Official Rio Olympic Men's Marathon Thread

No shortcuts wrote:

norphxc wrote:

Rupp IS getting new hats at the aid stations! Saw him switch em at the 10k station.

Smart. Has a dry hat now every few miles.

If only he could have figured out a way to do that with his shoes...

I had no clue leaving gear with your bottle was legal- clever idea tho. Part of the grey area I can get behind.

And power to Meb for having a USA front and center on his hat. One place the swoosh looks like it is not front and center even if it is nike.

My feet are blistering just watching this. Wet shoes suck.

12.3km, someone (Estifanos?) opened a 3-second lead for about 200m.

Then back to the big pack

Meucci seemed to have some problems.

1531 1st 5k. 1538 2nd 5k.

RANK ATHLETE COUNTRY MARK GAP

1 Ghirmay GHEBRESLASSIE ERI 31:08 0:00

2 Alemu BEKELE BRN 31:08 0:00

3 Tewelde ESTIFANOS ERI 31:08 0:00

4 Lemi BERHANU ETH 31:09 +0:01

5 Abraham NIYONKURU BDI 31:09 +0:01

6 Tesfaye ABERA ETH 31:09 +0:01

7 Eliud KIPCHOGE KEN 31:09 +0:01

8 Suehiro ISHIKAWA JPN 31:09 +0:01

9 Cristhian PACHECO PER 31:09 +0:01

10 Jackson KIPROP UGA 31:09 +0:01

11 Myeongjun SON KOR 31:09 +0:01

12 Renxue ZHU CHN 31:09 +0:01

13 Ricardo RAMOS MEX 31:10 +0:02

14 Hakim SADI ALG 31:10 +0:02

15 Stanley Kipleting BIWOTT KEN 31:10 +0:02

16 DUOBUJIE CHN 31:10 +0:02

17 Tadesse ABRAHAM SUI 31:10 +0:02

18 Wesley KORIR KEN 31:10 +0:02

19 Abdelmajid EL HISSOUF MAR 31:10 +0:02

20 Amanuel MESEL ERI 31:10 +0:02

21 Kaan Kigen OZBILEN TUR 31:10 +0:02

22 Galen RUPP USA 31:10 +0:02

23 Lebenya NKOKA LES 31:11 +0:03

24 Evans Kiplagat BARKOWET AZE 31:11 +0:03

25 Guojian DONG CHN 31:11 +0:03

26 Satoru SASAKI JPN 31:11 +0:03

27 Isaac KORIR BRN 31:11 +0:03

28 Feyisa LILESA ETH 31:11 +0:03

29 Chol PAK PRK 31:11 +0:03

30 Munyo Solomon MUTAI UGA 31:11 +0:03

31 Raúl MACHACUAY PER 31:11 +0:03

32 Rachid KISRI MAR 31:11 +0:03

33 Saidi Juma MAKULA TAN 31:11 +0:03

34 Alphonce Felix SIMBU TAN 31:12 +0:04

35 Mumin GALA DJI 31:12 +0:04

36 Mebrahtom KEFLEZIGHI USA 31:12 +0:04

37 Abdi Hakin ULAD DEN 31:12 +0:04

38 Sibusiso NZIMA RSA 31:12 +0:04

39 Raúl PACHECO PER 31:12 +0:04

40 Stephen KIPROTICH UGA 31:13 +0:05

41 Tsepo MATHIBELLE LES 31:13 +0:05

42 Jared WARD USA 31:13 +0:05

43 Lusapho APRIL RSA 31:13 +0:05

44 Abdi NAGEEYE NED 31:13 +0:05

45 Fabiano JOSEPH TAN 31:14 +0:06

46 Bayron PIEDRA ECU 31:14 +0:06

47 Jordan CHIPANGAMA ZAM 31:14 +0:06

48 Wirimai JUWAWO ZIM 31:14 +0:06

49 Cuthbert NYASANGO ZIM 31:14 +0:06

50 Henryk SZOST POL 31:15 +0:07

51 Ruggero PERTILE ITA 31:15 +0:07

52 Mynhardt Mbeumuna KAWANIVI NAM 31:15 +0:07

53 Célestin NIHORIMBERE BDI 31:16 +0:08

54 Daniele MEUCCI ITA 31:16 +0:08

55 Guor MAKER SSD 31:16 +0:08

56 Marilson DOS SANTOS BRA 31:16 +0:08

57 Paulo Roberto PAULA BRA 31:16 +0:08

58 Ser-Od BAT-OCHIR MGL 31:16 +0:08

59 Stefano LA ROSA ITA 31:17 +0:09

60 José Amado GARCÍA GUA 31:17 +0:09

61 Lungile GONGQA RSA 31:17 +0:09

62 Sondre Nordstad MOEN NOR 31:17 +0:09

63 Koen NAERT BEL 31:17 +0:09

64 Richer PÉREZ CUB 31:17 +0:09

65 Solonei DA SILVA BRA 31:18 +0:10

66 Callum HAWKINS GBR 31:18 +0:10

