Mo Farah should retire

Doping not going well.

BritsSuck wrote:

Mo Farah will not get the Olympic standard this year of 27:28 in the 10k. Dude couldn’t even beat two collegiate runners 10k times with his 27:50 this year. Conner Mantz and Nur beat him out while in college. Sad to see this for the legendary 10k runner but Olympics will not be a meet he qualified for this year, and he should retire.

You ever notice all the opinions on a message board? Farah should retire Hobbs should not jog the mile at the state meet etc etc. none of these guys care about your opinion or mine...how about let THEM decide when they will retire, how fast he will run in a race etc etc

Ghost1 wrote:

He’s not obviously bright like a degree holder with a PhD but he’s not stupid either. Anyone who reaches the highest pinnacle in any field endeavor needs a certain amount of smarts and Farah is no exception. There are quite a few options for him. Farah, Hutchins and Radcliffe - good athletics commentators for tv. No disrespect but people like the NBC people in the U.S. cannot compete. Stones et al.

Ato Boldin gives the best insight into the sprints and Dwight Stones is up there with the best for field events. Recall Dwight ended up leaving NBC; that was their loss.

I agree, the best talent seems to be from the UK, particularly for middle distances and up.

Sed Ella wrote:

I'd guess if he wanted to do BBC commentary they'd have to take him on. The current team behind the mic is entirely White which may be something the organisation ties itself into middle class knots about. Whether he'd be a source of great insight might not be the point. I'd assume he has at least a decade of earning fairly large sums just becuase his sporting CV is so amazing, and fair enough; I'm sure his support team will channel him so he isn't exposed so for example he might not be doing the Oxford Union gig for a while.

True of the commentary team, but the analysis team (which gets more screen time) are mainly black ex-pros. Denise Lewis, Colin Jackson, Daley Thompson, Jess Ennis. They bring Radcliffe in for the distance events

Yes it's strange that the ones we see and the ones we mainly only hear are made up in this way. I'm sure the recuitment process was robust.

When you're as filthy rich as him, getting even richer isn't so important unless you're obsessed. It can even be a negative. Like if you are leaving an all you can eat buffet and someone walks up on the street and offers you a bag of doritos, but you are too full.

As a rich person, Mo probably understands this and that's a good reason he should own a restaurant.

Mo sells cleaning products. That has been his main gig for a couple years now. He has been retired at least that long already.

One bad run doesn't define an athlete, just like one good run.

d in the top corner wrote:

Mo sells cleaning products. That has been his main gig for a couple years now. He has been retired at least that long already.

great handle.

I just don’t understand why he didn’t stick with the marathon for Olympics he would have finished top 7

I don't understand why people are obsessed with other people retiring. It's not really up to you how long he keeps running, and if races and sponsors will keep paying or inviting him to show up, he can run as long as he feels like even if he's DFL'g. For the record, I really dislike MF, but I'm not offended if he wants to keep running past his prime.

People have been doing the same thing with Brady for 5 years, whining about he needs to retire already. Dude just won his 7th Super Bowl. Enjoy the greatness or root against it. That's about the only thing you get to decide on.

I don't understand how he can retire from running and move to another career without getting depressed and frustrated and driving too fast and crashing his Ferrari into a tree.

I feel sorry for him, the car and the tree. Does anyone here know what he should do with the rest of his life because he loves his running so much?