Yomif has run 3:47i, 7:26, 12:41 and he has finished 2,4,4,5,8 and 8 in global championships. Credit him for a World Championship Silver at 10000m BUT otherwise he has underperformed by a fair amount. He is one of the great talents who cannot usually do it on the biggest stage.
Reminds me of Gebremeskel, Gebrhiwet, Baby Bekele, Alamirew... Insanely fast but far fewer global medals than one would anticipate. Some of these dudes seem to have the most success in the indoor 3000!
Kejelcha’s best championship performances were during his time with Salazar. I know the guy is like Voldemort around here but he was a great coach in spite of being a seemingly terrible human.
In 2017 he ran a great race, but drifted on the last 100 likely costing himself a medal. But I’d call the performance good overall. 2019 good obviously. So really we’re talking about the last 3. This year was egregious for not injecting any real pace into the race. Massive tactical blunder. 2021-22 it seemed like he just came into the championships off. Last year he had an injury, but I’m not sure what went down in 2021 or if the heat in Tokyo just got him.
Big deal, he's still better than most of the "world champions."
The WC and olympics are fatally flawed in forcing everyone through heats just to weed out the also-rans. It is not the same event that way.
It's like putting every NFL team in the playoffs and expecting the best teams not to be affected by it with injuries to key players. The whole thing is wrong and I refuse to see it as a real championship.
Well today Yomif looked as if he could have run another 12:41 if he had company like Kiplimo previously. So a guy in 12:41 shape should get a medal.
Yes, his tactics of letting it come down to the last 400 were awful. The top 4 are very good kickers and it's not exactly a surprise with 3 of them doing the same thing in Eugene.
Big deal, he's still better than most of the "world champions."
The WC and olympics are fatally flawed in forcing everyone through heats just to weed out the also-rans. It is not the same event that way.
It's like putting every NFL team in the playoffs and expecting the best teams not to be affected by it with injuries to key players. The whole thing is wrong and I refuse to see it as a real championship.
You can view anything any way you want. And you do. And we are all proud of your refusing to conform. But when you are wrong boy are you wrong.
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Kejelcha’s best championship performances were during his time with Salazar. I know the guy is like Voldemort around here but he was a great coach in spite of being a seemingly terrible human.
"Kejelcha's best championships were before his coach got banned" might not be the compliment to Alberto you're intending it to be.
He was their top finisher in the 5,000. If anyone would be blacklisted it’d be Aregawi who takes up two slots and knowingly leaves it to a kick in slow races and always gets trounced the last lap.
He was their top finisher in the 5,000. If anyone would be blacklisted it’d be Aregawi who takes up two slots and knowingly leaves it to a kick in slow races and always gets trounced the last lap.
That’s because there is testing at Worlds and Olympics.
Diamond League isn’t testing - it’s bad for business (their business). If individual DL meets tests they are not testing the obvious ones. Tonight In Zurich the winner in the 5k was obvious.
When individual DL meets test, They test the ones they know are clean. it doesn’t matter if those who are tested get last place.
That’s because there is testing at Worlds and Olympics.
Diamond League isn’t testing - it’s bad for business (their business). If individual DL meets tests they are not testing the obvious ones. Tonight In Zurich the winner in the 5k was obvious.
When individual DL meets test, They test the ones they know are clean. it doesn’t matter if those who are tested get last place.
That’s the truth.
What does this even mean though? Do you know how doping works? Your explanation doesn’t hold water.
Big deal, he's still better than most of the "world champions."
The WC and olympics are fatally flawed in forcing everyone through heats just to weed out the also-rans. It is not the same event that way.
It's like putting every NFL team in the playoffs and expecting the best teams not to be affected by it with injuries to key players. The whole thing is wrong and I refuse to see it as a real championship.
You can view anything any way you want. And you do. And we are all proud of your refusing to conform. But when you are wrong boy are you wrong.
Is there an argument in there, or just snark?
Yomif is better than nearly every heats specialist and you know it. Snark is cope. Go lie down.
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