Official Paris Olympic marathon men’s thread - race 2 am east coast

Can you point me to the unofficial thread?

Good luck to the Aussies.

Go eliud! You are the chosen one and winning is your destiny. Maybe conner can pull off a bronze.

Bekele

Letsrun marathon preview says "the hot weather of the Olympic marathon means there is usually at least one surprise on the podium."

Forecast doesn't seem so bad - sunny, little wind, upper 60s warming to low 70s, but with high humidity around 80% dropping to 60% by expected finish. Not bad versus recent Olympics. So the weather will not be a factor?

They'll need the luck of a 'Bradbury' from three quarters of the field:

Leonard Essau Korir goes for the gold!

Tebello Ramakongoana will win gold. He was 4th in Budapest and has completely flown under the radar. This course suits him very well. You heard it here first.

Those hills though... methinks there will be heaps of DNFs today. Just hope Bekele isn't one of them.

Lenny won't be top 15.

Talbi for the podium.

I'm just here for Kipchoge's post race excuse when he loses. "I had tinnitus" "I had a runny nose" "I didn't sleep well" "I cant trust anyone"

Kipchoge DNF at 20 miles.

that was a funny race when they all fell over. U have to be in it to win it.

Does the American/Eyestone run continue?!?! Let's go!!

Any free live-stream link?

I've hammered this race with a vengeance slapping down the money as follows:

Bekele $2250 to win 36k

KISSA $1K to win 29k

Kwemoi $1k to win 42k

Nageeye $1750 to win 140k

Risking 6k total on 4 runners.

Never forget:

Its not yet reflected by the start list by apparently 2nd reserve Hassan Chahdi has replaced French NR holder Morhad Amdouni

France has Nicolas Navarro, Felix Bour, Hassan Chahdi

anyone with a free livestream link please