trollism wrote:
get used to it. wrote:
regardless of his running credentials, if he is just spreading gossip and doesn't have any proof you should shut the hell up.
Despite the fact that she runs for a proven doping country, I don't think he was implying doping.
Or he was? I don't really know.
Copw;l wrote:
He actually doesn't have some good insights into what is going on and the poster was right, looks like he couldn't win gold in his career outside of mud.
Cowardly statement from Hutchings, bordering on racism.
Querfeldein wrote:
A shame that Hutchings doesn't specify what he finds "dodgy".
_This_ wrote:
[quote]get used to it. wrote:
regardless of his running credentials, if he is just spreading gossip and doesn't have any proof you should shut the hell up.
[quote]
+1
RRRR wrote:
_This_ wrote:
[quote]get used to it. wrote:
regardless of his running credentials, if he is just spreading gossip and doesn't have any proof you should shut the hell up.
[quote]
+1
It's his twitter handle, and he can say whatever the hell he wants.
Leneen wrote:
Like a dumb Bieber fan, Tim Hutchings likes to start #$%^ on twitter. It really brings him down a notch in my books. He is acting more and more like a FOX journalist with each passing race. For example, he brought up some supposed "advantage" that Priscah Jeptoo may have had in the NYC Marathon with this tweet. Luckily no one took the bait...
https://twitter.com/TimHutchings1/status/397503753659891712
Renato Canova wrote:
I am friend of Tim Hutchings, but this time I can't agree with him, not because Florence Kiptagat is a my athlete, but because there is no any analysis in what he wrote.
The fact the improvement was so big doesn't mean something was wrong in the race.
In 1965, Ron Clarke improved is WR of 10000m (without any pacer) from 28:15 to 27:39, and 36.0 in 10000m are equivalent to 1:15 in HM : somebody can suppose the track was shorter ?
In 1968 Bob Beamon improved the WR of long jump from 8.35 to 8.90 : somebody supposed the meter was too short ?
Great performances are blessed by particular situations of perfect conditions (shape of the athlete, weather, in case of road races type of course and quality of tarmac, pacers, mental tranquillity, etc...), that can allow athletes to achieve performances of unbelievable level.
Barcelona was one of these opportunities.
The fact she ran only 4:20 slower than Eliud Kipchoge (winner in 60:52) and was number 4 in the full race, defeating all the Spanish male runners, can explain enough the ecceptionality of the performance, without having any doubt.
Tim normally is able to analyse the development of a race for having nice technical explanations.
In this case, he was superficial and spoke without knowing any thing, putting in the mind of people the seed of doubt, that is the worst thing for a commentator.
trollism wrote:
Despite the fact that she runs for a proven doping country, I don't think he was implying doping.
Or he was? I don't really know.
Renato Canova wrote:
In 1968 Bob Beamon improved the WR of long jump from 8.35 to 8.90 : somebody supposed the meter was too short ?
To the Limit wrote:
The Uk has a far better record in terms of lack of drug users in middle and distance running than Ethiopia, as well as having had far more stringent and vigorous testing since the early 80's.
