Hassan is often photographed with both feet off the ground when sprinting on the bell lap. She widens her shoulders and runs with a long, open stride, which seems to allow her to generate more power, maintain a higher level of speed, and glide off the ground for longer periods of time.
Hassan is a masculine awful kicker, no one smart cares about Hassan.
Hassan is often photographed with both feet off the ground when sprinting on the bell lap. She widens her shoulders and runs with a long, open stride, which seems to allow her to generate more power, maintain a higher level of speed, and glide off the ground for longer periods of time.
Hassan is a masculine awful kicker, no one smart cares about Hassan.
❤️ Gudaf Tsegay ❤️ Tigst Assefa ❤️
Another nonsensical and nonsensical rant from a feeble-minded geezer. Chalk one up for those who believe it's OK to be false and offensive and create harmful stereotypes and posts that have no basis in evidence.
She's certainly in the debate for most suspicious in history. Bronze 1500 then 2nd fastest marathon ever within a couple months. Oh yeah she's been sauced up big time for a while.
Since WADA has included running with bodybuilding, weightlifting and cycling for risk of doping, a debate about who is the best woman distance runner is little different from deciding who should be top of the podium in those other sports when we know how they got there.
"In 1962 Rudolph retired from competition at the peak of her athletic career as the world record-holder in the 100- and 200-meter individual events and the 4 × 100-meter relays."
"In 1962 Rudolph retired from competition at the peak of her athletic career as the world record-holder in the 100- and 200-meter individual events and the 4 × 100-meter relays."
From Wikipedia:
"Rudolph retired from track competition at the age of twenty-two, following victories in the 100-meter and 4 x 100-meter-relay races at the U.S.–Soviet meet at Stanford University in 1962."
At least Sifan Hassan can be proud to have an ancestral name from a language with 17 centuries of history.
Not like these runners like Beatrix or Kelvin Kiptum adopting colonial British names.
Kelvin is a masculine given name, ultimately derived from the title of William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, who received a baronage named for the River Kelvin (the river flowing past the University of Glasgow) in 1892.
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With that being said, I do think Hassan needs a few more championship golds to cement status as distance GOAT.
That is the thing that was clearly on display this year if we didn't get it at the olympics. Hassan doesn't care to just win another gold been there done that.. She would rather win all of them. That attitude alone makes her the goat.
Being happy to lose championships makes her the GOAT? Hilarious.
I think Kipyegon is probably the GOAT, but Hassan is the most versatile of all time. Hassan would've helped her cause had she not resorted to bush-league tactics against Tsegay in the Budapest 10,000m final. You can't be the GOAT if in your chosen events there's none where you'd be definitively favored to win:
1500: Kipyegon & Welteji 5000: Kipyegon & Tsegay 10000: Tsegay Marathon: Assefa (though maybe some would pick Hassan)
She's the GOAT of being decent across multiple distances. I'd be more impressed if she picked one and dominated.
As other posters have said, loses too often to be the GOAT. Range is a bonus if you have the performances.
Decent? She's phenomenal from 1500-marathon, and she's delivered more jaw dropping performances than any distance runner, ever. Win/loss records are fine for casual spectators who don't follow the sport closely. Anyone who does can see Sifan is the best all-around runner. And as an aside, is there really a difference between "range" and "talent"? To me, the two seem interchangeable. Sifan is top 2 at all distances because she's the best runner. Similar to how someone massively more talented than me would be faster at all distances. Could I potentially eclipse a much better runner at a single distance that isn't their best? Sure. But the reason they're better across all the others is because they're simply a better runner. Same applies to Hassan v. the field. I'd argue that she is the single greatest talent, male or female, in distance running history; the way that talent is manifested is her "range".
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I think Kipyegon is probably the GOAT, but Hassan is the most versatile of all time. Hassan would've helped her cause had she not resorted to bush-league tactics against Tsegay in the Budapest 10,000m final. You can't be the GOAT if in your chosen events there's none where you'd be definitively favored to win:
1500: Kipyegon & Welteji 5000: Kipyegon & Tsegay 10000: Tsegay Marathon: Assefa (though maybe some would pick Hassan)
Sifan wasn't in her best shape in Budapest, but she was close. 2019-2021 Hassan would have dominated Tsegay in the last 400m. And 2021 Hassan would have arguably won the women's 5000 over Kipyegon this year. Never in my life have I seen more easy speed than Sifan in 2021. She ran 57.3 to close a faster 5k than the one in Budapest, in brutal conditions, with no one remotely close to her, and looked completely fine and fresh at the end. Kipyegon closed this year's 5000 in 56.6 giving everything she had. Impressive? Yes. But there's no reason to think Hassan at her best couldn't have done the same or better. Hassan herself closed that race in 56.7 despite being in worse shape than she was in Tokyo. As for Welteji at 1500, Sifan closed faster than her, she was just badly out of position at the bell.
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I think Kipyegon is probably the GOAT, but Hassan is the most versatile of all time. Hassan would've helped her cause had she not resorted to bush-league tactics against Tsegay in the Budapest 10,000m final. You can't be the GOAT if in your chosen events there's none where you'd be definitively favored to win:
1500: Kipyegon & Welteji 5000: Kipyegon & Tsegay 10000: Tsegay Marathon: Assefa (though maybe some would pick Hassan)
You are correctly handicapping Hassan v her competition in 2023, but we are assessing her career, not just 2023. In 2019 she would have been favored in every event 1500-10000, so was she the Goat in 2019? Anyway, these debates are fun, but in the end, just splitting hairs. For me, having a 1500 world champion and recent 1500 global medalist be simultaneously 2-0 in consecutive world marathon majors against people felt to be all time greats at the marathon, having just run the 2nd fastest time ever, carries the day. Of course, maybe sometime soon Kipyegon will go out and run 2:10…..
While Faith Kipyegon will surpass her achievements while Gudaf Tsegay is the runner who races by far most beautifully of all women!
The bigger question is, why never an American? Yes, we all know about the different ways of living, but come on! Can't we gain some ground? It sure doesn't look it.
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