If we had an Olympics featuring athletes who could never compete because they were crippled, would he win? I mean, if they could compete (but of course they can't because they would all be injured).
If we had an Olympics featuring athletes who could never compete because they were crippled, would he win? I mean, if they could compete (but of course they can't because they would all be injured).
German Fernandez
I can't testify to that, but he might be one of the greatest talents to ever throw his career away by bashing his head against the marathon.
nah - decker won two wc golds while spending most of her career recovering.
In other words, both are about the same fragile, but decker actually won something.
P.Whelan wrote:
I can't testify to that, but he might be one of the greatest talents to ever throw his career away by bashing his head against the marathon.
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John Trautman for the win.
Said Shaheen
possibly better than Kenenisa Bekele but always injured
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Bekele is always injured! I can't begin to imagine how fast he's have run if he didn't keep getting injured.
Adam Goucher
Mizuki Noguchi.
I was sort of wondering this myself as i was day dreaming last night and then thought, "Not even close." Thoughts like this show how Western biased we are.
What about 2000 Olympic and 2001 World marathon champion Gezahegne Abera? By 2003 when he was just 25, he'd also won Fukuoka two or three times, London and been 2nd at Boston.
He hasn't really raced at all since 2003 due to injuries. He's only 32 right now.
Ritz is 28.
More on abera here:
The tendency to ignore and train through pain that can lead to injuries is similar to the tendency to ignore the pain of racing and training that is necessary to be a good runner. Some runners are lucky enough not to get injured, due to genetics, coaching, other factors and some runners have difficulty discerning between pain that comes with the territory and pain that poses an actual problem.
Its amazing how there are/were so many great runners constantly injured. We're talking guys who can't make it through a a year to year and a half without going down for a month or two with injuries.
Injuries get the great ones sooner or later. You have to be extreme in your training to be at that level. Very few can hold up fo a long time.
rojo wrote:.
He hasn't really raced at all since 2003 due to injuries. He's only 32 right now.
How do you know that he hasn't raced since 2003 because of injuries? Do you have any evidence that he's been training for the last 8 years but has had chronic injuries stopping him?
gfd wrote:
The tendency to ignore and train through pain that can lead to injuries is similar to the tendency to ignore the pain of racing and training that is necessary to be a good runner.
If you are experiencing pain in either racing or training then stop.
Secondly, recurring niggles are all part of the running process. If you stopped training for every niggle you'd never become fit. through experience you should have an idea which niggles have the potential to become worse, but then again, no one really knows. It's a crap shoot. Injuries happen.
malmo wrote:
How do you know that he hasn't raced since 2003 because of injuries? Do you have any evidence that he's been training for the last 8 years but has had chronic injuries stopping him?
http://www.globalathletics.com/Athletes/gezahegne_abera.phpThe first man ever to win gold at both the Olympics and World Champs, Abera's training and racing have been interrupted the past few years by Achilles problems, which necessitated surgery in the autumn of 2004 and again in 2007.
We kinda suspect Ritz is on the secret sauce anyways.
I think David Bedford was injured a lot.