"I will work as hard as I can not only to try and accomplish the dream of my life to win the 1500m but I will also attempt to double up and win the 5000m gold as well.?
thats cuhrazy!
"I will work as hard as I can not only to try and accomplish the dream of my life to win the 1500m but I will also attempt to double up and win the 5000m gold as well.?
thats cuhrazy!
Why? He came in within a few 1/100's of a second of doing it this past year, right?
Now he has more 5k experience. Good for him for CHALLENGING himself. So many great track athletes pick the easiest event they can, avoiding going head-to-head with runners who have a chance to beat them, instead of risking it all for history and immortality.
Recently Bekele has done it & El G has done it(gone for history with the great double attempts. Bekele succeeding twice in X-C on those doubles, and both just missing historic track doubles).
Why doesn't Geb do it (attempt a bad-ass double) ???
GO EL G!
I think El G will win the 5k Olympics, but he is going to loose the 1500m. that is my prediction.....
Loose to who?
Lagat? Don't think so.
Ngeny? He's done
Baala? Naah
Webb? :)
if anyone could pull it off it would be G man.
I think attempting the double will make it more likely for El G to win the 1500.
It takes a little pressure off since his entire Olympic chance isn't riding just on the 1500.
Alex Kipchircur will put him down!
El G has the best chance but everyone thought he was a lock in 2000 too and a guy no one thought capable of beating him (Ngeny) set him down. El G's 4 years older now and he'll be the oldest 1500 meter champion if he wins. Running the 5000's a good idea as it gives him double the chances of winning and reduces the huge pressure he would be under if he just ran the 1500.
Les wrote:El G has the best chance but everyone thought he was a lock in 2000 too and a guy no one thought capable of beating him (Ngeny) set him down.
Wrong, Ngeney ran stride and stride with him in his World Record mile the summer before...people were blinded by EL g's unbeatableness....when it was quite obvious there was Ngeney knocking on his door and he was capable of beating El G....in that world record he was actualy gaining when El G started to cruise in and then realized Ngeney was going to beat him and kicked it in.
Les wrote:
Running the 5000's a good idea as it gives him double the chances of winning and reduces the huge pressure he would be under if he just ran the 1500.
or it could reduce his chances by half, depending on how you look at it.
but i hope he pulls it off because El G is awesome!
mrr82 wrote:
Les wrote:El G has the best chance but everyone thought he was a lock in 2000 too and a guy no one thought capable of beating him (Ngeny) set him down.Wrong, Ngeney ran stride and stride with him in his World Record mile the summer before...people were blinded by EL g's unbeatableness....when it was quite obvious there was Ngeney knocking on his door and he was capable of beating El G....in that world record he was actualy gaining when El G started to cruise in and then realized Ngeney was going to beat him and kicked it in.
I agree people were a bit blinded and Ngeny underrated, but no one thought Ngeny WOULD beat El G in the Olympics, otherwise why was it considered an upset? In any case it could happen again next summer - Baala ran all the way to the wire with El G this summer, like Ngeny.
wait wrote:
Les wrote:Running the 5000's a good idea as it gives him double the chances of winning and reduces the huge pressure he would be under if he just ran the 1500.
or it could reduce his chances by half, depending on how you look at it.
Yeah, but since the 5000 is his secondary event and I believe the 1500 is run first, it would not be a catastrophe if he lost the 5000, like this summer people would just congratulate him for his courageous double. If he loses the 1500 it would give him a second chance for gold. If he wins the 1500 he can always drop out of the 5000. If he only ran the 1500 (in probably his last Olympics) and was upset again he would be a 3-time loser and his glittering record would be footnoted by never winning the Olympics despite 8 (maybe 9) times being number 1 ranked. Good luck to him.
el guerrouj has not raced below 1500m since 1995. Ngeny raced regularly at 800m/1000m leading up to his Olympic gold. Ngeny improved his 800m and 1000m bests to 1:44.x and 2:11.96WR. Where as el Guerrouj in those 800 and 1k races? That's why he lost the Olympics. If the pace was far enough off WR pace (3:32) and Ngeny was close enough at the end, he could blow past el Guerrouj because Ngeny worked on his ability at shorter events and el Guerrouj did not.
That being said, he'll win the 1500 and come up with a silver or bronze in the 5000. If Bekele runs only the 5k, he'll win.
There is no way bekele will only run the five. If he only runs one event, it'll be the 10.
middle distance runner wrote:
There is no way bekele will only run the five. If he only runs one event, it'll be the 10.
sure there is. Ethiopia likes to win things. They can potentially have golds in teh 5k, 10k and marathon running Bekele, Gebrselassie and Abera. But Bekele will have his best chance for 5k gold if his avoids the 10 and leaves hat to Geb, Sihine and
. Men's 5k would hold Bekele, Gebremariam and .Why is it crazy when he almost did it this summer.....you guys obviously know NOTHING about this sport....got back to HS and blow your star 4:40 runners
wow. people must be under standing me. by cuhrazy i mean that he's a stud...
thats right....im from the streets bitch!
idiot!!! wrote:
Why is it crazy when he almost did it this summer.....you guys obviously know NOTHING about this sport....got back to HS and blow your star 4:40 runners
I'm assuming you must be the track god and knows everything about running? Get over yourself. These are opinions, you can't alter them...