Mo Farah is scary good. I would love to see Kenenisa Bekele come back healthy because Mo seems that he could push a fit Kenenisa Bekele to the line. Noone has seriously challenged Mo Farah's kick his last few races in 2011.
Mo Farah is scary good. I would love to see Kenenisa Bekele come back healthy because Mo seems that he could push a fit Kenenisa Bekele to the line. Noone has seriously challenged Mo Farah's kick his last few races in 2011.
Personal youtube page of Mo Farah's parents... nice find.
For people in the UK you can view this:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/athletics/14101351.stm
Stellar commentary from Steve Cram and Brendon Foster and an interview with Farah and Rupp afterwards.
Absolutely Blazing!
As a UK onlooker at the US resurgence in distance running I am utterly impressed with Rupp after this race. Was not sure he could hang so close to Farah especially on a last lap sprint out but he proved it here.
Even though his finish is not meant to be that good he was strong enough to outkick:
1) Merga, 12:54 5k this year
2) Alimerew, 7:27 3k this year
This indicates Rupp is probably in sub-12:53 shape since his strength is not even his finish but a rather a fast even pace race.
I'm sure Mo, Galen, and Alberto have an idea what their capable of but they continue to surprise many fans and no doubt their top African competitors. When Mo Farah went to the front with 400m to go, Merga kinda nudge his way past Galen- like Rupp wasn't going to be a factor the last 400m.
Then click, check, click in his face he gets a nice clear view of Galen and Mo's competition numbers and they pull away from him in the strech! What could both of them run for 5000m and 10000m if they got great pacing this year?
rupp did great.
VIPAM wrote:
When Mo Farah went to the front with 400m to go, Merga kinda nudge his way past Galen- like Rupp wasn't going to be a factor the last 400m.
Then click, check, click in his face he gets a nice clear view of Galen and Mo's competition numbers and they pull away from him in the strech!
Not much of a Rupp fan overall but can't deny this performance was amazing. Merga has become pretty used to kicking guys down all over the circuit, so it was nice to see him get surprised.
Watching that feed it was pretty nuts. My guess is that if Rupp were not in that field most of us would have thought it was a pretty typical E. African finish and the Rupp/Solinskys would have been dropped good. Yet there was Rupp full of running down the back stretch, fully composed the whole way to the line and with a few gear shifts on the last 200. WOW.
Coming off the turn look at Mo Farah take a look over his left shoulder, then Rupp moves into second 60 meters out, and in 20 meters he's clear of 3rd. Those two Mo and Galen both stopped all out sprinting 40m out and just maintained their speed. They definitely could have run a slightly faster last lap but Mo knew he won and Galen knew 40m out noone was going pass him.
Alimerew is the biggest doper on the circuit!
coming out of nowhere last year to run 7.27 at Rieti. Yeah right.