We Ethiopians are the kings of running.

Didn't think so.

I think you can't exclude the distance running powerhouse kenya. Of the top 30 best ever marathon performance, Africa owns 23 best times while Kenya alone owns 18 world best times! Right now in the IAAF ranking kenya has 34 out of best top 50 athletes in the world!!

amazing shit if you include defectors! not to name winning almost all team titles in xc!

Samuel wanjiru the guy who owns WR in half is moving to full marathon debut. He is nasty on the roads! as he puts it, "I am made for the roads."

that's fantastic. you're also the kings of poverty.

dvdvd wrote:

that's fantastic. you're also the kings of poverty.

o snap

Entoto wrote:

We the Ethiopians are the kings of running. No one can come close to us. We own the 5K 10K Marathon. 1hr. run and soon the half marathon. Most of you who doubted Haile and said oh his prime time is past, don't know shit about running unfortunately you were called the experts 67% of you who said he won't break it. That prime shit doesn't apply to Ethiopians and Kenyans it only applies to the rest of the world. I wouldn't be surprised if Tergat comes back and breaks it again. Nothing is impossible. Muaaaaaaaaaaa everybody keep dreaming.

You didn't say DISTANCE running, so I would say you are definitely not the kings of all running. In fact, I'd say y'all are pretty terrible over the entire spectrum. Talk about being good at only one thing

Wow. And to think only some 20 years ago we were singing "we are the world" for their sorry asses, now this is the thanks we get?!? At the least no class.

But, not surprised. My former agent kinda got done the same way by one of the Ethiopian "stars" after he made her a millionaire.

Maybe next time we just shouldn't sing for them.

that's fantastic. you're also the kings of poverty.

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F*CKING ... EPIC!

Great response.

do you expect us to beg you all the time. that is bullshet recentely ethiopian economy growth is fantastic and in the near future ethiopia will be the bread baket of africa.

apart from that it ie difficut to find athlete like haile and we ethiopian are luky to find athlete like him

hang in there, mesfin. i for one, am happy for your country's success at athletics. ignore the ridiculous comments made by these other posters. likely, they are americans who have never even been out of their own state, much less own country. great job for your team!

mesfin wrote:

do you expect us to beg you all the time. that is bullshet recentely ethiopian economy growth is fantastic and in the near future ethiopia will be the bread baket of africa.

Your people have a long history of political suppression by starvation, torture and mass murder. You are not the kings of anything.

I voted "no" to Geb breaking the world record. You know why?

Actually, its not because I'm a racist American who's never been out of his hometown.

It's because the marathon is a fickle beast- it's not like an 800 or 1500 where you have to have a perfect race for only a few minutes.

In order to break the marathon world record as strong as Tergat's, you have to have a PERFECT race- no major pacing errors, no bad wind, no untied shoelaces- EVERYTHING has to go perfect.

I knew Geb was PHYSICALLY capable of running faster than 2:04:55. The question was whether or not everything else would go perfectly. Would his stomach bother him? There was a rain forecast for Berlin that day that proved false; what if it had poured or even rained enough to make the roads slippery, costing Haile 2 seconds a mile?

Don't try to attack people who predicted wrong- the odds were terribly against Haile breaking the record. I honestly didn't think he would do it unless everything broke perfectly- which it did.

I think its a wonderful accomplishment, and the friendship between Haile and Paul Tergat is one of the great moments of sport (even if the maintstream will never recognize how great it is). I was just respecting how difficult the marathon is.

Well as soon as we get ryan hall to be doping as much as the ethiopians are america will have the world record....anyone who says haile is not dirty is either in denial or just plain ignorant. When is everyone going to realize that just about every world record is set by an athlete on some kind of performance enhancing drug. Lance was dirty, haile is dirty, bekele is dirty, Barry is dirty....Do athletes have morals anymore? Where is this love for the sport that our middle school coaches taught us? Why is everyone diryt?...because thats the only way to win and it needs to stop

lance, haile, bekele, and barry are dirty huh? its funny how barry is THE ONLY ONE OF THOSE ATHLETES WHERE THERE IS THE SLIGHTEST SHRED OF PROOF of doping. its fun when cynical people try to discredit as many people as possible in a single stroke claiming truth with zero proof.

i ain't saying everyone who is doping has been caught, but simply pointing out the best athletes and saying they must be doping is just idiotic and immature.

hope all world trouble things created by your own people.

slave trade in africa

world war I and it's ipmact on african people

world war II and it impact on african people

every single euproean and recently american invlovment on african social, political affair and it's imapct,

vitnam war

korean war

leaders like mubuto seseseko, jean bedel bokasa hleped by american

leader like mengistu suppoted by russian

war in iraq.....................

all evil things belongs to your ruthless people.

so you don't have any reason to blame african or ethiopian

Entoto wrote:

We the Ethiopians are the kings of running. No one can come close to us. We own the 5K 10K Marathon. 1hr. run and soon the half marathon. Most of you who doubted Haile and said oh his prime time is past, don't know shit about running unfortunately you were called the experts 67% of you who said he won't break it. That prime shit doesn't apply to Ethiopians and Kenyans it only applies to the rest of the world. I wouldn't be surprised if Tergat comes back and breaks it again. Nothing is impossible. Muaaaaaaaaaaa everybody keep dreaming.

this is probably the most racist thing I've heard in a while. And white people we own at Halo 3, say something else.

racism-the belief that race accounts for differences in human character or ability and that a particular race is superior to others.

wait til a random european wins the oly marathon in 08 and the first african doesn't medal

Lots of drug testing in the Olympics plus the usual oppressive heat that slows down the drug cheats.

Alan

haha. yeah, it's all the west's fault. not that of all your horseshit leaders who stop at nothing to line their own pockets with every scrap they can steal.