If You Can't Outkick Them- Why must you BEAT UP the Ethiopian Runners 2 videos

correction

should be grounds for permanent banning from Championships

Oh my goodness ROTFLMBOTIC rolling on the floor laughing my butt off til I cried

That first video could have used a little more color commentary on the dust up.
It's great to see a heated battle
Next-UXC Ultimate cross country

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VIPAM wrote:

correction

should be grounds for permanent banning from Championships

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#107 Ethiopia and #81 Eritrea are both listed as DQ. It's good to see the officials will not let CC turn into UFC.

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VIPAM wrote:
most famous
happens at 10 secs of video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPCx54m-nFE&feature=related

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VIPAM wrote:

It is so sad to see athletes resulting to violence before or after a competition; however, during the race is grounds for permanent banning from competition. In most of the cases I've seen it's always a runner from another country attacking the furious kickers of Ethiopia.

What could possibly enrage another runner so much that you attack a fellow competitor who haven't spiked you during a race?

happens around 1:45 of the video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-dpbKeKckE

most famous
happens at 10 secs of video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPCx54m-nFE&feature=related

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VIPAM wrote:

In most of the cases I've seen it's always a runner from another country attacking the furious kickers of Ethiopia.

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Yes I remember watching that live and that's one Gold Medal that Geb may not have won if not for that incident!

The gentlemen Moses handled the situation alot better than his countrymen in 1992 (LOL)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPCx54m-nFE&feature=related

I had to google the Moses Tanui vs Haile Geb race and I'm a big fan of Haile but he looked down repeatedly right before he stepped on Moses' shoe.

Look at Haile smiling as he rubs it in Tanui face with his fake apology.

That's one infraction where if I was Mr. Tanui I would have physically whipped Haile all over the stadium til the police arrived.

At the very least I would have had my Kenyan Posse to make sure that was the last race he was able to run. Horrible sportsmenship from one of the greatest distance runners.

Yes Sir Haile deserved a beatdown

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bE7o6gnP98g

A little politics.

Ethiopia and Eritrea have their own personal war (as nations) which seems to have been transferred to the field. What I am wonderin gis how the Eritrean ended up holding the Ethiopian leg in teh air before the puch.

Enough of that.

In the other video, Machuka needs to stop being silly. It's stupid to blame the coaches for not having cautioned him (them/the KEnyan team) of such things because they might lead to a disqualification.

Who doesn't know that fighting is unnacceptable.

While we are still at it, why do ice hockey guys fight and nothing happens from the league officials.

If you punch a guy in the NBA, you are in for it but not hockey.

It's just somethign that I've noted.

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FistACuffs wrote:

Yes Sir Haile deserved a beatdown

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bE7o6gnP98g

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He might not have stepped on his shoe on purpose, but it's the predictable result of riding his ass and clipping heels the whole way. A half step further back and it wouldn't have been so dickish. It's one thing to have someone sit and kick, but when the guy behind you gets so close you feel his feet hitting yours, it really takes the aggravation level up a notch. Tanui turned around several times to get Geb to get off his ass/take the lead.

watch the whole race here in bad vhs transfer quality:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBPsunfAhjw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2N3CbkqymzQ&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBFtPl5yeFE&NR=1

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NativeSon wrote:

While we are still at it, why do ice hockey guys fight and nothing happens from the league officials.

If you punch a guy in the NBA, you are in for it but not hockey.

It's just somethign that I've noted.

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so funny i can not stop loughing. poor guys shame on you.
shall we go once again to Badem( disputed area b/n ethioipa and eritrea).

