Hydlide wrote:
I'm okay with seeing Mo Farah get beaten.
But by a generic doped-up "20-year-old" Ethiopian? Yuck.
It's obvious that Jamaica was pressured to get off the juice. Hopefully East Africa is next. What a farce.
No one knows for sure about "doped up," but Muktar Edris is definitely not a generic 20 year old Ethiopian. Get with the times man.
Tiernan gets a lot of the credit. Mo was taken off guard and seemed not to realize that he was essentially serving as the pacer for the chase pack. Winning from the front is not his M.O.
above_average_joe wrote:
Hydlide wrote:I'm okay with seeing Mo Farah get beaten.
But by a generic doped-up "20-year-old" Ethiopian? Yuck.
It's obvious that Jamaica was pressured to get off the juice. Hopefully East Africa is next. What a farce.
what about the US? didn't they just go 1-2 on the women's steeple, setting huge PBs? Hm....
Remember when the USA altered the ages of a bunch of 27-year-olds to be "17"? Remember when a bunch of New Balance athletes tested positive? Remember how the US has no drug testing?
Nope. Cuz none of that shit happened.
Our glorious female steeplers are clean. East Africa is as dirty as a latrine.
Women's High Jump
3 L's
1. Lasitskene
2. Levchenko
3. Licwinko
That's the reason Mo couldn't have beaten Kenny/Geb, Mo can't kick for an entire 400.
1:52 last 800......DAM!
is this your interpretation? wrote:
So...do we agree with the commentators that Edris was doing the mobot "out of respect for Farah"?
Absolutely not
Mo legs were hammered after that 10k, edris was obviously more fresh ,but still great race very enjoyable.
Edris, who in addition to being dirty as all hell, should be DQ'ed for bad sportsmanship.
Kejelcha helped Edris for 300, then helped Mo against Chelimo down the straight. Chelimo pushed too hard down the backstraight, but doubt he would have got Edris.
Anyone else notice Chelimo's gesture for the camera before the race?
Kejelcha really made this loss for Mo, just as happened, I think, in Dubai last year(?), when Kejelcha enabled the defeat by going extremely hard on the penultimate lap. Tonight they went 54 seconds from 4400 to 4800, and then Kejelcha kept pushing until he was dead the last 100m, punishing Mo in trying to catch up on the backstretch, when Edris, who had been drafting and waiting then threw down the kick. Of course, Chelimo completed the box on Mo, but ultimately Kejelcha did move wide, allowing Mo to go through for silver. Team tactics, plus Chelimo, really paid off here. Chelimo did miss the tactics a bit by allowing a gap to appear and then may have pushed too hard that moment when he boxed Mo. But fantastic for him to get bronze.
Will Mo come back to race again on the track after marathon doesn't work? This race could help that happen. He "retires" from the track with bookend silvers around ten golds.
kjdalj9u9ej wrote:
Winner is 17 not 20
Wrong Ethiopian
Hydlide wrote:
Edris, who in addition to being dirty as all hell, should be DQ'ed for bad sportsmanship.
But stepping inside the track is cool..
Yesssss. Let the butthurt flow through you!
It's finally over guys. No mo' Mo!!!
Hydlide wrote:
Edris, who in addition to being dirty as all hell, should be DQ'ed for bad sportsmanship.
LOL, He should get a bonus medal!
1955 wrote:
Didn't it look like Chelimo eased up last few meters and just made sure he didn't pass Mo? Maybe he was just out of gas, maybe he was happy w/ bronze, or maybe he was showing some respect.
Pathetic that NBC didn't talk about Hill not running.
Not at all, watch again. Kind of absurd no?
xcvxcvxcvx wrote:
Kejelcha really made this loss for Mo, just as happened, I think, in Dubai last year(?), when Kejelcha enabled the defeat by going extremely hard on the penultimate lap. Tonight they went 54 seconds from 4400 to 4800, and then Kejelcha kept pushing until he was dead the last 100m, punishing Mo in trying to catch up on the backstretch, when Edris, who had been drafting and waiting then threw down the kick. Of course, Chelimo completed the box on Mo, but ultimately Kejelcha did move wide, allowing Mo to go through for silver. Team tactics, plus Chelimo, really paid off here. Chelimo did miss the tactics a bit by allowing a gap to appear and then may have pushed too hard that moment when he boxed Mo. But fantastic for him to get bronze.
Will Mo come back to race again on the track after marathon doesn't work? This race could help that happen. He "retires" from the track with bookend silvers around ten golds.
I thought he was quitting running all together.
I had a feeling about an ethiopian winning this race. With all the upsets in this meet, it seemed that Mo was vulnerable, particularly with a fast 10k in his legs. We have seen the Jamaicans and the Kenyans falter due to heightened pressure from WADA, but I haven't heard a WORD about Ethiopia facing the same crackdown. So it stands to reason that the Ethiopians would be the only ones at full strength in the distances.
Good career Mo, 12 medals and 10 Golds is amazing, and Edris Kejelcha and Barega will have burned out like all the other doper 18 year old "raw talents" we see out of ethiopia.
edris won... well deserved...
chelimo made the biggest mistake...
he started from way too far back with 400 to go
farah's mistake was letting them pass with a lap to go
what a great finish by the ethiopians woohoo!!!!
it was another boring jogfest... but an absolutely great finish
and a big part of that was the jogfest strategy backfiring on farah
Hydlide wrote:
Our glorious female steeplers are clean. East Africa is as dirty as a latrine.
lol. sure, never stop believing.
is this your interpretation? wrote:
So...do we agree with the commentators that Edris was doing the mobot "out of respect for Farah"?
Nah, he was mocking Mo. Mo deserves to be mocked, what a horrible person.