

OK. Can we at least say Farah has balls. Big ones. I don't know why he never went for it in a 5k or 10k.

ethiopian wrote:

who is at 2nd place?

Brigid Kosgei.

Correct link: http://tvcatchup.com/watch/bbcredbutton

Nbcsn coverage is beyond shid. All ads and barely showing the mens race. Might as well be a highlight show. Pathetic.