Rudisha 1:40.91 WORLD RECORD!!

Amos is 18. He's the age of an American high schooler......sheezzz

Sprintgeezer wrote:

To me, Rudisha is no different than is Bolt.

NOT AT ALL.

Even if he is using something, which is almost certainly is, it probably isn't banned yet, and if it is, he is only dosing to a "reasonable" level such that it clears his system by the time he is tested. He is not even as dramatic as is Bolt, when you consider the relative times he is running. Also, like the 100, you can bet that all the other guys are doing the same thing as Rudisha.

In short, I have no problem with whatever Rudisha is doing, until such time as he tests positive. Same with Bolt.

That scumbag Makhloufi is totally different, however.

So dopers are okay as long as they meet your arbitrary qualifications of "likability"?

Rudisha is coached by Brother Colm O’Connell. Are you suggesting he's spiking the wine when they take communion or something?

http://www.americamagazine.org/blog/entry.cfm?blog_id=2&entry_id=5278

Of all the runners, Rudisha is the last one I'd have down as a doper. Legend, period.

Mark my words, Nijel Amos will never run faster than what he ran today! He is a 1:42 high-1:43 guy. He was just at the right place at the right time today. Aman's days are over. He will continue to be Ethiopia's best man but now he has to get used to getting beat by not only Amos but also Abraham Rotich and Kosencha and I believe Timothy Kiptum.

student wrote:

Rudisha better hurry up and break 1:40 or Amos might beat him to the punch.

He might not be able to break it as consistently, but at this point Amos basically has to get in a race with Rudisha to break 1:42 moer often. The atmosphere and the crowd definitely contributed to the amazing times, but he's only 18. If he's only a "1:42-1:43 guy" then he shouldn't have run an entire second faster than the range you've given him. One second is enormous. He clearly has the talent.

Amos left the track on a stretcher, he gave it his all. A great kid if you ask me. The race was amazing, each and every runner gave it their all. The only racer who did not do good was Kaki, because his (Kaki's) strategy was to do everything Rudisha was doing and he was burnt out

Magic 8 Ball wrote:Well that's kind of the point of doping, right? We don't know which one he has that westerners don't. Everybody didn't have "the clear"...

idiot

clear

was developed in california

do you think california labs are taking all the effort of developing new drugs & risking exporting them to kenya with concomitant border controls/currency/money transfer problems/etc & not bother to "just" "deal" them to domestic dopers for proper simolians ???

What were Rudisha's splits?

Rudisha or Bolt for athlete of the year? Or what if Mo wins the 5000? Or how about Eaton? Holy cows, what a year!

WD40 wrote:

Rudisha is coached by Brother Colm O’Connell. Are you suggesting he's spiking the wine when they take communion or something?

http://www.americamagazine.org/blog/entry.cfm?blog_id=2&entry_id=5278

Of all the runners, Rudisha is the last one I'd have down as a doper. Legend, period.

Yeah, like Catholics with holy orders have such strong morals.

I wasn't suspicious before, but now I sure as shoot am.

grumpy gringo wrote:

What were Rudisha's splits?

49.28/51.63

Naturally Gifted wrote:

Mark my words, Nijel Amos will never run faster than what he ran today! He is a 1:42 high-1:43 guy. He was just at the right place at the right time today.

Agreed. He basically got drafted to 600m and had Rudisha ahead as a target to aim at. The extra 200m of drafting would have jacked his time up by about 0.5, giving him 1:42.2. A bit like when Kaki was drafted 700m by Rudisha in Oslo a couple of years back. He hasn't got close to that 1:42.2 mark since.

Also, the track is very fast, as many athletes have mentioned in post race interviews. Ventolin is talking crap when he says all tracks have been the same the last 20 years. Some tracks are faster than others, which doesn't mean they're illegal, and regularly throw up fast times year on year,...Monaco, Rieti,...

Just because the IAAF sets limits with track specifications, doesn't mean all tracks reach those limits.

I also doubt he's only 18.

Not sure a rabbit could do a better job of pacing to 600. Guess the slip stream would help and he could kick more in the last 200.

"Likability" has nothing to do with it at all.

In fact, I "like" neither Bolt, nor Rudisha. I "like" Kim Collins.

According to the new normal--which wasn't my idea, it is only something that I have adopted--only egregious violations of the spirit and letter of the code are prosecuted meaningfully.

Such prosecutorial discretion is not only common, it is the norm where rules are to be enforced with limited resources.

I don't like it, but that's the way it is, in the real world.

If you don't learn to deal with it successfully, you will spend a lifetime banging your head into a wall. I know that sounds awfully pragmatic, but there is room for some pragmatism in this life.

Perhaps athletics is somewhere that some pragmatism is appropriate, or useful.

Rudisha ran 1:49 in iten when he was 15 in his first 800. If you think of how incredible that is, I don't think it is that hard to believe what he is doing now.

I've never seen Rudisha use tactics in a race. His tactic is to go right to the front and not let anyone pass him. It always works. The commentator said that only once before had the leader at 200m won the 800. King David is above such laws of track and field.

Ridiculous point since the surface has changed many times over the years. You give credit to the surface only for the performance.

Barakus Obama wrote:

Could the record be affected by the great tartan field that is made for these olympics?

If so, thats sad. We don't need faster tracks, we need equal tracks.

The track was flatter than flat!

His 600m split was 1:14. A pacer would have to split 1:12. I don't think there is such a pacer at the moment. Maybe one to pace to 500m which is not enough.

Bugs Bunny wrote:

Not sure a rabbit could do a better job of pacing to 600. Guess the slip stream would help and he could kick more in the last 200.