http://www.iaaf.org/competitions/iaaf-world-cross-country-championships/40th-iaaf-world-cross-country-championships-2-5096/results/men/senior-race/final/resultThe Stache wrote:
WHERE ARE THE DAMN RESULTS?!?!?!?!
http://www.iaaf.org/competitions/iaaf-world-cross-country-championships/40th-iaaf-world-cross-country-championships-2-5096/results/men/senior-race/final/resultThe Stache wrote:
WHERE ARE THE DAMN RESULTS?!?!?!?!
Merga is a good way to gauge the Americans. He won 2 years ago and is excellent on the track circuit. The Americans
delivered today and the US is catching up.
Old Ultra Guy wrote:
Mens results
http://www.iaaf.org/results/iaaf-world-cross-country-championships/2013/40th-iaaf-world-cross-country-championships-2-5096/men/senior-race/final/result
USA:
True - 6th
Derrick - 10th
Vail - 17th
Bobby Mack - 19th
Heath - 30th
(Strang - 37th)
Kenya:
Korir - 1st
Macharinyang - 12th
Kirui - 15th
Kiptoo - 26th
Cherop - 36th
(Ndiku - DNF)
USA USA USA USA
Incredible. Vail and Bobby Mack really performed well. True performer of the meet after Korir who barely made the squad. Kirui and Kiptoo going out hard for first 5k and eating mud helped the US out too. Strong, strong runs by the Americans. I never thought I'd see it.
Not sure Teg would have scored. He just ran a 13:40 5K, right?
Nappy Roots wrote:
Did Cram just say a minute ago that the East African nations don't have out-of-competition drug testing?!?
He misspoke (or is depressingly uniformed). There's been out of competition testing everywhere since the IAAF instituted it decades ago. John Ngugi was banned for refusing a test at his home in Kenya in 1993.
The first out of competition blood tests were recently conducted in Kenya. Out of competition blood tests are rare anywhere because of the additional resources required compared to the standard urine test.
To summarize:
Out of competition urine tests have been everywhere for decades. Out of competition blood tests constitute a small fraction of all out of competition tests conducted everywhere around the globe, and are just now being able to be instituted in East Africa.
Everyone is subject to the biological passport. Again, because of the logistics of drawing and properly storing blood samples, most of the hematological data for the passports has been collected at events like the World Championships and Olympic Games, when the proper labs, resources and athletes are all centrally located. Blood samples were recently taken in Kenya for this purpose.
yyy wrote:
Merga is a good way to gauge the Americans. He won 2 years ago and is excellent on the track circuit. The Americans
delivered today and the US is catching up.
I agree. Mehdin is also a guy who is usually there in the last lap or two of a big 10000. So is Kipsiro. US ran great.
i am glad too! He took the battle to the Ethiopians especially Merga. I knew that barring an injury, Korir was the man to beat considering he has good experience running in European cross country races in the snow. The undulating hills(up and down) and many turns on the course are some of the contributing factors to his win today. His stature enable him to recover quick from taking turns and from running steep downhill part of the course. These factors are the same ones that killed Eritrean bronze winner who is tall and lanky. Merga relies on suddent burst of speed and this course was not made for that.
NativeSon wrote:
Wow!
I am so happy for Korir. He ran from the front like a warrior.
....and he looks quite young.
I hope it was just a one-off bad race for Levins.
certifiably wrote:
Damn Ritz & Teg, but don't let Rupp off the hook so easy.
This course was far from Rupp-certified.
It would have been interesting to see what Salazar would have done had Rupp been on the team and then they saw the course conditions.[/quote]
They probably would've done something like this
http://www.letsrun.com/photos/2011/edinburghrace/imagepages/image67.phpHas Paula conceded retirement. she commentate but not run the race.
True and Derrick were ahead of Hosea Macharinyang who has finished top 10 at world xc before so thats a good barometer. Tegenkamp would have been outside the top 30.
Zlatan wrote:
I hope it was just a one-off bad race for Levins.
He is quickly showing he was just a one-hit wonder
WOW, if we scored all 7 runners the USA would have won that race!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
jakethefake wrote:
WOW, if we scored all 7 runners the USA would have won that race!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If elephants were very small I could carry quite a few in my pockets!
Racist cave man, you are.
little trunks tickle my fancy wrote:
If elephants were very small I could carry quite a few in my pockets!
True, a "what if", but it shows that the every US team member had a great race and that is to be commended.
The Walking Fred wrote:
Zlatan wrote:I hope it was just a one-off bad race for Levins.
He is quickly showing he was just a one-hit wonder
yeah, like that two mile he ran this season?
If I recall correctly, a top 15 finish counts as the standard for the 10000 for Worlds. This means that Neely Spence and Ben True both now have the standard (True had run 27:41, but the standard is now 27:40).
Speaking of flameouts Conley had a bad race
Agreed...great XC season last year, good indoor and outdoor (recall he ran very well at the olympics), and then comes back with a solid 2 mile. Levins is far from a 1-hit wonder. This really just screams of getting sick before a big race. He will be back and running fast for sure.
As people have noted though, very solid performances by the US squad all the way around.
Am I living in the twilight zone? The Boston Marathon weather was terrible!
Des Linden: "The entire sport" has changed since she first started running Boston.
Matt Choi was drinking beer halfway through the Boston Marathon
Ryan Eiler, 3rd American man at Boston, almost out of nowhere
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