Yomif Kejelcha the worst last lap runner of all time? It's probably still Stewy McSweyn.
It was warm, too warm, 77°F (25C) and the dude went out at world record pace. He just didn’t have anything left. I give him credit for going for it. He could’ve held back and probably closed fast faster, but then people would be complaining that he didn’t go with the pace lights.
This guy deserves respect, he’s continuously out there racing hard.
I agree. Incredibly gutsy runner at all distances.
Struggled BADLY at the end but that is going to happen sometimes when you go out on the edge. Happy to see him hold on.
Love Yomif, I was being somewhat tongue-in-cheek. He went for it and paid the price. He actually picked it up his last 100 by a second, which was smart to save up a bit.
The thing with Yomif is that it’s really a last 100 problem. How many medals has the guy lost because in his last 100 where he should be rarely rigging or kicking he’s dropping down to a 14+ pace?
It’s a problem many runners would love to have. He is one of just a handful at the very top of the sport. Also, still young. Let’s reassess his career in 6 or 7 years.
You say Yomif is still young, and he may well be, but he did run 7:53 twelve years ago, and 13:25 eleven years ago, and 12:53 ten years ago, so he is not really in the early stages of a running career, at least it is not likely he will be active more than another 3-4 years or so.
They are increasing their EPO levels naturally, by holding their breath for long periods of time.
The magician David Blaine had insane levels of EPO after holding his breath for 17 minutes and 4.4 seconds. His parkrun time reportedly improved from 30 minutes to 22 low.
David Blaine is a fake when it comes to holding his breath for so long, never mind other things he fakes being a magician. That’s why had to sign an NDA when working one of his shows.
Just watched the run. Willingly suspending my disbelief (It's "only" a 1.77s improvement from 2 years ago). Incredible. Massive shock on his face. Stars aligned for this magical race. Home-ish crowd. Even (wavelight) pacing until 1k with the pacemaker screaming him on to break the French NR as he stepped off. Koech threatening at 150 to go to insert adrenaline, reminding me of Jim Spivey's quote at the end of races: "What are you gonna do? Are you going to let these people come in and steal everything out of your house, or are you going to defend what’s yours?"
Looking at the 1500m all time list, the next guy who set his PR at 30yrs or older is Mo Farah. Stopped looking after Coe, who was less than a month from 30 when he set his.
Stars aligned for this magical race. Home-ish crowd. Even (wavelight) pacing until 1k with the pacemaker screaming him on to break the French NR as he stepped off. Koech threatening at 150 to go to insert adrenaline, reminding me of Jim Spivey's quote at the end of races: "What are you gonna do? Are you going to let these people come in and steal everything out of your house, or are you going to defend what’s yours?"
That is light years the best summary in the thread. Nobody else even bothered to account for the situational influence.
This race was set up for Habz. It's probably the only time in his career that will happen. They moved a non-Diamond League race into the Diamond League window for him. Every variable cooperated.
I knew it wouldn't be a normal race when Stefan Nillessen settled fairly close to the lead in a fast pace. He's never done anything like that.
Jakob has often bemoaned the lack of ideal pacing in some of his record attempts, that he'd like to have something similar to what El Gerrouj enjoyed. This is as close as we've seen to that, with the meet director screaming at the pacemaker and then the pacemaker screaming encouragement to Habz. Habz ran near the minimum distance. Those measures have been available in horse racing (trip handicapping) for decades and have finally emerged in this sport.
Coming off the final turn with 150 to go I expected Habz to flatten out. But then the key moment, just as runfrancisco described. This wasn't solo. Koech was right there. In a solo race Habz was favorite to flatten out. But you could see the determination etched on his face. The infield camera angle was perfect. He kicked again. It's the most energy and motivation he'll ever have in his athletic life.
If he ran 3:28 but lost the crowd would have been deflated and the commentators offering rationalizations. Instead Habz had his defining moment. Never a sleepless second guessing. He's not a 3:27 runner. He ran 3:27 on that day.
The other huge variable in Habz' favor is that none of the major players were present.
There is a pecking order mentality to these races. Habz didn't have to concern himself with any of that. No need to defer to anybody, or waste time and energy while paying attention to what anybody else was doing.
Stars aligned for this magical race. Home-ish crowd. Even (wavelight) pacing until 1k with the pacemaker screaming him on to break the French NR as he stepped off. Koech threatening at 150 to go to insert adrenaline, reminding me of Jim Spivey's quote at the end of races: "What are you gonna do? Are you going to let these people come in and steal everything out of your house, or are you going to defend what’s yours?"
