Unpopular Bekele GOAT opinions

LOL!

I disagree ranking KB so low, but you could make a case for some of that order. Your 4 and 8 are a heck of a lot of recency bias though. No way do they deserve to be in that conversation yet. Coe seems like an odd choice too. Maybe you’re British though, ranking him and Mo in the top 10

You thought your analysis was unpopular, watch this.

Five-thousand meter & 10000m runners cannot be Greatest of All Times. Five-thousand meters and 10000m meters are phony events.

Anyone who earns their Olympic and W.C. gold in 5000m & 10000m must show me something in 1500m &/or 3000mSC or Marathon.

lmfaooo farah over bekele no more needs to be said

Gotta disagree with this. My list is:
1. Kipchoge
2. Bekele
3. Geb
4. El G
5. Tergat (he would be in the overall GOAT conversation if he hadn't been second to Geb his entire track career)
6. Farah
7. Komen (that 2 year stretch is some of the best middle-long distance running ever)
8. Coe/Cram (this makes the list eleven but it's hard to choose one over the other)
9. Cheptegei
10. Saïd Aouita (forgotten great)

Honorable mentions include Kiprop, Morceli, and Paavo Nurmi

Lol, Inge and Coe in the top 10? 2/10 because some people took it actually serious.

Clearly you were born in 2000.

You are putting Farrah up there because of the double double? Then why isn’t Lasse Viren on the list.

double double ✅ and he spanked the rebel Steve prefontaine

Listen kid.

Bekele has dominated on EVERY SURFACE.

XC GOAT

Track GOAT. World Records and Championships.

He’d still have the records if it weren’t for the spikes.

12:57.82

“A 53.87 last lap which produced a 2:25.30 last 1k. Yes, the last kilometer was 2:25.30. The last 1,600m? 3:57.01. That's a sub-3:59 last mile, folks. The last 2k of 4:56.97 and last 3k of 7:35.53”

I’m in my mid 30s and watched Bekele do that. Honestly, no where near as impressive as Farahs 2015 WC 5000m in sub 2:20 last 1000m and 1:48.6 last 800 meters. He simply wouldn’t lose to Bekele in a 5000 meter race.

Bekele never beat El G in any major championship and El G was a 1500 meter runner.

Cheptegei is considerably faster than Bekele in the 5/10 and is well on his way to accumulating the track championship hardware.

Chep was completely owned by a 1500 runner in this year´s WC.

Yes coming off of a 10,000 meter title and to Ingerbritsen who is not really a 1500 runner. I think Jakob will ultimately be a better 5k runner than 1500m.

It might be best if you never post here again after that statement.
JC ran 6.53 seconds faster than KB at 10000m and 1.99 seconds faster at 5000m with wave lights and super spikes. JC will NEVER be close to KB in track championship medals. KB would have defeated JC in championship races 9/10 times.

So what? When Kenenisa lost to Hicham, KB was coming off a 10000m title every time.

1/10 brojos, is that you? :yawn:

Ok ok. I think I may be premature with putting Cheptegei up so high. He doesn’t have the full career accomplishments of some of the others.

I will move him down two spots behind Geb. My new top 10 is

1. Kipchoge

2. El G

3. Farah

4. Bekele

5. Geb

6. Cheptegei

7. Komen

8. Ingerbritsen

9. Ngeny

10. Lagat

News flash: people still hate your list. Lagat is top 15 for sure but not top 10 in my opinion.

Farah above both Geb AND Bekele... Wow! You're delusional and clearly don't know anything about track!