WORLD CROSS COUNTRY LIVE REPORT

Ethiop Boy wrote:

Ya damn right we will have a party here.

Its personal this time. Kenyans celebrated when Kenenisa dropped out.

We are out to cut there throats.

WTF is wrong with you (and other Ethiopians?)? That may be how people talk in your part of the world but speaking of cutting peoples throats is not needed here. I have a lot of respect for Ethiopians, please don't make me lose it.

They don't have the depth. Sorry.

How do you know he is Ethiopian?

because he often writes on these boards.

Ethio[p] Boy:tasaferaleh... Stick to the issues.

troubled waters wrote:

Ethiop Boy wrote:

Ya damn right we will have a party here.

Its personal this time. Kenyans celebrated when Kenenisa dropped out.

We are out to cut there throats.

WTF is wrong with you (and other Ethiopians?)? That may be how people talk in your part of the world but speaking of cutting peoples throats is not needed here. I have a lot of respect for Ethiopians, please don't make me lose it.

Nice race for 21 year old Scott Bauhs!

52nd, 4th American :)

benglois wrote:

Glad to see Kenya get the team gold - no other country has the

depth of Kenya! Looks like the gap is closing.

Torres seems to be the best nonafrican! Good on him!

Buster will never be a good CC runner - way to heavy.

Mottram is a fine CC runner. What he is not, is a longer distance runner. Not yet at least. The past few years Mottram has primarily competed at 1500, mile, 3000, and 5000 meters. He has occasionally run 10k on the roads of NY and in the UK. He rarely races 10000m on the track. If this was the 4k short course we would have seen a much higher placed, and I would contend, "medaling" Mottram.

I'm not sure why Buster ran here today.

FUSHO wrote:

52nd, 4th American :)

...and I'm proud of him. He got on the plane, and ran for his country!

I wouldn't put him in a medal category even at 4k. People like Bekele and Choge, if they ran the short course, would dust him.

The Ethiopian Team produced pretty good results except for the senior mens team. I was surprised that abebe dinkessa didn't start.

We had two top runner.. tadesse tola and abebe dinkessa of the team.

Anyone know what happened to kipchoge?

Based on watching the race Joseph Ebuya and this new kenyan kid komon looked very strong.

No odubt that Z tadesse was told to push, when kenenisa lost his shoe. He wanted to test to see if the effort to catch up can be exploited.

Kenenisa looked good and would have blown the field away by 10 plus seconds had he not lost his shoe.

It had to have bothered him to loose his shoe.

My Favorite moment was Genzebe winning. She would have won the race last year had it been in cooler climate. Emebet and her also miss timed there kick with one lap left.

It was sweet redemption for last years tragedy.

Being tall and relatively heavy, he is at a disadvantage in CC. Short or long course. There are dime a dozen of kenyan

3.3x 1500m runners who would dust Buster in a 4K.

I hope Buster will be running well in Beijing!

Chitown Racer wrote:

Nice race for 21 year old Scott Bauhs!

Bauhs always steps up when it counts. Congratulations!

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Chitown Racer wrote:

Nice race for 21 year old Scott Bauhs!

Agreed. Considering his lack of championship experience, Scott seems to have a real sense of when to step it up for an important race. He's the real sleeper in US distance running right now, and look forward to seeing more great things.

An expression of sanity--I don't think I can take it.

Hwy 6 wrote:

Didn't Ritz crush EVERYONE at USA XC Nats? Why all the hatin on Ritz, when Torres is the focus right now?

Can we just focus on how great Jorge just ran and let Ritz do his Sunday morning long run in peace?

i'm glad scott bauhs did well, he's really turning into a national class (not just collegiate national class) runner.

Found a few videos on Youtube, has anyone seen any others out there?

http://www.runnerspace.com/WorldXC

"I too think Cragg should think about relocating and/or switching coaches. McD got his hands full with his young college team; not time for what Cragg needs."

-it's definetly not his coach. john has plenty of time for his athletes, and wouldn't take on the job if he didn't feel like he could give it the attention needed. it's his head. plain and sinple. cheers for the play by play to "LIVE".