MO FARAH: After his 3:28.81 1500m, C. Jackson ask when will you go for WR? Mo's response...

Nothing to gain from it would probably fall short and get paid nothing for the fast time but then be compared unfavourably to KB HG

Wether or not he has doping would have little to do with it.

Want to know why? Because they weren't INTERESTED! They didn't feel like running a world record! Either cause they thought the records were too fast, or they didn't want to risk injury, or whatever.

Complete and udder rubbish. El G wouldn't have done the 7:23 if he weren't interested in the record. It was the money that kept them from doing it. El G got paid more to run the 1500m simple as that. But to say that he or Geb had no interest in setting a WR is just plain dumb.

Yo Broh wrote:

Complete and udder rubbish. El G wouldn't have done the 7:23 if he weren't interested in the record. It was the money that kept them from doing it. El G got paid more to run the 1500m simple as that. But to say that he or Geb had no interest in setting a WR is just plain dumb.

Thank you for arguing my point.

With the case of El G, you're most likely right. He could make more money running the 1500m than he could attempting a world record at 3000m in any given meet. So in other words, his interest in a 3000m WR was outweighed by the financial loss of actually doing it. That's why he didn't attempt a world 3000m record after 1999. Because of money, NOT BECAUSE OF DOPING.

all he cares about and anyone for that matter before a world championship race is to win. Does not matter how u do it. Run 1240 or 1510 does not matter

@ Creepy Cracker or whoever goes by that name. Thank you for being our English teacher around here, I wish we would all get credit hours from your lesson and I wish you would get paid for it as well. VIPAM, I agree with your arguments. There gotta be a reason as to why he doesn't try to break WRs or even attempt to. Drugs must be the # 1 reason!

Okay now that most fans think both were juiced in their prime....WHO WINS in Kenenisa form from 2004 5000m and 2005 10000m WR races

Kenenisa Bekele vs. Mo Farah

or Championship

Could Mo Farah beat Kenenisa Bekele in his 2004 and 2005 form in either a championship or WR pace 5000m or 10000m?

MY MONEY would be on Kenenisa in WR race or Championship!

Kenenisa in his prime vs Mo Farah

Type of race

World Record pace: Kenenisa easily

Championship race: Kenenisa would take it out from a mile and still be able to close in 51-52, only way he loses if he makes tactical mistake like he did with Eluid and Hicham and leave them around too long

KipRunner wrote:

There gotta be a reason as to why he doesn't try to break WRs or even attempt to.

Didn't read the thread did you? Pay attention.

KipRunner wrote:

Drugs must be the # 1 reason!

No. Just, no. You are either a troll or incredibly dumb.

Farah will get Steve Jones's record, as well as the half marathon record, giving him every British record from 1500m-marathon, except for mile, 2k, and steeple, all of which he could get. I'd like to see him run a steeple at the end of a season. But the 3k/5k/10k world records should be the priority after World's. Next year, you think is a time trial year with no global championships, but usually those years are down years for the top athletes with little incentive to go after it. That's why Farah is trying his London Marathon next year, that and the big bucks. With new training, you can certainly get increasing breakthroughs over a few years, even relatively late in your career, but obviously his performances at this age raise red flags. Look at the re-test of the 1998 TdF results. Teams and the technical nature of cycling make the widespread doping more likely (you don't have to have 180 cyclists individually making arrangements to dope and they already take lots of supplements), but the incentives are the same or greater in track and there was the same period of no testing of EPO. What they're taking now, we'll find out about in five or ten years, apart from the stimulants sprinters have been taking.

Kenenisa Bekele in his prime wouldn't lose against Mo Farah in any distance from 3000m to 15km! Just wouldn't happen...Kenenisa in his prime had too many weapons:

1.) Able to burn you off with WR pace

2.) Start fast and grind you to death in the last mile to 3000m out

3.) Could routinely kick 51-52 off a sub 13 minute pace

Kenenisa vs Mo Farah: Kenenisa Wins by TKO Mo Farah