Efin Impressive! Congrats!
Chepkoech (injured) and Kiyeng bomb in what is turning into Kenya's worst Olympics.
Efin Impressive! Congrats!
Chepkoech (injured) and Kiyeng bomb in what is turning into Kenya's worst Olympics.
Kiyeng did really well to finish 3rd.
Great move by Frerichs and Chemutai kept her composure and waited for the right moment to strike back.
Great race.
Go Hall and Hull!!! wrote:
Kiyeng did really well to finish 3rd.
Great move by Frerichs and Chemutai kept her composure and waited for the right moment to strike back.
Great race.
This is what we love to see in distance running. Not the sad, pathetic show in the women's 5K. Well deserved winner and medalists.
This was Kenya's last chance to win the women's steeple for a while because Eva Cherono's eligibility for Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 gets through starting January.
El Keniano wrote:
Go Hall and Hull!!! wrote:
Kiyeng did really well to finish 3rd.
Great move by Frerichs and Chemutai kept her composure and waited for the right moment to strike back.
Great race.
This is what we love to see in distance running. Not the sad, pathetic show in the women's 5K. Well deserved winner and medalists.
It's easier to medal in the steeple
WinnytheBish wrote:
El Keniano wrote:
This is what we love to see in distance running. Not the sad, pathetic show in the women's 5K. Well deserved winner and medalists.
It's easier to medal in the steeple
O RLY? How so?
Just look at the number of non-African-born medals in women's steeple compared to 5k/10k in the last years. It's a relatively new event with comparably little depth. Nothing wrong with that, on the contrary. The 5k race was almost exactly predictable (basically the order of Obiri and Tsegay was the uncertainty) and not very exciting.
I doubt anyone predicted Chemutai before Frerichs...
They stick people who can't make it in the 5k into the steeple. If you get too good at the steeple as a U20 athlete (like Ayana did), they put you in the open events.
Another big win for the Addy Ruiter group. Let’s see what Cheptegei has in store for the 5,000.
El Keniano wrote:
This was Kenya's last chance to win the women's steeple for a while because Eva Cherono's eligibility for Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 gets through starting January.
You mean Norah Jeruto?
cherono does not steeple wrote:
El Keniano wrote:
This was Kenya's last chance to win the women's steeple for a while because Eva Cherono's eligibility for Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 gets through starting January.
You mean Norah Jeruto?
Yep. Sorry.
Why did Coburn get DQ?
I was surprised to see Yavi implode like that, as the announcers were talking her up throughout the early laps.
Three national records in that heat/humidity ?!
El Keniano wrote:
Efin Impressive! Congrats!
Chepkoech (injured) and Kiyeng bomb in what is turning into Kenya's worst Olympics.
Bet you wish you pretended to be Ugandan now.
BuckleUp wrote:
I was surprised to see Yavi implode like that, as the announcers were talking her up throughout the early laps.
Three national records in that heat/humidity ?!
Weak records before and runners peaking when it counts. Lalonde had run already a Canadian record in the heat, With Bird Britain, by far the strongest country in Europe in mid/long distances finally gets a halfway decent steepler.
Yavi looked very good in DL races Doha and Monaco and also in the heats but ended up worse than in Doha WC 2 years ago.
El Keniano wrote:
cherono does not steeple wrote:
You mean Norah Jeruto?
Yep. Sorry.
Pffffft. Dude, you’re slipping more and more in your charade. Kudos to play another character for so long, but you’ve seriously got to question the mental stability in someone that does that as well. Glad to have you back however, if nothing but for the entertaining discussion with Coevett.
BuckleUp wrote:
I was surprised to see Yavi implode like that, as the announcers were talking her up throughout the early laps.
Three national records in that heat/humidity ?!
Correction: FOUR NR's I forgot to include Chemutai.