Kipchoge Ran a Tactless Race

Tactic-less race.

Unless you saw Kipchoge be bluntly inconsiderate or indiscreet, as "tactless" means.

His race was more "tactic-less" in that it lacked a maneuver for acheiving a goal.

But alas, "tactic-less" isn't a word. But "tactless" isn't appropriate.

untacticful is the word we search.

untactlessical

I assume when you say "Geb" you mean "El Guerrouj" ?

all that aside, i agree.

untactlessical and untacticful are not words either...

Glad to see someone else thought that young man was downright rude. For shame, for shame...

Well at least NBC covered a good part of it.

Interesting how many races came down to the final straight on the track in these Games.

The men's 800 was a good example.

Prince wrote:

Tactic-less race.

Unless you saw Kipchoge be bluntly inconsiderate or indiscreet, as "tactless" means.

His race was more "tactic-less" in that it lacked a maneuver for acheiving a goal.

But alas, "tactic-less" isn't a word. But "tactless" isn't appropriate.

Prince,

My word; tactless, is appropriate. I hope you've learnt a new word today. Without me, it wouldn't have been possible.

Untacticmentfully

Are you smoking hash? Look at a dictionary! It's good for other things besides hitting your drunken redneck brother.

It's bending the rules of logic/reason to include a statement of savoir-faire into the whole bonanza of racing discourse and you know it.

I guess this really doesn't surprise me, since the Noun/Adjective order is screwed up in your name...

"Me fail english, that unpossible" -SonNative

Native son,

Same discussion for us Ethiopians.. no one was willing to put themselves on the line. Its a good lesson for the young athletes.

El G will compete until 2008 and they have a chance to take his crown.

Gonzo4.0 wrote:Interesting how many races came down to the final straight on the track in these Games.

The men's 800 was a good example.

I'd say a hundred-second race not being decided until the final 12 or 13 seconds is pretty commonplace.

"I hope you've learnt a new word today. Without me, it wouldn't have been possible."

Easy there Native. No need to be so tactimonious

let's not be tacky.

"Tactless" means blunt, rude, uncourteous and ill-mannered. It literally means "without tact," NOT "without tactics." Tact is a sort of social grace... tactics (as far as running is concerned) is the placement, race strategy, positioning, and decision-making on effort that you were accusing Kipchoge of lacking.

However, SonNative, I agree: both Bekele and Kipchoge were remiss in not pushing the pace and forcing El G out of contention with a hard race.

Eluid isn't anymore to blame than Kenenisa as the NBC announcers stated they both let the race turn into a mile race-against the greatest miler of all-time! While both of them were confident of their kicks, they should have known that El Guerrouj is still faster than both of them. Kenenisa and Eluid should have tried to burn everyone off (didn't Kenenisa set two WR in eight days and Eluid burn off a sub 12:47) and fight each other after Hicham was force feed the bronze. Alas the ignorance of youth and now maybe this lesson by the Great Hicham will entice a greater battle between the three in the future!

VIPAM

I think El G's uniform is tacky and he shouldn't tack on the distracting red tag. But he went tit-for-tat with Eluid.

Since when does leading the entire 5k by yourself win you an olympic gold medal? I haven't heard of that strategy working in a championhip event. I don't think Kipchoge is capable of running sub 12:50 leading the whole race, that's why he was rabbited when he ran 12:46. As fast as Bekele is with a 12:37 and all, I don't even think he could run 12:50 pace for 11.5 laps out in from without sacraficing his kick, particulalrly given how tired he said he was from the 5k. If Kipchoge or Bekele took the lead from the gun and ran 12:50 pace or faster, whichever one did that would probably have no kick left and would have been swallowed up on the last lap. Making a move with a mile to go might have been a better strategy, but unless you get cooperation from one or two teamates, setting a blistering pace from the gun is only going to leave you vulnerable to the kick of other guys, who's pr are near yours.