2022:. Watch out Letesenet Giday & Siffan Hissain, ALMAZ AYANA is back

Didn't Letesenbet Gidey run a half marathon like 5 minutes quicker than that?

Webb is back baby!

On another note, I swear this VIPAM is the kind of guy who posts and then immediate upvotes his own post.

I appreciate your exuberance, but I think the world has moved on from her. Her Olympic 10k performance was legendary.

Likely no. She cannot.

Didn't realize it had been so long... pessimistic after seeing that :/

Still rooting for her... She was fire on the track.

You can do that?

Yes it's been that long and while I am also pessimistic, it's not completely impossible. Your talking about a lady who dropped a 8:20.5 3000m in a 5000m to destroy Genzebe Dibaba and a sub 14:28 5000m to cripple a stacked Olympic field including 2 time defending champion Tirunesh Dibaba and multi World Champion Vivian Cherioyut.

Talent never dies, the only question can she fully recover from such an injury that sidelined her for so long. IF Almaz CAN RECOVER 100%, she will be THE major deciding factor in a couple Women's 10000m Championships with her INSANE long drives for home!

What was her injury in 2017?

IF talent never dies then why is Bernard Lagat not still one of the top 5 5000m runners in the world?

The talent he had didn't die; however, time in regards to age eventually slows everyone down. Almaz has years to compete age wise IF she can recover 100%. Noobs asking silly questions, I humored you this one time.

I hope she can recover because many posters may not know who she is (from 5 years ago) and what she is capable of when fully fit.

You don’t understand the sport kid. She is now 30 and will be 31 in November. She is finished as a top talent on the track.

Lagat is like 50 or something. Likely still wildly talented for his age. But I mean, yes there are limits. I would not say Lagat's talent died, it aged and very successfully if we are being honest.

Only 47 lol, i guess I was 3 years off. Point remains, I'd say.

dude

you wasting your words on someone who has no concept of logic.

A y lady who can drop a 8'20 flat 3000m in a 5000m or run sub 14:50 pace for 3090m at 5000m pace and sped up the last 7000m at sub 29 minute pace and hold it is a threat when healthy and all the trolling in the world won't change that

You're not wrong. Someone who can do all that is a threat.

Problem is, running a 68:22 half is miles off what those performances would indicate. When people like Dom Dcott, Jess Judd, and Emily Durgin, all non-factors on the track, are running 67:xx for the half, running 68 doesn't mean much unless the conditions are god awful. Ayana came 5th, a minute off the lead, and lost to multiple women who won't even come top 5 in their ETH/KEN national champs.

And if I win the lottery, I'll be THE richest guy in my town.

No distance runner has ever disappeared for that long and then gotten back into world record shape.

Plus she now has Letesenbet Gidey and Sifan Hassan to deal with.

One major DIFFERENCE is you comparing Almaz most recent performance as if if she was training for the 1)2 marathon or a full marathon. In addition to her NOT training specifically for a 1)2 marathon she is coming off a FIVE year layoff. So while it's not breath taking it's a solid indicator she is coming back especially when her 1)2 marathon personal best is less then a minute faster then 04/03 run and her actually 1)2 personal best WAS WHEN she was destroying every female in the 5000m and 10000m not 1)2 marathon.

So she doesn't have to kill the 1/2 to be ready for 5000m/10000m. Facts and past performances prove that my friend.

Sifan Hassan doing half marathons as part of her 1500-10000 buildup 2018/19 ran back to back 65min half marathons, winning them both against deeper fields. In Copenhagen she beat 2019 marathon world champ Chepngetich by over a minute less than 3 weeks after running the 5000/1500 double back to back days in the Diamond League finals. That's the bar Ayana is up against.

There is zero chance Hassan or Gidey don't win that Madrid half.

Also Ayana's PB was from a tactical race where she outkickek Yeshaneh in the last km in New Delhi (slow course) and she wasn't in next gen road shoes. Looks like 2017 Ayana in the same footwear would have demolishes her 2022 self by a good chunk.