The Kernyan OG Marathon Squad revealed

Querfeldein wrote:

London, in the middle of August *and* with an 11:00 am start (to great protest from athletes when it was announced) has every chance of being at least as hot as Boston this year.

Women 5th August, Men 12th August. For temps see previous post.

NO Edna Kiplagat was the favorite last year and lived up to the name winning in fine style. Yes the favorite will win.

orbitboy wrote:

Look how many Kenyans have disappeared as quickly as they arrived. Duncan Kibet, Kwambai, and of course Wanjiru is dead.

Kwambai ran 2:06:03 in Seoul in March. He has not disappeared.

runasfastasucanforaslongasucan wrote:

I would have hated to be on the board that decided this team.

I would have loved it. My bank account would have too. When in doubt always look for the bigger contribution from Nike over Adidas.

Fred Savage wrote:

Who are the Keryans?

Thank you for bringing us back to the core issue here.

No BS for you cutting right to the heart of the matter.

Thanks for getting us back on track.

BTW-Did you play Remo Williams or was that Fred Ward I always get you two mixed up.

I think they did a great job choosing Mosop. In Rotterdam, he never gave up and was closing on the leaders in the final miles despite having a bad day and did so off of a furious pace. He clearly had his eye on the world record, but his time was still stellar. He won Chicago. The selectors have every reason to believe he is more fit and consistent than Mutai and Makau. He is definitely capable of a gold, and proved in Rotterdam that he will run a smart race in London and fight for every last position even on a bad day. Remember that he was not 100% in Chicago. I vote Mosop "most likely to medal" among the Kenyans.

mosop is average runner at best. his times are mediocker and he still hasn't run 2:02 like he promised; he might medal in the olympics but i hope not.

You guys are lookin WAY WAY to deep into this. This is Kenya after all, they got payed off in chickens and goats or consulted some sheep entrails or something.

Hahahaha

Kenya is being criticize for having too many good runners. The only country that will compete with the Kenyans are the Ethiopians, most of the people in here are acting like Kenya is done. Kenyans don't care who is picked for the team, foreigners are the ones freaking out.

Runthedistance wrote:

Kenya is being criticize for having too many good runners. The only country that will compete with the Kenyans are the Ethiopians, most of the people in here are acting like Kenya is done. Kenyans don't care who is picked for the team, foreigners are the ones freaking out.

Foreigners are freaking out? I'm given to understand by your post that you are from Kenya and have been selected as a spokesperson of sorts, and can handily assert that Kenyans don't care who is selected for the Olympic team, except for those people living in Kenya but not having Kenyan citizenship, who for some unexplained reason are "freaking out".

Oh, and Kenya is done. Done selecting its Olympic team that is. Is that what you mean by everyone here acting like Kenya is done? Because Athletics Kenya has officially stated it, so we (naively?) took it to be a fact.

It seems as though AK set up a trials for six runners. They then took the top three from that trials event, which was actually spread across multiple races. Based on the results at hand, it really does seem like they picked the logical three given that they said the results among the six in spring races would be used to select the team. It may be a little odd that they didn't make the trials more inclusive by leaving the door open to consider Martin Lel. Imagine if we announced that only six runners were going to be invited to the trials race. That would be a bit crazy, and in our case it is realistic that perhaps only six are realistic contenders...though we could probably argue for more like a dozen. But in Kenya there is truly the potential for hundreds of realistic contenders...or at least dozens...and they limited it to six. Of those six, they picked the three best trials performances. Very limited, but it does seem fairly straightforward to me.

Am I the only one who thinks that these three guys won't actually be the ones to toe the line in London?

Link wrote:

Am I the only one who thinks that these three guys won't actually be the ones to toe the line in London?

Probably, unless you can convince us why we should also think that.

The deal is not only done but sealed unless someone gets an injury thus bringing in Makau and the Mutais.

Runthedistance wrote:

Kenya is being criticize...foreigners are the ones freaking out.

I think Kenyan selectors and athletes are smarter than the average johnny foreigner gives them credit for.

It'll be a gun runner on the day with two pacemakers, Olympics are rarely about pure speed given the temps often. This is about team warfare and attrition, and launching the final assault by the best of the three.

david okeyo wrote:

London 2008, April 13 - Beijing 2008, August 24:

133 Days -- or -- 19 Weeks and 0 Days

Lel 2h05'15" -- 2h10'24" (5th)

Wanjiru 2h05'24" -- 2h06'32" OR

Hall 2h06'17" -- 2h12'33" (11th)

Gharib didnt run London 2008, that was Goumri.

Dubai 2012, January 27 - London 2012, April 22:

86 Days -- or -- 12 Weeks and 2 Days

London 2012, April 22 - Olympic Marathon 2012, August 12:

112 Days -- or -- 16 Weeks and 0 Days

119 days for Mosop (Rotterdam)

hmmmmm