That is light years the best summary in the thread. Nobody else even bothered to account for the situational influence.
This race was set up for Habz. It's probably the only time in his career that will happen. They moved a non-Diamond League race into the Diamond League window for him. Every variable cooperated.
I knew it wouldn't be a normal race when Stefan Nillessen settled fairly close to the lead in a fast pace. He's never done anything like that.
Jakob has often bemoaned the lack of ideal pacing in some of his record attempts, that he'd like to have something similar to what El Gerrouj enjoyed. This is as close as we've seen to that, with the meet director screaming at the pacemaker and then the pacemaker screaming encouragement to Habz. Habz ran near the minimum distance. Those measures have been available in horse racing (trip handicapping) for decades and have finally emerged in this sport.
Coming off the final turn with 150 to go I expected Habz to flatten out. But then the key moment, just as runfrancisco described. This wasn't solo. Koech was right there. In a solo race Habz was favorite to flatten out. But you could see the determination etched on his face. The infield camera angle was perfect. He kicked again. It's the most energy and motivation he'll ever have in his athletic life.
If he ran 3:28 but lost the crowd would have been deflated and the commentators offering rationalizations. Instead Habz had his defining moment. Never a sleepless second guessing. He's not a 3:27 runner. He ran 3:27 on that day.
He is by definition a 3:27 runner. has he joined the ranks of el guerrouj, ingebrigsten, lagat or morceli? no
Let me ask you Coevett. Are you playing a character here? Or are you getting bent out of shape over this nonsense? The whites cannot win everything.
chris barnes banned from sport for having sexxx with multiple female athletes he coached and using racist language againsts black dudes. coevett has dignity and honor and would never act beside himself.
The other huge variable in Habz' favor is that none of the major players were present.
There is a pecking order mentality to these races. Habz didn't have to concern himself with any of that. No need to defer to anybody, or waste time and energy while paying attention to what anybody else was doing.
He was the guy
what nonsense? mentality doesnt help you just run 2s faster. maybe 0.5 but not more. he probably took DMSO in combination with nandrolone. fast delivery to the brain and fast decay wooo
Stars aligned for this magical race. Home-ish crowd. Even (wavelight) pacing until 1k with the pacemaker screaming him on to break the French NR as he stepped off. Koech threatening at 150 to go to insert adrenaline, reminding me of Jim Spivey's quote at the end of races: "What are you gonna do? Are you going to let these people come in and steal everything out of your house, or are you going to defend what’s yours?"
That is light years the best summary in the thread. Nobody else even bothered to account for the situational influence.
This race was set up for Habz. It's probably the only time in his career that will happen. They moved a non-Diamond League race into the Diamond League window for him. Every variable cooperated.
I knew it wouldn't be a normal race when Stefan Nillessen settled fairly close to the lead in a fast pace. He's never done anything like that.
Jakob has often bemoaned the lack of ideal pacing in some of his record attempts, that he'd like to have something similar to what El Gerrouj enjoyed. This is as close as we've seen to that, with the meet director screaming at the pacemaker and then the pacemaker screaming encouragement to Habz. Habz ran near the minimum distance. Those measures have been available in horse racing (trip handicapping) for decades and have finally emerged in this sport.
Coming off the final turn with 150 to go I expected Habz to flatten out. But then the key moment, just as runfrancisco described. This wasn't solo. Koech was right there. In a solo race Habz was favorite to flatten out. But you could see the determination etched on his face. The infield camera angle was perfect. He kicked again. It's the most energy and motivation he'll ever have in his athletic life.
If he ran 3:28 but lost the crowd would have been deflated and the commentators offering rationalizations. Instead Habz had his defining moment. Never a sleepless second guessing. He's not a 3:27 runner. He ran 3:27 on that day.
so how is he different from katir? is it just his french accent? r u seduced by it? you dont like spanish accent?
on top you have an 18 year old running 327 in his second race.
i tend to take a couple years holiday from the boards, now might be a good time.
so called 18 year old from PED capital
meanwhile Letsrun brass blows it up as a phenominal race.
absolute garbage end to end
according to pundits, koech is clean as he is too young and innocent. he looks youthful so he is legit. habz is the only doper in this race. of course i admit there exist an 18 yr old hamza driouch and mo aman who were caught dopers but koech seems like the real deal.
It was warm, too warm, 77°F (25C) and the dude went out at world record pace. He just didn’t have anything left. I give him credit for going for it. He could’ve held back and probably closed fast faster, but then people would be complaining that he didn’t go with the pace lights.
This guy deserves respect, he’s continuously out there racing hard.
I agree. Incredibly gutsy runner at all distances.
