This thread was initially titled, "Bekele is 41 and ran 2:04" but we merged a bunch of Bekele related threads into 1 and did a hybrid title. The others were called, "IT'S BEKELEMANIA!!!!! and "41 year old Kenenisa Bekele is several minutes faster than the fastest American marathoner" and "New Masters WR for Bekele"
Lol. World cross titles. Is this more or less of a caliber than the world champs mile that Kessler won?
Back in the day world cross meant something, he repeatedly beat guys like Kipchoge and Zersenay Tadese. If that's not enough, 5 world championship golds, 3 Olympic golds, 12:37 5k and 26:17 10k sans wavelight or supershoes plus a 25 year international running career all add up to a resume no one else has. I doubt any sub 3:32 or 7:25 runner has as extensive of a resume
Only 4 Countries have Runners that have run faster than K. Bekele ran Sunday. Kenya, Ethiopia, Turkey has 1 (Born and raised in Kenya) and Belgium (I think was born in Somalia) either way (If he was born in Belgium or Somalia) Bashir Abdi is the only Man faster tha K. Bekel's Masters World Record not from Kenya or Ethiopia
Only 4 Countries have Runners that have run faster than K. Bekele ran Sunday. Kenya, Ethiopia, Turkey has 1 (Born and raised in Kenya) and Belgium (I think was born in Somalia) either way (If he was born in Belgium or Somalia) Bashir Abdi is the only Man faster tha K. Bekel's Masters World Record not from Kenya or Ethiopia
Also wanted to add, correct me if I'm wrong but Gabriel Geay from Tanzania has run 2:03 so that would make it 5? Still an incredible achievement from Kenenisa to have runners only from a single digit numbers of countries to run faster than him at 41
Only 4 Countries have Runners that have abused EPO enough to have run faster than K. Bekele ran Sunday. Kenya, Ethiopia, Turkey has 1 (Born and raised in Kenya) and Belgium (I think was born in Somalia) either way (If he was born in Belgium or Somalia) Bashir Abdi is the only Man faster tha K.
Lol. World cross titles. Is this more or less of a caliber than the world champs mile that Kessler won?
Back in the day world cross meant something, he repeatedly beat guys like Kipchoge and Zersenay Tadese. If that's not enough, 5 world championship golds, 3 Olympic golds, 12:37 5k and 26:17 10k sans wavelight or supershoes plus a 25 year international running career all add up to a resume no one else has. I doubt any sub 3:32 or 7:25 runner has as extensive of a resume
Notably, the list above only includes competitors in the 2002 and 2003 long and short races. Stellar athletes such as Kipketer, Abdullah (Chepkirui), Goumri, Mekkonen, Mottram, and Abdi didn’t even make the list
Later victims include Kipchoge, Cherono (Shaheen), Mottram, Chebii, Songok, Mathathi, Choge, Soi, Komon, Ebuya, and Masai.
Bekele = GOAT no one else is even in the discussion.
Lol. A guy that hasn't even gone under 3:32 and 7:25??
he ran maybe two 1,500m? no world record in the 3,000m but he destroyed everyone he raced. Also, All his faster 3,000m were horribly paced... so don't think his PR shows what he was really capable of
Bekele's performance is extremely impressive, but he has a long way to go to before he tops Kipchoge's 50+ record of 2:01:09.
Bekele has once again proven that he is the GOAT. People like to call Jakob the GOAT, but Bekele's international career has literally been as long as Jakob's life. Bekele destroyed the fukk out of the field in the World Junior XC race by 33 seconds when Jakob was probably only learning to crawl. Now he has run a time faster then any non African is capable of at 41. 2 master's WRs now. I'm sure he will get another. It has been 4 hard years since his WR in Berlin, but today he is still only 2:38 slower after going out at a pace that would of been considered suicidal and impossible 5 years ago without literally exploding. This would of been a WR 16 years ago, but the opening half of his race today was over a minute faster then the opening half of the WR back then. Also being only 20 seconds back at half way today is not that much. I can't wait to see Bekele run another master's WR next year
Totally agree. Nonsense to speak of Jakob in that contention. He is a baby beside King Kenni!!!
All hail Bekele... Funny that I wrote I hoped he would make something magical and was downvoted in another thread and people called for a DNF. Guess I am the one laughing now.
My man definitely has some white/gray around the temples!
It's ok. He has really lived a life. GOAT in track and cross-country. So many bouts of brilliance in the marathon. Emotionally captivating and unpredictable. A businessman and family guy who's uplifted his community. Someone who likes ice cream. Kudos to the great Kenenisa.
Kenenisa Bekele a literally 41 year old man with white hairs ran 2:04:19
-with his race experience realized the early pace was waaaay too hot. The leaders including Chep hit half in 60:35, or 2:01:10 pace which was completely absurd. Kenny drifted back for a slightly more reasonable 60:58 ensuring he would clean up in the coming carnage
-scalped the young guns Cheptegei, Kandie, Geay, Do Nascimiento
-he did this under new sponsorship with Chinese supershoes lmao
-retains his Ethiopian national record of 2:01:41 as Lemma dripped all of his lead away
-takes back the masters WR by a huge chunk and first sub-2:05 over age 40
-still faster than any American has EVER run
This is sure to keep his fire burning into the Olympic year at least. As always, you doubt Bekele at your own peril.
Terrific result but won't break 2.04. May not get another flat course with great weather before father time coasts past him around the 25 mile mark, metaphorically speaking.
This is useful for people trying to understand why Bekele at 41 is running 2:04 out of environmentally utopic Ethiopian Highlands in addition to super shoe technology.
If you get to know my mind and pick my brain personally, you would understand there is no such thing as 'miracle' on this earth. There is a reason for EVERYTHING, there is no violation in the laws of Physics. You are what you eat, you reap what you sow, your mind is what you radiate it with.
There is no 'magic'. Magic and miracles are words of illusion used to sensationalize breath-taking events in space and time. Go ask a magician how he does all his magic tricks duh! It's so simple, he manipulates the order of space and time in order to provoke in your mind the 'impossible' which isn't!
Yes I'm in love with Kenenisa Bekele for sure otherwise I wouldn't be posting on this thread! I love him because of how I know so well (so telepathically/conscientiously) that he is so angelically clean from drugs.
Btw, bekele boi shouldn't look down on chinese supershoes? China is a bigger superpower than America right now except human rights. The chinese probably have a way to infuse more bounce into their shoes which propelled Bekele to his 2:04.
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