67 Reid COOLSAET CAN 31:19 +0:11

68 Mohammadjafar MORADI IRI 31:19 +0:11

69 Anuradha Indrajith COORAY SRI 31:21 +0:13

70 Thanackal GOPI IND 31:21 +0:13

71 Eric GILLIS CAN 31:22 +0:14

72 Stsiapan RAHAUTSOU BLR 31:26 +0:18

73 Ihor OLEFIRENKO UKR 31:36 +0:28

74 Hisanori KITAJIMA JPN 31:36 +0:28

75 Nitendra SINGH IND 31:36 +0:28

76 Artur KOZLOWSKI POL 31:36 +0:28

77 Liam ADAMS AUS 31:36 +0:28

78 Oleksandr SITKOVSKYY UKR 31:39 +0:31

79 Tsegai TEWELDE GBR 31:40 +0:32

80 Marius IONESCU ROU 31:40 +0:32

Someone asked about the weather.

Temp was 72 at the start .Looks like it might be around 76 at the finish.

The LRC is at the finish. If Rupp wins, do you think Salazar and him will put past LRC grievances aside and do a selfie celebration like Centrowitz with them?.

Here is what Centro did last night in case you missed it:

http://www.letsrun.com/splash-page/matthew-centrowitz-wins-gold/

old walker wrote:

My feet are blistering just watching this. Wet shoes suck.

Wet cotton causes the skin to slough off.

Yea....no offense. DIving....in the middle of the Marathon coverage..sigh

Nice coverage, showing the back of the pack a lot. That's where the race is happening at the moment.

Tireman44 wrote:

Yea....no offense. DIving....in the middle of the Marathon coverage..sigh

There's absolutely nothing happening in the race, so why not.

Outlaw wrote:

Good coverage on nbc sports app via Apple TV. British commentary. No commercials.

That said, all 3 Americans look great. Gotta be a confidence booster for each of them.

Still think Meb will be top 5.

Ummm. Those commentators aren't british. I think one is definitely from Australia or something. anyone know the names of the guys on the international IOC feed?

5:30 am argh wrote:

SlowFatMaster wrote:

Will cooler heads prevail?

I think ice would be a mistake at this point.

Strange if he's really changing hats, but dry hats would make sense.

Ice would be a mistake??? Huh It's a friggin marathon, mid 70's temps, humidity in the 90's and running in wet shoes does suck, esp. for over 2 hours

Kipchoge was that a move or was he getting out front out of trouble? He turned and said something with a hand signal either to Rupp or the ethiopian. Bizarre.

Not with nylon socks wrote:

old walker wrote:

My feet are blistering just watching this. Wet shoes suck.

Wet cotton causes the skin to slough off.

True. But still, with shoes getting stretched out and slopping around, it can get ugly even with proper socks. Plus skin soaking up water and wrinkling. As I say, wet shoes suck.

kiprop has incredible range

Was that legal, the one runner running on the grass? Or will he be DQed?

I guess...anything can happen during the race, but I see your point

Think Kipchoge stepped up the pace so he didn't need to be in a bunch when they were doing the turnaround and for no other reason. Back with the pack now.

5k @ 15:31

10k @ 31:08

15k @ 46:53, kipchoge #1, Rupp #5

still a big lead pack (40 or 50) but the secondary pack is dropped way back

turns before 10k and 15k tended to string it out more than it really is