FOR YOUR INFORMATION
Ethiopia Says Patience with Eritrea Runs ThinPosted by Sodere on March 22, 2011 at 9:41amView Sodere's blog.Ethiopia’s long held policy of detente towards Eritrea’s alleged transgression and its leaders’ belligerence is possibly shifting to an active pursuit of regime change, according to series of remarks made last week by senior officials of the Ethiopian government.
From Prime Minister Meles Zenawi to his Deputy and Foreign Minister Hailemariam Desalegn and State Minister Brehane G. Kirstos, Ethiopian authorities were on the record last week, warning that their patience with Eritrea is running thin. Eritrean authorities have now devised a policy of “turning Addis Abeba to another Baghdad,” both Meles and Brehane accused during their respective briefings to members of the media last week.
“Our patience with Eritrea is limited when it comes to its efforts to undermine our peace and development to overcome poverty,” said Brehane during a press conference on Wednesday, March 16, 2011.
It was his first debut with the media after he was appointed to his current position. He has served as Ethiopia’s high-profile diplomat since his party assumed political power in 1991, posted in highly sensitive missions such as the United States and Brussels, the latter accredited to the European Union (EU).
He inducted his first public address through the media to send a stern but subtle warning to Eritrea, while strongly urging the international community to “respond to Eritrea’s continued belligerence.”
Ethiopian authorities have, for a decade, followed a policy of detente, in their bid to avoid military confrontation with the regime in Asmara. The Prime Minister has gone on the record several times that changing the government in Asmara is up to the people of Eritrea, and not his country.
However, Brehane’s strongly worded remarks last week that implied change in foreign policy position towards Eritrea was an echo of what Meles said few days earlier, when he spoke to journalists in his office on March 12, 2011.
“It is difficult to think to hold down this force of destruction, only guarding our borders,” Meles said. “There should be an effort to change the regime.”
For observers of foreign policy making on Menelik II Avenue, the change of tone, at least, on Ethiopia’s part was provoked after Eritrea’s government allegedly tried to smuggle terrorists with explosive to undermine the African Union (AU) heads of state summit, back in January 2011.
The Australian government, whose foreign minister was one of the delegates in Addis Abeba during the summit, had issued alerts of terrorist attempts few days before it was opened. After the end of the summit, Ethiopian authorities had shown, on the state TV, suspects and their captured explosives and weapons they alleged were smuggled to disrupt the summit.
Such accusations have always been there since the two countries went to bloody war in late 1990s.
“We have travelled thus far in pinning down this vicious regime doing police and security works,” Meles told reporters last week. “But the threat of the regime is not only to Ethiopia, but also to Djibouti, Somalia and Sudan. The threat could get out of control one day.”
Although the alleged incident during the AU summit appears to be the turning point, the change of strategy towards Eritrea has been afloat for some time now, according to diplomatic sources.

There is a whitepaper produced at the Menelik II Avenue as far back as December 2010 that urged Ethiopian authorities to put pressure on the international community to see to the changes of behaviour among Eritrean leaders. The other option is to seek regime change in Asmara, according to diplomatic sources.
This view was reinforced last week.
“The general [policy] is to put pressure on the Eritrean government to change its policy,” Meles said. “Or else, we ought to facilitate conditions for regime change.”
Nonetheless, neither of the Ethiopian leaders who spoke last week on the issue were clear what they would do in effect to facilitate regime change, according to a long time observer of Ethiopian foreign policy affairs. One immediate option they may have at their disposal is to put pressure on the international community to enforce the sanction the United Nations Security Council has imposed on Eritrea and its leaders.
He sees the international community is rather reluctant to enforce the sanctions. For instance, Yemane G. Meskel, special advisor to President Issayas Afeworki, had travelled to the United States a few weeks ago, despite his inclusion in the list of senior Eritrean government officials banned from international travel, according to sources.
The other area of pressure is to produce evidence to the United Nations Security Council on Eritrea’s continued arms supply to the Al-Shabab in Somalia, one of the reasons that subjected the latter to sanctions, say diplomatic sources.
Matt Bryden, Canadian national and coordinator of the Security Council’s Monitoring Group, was in Addis Abeba a few weeks ago where security authorities made available to him daunting evidences and debriefings from defected Eritrean military officials, reliable sources disclosed to Fortune.
“Ethiopian mission in New York could make good use of these material evidences to advance the immediate and strong enforcement of the sanctions,” said the foreign policy observer.Despite mounting alarms and warnings from Addis Abeba, Eritrean authorities have been quiet about these accusations. Neither was Girma Asmerom, Eritrea’s ambassador accredited to the AU and based in Addis Abeba, willing to comment, despite Fortune’s repeated efforts to solicit his responses.
By TAMRAT G. GIORGISFORTUNE STAFF WRITER

is it just me or was that (56) a really slow last lap for a 27:45 championship 10k?

my freshmen year of college i was in a grotesquely overcrowded 800 meter race and on the final turn one of the top seeds was stuck mid pack with me b/c of the field size and he was frustrated by a runner in front of him cutting him off so he literally SLAPPED him in the back of the head. I could actually hear the vibration. I had an awful race but this was the funniest thing I have ever seen.