World indoor champ Tefera goes home DEVASTATED

The 5,000 should be very interesting and a chance for redemption. Would they dare dump Aregawi for Telahun Bekele now?

Horses for courses. Samuel Tefera has always been an indoor guy, and he'll probably always be an indoor guy, nothing wrong with that, despite what society will tell you.

I'm not sure that it really matters. Both are solid athletes, but they're also hugely overrated and haven't really accomplished anything on the world stage. I'd leave Aregawi in even though he's unlikely to medal at this point simply because he seems to be the better talent between the two.

tefera probably has the most insane divide in an indoor vs outdoor resume. any other examples?

It’s interesting. Today he made errors that might not happen indoors…guys like Jakob passing him on the rail, waiting for him to drift on the straights etc.

I will never believe these performances from Berihu Aregawi, from a guy that run 7:26 in the 3000m six months ago:

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World Championships 10,000m results – Joshua Cheptegei powers to win in 27:27.43

Glen Andrews

Full results from the men's 10,000m at the World Athletics Championships Oregon22, with Joshua Cheptegei powering home to win in 27:27.43.

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Coghlan is pretty close. He was the 5k world champion in 1983 over a weak field, but otherwise never medaled in a global final. This is better than Tefera's outdoor resume, but he was also FAR better than Tefera indoors. Tefera may have run 3:31 but Coghlan ran 3:49 on wooden boards back when the outdoor record was only 3:47. He took the indoor record from 3:55.0 all the way down to his 3:49.78. To this day he's still probably the greatest indoor runner of all time.

You realize that Kiplimo has run 7:26 and Cheptegei has run 12:30. Grant Fisher has run 26:33. Barega has run 12:43 and 7:26.1. The only guy without similar credentials to Aregawi around him was the Kenyan who hasn't raced in high-level senior competition.