Writeup of some of his top comments from his appearance on the LRC podcast:
https://www.letsrun.com/news/2020/08/paul-chelimos-rise-to-the-top-im-willing-to-die-in-a-race/
Writeup of some of his top comments from his appearance on the LRC podcast:
https://www.letsrun.com/news/2020/08/paul-chelimos-rise-to-the-top-im-willing-to-die-in-a-race/
Didn't Yuki Kawauchi say the same thing
Yeah dying doing something you love is the dream. Unless it is the Olympics, then I would want to finish the race first. I am so happy they are adding cross country to the Olympics!
LetsRun.com wrote:
Writeup of some of his top comments from his appearance on the LRC podcast:
https://www.letsrun.com/news/2020/08/paul-chelimos-rise-to-the-top-im-willing-to-die-in-a-race/
Give me a break. Goes out hard, then complains that no one takes over the lead. More bluster. More lies. Expected from Chelimo these days.
prevarications wrote:
LetsRun.com wrote:
Writeup of some of his top comments from his appearance on the LRC podcast:
https://www.letsrun.com/news/2020/08/paul-chelimos-rise-to-the-top-im-willing-to-die-in-a-race/Give me a break. Goes out hard, then complains that no one takes over the lead. More bluster. More lies. Expected from Chelimo these days.
Ohhh why did you have to bring up that race, I tried so hard to wipe that out of my brain forever.
Paul Chelimo has a special gift for saying ridiculous things that make for good headlines. I think we would have learned that by now.
Paul Chelimo is pretty overdramatic and overly sensitive. He's the men's T&F equivalent of 20 year olds posting Live Laugh Love and Love Ferociously on IG.
Except he as Olympic and WC medals. Still our best chance in the men's distance events by far.
I'm sure his family loves this sentiment. But seriously, like this guy and despite some of his questionable race tactics, love his winning ways!
It's a really easy thing to say when there is statistically about a 0% chance of him dying in a 5k or 10k track race, barring some freak event or pre-existing condition.
Paul Chelimo! is great for the sport.
He is the equivalent of a great boxer. A showman. A Floyd Mayweather Jr.
He is what track and field needs. Someone who is interesting.
Talk that shoot Paul Chelimo! Don't listen to those that don't like you.
shootpost wrote:
Paul Chelimo! is great for the sport.
He is the equivalent of a great boxer. A showman. A Floyd Mayweather Jr.
He is what track and field needs. Someone who is interesting.
Talk that shoot Paul Chelimo! Don't listen to those that don't like you.
^100% agree. Guy mixes it up on the track (didn't bow down to Farah), and then has fun off of it (celebrating C. Kipruto steeple win, trash-talking Lomong). I would cringe if he felt forced, but he doesn't. He's just an entertaining guy.
Man I hope Lomong and True wipe the floor with this guy (maybe even Derrick will come back to the 10k since he’s got a year to get fit for it)
Beavus wrote:
Man I hope Lomong and True wipe the floor with this guy (maybe even Derrick will come back to the 10k since he’s got a year to get fit for it)
See its good for the sport. Creates rivalries. Will be a very interesting race to watch indeed.
I am personally rooting for Paul Chelimo!
Beavus wrote:
Man I hope Lomong and True wipe the floor with this guy (maybe even Derrick will come back to the 10k since he’s got a year to get fit for it)
Can you really imagine Chris Derrick crossing the finish line of any race, of any distance, before Paul Chelimo, at any point from now to infinity?
Go hard unless they go with you
Meh. The "I am going to give it everything" attitude isn't really what it takes to win. Seems like the top guys have a different mentality. Like Robert Cheriuyot's line “When the lion is chasing the antelope, he doesn’t look back. He has to eat.” Or Pre's line that you are going to have to bleed if you are going to beat him. Even Kipchoge's philosophical waxing is better than "I want to die in a race".
Precious Roy wrote:
Meh. The "I am going to give it everything" attitude isn't really what it takes to win. Seems like the top guys have a different mentality. Like Robert Cheriuyot's line “When the lion is chasing the antelope, he doesn’t look back. He has to eat.” Or Pre's line that you are going to have to bleed if you are going to beat him. Even Kipchoge's philosophical waxing is better than "I want to die in a race".
Okay boomer. Pre wasn’t even close to being as world class as Chelimo has been. How many medals did Pre win again??
I realize that talking a bunch of crap is what gets headlines these days so I'm not going to knock him for say that. However, if you seriously consider the number of things that are actually worth dying for, the accolades for winning a foot race probably aren't on the list.
hmmmm?? wrote:
Okay boomer. Pre wasn’t even close to being as world class as Chelimo has been. How many medals did Pre win again??
Ugh...how many World Championships were there back in Pre's time, compared to Chelimo's? How old was Pre in the only once-every-four-years Olympics he'd run, before this thing called death cut him off from possible future Olympic medals?
Better to die in the race then to survive and have the fear of living through it. I had a near fatal hear attack during a training run at 32 and it changed who I am and how I live. It's easy to say that until you are faced with it.