All you Farah haters, can you at least admit it now. Farah is the GOAT?
All you Farah haters, can you at least admit it now. Farah is the GOAT?
You are funny.
Meh. Makes since that he would go for a weak record. The real question is how is mo going to react chep breaks the 10000 m record?
I would have been shocked if he didn't get this. It's pretty nearly equivalent to his half marathon PR and re-solidifies him as being tied for the 94th best half marathoner of all time. Let's see him beat Haile G's half marathon PR and get into the top 20 all time before any further discussion.
Very bad bait
already explained in the other thread, anyone on letsrun could have probably broken the record
Collin wrote:
I would have been shocked if he didn't get this. It's pretty nearly equivalent to his half marathon PR and re-solidifies him as being tied for the 94th best half marathoner of all time. Let's see him beat Haile G's half marathon PR and get into the top 20 all time before any further discussion.
Agreed. The popularity of the 1/2 marathon has rendered the one-hour run obsolete - not that anybody really cared about it before then. A real competitor would go after the 1/2 record, not the hour. Basically, Farah ran a decent 1/2 marathon today, but in a time that would probably not even place in the top 10 for the year (in a normal pandemic-free year anyway).
It's almost unsporting that he even did the event. He knew it was a soft record that would get his name and "world record" mentioned in the same sentence. Lots of runners could have broken the old record, but don't have the pull to get a meet organizer to set up some silly exhibition for them. What a useless old hag he is.
Not what champions do wrote:
Collin wrote:
I would have been shocked if he didn't get this. It's pretty nearly equivalent to his half marathon PR and re-solidifies him as being tied for the 94th best half marathoner of all time. Let's see him beat Haile G's half marathon PR and get into the top 20 all time before any further discussion.
Agreed. The popularity of the 1/2 marathon has rendered the one-hour run obsolete - not that anybody really cared about it before then. A real competitor would go after the 1/2 record, not the hour. Basically, Farah ran a decent 1/2 marathon today, but in a time that would probably not even place in the top 10 for the year (in a normal pandemic-free year anyway).
It's almost unsporting that he even did the event. He knew it was a soft record that would get his name and "world record" mentioned in the same sentence. Lots of runners could have broken the old record, but don't have the pull to get a meet organizer to set up some silly exhibition for them. What a useless old hag he is.
Exactly. To me it is as if Mo took Viagara and broke some obscure record for duration of an erection. Except that might have gotten more viewers and been more impressive.
Shoe technology on average runner beats unfashionable world record be a great runner. There that's a better headline.
Way to go Mo Farah!
Thelonesomeloser wrote:
Exactly. To me it is as if Mo took Viagara and broke some obscure record for duration of an erection. Except that might have gotten more viewers and been more impressive.
Viagara? From the Niagara Falls?
F Mo Farah
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Tony the Tiger?
Gimme a break! Kamworor would have lapped him, literally.
This performance equates to a 59:18 half-marathon -- 103rd all time.
SloMo is too slow to even be nominated for any GOAT discussion. He dominated events in a decade that was weak, as the faster runners left the track to make more money on the roads.
That's why kamworor has ever beaten mo on the track, i love kamworor but he doesn't have it on the track like mo!
GOAT of nothing. He is a decent runner, but no one here thinks Mo is GOAT of any running distance. Let's throw MO in a race with Cheptegei and Kipchoge for an hour and see who wins. There are plenty more than those 2 that would whoop his ass too. But yeah, GOAT, sure, lol.
Pretty sure it’s his second WR. He also owns the indoor 2 mile record as well.
Mo will never be GOAT.
GOAT must have not just dominance and titles, but also REAL World Records.
Also Mo is the most boring dominant champion and did not have superior competition like Haile and Bekele did.
One more observation, Bekele didn’t care much about 5000m titles otherwise he could have won all of them, don’t believe this check his impressive winning Diamond League tittles. Also notice he was running consistently almost all those races sub 13. How many times Mo broke 13? I don’t know but maybe twice.
You guys can’t compare Mo with the Big Two of distance running. Is just disrespectful.