Commonwealth Games men's 10k field of????

Pretty embarrassing that England don't have a full team for this. No Scott, Cairess, or Smith

This year the planning for championship races seems to be not good because the world championships followed three weeks later by the European championships and before that the Commonwealth games in between those two major championships too much too soon. Of course, one assumes that winning European championship is more prestigious compared with winning the Commonwealth championship even though the latter have Kenyans and Ugandans etc. but the cache is not the same.

Kiplimo's PB is over a minute ahead of the others, so if he runs to form should coast it in, currently being run and PB's/SB's:

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I'm taking Mantz.

Scrap these games

How's about making the Commonwealth Games for amateurs only?

Then it would mean something to those uf us who actually follow the sport.

S**t camera angles for the last 400m

Cruised it in, too easy:

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You would think places that actually care about the commonwealth games - australia, new zealand, scotland, england, wales, northern ireland would send full squads.

Counted 8 finishers...good run by Kiplimo and what a packed stadium.

Might be a new concept, but have you heard of qualifying times?

Atkin dropped out, yet again. I think I've seen him step off the track more often than I've seen him finish a race

Honestly, a world amateur championship would actually be pretty interesting.

I don't have actually have a problem with it. As I've blogged about on here before, lapped runners are a problem in the 10k.

I support more participation in general, but I'm glad they don't pile a bunch of 29 minute guys in the 10k

Last 2k in 5:04 holding off Ebenyo exciting to watch!

Probably is that all the nations are given limits on team size. E.g England had 140 athletes that achieved their respective qualifying standard but they could only pick 70 athletes in total. So the selectors focused on, in their view, potential medal winners.

There's no such thing as an amateur.

Does Kiplimo just not try when Cheptegei is in the race on a track?

Wins a 27:09 race that went 13:46/13:23 today, closing the last 2kilometers in a phenomenal 5:03 = 2:33.9/2:29.3.

Compare this with Cheptegei in Eugene: a 27:27 race that went 14:01/13:26, last 2k in 5:09 = 2:43/2:25.7 .

I presume conditions were much better here than in Eugene but Kiplimo is really something. I suppose he probably ran in Eugene on something like 6 weeks of training and now he's got 8 or whatever under his belt. Still surprising he doesn't take the golds in WC and Olympics on the track. Not many can handle 5:03 last 2k.

Kiplimo has problems tactically. In the 10,000 at Worlds this year he was pretty far back. He also probably should’ve been on the pace more. It feels like he’s as gifted as Cheptegei but not his equal in finding the best spot to win from.

This was a very strong run from Ebenyo but a disappointing one from Kandie. Kandie is just inconsistent it seems. Some awesome road 10Ks/Half marathons, a great Kenyan Trials win but then duds at Peachtree, here and numerous other races.