Tiny Kenenisa Bekele update

Who is that?

I Don't get how he's still injured.

Geb FTW G.O.A.T.

The Waterboy wrote:but he must have really messed up his leg training to get Komen's record.

eh ?

he performed badly in a snowy, cold miserable x-country race before track season even started

How can someone with a perfect stride get injured? He should have a long, injury-free career, according to Salazar.

T. Rawling wrote:

How can someone with a perfect stride get injured? He should have a long, injury-free career, according to Salazar.

Ha. I was thinking the exact same thing.

Injured AKA staying out of racing so he won't be drug tested so he can use EPO to get fit for 2011 and 2012.

aren't random drug tests performed on athletes as well? have the olympic games/wc's been saving the samples like the tdf for retrotesting?

Not for Kenny B and his African Consortium. Lamine Diack looks out for his people..

I like to run wrote:

T. Rawling wrote:

How can someone with a perfect stride get injured? He should have a long, injury-free career, according to Salazar.

Ha. I was thinking the exact same thing.

Ditto.

You can rest assured that if KB is doing it, all the other people he races against are too.

The translation has some mixed up words ... the only thing missing is that K.B. has a injury at his lower leg ... receives treatment and does some short runs (the last bit of info comes from this link: http://www.deweekkrant.nl/pages.php?page=1415748

Bekele accidently ran a few strides with his thumbs sticking up and developed a grave injury. He is now studying video of Ritz to re-learn how to run properly.

POD

POD

zero gravity wrote:

Bekele accidently ran a few strides with his thumbs sticking up and developed a grave injury. He is now studying video of Ritz to re-learn how to run properly.

ventolin^3 wrote:

The Waterboy wrote:but he must have really messed up his leg training to get Komen's record.

eh ?

he performed badly in a snowy, cold miserable x-country race before track season even started

I understand that, I was just referring specifically when he talked about hurting his calf doing track workouts in prep to get Komen's 7:24 indoors in February.

Puzzled reader wrote:

Not for Kenny B and his African Consortium. Lamine Diack looks out for his people..

Tell me if you have any proof of your outlandish claim. Let me show you something as one piece of evidence in how you are completely wrong:

Tim is completely right on this. African domination of distance running (5000m, 10000m and cross country) is killing interest in the sport in Europe, the part of the world where support has traditionally been the greatest, especially over recent decades. It's gotten so bad now that hardly anyone wants the world cross country championships. The IAAF had to basically ask the Polish federation to take it last time.

Where's the Brussels 10000m? They don't have it anymore because unless Bekele or someone of his stature has a shot at the world record it's a boring bast of 27 minutes of valuable track time.

Kenya's per capita GDP is around $800, and Ethiopia's is around half that. Why on earth would the very organization that depends on sponsorship income break its own rules to try reduce its ability to recruit sponsorship dollars? World Cross barely holds a pulse these days because it is virtually impossible for a European or Western world man to win or even contend for the win. Europe is dying for some non-field stars that can take center stage, particularly men.

[ African domination of distance running (5000m, 10000m and cross country) is killing interest in the sport in Europe, the part of the world where support has traditionally been the greatest, especially over recent decades.

Maybe marathon too.

The Waterboy wrote:I understand that, I was just referring specifically when he talked about hurting his calf doing track workouts in prep to get Komen's 7:24 indoors in February.

a few track sessions prior to 1st indoor race isn't "training" - it's acclimatising

you don't go from a 5k/10k guy to a 3k one in a few days

anyone who's followed him knew the x-country race was his demise - he had no power in his legs in last 1/3rd of the race & got thrashed - there was something seriously wrong with him on that day