Struggled BADLY at the end but that is going to happen sometimes when you go out on the edge. Happy to see him hold on.
yomif doesnt seem to be the same runner he was in 23 and 24. he is reaching the u turn point in his career it seems. 12:40 last year this time and 12:47 now. it's the end in the 5k. he better go for the 10k wr before its too late.
If the North Africans are starting to dominate again, then you know that there is a new drug out there.
Who is allowed to dominate without being accused of taking PEDS? Only the Brits?
yes only the brits, white brits especially, must be snow-white white as snow in West Virginia. It must also taste sumptuous like fair game. whites are placed on a pedastal and worshipped by the ancients for a long time. white americans are not white brits though. they are quite dirty these days.
There's nothing more common on this site than yet another hard to believe performance. What is hard to believe is why anyone is surprised.
cuz they refuse to accept the doping predicate and continue to live in alice in wonderland world of double thresholds and peak nutrition. while there may be some truth to that it doesn't offset as much time as habz might have done in the 1500m. he looked way too fresh at the end. medhi balaa was in on it too as he was all dressed to the nines like he expected to stand beside a timing board celebrating with habz. as you know balaa was the most dirty french athlete of all time when he turned violent on live tv against his french compatriot.
How do you know this? Any inside knowledge should be blasted. I don’t believe for a second that athletes from poorer countries are not doping - there is too much incentive to do so, too little to lose when they get caught. When EPO can be bought from the local pharmacy cheaply, it’s also incredibly easy to access for even the youngest and poorest. However, I think a lot - if not most - of westerners are also doing it. Despite the testing being more rigorous and drugs maybe harder to get in the west (I’m ignorant here - maybe it’s very easy, who knows?). As Salvatore Stitchmo pointed out above - imagine coming up on your late 20s/ early 30s. If you packed it up in running after giving it a go for all those years as a pro or semi-pro, you’re 10 years behind your peers in terms of career. No way you’re going to catch up career-wise; also, who wants to train up a 30 year old with no idea? No one in the office will care about your running exploits either or how hard you trained. Also, at that age - is just much harder to mould and train someone (for both employer and employee). You’d be outranked and managed by people much younger than you, even if you could find an entry-level job that would take you. So, I believe that many start out wanting to run clean, but then réalise if they want to compete and make a little money before aging out, they have to join the dark side. It is what it is.
the poorer east and north africans of the 80s and 90s would be clean. they were too poor too innocent unable to think any other gimmick than to toil the fields and sweat their loins out training like a monk. you think geb doped? he had such low IQ and low command of education that he wouldn't be able to make sense of PEDs. this was the same with el g, guy was way too dumb with words and books but man his legs were worth a billion dirham according to runnersworld.
pls look at context and timing. current poor runners from east africa are much more connected to the global internet grid. most have smartphones and apps and can see and read a lot of drugs. geb and el g didnt have a phone man.....
Didn’t he win the race today by “gapping” them? I’m really confused here.
He's also wrong by saying that Kejelcha has no kick. We saw him push Ingebrigtsen to the line in that Pre 3k where they both closed in 54 for a 7:23 race.
his kick is inconsistent which is consistent with being clean. you simply cant perform the same kick on different continents under different latitudes/longitudes different E-fields and B fields in different timezones, you just cant these days. human dna been weakened since 2000s and bekele was the last enduring dna specimen unpolluted by this world. there was none after him. cheptegei is a heap of dominos, very soft and impotent compared to bekele and geb. same with kejelcha, aregawi, barega got exacerbated with that deadly covid jab too. sighzz.....
It was warm, too warm, 77°F (25C) and the dude went out at world record pace. He just didn’t have anything left. I give him credit for going for it. He could’ve held back and probably closed fast faster, but then people would be complaining that he didn’t go with the pace lights.
This guy deserves respect, he’s continuously out there racing hard.
Love Yomif, I was being somewhat tongue-in-cheek. He went for it and paid the price. He actually picked it up his last 100 by a second, which was smart to save up a bit.
The thing with Yomif is that it’s really a last 100 problem. How many medals has the guy lost because in his last 100 where he should be rarely rigging or kicking he’s dropping down to a 14+ pace?
a good workman or good human dna dun blame the weather or tools. a good dna easily adapts to the warmer conditions subconsciously and knows how to deal with it but problem is there is no longer any such athlete with good dna like geb or bekele who can run wrs slightly warmer or cooler in their 20s.
77F is ok, it's not a disadvantage. heat is energy you need heat to make hay, make love make food and make everything. your logic is warped. Infra-red radiation is a boon to the earth so it carbon dioxide...