FP I'm not saying meb is going to beat Hall at NYC but you have to be kidding with this BS. You've already got ripped for your stupid statement about Athens. A lot of top guys ran bad because it was 90 something degrees out. But lets be realistic, Meb has run 2:09 at New York, twice! He has finished 2nd and 3rd a grand total of 51 seconds out of the win between both races. Hall has run crazy fast at London, but Meb has run 2 half PR's and a marathon PR- admittedly weaker performance then his 2 New York runs, his 2:09 at Boston and his 2:11 at the olympics, this year already. Hall ran 2:09:40 at Boston this year, Meb ran 2;09:56 in his one Boston.
Look Hall is great, Ritz is great, Abdi is great, to say that anyone of these guys is going to definitely crush the others is just plain dumb. But to call out Meb in the middle of a great revival year when he is peak marathon age, with his credentials, on a course that favors a certain few who learn to run it well, where PR's on fast course means little just shows a complete lack of any sort of knowledge about the marathon.