BOUABDELLAH TAHRI SOON A 5k RUNNER!!!

He was a junior european champion and not world junior champion.

At 6.3 inches, Tahri is too tall to be efficient at 5000 at the super world class level...his limit would be around 13.00, but he would not be able to compete with Bekele and Kipchoge and company.

Tahri is of North African descent, and from a racial point of view is a mix of black and white, so not completely white, even though the skin colour is pretty pale in his case.

Mottram ran 12:55 and is about 6'3

Yeah, but Mottram compensates his length with probably the smoothest running form out there, he is extremely light on his feet, like a tall version of Bekele.

react wrote:

Yeah, but Mottram compensates his length with probably the smoothest running form out there, he is extremely light on his feet, like a tall version of Bekele.

and tahri would not?

ghost wrote:

Tahri is of North African descent, and from a racial point of view is a mix of black and white, so not completely white, even though the skin colour is pretty pale in his case.

I'm french. my family live in france for years but we are from algeria.I'm sorry ghost but France is a latin country, a lot of people got brown skin, and here the "latinos" and arabs are considered as white. they are so many! so Tahri is arab for you, but white for us.

why is there always a racial matter in the USA?

you said "from a racial point of view tahri is a mix of black and white"

arabs are not a mix of black and white.

If you don't know you SHUT UP

had a chance to jog a couple of times this winter with bob and I'll vouch that his form/style is just as smooth as buster's. maybe it was because we were going slow but I recking he'll go okay in the 5.

CH.

Dur wrote:

Mottram ran 12:55 and is about 6'3

Mottram is listed here as 188 cm, which is about 6'1. Just nitpicking though, he probably seems taller since everyone else is so short.

Paul Tergat

bob tahri is one of medhi baala's best friends, they train together and they're considering moving to 5k next season together.

Baala 5k??? I don't think so dude, he is a typical 800/1500 runner!

With 1.43-speed.......there is no way he is moving up.

Tell that to El G.

Karim

Excusez - mon intention n`etait pas de dire quelque chose de negatif vis a vis les maghrebins, mais vous savez tres bien qu`en France la population fait une difference entre les personnes d`origine maghrebine et les personnes qui viennent d`autres endroits, meme si on parle de Portugais ou d`Espagnols qui ont souvent la meme couleur que les Africains du Nord.

Le Maghreb a subi beaucoup d`influence des pays au Sud du Maghreb, et pour cela, il existe un phenomene de mixite au point de vue racial. Il est difficile de dire que telle personne est blanc ou de race mixte, parce ce que ces facteurs la ne sont pas toujours detectables a vue.

Nous vous souhaitons bonne continuation, mais sachez que la France est un pays difficile pour les Nord Africains car il existe un phenomene de racisme sous jacent, qui est difficile d`eradiquer vue l`histoire de la France vis a vis des pays Maghrebins et surtout vis a vis l`Algerie. La France a fait une grosse erreur en voulant coloniser l`Algerie dans les annees 50.

ghost wrote:

At 6.3 inches, Tahri is too tall to be efficient at 5000 at the super world class level...his limit would be around 13.00, but he would not be able to compete with Bekele and Kipchoge and company.

Tahri is of North African descent, and from a racial point of view is a mix of black and white, so not completely white, even though the skin colour is pretty pale in his case.

6.3 inches? Damn! How is he ever getting over the barriers?

English plz.......

Or you could just learn another language.

someone could translate it ? please I would really appreciate to read that in english.

Yeah, France is all about racial understanding. That's why it is the most anti-Semitic country in Europe.

Way to go!

Mottram is way bigger than 6'1" I am taht ehight and he is way taller than me, more like 6'3"/4", as for France being racially intolerant its probably the most cosmopolitan country in Europe with large Black and Arab populations.

Note that the recent so called 'outrageous' attack on a Jew by anti semetics on an underground train in Paris and made paers around the world was actually proven to be untrue, the woman made it up...