rojo wrote:
It will be really good for the SPORT if Bekele gets great again.
Even if he were to be drug-aided in the process, or irrelevant to the discussion?
rojo wrote:
It will be really good for the SPORT if Bekele gets great again.
Even if he were to be drug-aided in the process, or irrelevant to the discussion?
Who gives a shit what Jos Hermens says? In addition to his comments about KB and HG not being friends, like it matters, he also claims that someone can run under two hours in the marathon within a couple of decades because, get this, no one really knows anything about training yet and guys are out there running "400s and 1,000s." Right, Jos, and someone will strike out 500 major league batters in a season once pitchers learn to get a better grip on the seams. I also like the thing about KB not even taking vitamins. Just like Jos himself was clean as a whistle when he ran the one-hour record.
rojo wrote:
A really fine piece piece of running journalism by Christopher Clarey:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/05/sports/paris-marathon-kicks-off-a-month-of-foot-races.html?_r=0The piece includes a few hars statements by Bekele's agent Jos Hermens on Bkeele.
NY Times wrote:"He has to get his act together, and stay motivated and forget about business and run for five or six years,” Hermens said.
He also believes Bekele should focus less on the 40-year-old Gebrselassie’s aura and achievements.
“He’s competitive off the track with Haile, and he shouldn’t do that,” Hermens said. “They’re not really friends, and that’s more from his side than Haile’s."
It's officially time to get excite for Sunday's race.
One thing the article forgot. Yes, Bekele hasn't been great the last few years but he did beat Farah at 13.1 last Fall.
It will be really good for the SPORT if Bekele gets great again.
This article claims Bekele's first major title was when he won the 5k in 2003 in Paris, idk how "good" of an article it is.
Hingle McCringleberry wrote:
This article claims Bekele's first major title was when he won the 5k in 2003 in Paris, idk how "good" of an article it is.
Well, rojo wrote that "It's officially time to get excite for Sunday's race." Whenever one of these guys declares something to be "official," it's officially reason to immediately be suspicious.
Hingle McCringleberry wrote:
This article claims Bekele's first major title was when he won the 5k in 2003 in Paris, idk how "good" of an article it is.
Now you listen to me, Hingle. It takes a lot of effort to put together a quality article like they did. Imperfect, yes, but a quality article nonetheless.
It takes ZERO effort to nitpick minute details about the article. You aren't ADDING anything to the conversation with your "well, actually." You're SUBTRACTING from it.
Asdfghjkl wrote:
Bekele got smoked by El G in an Olympic final in his prime. Geb would never have let that happen.
Geb got smoked in his prime at every world cross he attempted.
fan of US distance running wrote:
Frank Shorter repeated it if you discount outed drug cheats.
Which would also make him the only other person to have done it.
Shorter wouldn't have any gold medals.
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