Sit for 23 laps in a time trial. Snooz.
Sit for 23 laps in a time trial. Snooz.
What a beautiful world we live in when a sub-26:45 10,000m by an American is boring.
It IS a 10K, what did you expect?
You new to watching track?
ohpleaseee wrote:
Sit for 23 laps in a time trial. Snooz.
He went sooner than I expected. I thought it was a brilliantly exciting race.
The 10k is boring. 27 minutes of nothing to watch. It will drop from the Olympics in the future. Younger people won't watch this type of event.
ohpleaseee wrote:
Sit for 23 laps in a time trial. Snooz.
Personally, I find 10,000m races dull until the last few laps.
However, the crowd seemed to disagree.
Death of the 10k wrote:
The 10k is boring. 27 minutes of nothing to watch. It will drop from the Olympics in the future.
The sooner the better.
It is one of the most redundant events in the entire Olympics, and with the move to the roads it is also pathetically soft (which is why a guy like Rupp can medal there but is consistently mid-pack in the 5000).
I'd like to see the 10k track replaced with an 8-12k cross-country run. The course would be uneven, some grass, some dirt, a creek to cross, some hairpin turns;much more exciting.
Death of the 10k wrote:
The 10k is boring. 27 minutes of nothing to watch. It will drop from the Olympics in the future. Younger people won't watch this type of event.
A race is work of art that people can look at and be affected by in as many ways as they're capable of understanding.
you probably don't read good Novals either!....because they are long and boring...
it was a thing of beauty!
Work of art? Nope. Not even close.
Try reading a "good" long book some day. Monotonous is what a 10k like this one was. Monotonous books are not good reads.
Not capable wrote:
Death of the 10k wrote:The 10k is boring. 27 minutes of nothing to watch. It will drop from the Olympics in the future. Younger people won't watch this type of event.
A race is work of art that people can look at and be affected by in as many ways as they're capable of understanding.
And I understand that when Rupp was in high school, training for his senior year of cross country, no American was running 5,000m as fast as he ran the second 5,000m tonight.
Take Jorge Torres. A four-time Footlocker finalist, Footlocker champion, and NCAA champion, he was the only American finalist in the Worlds 5,000 that summer. He had no business being in the final, and proved it by finishing last. He never broke 13:20. Jorge Torres could have started at the 5,000m mark, and he still would have been buried over the last 800m just like those "genetically superior" Kenyans.
What a beautiful world we live in.
the reviver wrote:
just like those "genetically superior" Kenyans.
do you mean that Rupp is not "genetically superior"? how did he get slowly faster?