haha wrote:
Get off the track Brits. You didn't win.
Yeah, no big deal, there must be hundreds of american women that could have run faster...
7 1871 Joanne Pavey GBR 30:53.20 (PB)
8 1849 Julia Bleasdale GBR 30:55.63 (PB)
Great run for Dibaba.
Surely they will put her on the 5000m team, although it seems that she needed Kidane to keep the pace fast enough, so perhaps she still isn't 100%.
96; 00 started the one off final me thinks.
argt wrote:
When was the last time the WC or OG had HEATS and final for the 10,000m? Anyone know?
No sugar coating wrote:
PRs or not, pretty weak showing for the good ol' USA. Hopefully the men won't be equally as embarrassing in the 10K.
Well, if the American men PR by only half as much, I think their performances won't be too embarrassing...
Congrats to the American women for their lifetime bests!
I think Uhl has a bright future. I think one day's she'll take down Flanagan's American 10K record.
Ah ever heard of MOLLY HUDDLE??
Adam C wrote:
I think Uhl has a bright future. I think one day's she'll take down Flanagan's American 10K record.
9th-placer Hitomi Niiya's 30:59.19 after leading most of the first half puts her at all-time Japanese #3. She & Fukushi ran a 3:06 first km, so almost even pacing.
BBC showed a lot of Miruts Yifter dancing at the finish. Memories of how it was 32 years ago
Molly Huddle? I think I've heard of her. and you point is? ;-)
i said it from the start. It is ridiclous to compare the healthy dibaba and vivian. Vivan is good tirunesh is God.
Dibaba i am proud of you that i am ethiopian.
Bring us the 5000 m gold
Hasta la vista NBC wrote:
BBC showed a lot of Miruts Yifter dancing at the finish. Memories of how it was 32 years ago
Yifter was very fortunate that he didn't have to face the clearly superior Henry Rono 32 years ago.
i am so heartbroken kidane did not medal after doing most of the work just like 2004, i hope that she does not get discouraged and quit running, in my mind with all her world xc medals she is a great runner.
NBC said Dibaba was left off the 5K team so this was her only race. If true not too bright.
do not worry she will compete and the gold belong to ethiopia
Isn't Dibaba the current 5K world record holder and the defending Olympic 5K champ? And they left her off the team? Ok?
Watched the race live on BBC.com. Dibaba ran 30:20.76 crushed Sally Kipyego and Vivian Cheruiyot over the last 500m. She won by 6 sec. Total dominance.
Precious Roy wrote:
Will Kenyans be miffed that there top womens 10k runner, Sally Kipyego, came up through the US college system? Or will they say that is why she did not win gold?
Nonsense.
Sammy Wanjuri trained in Japan.
she's in the 5K....she was listed as alternate, but she's in is the word
haha wrote:
Get off the track Brits. You didn't win.
Oh, the burn! Warranted, but still.
Fionnuala Britton 31:46.71. So sad that she faded after having spent the first 10min right up there with the Japanese gals. Her face was hard to see on the race footage, having the Japanese girls ahead of her, but now and then you could just catch a glimpse of her, eyes downward cast, features set in that concentrated look of hers that evokes that austere, wistful sort of beauty as only an Irishwoman can. Hope she does better in Rio, she's guts personified.
I like Nick Symmonds tweet.
https://twitter.com/NickSymmonds/status/231490610064936962
I think it's important to mention that if I were running in this women's 10k I would finish last. That is if I could finish at all! 10k>800m