Bekele is BACK

@running_comment wrote:

Moronic wrote:

Reminds me of the 2000 Sydney Olympics 1500m Final, Seb Coe was the co-commentator here on Australian TV and said just prior to the start "I'd put my house on El Guerrouj winning this".

You. Just. Don't. Get. It.

I didn't say that I am betting on Rudisha - I'm not. I said that he is closest thing to something I would bet on. Read again, more slowly if it helps: "Rudisha in the 800 is probably the single gold I would be MOST likely to bet on."

There is no INDIVIDUAL I would bet on rather than him. He is the closest there is to a sure thing in all of the men's track events, without question. That doesn't mean he IS a sure thing, though.

Is this actually confusing to you?

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Ha, ha, what a touchy fella you are. I don't really care what you said or didn't say and I didn't pass comment on what you said or didn't say, I wrote; "Reminds me of...".

@running_comment wrote:

You would have bet on Ngeny? I bet.

I wish.

Oh, I thought you called me "moronic," but it seems you didn't mean anything by the handle. My bad.

@running_comment wrote:

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Anyway, my point was that you'd foolish to bet against any single runner other than Rudisha in the 800, contrary to the other poster who said Kenya was looking like NO golds.

I agree with this. And I would bet on Rudisha over the field although it is never a sure thing.

Moronic wrote:

[quote]Anyway, my point was that you'd foolish to bet against any single runner other than Rudisha in the 800... [quote]

Reminds me of the 2000 Sydney Olympics 1500m Final, Seb Coe was the co-commentator here on Australian TV and said just prior to the start "I'd put my house on El Guerrouj winning this".

Yeah, well, what does he know--he couldn't even break 12 seconds from the blocks!

"It seemed like he was sprinting the whole way."

Not to a sprinter, it didn't.

However, Bekele amazes me. The fluidity of the stride. Of course, the guy is a microbe--each of his legs must weigh no more than 20 lbs!

Regardless, there are plenty of other microbes who can't run anything like how Bekele runs. Absolutely beautiful.

IMHO this looked like a decent training run for him--he was doing something more than just jogging.

If Jeilan is anywhere close to his form and vigor of last year, I think that Bekele will need to be involved in a long kick in the 10,000m--as good as Bekele is over the last 400m, I think that Jeilan last year was a shade better--just better enough that if they are side-by-side starting the last 400, Jeilan could win.

What is a long kick in the 10,000? 2 laps? 600m? Does Bekele have what it takes to go a very fast last 2 or 3 laps? Is that kind of a strategy even doable, and would he have anybody else in the race to help him execute it?

This guy is amazing. So fluid. He's like an organic machine. I very much appreciate that he runs the 10,000m on the track, the hottest crucible of athletic running.

Don't call it a comeback

I been here for years

Rockin my peers and puttin suckas in fear

Makin the tears rain down like a MON-soon

Listen to the bass go BOOM

Explosion, overpowerin

Over the competition, I'm towerin

Wreckin shop, when I drop these lyrics that'll make you call the cops

Don't you dare stare, you betta move

Don't ever compare

Me to the rest that'll all get sliced and diced

Competition's payin the price

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vimZj8HW0Kg&feature=related

Difference between the 2008 and 2012 Olympic 10k:

In 2008, I'm betting Bekele over the field.

In 2012, I'm betting the field over Bekele.

Even Bekele said in an interview he doesn't want to consider this to be a message to all his competitors and is waiting to see how he compares to them on the track, so we will find out in May if he is truly "back" in the sense that is important

Sprintgeezer wrote:

Moronic wrote:

[quote]Anyway, my point was that you'd foolish to bet against any single runner other than Rudisha in the 800... [quote]

Reminds me of the 2000 Sydney Olympics 1500m Final, Seb Coe was the co-commentator here on Australian TV and said just prior to the start "I'd put my house on El Guerrouj winning this".

Yeah, well, what does he know--he couldn't even break 12 seconds from the blocks!

Not exactly sure how his inability to break 12 from the blocks has to do with his opinions of distance races...

An a related note, do you really think that Coe would not be able to break 12 from blocks? I won't pretend to know the first thing about sprinting but iirc correctly he ran 400m in like 45.xx seconds. This would mean he could probably run at least under 11 in the same conditions of starting for 100m as he had in his 400m's. Do the blocks really slow a non-sprinter athlete down by that much?

agip wrote:

now that bekele is back and the ethiopian marathoners have teh top half dozen times of the year...looks like there is a good change kenya wins zero golds in mens athletics in London - how much would that suck for them.

maybe kiprop in the 1500 is still a likely gold, but not by much - a championship 1500 is much luck - I would never bet on that race.

Steeplechase and 800m would seem like very good bets for Kenyan gold.

Sprintgeezer wrote:

Moronic wrote:

[quote]Anyway, my point was that you'd foolish to bet against any single runner other than Rudisha in the 800... [quote]

Reminds me of the 2000 Sydney Olympics 1500m Final, Seb Coe was the co-commentator here on Australian TV and said just prior to the start "I'd put my house on El Guerrouj winning this".

Yeah, well, what does he know--he couldn't even break 12 seconds from the blocks!

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"Yeah, well, what does he know--", not much because he put his house on winning gold in the Moscow Olympics 1500.

if they're blood testing well then nobody is the favorite. but you simply can't catch people with in-competition testing very often because it's cleared their system.

Sweet

Wow this is great news. Glad he's back. Now maybe win the London Marathon?

Lol look at the post date ;)