Why aren't people trashing Turinesh Dibaba?

Thing is, Dibaba didn't talk as big but remained a factor from start to finish. She gave us, the audience, a show. Farah was never in the race from the gun despite claiming the form of his life.

What are you talking about? This has little to do with Salazar.

It has more than a little to do with Salazar - he is Mo's coach right. If there is a level of coaching occurring then he has some play in it - not a little to do - unless he is doing little coaching. That's just a statement - a true statement if there is a modicum of a athlete coach relationship. The 'this' in the sentence is evasive I suppose. Is it Mo's performance or the peanut gallery doing their think.

If I read the preface banter - Mo changed his plan several times. Again - that seems a bit unusual - not slap at Mo - just an unusual/odd deal. And making that public exacerbated John Q LRCers. Not a slap but an odd thing that was latched on to by the peanut gallery.

The Dibaba statements was, imho, a completely different issue.

But to say Salazar was not in the mix with Mo's race plan and execution is a bit naive. That is unless he is not coaching him. Maybe he's not. If so ignore this post. And if he's heavily involved then ...

Because people like Tirunesh in that way

Super Cooper wrote:

Mo Farah is nowhere near the athlete that Dibaba is, and never will be. Farah is a very good runner who has had a couple good seasons. Dibaba is one of the greatest female athletes to ever walk the face of this Earth.

Exactly!

Radcliffe's tight shoulder wrote:

Wasn't Radcliffe's WR set with male pacers, pacing her to the line? Which isn't allowed anymore. I don't think anyone is going to come close to that with the current rules.

I'm sure if Paula has some un-paced PR, that could be broken by the current best runners on a good day. Maybe Jeptoo could do it?

She went 2:17 unpaced - 3 mins faster than today.

Marathon Man 23 wrote:

Radcliffe's tight shoulder wrote:

Wasn't Radcliffe's WR set with male pacers, pacing her to the line? Which isn't allowed anymore. I don't think anyone is going to come close to that with the current rules.

I'm sure if Paula has some un-paced PR, that could be broken by the current best runners on a good day. Maybe Jeptoo could do it?

She went 2:17 unpaced - 3 mins faster than today.

Ok, that's pretty good. But not crazy unbreakable like her 2:15 WR.

I could see that being broken or somebody getting close within a few years.

Emma Chure wrote:

Like I'm the first one to misspell the name of an East African runner here. The average Letsrun visitor can't even write three complete sentences in a row without making at least five significant errors. Maybe that's why the dicks in this thread are being dicks -- on a hair trigger.

Dibaba was further from the WR than Mo was and way more off the CR.

Yeah. I'd say "hair-trigger dicks" describes a substantial percentage of LR posters.

"But who is ripping Mo?"

Don't you read the message board on your own website.

What a ridiculous comment

Emma Chure wrote:

Did Farah insult anyone? He may have and I simply missed it, but that seems out of character for him. I know he was over-hyped but that's out of his hands. People had a good reason to expect greatness from him but in all honesty I don't see him ever running much under 2:06:00, if at all, and it doesn't take a genius prognosticator to offer that.

I admit I was trolling a bit here because I knew that this would generate some thoughtful replies along with the superficial insults, which it did. Dibaba ran okay, but based on her track times (and she's more of a 5K/10K type than Farah, obviously), she might have been expected to simply run away from the others at 25K to 30K.

Farah can run faster than 2:08....but he must prove it. And did anyone think Farah could run 3:28??

After seeing Dibaba get dropped in the Great North Run half marathon and finish 3rd, I was actually surprised that she almost won London.

If anyone is actually paying attention, Super Cooper is correct. Jeptoo great and will run 2:18, and Kiplagat was great today. But Dibaba will be the only thing really relevant in this event for the next 5 yrs. Same cannot be said of Farah, no matter how much the London Marathon wants that to be the case.

Obvious from London wrote:

If anyone is actually paying attention, Super Cooper is correct. Jeptoo great and will run 2:18, and Kiplagat was great today. But Dibaba will be the only thing really relevant in this event for the next 5 yrs. Same cannot be said of Farah, no matter how much the London Marathon wants that to be the case.

meseret defar will be relevant in the marathon event in the nnext 5 years when she starts running them (and she will in the next year or 2).