Men's Olympic 10,000 Official Discussion Thread - Haile owned the 90s, Bekele the 00s, Farah the 10s. Who will rule the 20s?

high school xc coach wrote:

couldn't help but think how insane the boards would be going if farah was actually in this race. A pedestrian pace again, when so many expected mid 26 minutes!

it is interesting. have to think the same guys are at the front no matter how the race is run. maybe kipruto sneaks near the front in a time trial

I can’t believe anyone expected mid 26 in the conditions. Not surprised in came down to the last 600

I’m half devistated. Got the tactics wrong, but I got it right on Kissa. My placing 2 out of 3 ain’t bad. Great run by Fisher

Nah he's run 27 low before

DeeksQuarters wrote:

such a gutsy run, nothing left on the track for Pat tonight, I’m proud to be Australian after that effort.

Bloody oath, onya Pat. Gave his all, even to the point of a face plant in the home straight, so nothing left. Tough race in those conditions for a big fella like him, but he hung in with the lead pack for 24 laps.

27:11.29 (2021) PR

Here, this looks better:

1 27:43.22 BAREGA Selemon ETH

2 27:43.63 CHEPTEGEI Joshua UGA

3 27:43.88 KIPLIMO Jacob UGA

4 27:46.16 AREGAWI Berihu ETH

5 27:46.39 FISHER Grant USA

6 27:47.76 AHMED Mohammed CAN

7 27:50.06 KWEMOI Rodgers KEN

8 27:52.03 KEJELCHA Yomif ETH

9 27:52.78 KIPRUTO Rhonex KEN

10 27:53.58 AMDOUNI Morhad FRA

11 27:54.05 CRIPPA Yemaneberhan ITA

12 28:04.06 KIFLE Aron ERI

13 28:04.71 MAYO Carlos ESP

14 28:09.23 SCOTT Marc GBR

15 28:11.01 KINCAID Woody USA

16 28:14.18 KLECKER Joe USA

17 28:18.37 AIZAWA Akira JPN

18 28:31.91 KIMELI Isaac BEL

19 28:35.06 TIERNAN Patrick AUS

20 28:41.42 LANGAT Weldon KEN

21 28:55.29 WANDERS Julien SUI

22 29:01.31 ITO Tatsuhiko JPN

23 29:01.92 TUNTIVATE Kieran THA

Ethiopiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Baregaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

You would have said he spent a lot of energy early chasing down an ILLEGAL pace maker who had a stop watch but came back again - not easy to do. Solomon Barega is 21 years old and has much more to come.

We don't do crap 10k in Ethiopia......talent will always come through. Very happy today. I do feel Yomif should have gone for shorter distance.

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old wolf wrote:

Is that a pr for Fisher?

Nope, he has run 3 10ks on the track, first one is his PR 27:11. There are lots of guys vying for it, but Fisher looks to be the future of American distance running on the track now that Rupp has moved to the roads.

5 27:46.39 FISHER Grant USA

7 27:50.06 KWEMOI Rodgers KEN

9 27:52.78 KIPRUTO Rhonex KEN

15 28:11.01 KINCAID Woody USA

16 28:14.18 KLECKER Joe USA

20 28:41.42 LANGAT Weldon KEN

36 USA

36 KEN

Per Athletics Weekly, that last 1K of 2:25 for Barega was the fastest last K in Olympic 10K history. That despite all the shenanigans in the beginning of the race, incredibly impressive.

Impressive. Barega and Kiplimo matched my expectations, and Cheptegei proved that we underrated him. I can't see Kejelcha performing like this again. He's good enough to win.

Barega knew he had a great chance of winning the gold.

When the now known pace maker went 30 lengths clear, he tried to cover it. He was not going to allow anyone to get away.

He exerted himself in early stages and still manged to pull out an incredible last lap.

Steve Cram - saying Barega stole the race as he went past the line was VERY unfair.

Very unfair. Barega did everything to win that race.

Steve Cram was disappointed as he thought the Uganda boys had it. Ethiopia never gets credit in anything nowadays.

I’ve been running in similar condition for the past month in FL. It’s an easy 25 seconds per mile compared to the ideal conditions I had while on vacation up North. I have to think it’s 7-8 seconds per mile for these guys.

That was a great race. Fisher looked good the whole way. Nobody was going to close on Barega the final 200, but Cheptegei looked like he surged 10M too late.

zEthiopians wrote:

Steve Cram - saying Barega stole the race as he went past the line was VERY unfair.

Very unfair. Barega did everything to win that race.

Steve Cram was disappointed as he thought the Uganda boys had it. Ethiopia never gets credit in anything nowadays.

On which channel was Steve Cram commentating? I was tuned to BBC in the beginning but they were broadcasting other sports.

I could tell what’s wrong:

Too hard easy days - always too fast

Too much anaerobic stuff in relation to threshold sessions.

Too few threshold sessions

Too hard track sessions in relation to his anaerobic capacity. Too fast and too long rests

Too few repetitive interval sessions

Meaningsless stuff like short sprint hills and ”easy runs with variations” (too long sessions)

The latter is an effective way to get heavylegged til trackwork.

I bet he will now leave Canova

total ripoff wrote:

Raysism wrote:

Grant Fisher running about as good of a race as I can remember from an American in the last 20 years or so. That was fun.

you don't remember Rupp in 2012 getting silver? Rupp was 5th in the 10k in 2016 off of marathon training.

Oops! I posted this from my phone and meant to type 10 years. Obviously Rupp's silver is in there, but I was referring to everything after that.

But honestly, this race by Fisher was pretty damn close to Rupp's second if you look at the entrants.

For context.... Fisher's 5th place is the best non-Rupp performance for men at the Olympics in the 10k going back to Billy Mill's win in 1968. His finish ties Rupp's second best finish making it the third best finish by an American man in over a century and fourth best in the modern Olympics (USA had a 2nd place finish in 1912).

2020

Fisher 5th, Kincaid 15th, Klecker 16th

2016

Rupp 5th, L. Korir 14th, S. Kipchirchir 19th

2012

Rupp 2nd, Ritz 13th, Teg 19th

2008

Rupp 13th, Abdi 15th, J. Torres 25th

2004

D. Brown 12th, Abdi 15th, Ritz DNF

2000

Abdi 10th, Meb 12th