Why is this Italian being so dumb?

it could be her breakthrough. If she believes in it hard enough, it might happen.

I suspect it's not going to work out for her, but in fairness, she did beat all but one Ethiopian at the Olympics.

It's the world champs. She can either run a safe race and be anonymous throughout to finish somewhere in the top 20 or she can take a big risk and see what happens. We should applaud her ambition

So you'd start a thread about her. If she was running a sensible race, nobody would mention her.

Coach Casanova wrote:

It's the world champs. She can either run a safe race and be anonymous throughout to finish somewhere in the top 20 or she can take a big risk and see what happens. We should applaud her ambition

I'd agree with you if it wasn't over 80 F. If it were in the 50s or 60s...

runrawr wrote:

Nothing in her history suggest she can break the Ethiopians right on her tail.

And everything in history suggested the podium places in the Men's 2004 Olympics' Marathon.

So far it seems to be working...

She's broken 2 ethiopians and 2 kenyans so far, I'd say kudos.

Kiplagat looking good, but Straneo should hang on for Silver or at least Bronze. Straneo very good at the drink stations, always taking plenty of fluids from early in the race. They must be getting close to the 35km mark now.

She just ran 17:05, the fastest 5km split! Waving to the crowd too, looks like she's headed for at least a silver.

How far in?

How far in?

Between the 35k and 40k mark.

That Italian is not dumb, she's sexy!

Around 37km/27mi.

ROFLer wrote:

Around 37km/27mi.

I mean, 37km/23mi

the 17:05 was ran from 30-35k.

runrawr wrote:

Coach Casanova wrote:

It's the world champs. She can either run a safe race and be anonymous throughout to finish somewhere in the top 20 or she can take a big risk and see what happens. We should applaud her ambition

I'd agree with you if it wasn't over 80 F. If it were in the 50s or 60s...

She wouldn't have broken enough people if the weather was cooler. Do you still think she's dumb?