El G's boring record attempts......

Totally agree - boring. You'd think it would be boring for him too by now, except for the $$$$.

The man's just too good. It's not his fault...

Monty's right

Its Hicham competitors not mounting a sufficent challenge

to Hicham that is boring. The job of an athlete is to

win, not neccessarily provide exciting races; however, the

excitement would come when his competitors can go thru

1200m in 2:44 and sustain a decent kick. I agree that

Hicham races are not very exciting; however, he's doing

his job the other elite 1500m men needs to catch up!

Vipam

I doubt El G is making these attempts to please you or me. He's doing it for himself, because he can. There's got to be something better to complain about.

The sooner we get rid of pacemakers the better. I find most grand Prix races boring - and I love athletics - just think what the general public must think. There are so few genuine record attempts and pacemakers ruin most races as a spectacle and have put an end to front running as a tactic.

At the moment women's distance races are more exciting than men races - because they haven't got the athletes capable of pacemaking 'properly'.

We're now complaining about guys running too fast?

The problem is, none of these guys like to lose to each other unless it's in a time trial, so if you got rid of rabbitted races, you'd get the crap we get at Olympics and Worlds.

We still need rabbits.

Name a mid-long dist runner who broke WR in the olympics in the 1990s.

the new millenium requires more than just a gut, it needs viagra (drugs,epo) and playboy'bunny' magz(rabbits).

I'm not especially interested in WRs - I like to see exciting races. If there were no pacemakers, the athletes would eventually get used to it and change their tactics accordingly.

Drug runners with pace makers make the sport boring.

I agree, maybe if El G shoots a couple more EPO tablets into his hip maybe he'll break his record.

As I said in previous posts, if you've got proof of drug use come forward with it or shut the hell up!

Min Mac, you dont even know if he's already using it. Looking at El-G's training, it's pretty hard to get up there for second evening run, after a blistering morning run at 2:50/km pace,...without any 'help'.

It's not a record but...

1996 Atlanta

Men's 800m

1. Vebjorn Rodal (NOR) 1:42.58

2. Hezekiel Sepeng (SA) 1:42.74

3. Fred Onyancha (KEN) 1:42.79

An article from Mensracing.com stated that NO RABBITS were allowed in last Friday's race. However, a Frenchman served as a rabbit anyhow....then pretended to collapse in exhaustion, instead of just dropping out. This was to disguise his BREAKING THE RULES for El G..

In addition, the faster time, achieved by this cheating, allowed El G. to win a Grand Prix cash prize over 400m hurdler Sanchez, as a tie-breaker.

Perhaps what we need are two classes of World Records. The ones with rabbits and ones without. I feel this would inject some new life into the sport. Quite obiously the rabbited WR will always be lower than the non-rabbited WR. Some great interest would be generated in how close a non-rabbited attempt can come to the rabbited WR. Perhaps some day rabbited WRs would even lose their validity.

Now, how to do the non-rabbited WR. The obvious way would be just one man on the track, solo running as fast as he can as long as he can. No help other than himself his ability to get 'up' for the moment, his preparation, his BALLS! I would imagine the larger and more enthusiastic the crowd the more it would help this lone brave figure. This proably would not be done many times a year on the European Circuit except by the true elite(top five in World rankings)

and there would have to be plenty of money offered.

For instance let's say if this were adopted and after the first year the Mile Solo WR is 3:48. A promoter may want to offer say $200,000 for someone to break this in a solo attempt. The money would be based on performance. A 3:50 under these conditions would be worth $50,000. Something slower than 3:55 would net the performer very little in any. It would be like golf and other individual sports , your pay is subject to your performance.

Again I'm not saying eliminate normal racing just something as a sidelight for the elite. I can't imagine any spectators watching a lone figure for a 10K however. Just my opinion but I think 5K(13 minutes) is about the limit for this sort of thing, but who knows?

Another scenario would be just two runners. With the stipulation that in a four lap race for it to be a bonifide attempt each runner must lead at least one full lap before the final lap. Similar rules yet to be determined would be in place for the 800 and 5K.

Any thoughts?