13:10.98 Haile Gebreselasie (ETH) 27 Jan 1996 Sindelfingen GER 12:59.05 Haile Gebreselasie-2 21 Feb 1997 Stockholm SWE 12:51.48 Daniel Komen (KEN) 19 Feb 1998 Stockholm SWE 12:50.38 Haile Gebreselasie-3 14 Feb 1999 Birmingham ENG 12:49.60 Kenenisa Bekele (ETH) 20 Feb 2004 Birmingham ENG 12:44.09 GRANT FISHER???
Maybe, just maybe he can give Jakob a run for his money in Tokyo.
Well, he’s certainly looking to be a gold medal favorite in the 10. Jakob may a bridge too far. Certainly nobody is a lock for 2nd over Fisher at 5000. He looks ready as of now to improve on double bronze.
On a bouncy track and supershoes. He would need to run 12:30 for a reasonable equivalent.
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They’re not wrong though. Bekele would have run faster in modern footwear, mostly due to compounding effects in training. also, BU is the fastest track in the world, that’s not really debated this point.
I thought there were three guys right behind him on the Instagram clip, which seemed impossible . . . but looking at the results, they must have been lapped runners.
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Maybe, just maybe he can give Jakob a run for his money in Tokyo.
Well, he’s certainly looking to be a gold medal favorite in the 10. Jakob may a bridge too far. Certainly nobody is a lock for 2nd over Fisher at 5000. He looks ready as of now to improve on double bronze.
I completely agree with this. I think a very likely result is double silver behind Jakob and Aregawi respectively, but he has a real chance to take the 10k.
On a bouncy track and supershoes. He would need to run 12:30 for a reasonable equivalent.
I wish this buzz kill post would be deleted or at least relegated to page 8 or something. You are literally the second poster on this thread and come right out with a sh!t sandwich kind of a cold take.
Wow! The shoes are better these days. I am glad you reminded us none of us knew that...
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Maybe, just maybe he can give Jakob a run for his money in Tokyo.
Maybe, it’s hard to tell though because runners like Kejelcha and Aregawi have run very fast over 3000m/5000m yet Jakob butchered them on the last lap in Budapest. Grant needs to be up there like Katir was.
Could Grant get under 26:20 at the TEN if he decided to go for it? I don’t see him scaring the world record but he ran 26:33 two years ago and he’s just at a different level now.
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