Jimmy MF Gressier SHOCKS the world in the 10k - Americans are SHUT OUT of the medals.

Racist dude out of his mind because an African didn’t win. Very telling.

Gressier showed up to race against the best 10,000 meter runners in the world in the only race this year that mattered to everyone in the field. They all wanted to win, they all prepared their season with this race in mind, no excuses. And he beat everyone. It doesn’t matter if it was fast or slow. Doesn’t matter that he won on a last-lap sprint among 10 runners, and that any one of them could have won. It doesn’t matter that he might finish 30 seconds behind in an aggressively rabbited race at Hengelo. It doesn’t matter that Cheptegei and Kiplimo weren’t there, or that he wouldn’t have beaten Bekele or Mo at their best. HE won. They didn’t. All respect to Gressier.

With some solid retroactive testing and subsequent busts, we could still see a few Americans on the podium ...

Dumbest event in athletics…

The only thing that would have made the coverage worse would have been to broadcast the entire race

I recently posted a "whine" about the Race Walk and pointed out the Cross Country was way more popular and should be an Olympic / World event. Someone responded that that would rob our 5K and 10K teams of it"s depth. After I watched this 10K, isn't it true that you would never see a lame ass jog event in Cross Country????

Would runners jog a Cross Country course and then sprint the last 400m?? Ugh. The 10K was insulting.

Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but I respectfully disagree. Yes, it was slow, and decided on the last lap. Everyone employed the strategy they thought would work best to get them the win - or a medal. Three of them were right, the others were wrong. Which is always how it works. How is it any difference than sprints in track cycling, where the person who makes the first move usually loses? The strategy is to induce the other guy to make that first move.

As for cross-country, true, we probably wouldn't see something like this. The field at World XC is a lot bigger and that slow a pace would leave way too many people in contention if a 400m sprint would resolve it. Plus you have the team format, where there's a lot of incentive to put distance between your team and the others.

I'd love an Olympic XC event (do it in Week 1) for visibility but on the few occasions I've heard any official discuss it, they have proposed a far smaller and less ambitious setup than you have at World XC. I'd much rather see that made a much bigger - and can't miss - event.

not really, well podium at least for some

this guy was hot in the last while

sure fisher and nico figured well, but in no way were they on another level

and the race in the heat figured to be slow,

where the best 3k guy wins

that is, if his A game is there

not the best day at the office, thats all she wrote

no need for conspiracy theories

I would have thought the feed was on half-speed.

It's every man for himself. Capitalism has finally smothered all of Africa that these runners can't think of anything but their own bonuses. Remember they were employing the exact same tactics against Mo Farah and i can't deny it gives me great satisfaction to see best in the field run out of the medals because of their selfish stupidity.

Why do you all act like Cheptegei did not win the last three times, did not win in the 2024 Olympics and like Barega did not win in Tokyo 2021?

For once Africa did not win. And yes, Farah is basically african, somali born.

i like that grant had nothing to give despite only running 29 flat. That's slower than xc timings and he couldn't even summon one kick. 57.8s last lap? He kicked faster than that in his indoors 12:44 and 7:22. it goes to show that the damage caused by the peds is finally rearing it's ugly head. he looks like he is suffering mild parkinson's in the last 100m. his legs and arms just gave up on him despite not running anywhere near wr pace. this is his punishment and more to come in the 5k.

he is the accused in this scenario, accused of peds and suffering consequences now 1-2 years since ped uptake. his blood is up in arms against damage to his internals.

berihu aregawi is another mystery. don't know why he ran so bad but grant ran much better than him despite him being the better runner. and we know berihu is clean so grant must be dirty.

not interested if his time is slower than kiplimo's 28:07 xc winning time in montenegro. that's fked up. gault's opinion was that he didn't find gressier's win all that impressive. it was hotter in montenegro as racetime was 12 noonand sun overhead blasting kiplimo and he had to navigate more than a dozen obstacles in 10km hills, mud, zig zags, hurdles, sharp turns. 28:55 is an injustice to the great ancestry of 10000m running.

worst performance ensued with grant fisher the indoor 3/5k record holder and olympic bronze medallist and microdosing could not live up to his billing. he disgraced himself in the final 100m running like he had a handicap on his right leg.

Can someone explain to me why Grant Fisher smiled when they were jogging at the beginning of the race?

He had that arrogant smile like if he was thinking he was going to win no matter what and at the end he did not even medals and faded away in the final.

The race's finish was almost a replay of the recent Diamond League 3000m where Gressier outsprinted Almgren and Fisher in the last 80m. Maybe the World Champs result was not all that surprising in the end given that it boiled down to a last 100m sprint and Gressier might be the man in form over that type of race.

historically the worst fking 10000m performance of all time. GOAT of fked up 10000m running that is. you got countless tech aids, peds, temperature only 27 centigrade which is cool enough to run under 27min and we are treated to such fked up standards in the 10000m? all thelineup of runners need to go back home and check themselves like why the fk are they slipping up in standards so drastically. why is kejelcha, aregawi, grant fisher and nicole young looking dead exhausted despite closing in no faster than a tame 56-57 seconds and a finishing time of 29min flat?

is it so fking hard to run a 56 last lap in a 29min race in 27 centigrade weather in cheat shoes and a bouncy track? we fans pay for better standards and we must be harsh on all these wussy whiners and encourage them to look at the history of 10000m running. khalid skah, paul tanui, biden karoki, martin marthati, micah kogo, bekele, haile, tergat, charles kanathi, zersenay tadesse, thomas nyariki. these guys were running much faster in championships unaided in those days. they didnt need air conditioning to do it too. today's east africans are all fked up and need air con to be their excuse for failure.

aregawi is so fked up. the only other reason i could think of for the shocking standards in distance running in japan is that of directed energy weapons. this is the only frontier on its own capable of producing the retarded performance effects we see in the distance events. japan tokyo is location of one of the highest rates of directed energy use.

Another "clown" runner, fruit of Coe era and he can congratulate himself for making progress in the sport, particularly for impoverishing the poor and making the rich even richer.

yup, but it's not only grant fisher, across the board all the athletes fked up big time. unforgivable performances, a crime, and because everybody ran so badly my conclusion is that there is and must be an external trigger source that affected all the athletes together since they are all humans. that trigger i believe is directed energy attacks coming from civilian cell phone infrastructure. im not saying this to be a smartass but im truly horrified at the retardation of the athlete's physical ability in the tokyo 10k. the 1500m heats were similarly very slow and the athletes seem to have same troubles finding their legs. that is a telltale sign of external directected attacks.