what happened to Mottram

"scary init"

no it wasn't scary

its not the first time goucher has beaten him, mottram is way overrate and gets way to much respect for what he has accomplished (really, almost nothing)

Balls to big?

12:55, 8:03, 3:48, and a Bronze in WC 5k is hardly "almost nothing".

He talks big and had a bad race. What do you want? Should he stop running or something?

reported injury (spasms) to hamstring, been there for a bit of time ...

fgfg wrote:

adam Goucher beat him

I don't know---I gave him a pep talk before the race to try to get him into the right frame of mind to compete--I told him it was only his whole life that was on the line now and that if he didn't win he may as well jump in front of a subway car after swallowing 100 sleeping pills--and I told him where those subways are in Osaka--and then I wished him well and told him his mother and father and coach and whole country and all white people the world over would be watching and praying for him to not be a miserable failure and to win.

A Webb wrote:

I don't know---I gave him a pep talk before the race to try to get him into the right frame of mind to compete--I told him it was only his whole life that was on the line now and that if he didn't win he may as well jump in front of a subway car after swallowing 100 sleeping pills--and I told him where those subways are in Osaka--and then I wished him well and told him his mother and father and coach and whole country and all white people the world over would be watching and praying for him to not be a miserable failure and to win.

ROTFLMAO!

A friend of mine in Australia said word amongst the athletics community there was Mottram was still suffering from the hamstring strain that was captured on Australian television during a news documentary piece a few weeks ago. Apparently he hadn't run at all in the 10 days leading up to the trials of the 5k.

BLuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuEEEEEEEE wrote:

Balls to big?

Rumours say they found them in a trash can in the locker room.

Buster started to struggle when the pace dropped from 72 to 70 a lap, looked heavy and not as smooth as earlier this season.

maybe HE didnt take the right drugs.

Inconsistent performances make me suspicious... no testing at Prefontaine... testing at World Champs. You decide. I thought Mottram would run away with the Gold.

He way overraced this season. No wonder he had nothing left when it counted. You knew something was up when Mottram only ran 8:11.16 for the two mile in August.

Agreed, he peaked too early.

I guess his balls weren't big enough that day.

Mottram is white and at one time beat a kenyan. Anything he does from now on is forgivable, apparently.

Mottrams hamstring was playing up about 10 days before the 5000m but they thought it would be all right in the final. Nick B said since Craig arrived in Osaka he hadn't had a good training run. Every jog he went for his legs felt heavy and he didn't feel himself.

I personally thought he was looking a bit skinnier than usual. Mottrams the sort of guy that runs on strength and I think it looked like he was missing that.

We all have bad runs though. I went for a run yesterday and felt crap. I don't know why I just did. Guess the same thing can happen to the best of us.

never heard such stupid idea do you think kenyan or ethiopian are unbeatable.

what you have to see is why the white athlete could not keep their consistancy and won from year to year like kenenisa

Well it's not like K. Bekele hasn't been experiencing any failure lately. He(according to that article) was weak as a kitten for some period of time following the aftermath of the cross country champs in Mombosa.

You have to wonder though when Mottram manages times to rest because it's a given that he races in Europe every summer because that's where the bigger, more important meets are, but he apparently runs in Australia when they have their track season going on as well, and he's always nearly 6 weeks away from sub 13:00 5k shape, as he and his coach say, which means he must constantly be red-lining, or just about. So I'm not surprised to see athletes like him or Bekele experience some dry spells in certain races, although Bekele did seem to bounce back with some impressive runs this summer- 7:25, 7:26, 12:49, 10,000 gold at wc's, etc.

I think Mottram should just take some time off to totally recoop from the stress of his training, so that he is fresh enough to put together a solid 10 months of training to get him ready for the Olympics, because the next time he runs in the Olympics, he may not be the same athlete or have the same capabilities because of the toll time takes on the body. He's 27 right now, will be 28 next year, which makes him 32 in the 2012 Olympics. Limo won the WC's in 2005 at the age of 31 or so, but it was a slow tactical race. Mottram better get rest so he can gear up for the best race of his life, if he really wants that race- that gold nuggett of triumph.