His competitors are not entirely blameless. There were at least a dozen East African contemporaries who were faster and could easily have beaten him in a time trial, but never took the race to him and always, to our frustration, fell for his tactic of slowing down races,
Centro is a bigger fraud than Mo Fraud himself. But between the two I'd have to say Mo Bamba is more overrated.
Sledge_Hammer wrote:
high school xc coach wrote:
the problem with Farah is that he waited 10 years longer than everybody else to get on the drugs.
Agreed. I'm intrigued as to what he could've done, had he found his malfunctioning doorbell earlier. He's certainly the GOAT racer (overall GOAT still goes to Bekele)despite being a late boomer.
+1
Same goes for Radcliffe's box jumps and Houlihan's nutrition, btw.
El Keniano wrote:
His competitors are not entirely blameless. There were at least a dozen East African contemporaries who were faster and could easily have beaten him in a time trial, but never took the race to him and always, to our frustration, fell for his tactic of slowing down races,
agreed, i remember getting super pissed off watching those races yelling at the rest of the pack to pick it up and run the kick out of mo's legs. but they just sat there like lambs to be slaughtered. fool me once, shame on you, etc. by 2013 or so they had no excuse for letting that happen. so glad that sit-and-kick championship racing seems to have fallen out of favor somewhat in 2019 and 2021.
He might be fast but can't fix a doorbell = no respect
Farahs 2017 gold is one of the fastest championship races ever.
El Keniano wrote:
His competitors are not entirely blameless. There were at least a dozen East African contemporaries who were faster and could easily have beaten him in a time trial, but never took the race to him and always, to our frustration, fell for his tactic of slowing down races,
Give me a break. He closed a sub-26:50 race in 54 in 2017 WC. No one could have easily beaten him, not even a prime Bekele. In fact, no one beside a prime Bekele could've beaten Mo in a 10k when he's at the top of his game. Dude is obnoxious, no doubt about it, but he's also one of the greatest track runners. You have to give him that.
In 2017? At his prehistoric age? At his fossil age? Yeah no wonder people say this guy was dirty.
Ding Dong wrote:
He might be fast but can't fix a doorbell = no respect
Is this really why you don't respect him? Because he had a second missed test in a year, which is actually allowed within the rules? How many apparently clean athletes do you think miss tests every year? It's likely a ton, and many that you don't expect. For example, in a recent interview, Kate Grace said she missed a test this year after failing to update her whereabouts. Now, if you're a cynic, you could ask if it's a coincidence that she has this missed test in a year when she has the best results of her career and lowers her PR multiple times. At the age of 32. I don't think she's dirty at all, it's just not unusual for clean athletes to miss tests, which is why they get three strikes
El Keniano wrote:
His competitors are not entirely blameless. There were at least a dozen East African contemporaries who were faster and could easily have beaten him in a time trial, but never took the race to him and always, to our frustration, fell for his tactic of slowing down races,
What?
2 reasons
The board is full of posters who dream of accomplishing what he did. Lots of envy on the board.
The other reason is he's shown a few times that he can be an arrogant, unlikeable character.
El Keniano wrote:
His competitors are not entirely blameless. There were at least a dozen East African contemporaries who were faster and could easily have beaten him in a time trial, but never took the race to him and always, to our frustration, fell for his tactic of slowing down races,
People say that a lot, but they tried to run the finish out of Farah in the 10,000 in 2015, 2016, and 2017. He ran 27:01, 27:05, and 26:49. Those are times that stack up well against any of Bekele's championship race times.
People talk about Bekele as if he dropped sub-27 times in every race, but in his championship finals he only ran faster than Farah once over 10k, in 2009 (26:46). Most of his times in finals were 27:0x. The difference between Mo and Bekele is that the latter chased records outside of championships.
Saying all that, over 5,000m, I don't think Farah was tested the way he could have been. He only once had to run sub-13:10 to win. His opponents failed miserably with their tactics. One Ethiopian coach complained that this was the era when Ethiopians stopped running as a team. It's true that Bekele and Geb often had a sacrificial lamb for races, which you don't see now that there's no clear leader within the Ethiopian team such as Bekele.
SDSU Aztec wrote:
El Keniano wrote:
His competitors are not entirely blameless. There were at least a dozen East African contemporaries who were faster and could easily have beaten him in a time trial, but never took the race to him and always, to our frustration, fell for his tactic of slowing down races,
What?
El K speaking facts.
xcrunner22765 wrote:
Its because he never chased fast times and turned the diamond league into a 13:05 snooze fest everytime he raced. One of the greatest championship racers in history, but I think people dislike how he tried to slow down every single race he ran.
Nobody stopped the others from turning the races into fast races. I was furious because every time Farah was in a race the Ethiopians and Kenyans ran like a bunch of complete idiots.
lke_4:25 wrote:
xcrunner22765 wrote:
Its because he never chased fast times and turned the diamond league into a 13:05 snooze fest everytime he raced. One of the greatest championship racers in history, but I think people dislike how he tried to slow down every single race he ran.
What the hell does this even mean he literally ran 3:28 that is the 13th fastest time ever and was like 5th all time when it happened. He would have won races if they went out at an honest pace also so why does it matter.
Are you sure he didn´t figuratively ran 3,28?
SDSU Aztec wrote:
thoughts and prayers wrote:
both he and Rupp are in desperate need of a personality transplant.
they’re really hard to like regardless of how you feel about their doping associations or race style.
Very few people can win Olympic medals but everyone has a personally. Why does it matter and what do you expect? A good stand up routine?
It´s typical LRC stupidity. When people have personality and are accessible they "should spend less time on social media" and more time with training. "
Sir Mo's "quadruple double" will stand eternal and will never be beaten.
But that being said, it is sad he did not test his potential in the 5k. He would have been sub 12:45 and a top 5 all-time performer no doubt
big daddy wrote:
Sir Mo's "quadruple double" will stand eternal and will never be beaten.
But that being said, it is sad he did not test his potential in the 5k. He would have been sub 12:45 and a top 5 all-time performer no doubt
from watching him in some different races, i got the feeling that he could not endure the pain of a time trial attempt without needing it for the victory.
it really looked like he was gutting out a 7:30 performance for the 3k, and his 59-60 halfs always looked like that as well.
The way he let Bekele get away from him, and then he has this huge kick at the end. It just seems there is a deep level he is not willing to go to unless everything is lined up just right for him.
I could be way off on this. It's just a gut feeling
big daddy wrote:
Sir Mo's "quadruple double" will stand eternal and will never be beaten.
But that being said, it is sad he did not test his potential in the 5k. He would have been sub 12:45 and a top 5 all-time performer no doubt
Weak era. Doesnt count. No one cares about his quadruple double in the G League of distance running. It's like winning a D2 championship back to back to back.
Apustajan wrote:
He is the most decorated distance runner of all time and the greatest kicker the world has ever seen so why is he get no respect?
It's the same reason the Bozos on this site rank Frank Shorter as a better distance runner than Galen Rupp. Just laughable!! The Newbury Park boys have better PR's than Frank Shorter.
If you take away Rupp and Farah's association with NOP they would both get the respect they rightly deserve. Neither have E V E R tested positive for anything except records and medals.
Rupp holds like 7 American records from the two mile to the ten mile......
Frank Shorter's PR in the 3000 is 7:51......Marathon 2:10.........
So he is Noah Droddy?