Is there a scenario where a 7:17 guy cannot win a 10K championship race?

If he fell

Or if Kerr was in it 😉

How fast can he close off 26:20 pace? Gebrhiwet closed a 12:36 in 54.

Areagawi ran 7:21 and cheptegai beat him with ease 🤷

Definitely could win a championship 10,000. In the Oly 5000 he blew the doors off Gebrhiwet in the last 600.

5/10 guys have a different body type compared to 15/5 runners. I don’t see a guy that is 6’1””, 165 lbs, winning a 10000m gold medal.

Big guys also don't run well in heat...except for Jacob
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and who's capable of front-running 26:20 in a championship race?

Is there a scenario where a 7:17 guy cannot win a 10K championship race? Sure. He's not adequately trained for 10K, or he is but for whatever reason he can't maintain enough of that 7:17 speed over 10000m.

idk I feel like after I watched Solinsky break 27 I stopped thinking so much about weight in the 10k. Maybe if it turned into a 26:20 race it'd matter, but the extra muscle Jakob has probably helps him more in the kick than it hurts him over the race. He ran 27:54 on the roads back in 2019 and closed like a freight train.

Jakob ran 27:54 on a cold hilly course in flats like 3 or 4 years ago -- pretty much all by himself. He was a 12:48 guy and what, a 3:28.6 then? Not sure what the conversions are with that, especially since hes now a 3:26 guy, a 7:17 and 7:54 guy (probably a 12:34 guy), with 3 world titles in the 5k under his belt. His training is literally optimzed for the longer races. Yes, he would win a championship 10k.

Solinsky was not big when he won.

He slimmed down so much that season it seemed suspicious it contributed to the odd injury.

I don't see him losing in a race > 27 mins. Not sure how he would've fared this year with the fast pace - he did beat Aregawi by 4 seconds in a 3k but I don't think he would've beat him this year in a 10k.

I don't expect next year to be fast, so in the off chance he does contest he might just win the gold since Cheptegei isn't around anymore.

Assuming Cheptegei can run about 3:31, Ingebrigtsen loses most of his 5 second advantage by 5000m, which means he is slowing down at a faster rate as the distance is increased. There is no way for Ingebrigtsen to change that trend and the crossover will be not long after 5000m.

Is there a scenario where a 1:41 guy can't win a 1500 championship race?

Is there a scenario where a 43 guy can't win a 800 championship race?

Did Komen or El G win any 10k championship races?

As we all learned from 1500m this year - this is not enough to actually beat Jacob in 10K

those distances are way more different than 3K and 10K.

And Jacob's dominance in 3K is more like a 1:39 flat guy in 800m, who may actually win a tactical 1500m race.

Actually, Sifan Hassan demonstrated that being a good 5K/10K runner helps to consistently win marathons.

You can't be serious man, you CANNOT be serious.