Giddy wrote:
I already find it a bit ridiculous that a group of Americans talking about how they wanted to push the pace when they were already running 2:09 pace, faster than all of their PR's except for Hall, and think somehow they "sacrificed" for Meb...
Give Meb all the credit, not most of it.
This is exactly my thought here. Sometimes a race just goes a certain way that benefits a certain runner, but I give absolutely NO credit to any runner in that race for Meb's win except for Meb.
Sometimes you runners seem to think we're attached by ropes so that if one goes faster the other one HAS to. IF those African runners had it in them to go faster and they DIDN'T for whatever reason, then that's on them.
Meb went for the win in likely the only way he could have, and he got it done. ALL credit to him.