OFFICIAL 2014 Paris Diamond League Discussion Thread

Looking forward to the last half of he season.

Dennis Reynolds 2.0 wrote:

Sure glad Rupp ditched a national championship for this bullsh*t.

You do realize that Rupp won the 10000 title, right?

No kick from Rupp. Looked like poop at the end of the race.

True got absolutely obliterated as I predicted he would. Sad.

A Duck wrote:

Looking forward to the last half of he season.

If you don't have anything snarky to say, then don't say anything at all.

Well, that was disappointing.

Typical. You could see that Rupp did not get into position behind the pacers early on and then the Ethiopians who got ahead of him slowed down and let the pacers go even well before that too slow first k in 2:36.5 (13:02.5 pace). Just very frustrating to watch these guys pull the same laziness every single race when they are paid a lot to put down a fast one, but they are all afraid to just follow the pacers and go for a fantastic time. That might get in the way of their running another meet every two or three days.

Great kick by Soi.

In hindsight Rupp maybe should have just gone with the rabbits. That would have forced the pace to be honest. The rabbits did their job, the field didn't go with them.

Either that or his best bet to beat the record is to have Alberto set up a time trial type deal at Stanford. In a real race like this, it is difficult.

That was awful. Ben True and that other dude could run as fast at Stanford in May without the professional pacemakers and incentives the diamond league offers.

I think the rabbits did that on purpose. They don't want to make it a race that Rupp can win. They were 11 seconds off the requested pace at 3000m. ELEVEN seconds. There's no way they can be that far off unless they're actually trying to be.

Dennis Reynolds 2.0,

Rupp won the 10k at USATF nationals, Ben True didn't even compete and yet you pick on Rupp? What's up with that?

jjjjjjjjj wrote:

Typical. You could see that Rupp did not get into position behind the pacers early on and then the Ethiopians who got ahead of him slowed down and let the pacers go even well before that too slow first k in 2:36.5 (13:02.5 pace). Just very frustrating to watch these guys pull the same laziness every single race when they are paid a lot to put down a fast one, but they are all afraid to just follow the pacers and go for a fantastic time. That might get in the way of their running another meet every two or three days.

Exactly. This race was boring as piss. Why can't they just follow the pacers?

Anymore distance events coming up?

wejo wrote:

Great kick by Soi.

In hindsight Rupp maybe should have just gone with the rabbits. That would have forced the pace to be honest. The rabbits did their job, the field didn't go with them.

Either that or his best bet to beat the record is to have Alberto set up a time trial type deal at Stanford. In a real race like this, it is difficult.

Did you even watch the race??? 2:36 each k

JV boy True had no business out there today. Time to go back to the Maine clam races.

Horrible wrote:

That was awful. Ben True and that other dude could run as fast at Stanford in May without the professional pacemakers and incentives the diamond league offers.

13:02 in a perfectly paced race with perfect weather is different than a real race.

True should have run nationals IMO.

Final

Pl. Athlete Nat. Birth Result

1. Edwin Cheruiyot SOI KEN 86 12:59.82

2. Yenew ALAMIREW ETH 90 13:00.21

3. Paul Kipngetich TANUI KEN 90 13:00.53

4. Galen RUPP USA 86 13:00.99

5. Thomas Pkemei LONGOSIWA KEN 88 13:01.74

6. Lawi LALANG KEN 91 13:03.85

7. Caleb Mwangangi NDIKU KEN 92 13:08.47

8. Muktar EDRIS ETH 94 13:09.08

9. Ibrahim JEILAN ETH 89 13:09.67

10. Imane MERGA ETH 88 13:11.94

11. Ben TRUE USA 85 13:13.30

12. Hagos GEBRHIWET ETH 94 13:20.17

13. Arne GABIUS GER 81 13:25.50

14. Birhanu LEGESE ETH 94 13:33.53

- Jonathan Muia NDIKU KEN 91 DNF

- Cornelius KANGOGO KEN 93 DNF

- Geoffrey Kipkoech RONO KEN 87 DNF

- Bouabdellah TAHRI FRA 78 DNF

So is Saladbar gonna throw a fit kicking and screaming because the pacers and racers apparently ganged up to prevent Ruppy from running fast.

NBC sucks wrote:

You do realize that Rupp won the 10000 title, right?

How can your reading be so bad?

Rupp looked good but with 200 to go, he let himself get passed probably thinking he could come back. Then he lost a step and too much of a gap open to come back from.

Rupp was planning on swinging into lane 4 but the hurdles got in the way!!!