Kenenisa Bekele: how soon will he totally annihilate the distance WR's?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Vipam's crying like a little b!tch right now! Poor baby - WHHAAAAA!!

I heard there were Kenyans with "EPO Cheats OUT!" signs throughout the course. Maybe the pressure/guilt got to him?

So... will Bekele retire again?

Vipam?

Actually retire No, "say" he may not run X-Country possibly!

Vipam wrote:

Actually retire No, "say" he may not run X-Country possibly!

So... if Bekele SAYS he's going to retire from cross country, how much should we believe him? 50%? 30%? 0%?

Global Sports release)

Bekele disappointed, but not upset.

A day after the most disappointing race of his career, Kenenisa Bekele wants to point out that there is nothing wrong and that he has recovered well.

Bekele: "I felt really good yesterday and was full of confidence. When I made my move on Tadesse, I was sure that I was going to write history in Mombasa. But it all turned out totally different. During the race, I started to have some stomach problems, but I was not too worried. Then, suddenly, I felt that my coordination was not good and that my mind was dizzy. I even started to doubt about how many laps I still had to run. I was confused and felt that I lost all my energy. I was slowing down and felt that I was losing control over my body as well as my mind. This is why I decided to stop the race."

"Now, one day later, I am convinced that this had to do with the heat and humidity. Yesterday's race was a great upset to me, but in my opinion I did everything right; I drank extra water, cooled my body with ice before the race and for the rest did everything the same as usual. So what can I do? I have to accept what happened yesterday, take a small rest and than start all over again for the summer season."

Dreams shattered

In his own words, dehydration resulting from intense heat and bad surface had shattered his dreams. He especially blamed the Mombasa Golf Course’s asphalt and sand, which he said his spikes could not handle.

"Even before I started the race, I was shocked to see some of our junior women runners drop out or collapse at the finish line. I knew it was going to be a bad race," he said. He says never in his life has he ever experienced such conditions.

But as the Ethiopians were mourning, Eritrea was celebrating its first-ever gold medal, courtesy of Zersenay Tedese.

For Tedese, the victory in the 12km was more like a dream. He was shaken off earlier in the race and knew Bekele was headed for victory.

But with 800m to go, Bekele backtracked amid alleged stomach pains. Tedese took advantage to sprint to gold, while Kenya’s Moses Mosop sprang from bronze medal position to take silver.

Kenya’s Bernard Kipyego took bronze as four our Kenyans Gideon Ngatunyi, Hosea Macharinyang and Michael Kipyego completed the top six places to ensure gold for the Kenya team.

The women’s 8km was a disaster for Kenya as Dutch Lornah Kiplagat grabbed the headlines. She won the race with a range of 150 metres as three Ethiopians engaged each other in a sprint finish for Tirunesh Dibaba to take silver.

No nation can match Kenya

It was Ethiopia’s Meselech Melkamu and Gelete Burika in the third and fourth places respectively.

Florence Kiplagat was the top Kenyan in position five, followed by three others Pamela Chepchumba, Prisca Jepleting and Vivian Cheruiyot.

Kenya dominated both the junior men and women races, but the bruises arising from the victories were intense.

From the podium sweep in the junior women’s race that opened the competition to the top-four sweep in the junior men’s, the hosts clearly illustrated that, for now, no.

While the Kenyan women proved a mighty force, the men were unstoppable en route to their ninth straight men’s junior title, and 19th in the last 20 years.

While their dominance was clear, the brutally hot and humid conditions that may come to define these championships made their respective victories anything but a Sunday walk in the park.

It was a clean sweep for Kenya in the junior men’s 8km as the locals took the top four spots.

Asbel Kiprop ran a skilful race to take gold, while Vincent Kiprop and Mathew Kisorio took silver and bronze respectively.

Last year’s bronze medallist, Leonard Komon was beaten to fourth place. Komon had attempted to go for the top honours but ran out of gas. Kosorio also gave it a shot, but, like Komon, faded off. Kiprop then took the baton but Asbel used his long strides to beat him to gold.

Last year’s champion Pauline Korkwiang was the biggest casualty in the junior women’s race.

Perhaps under pressure to retain her title, Korkwiang miscalculated. Miscounting laps, the Fukuoka champion, along with a pair of Ethiopians in hot pursuit, kicked to their perceived finish less than 15 minutes into the race, effectively knocking the trio out of the competition. Korkwiang forged on but with simply no energy left, she eventually took a dramatic dizzying fall on the backstretch of the final lap.

But despite her predicament, Kenya still had something to celebrate about as junior made a 1-2-3 finish.

Running in her first international competition, Linet Chepkwemoi Barasa was the clear winner, covering the 6km course in 20:52, seven seconds clear of mercy Kosgei who reached the line 11 seconds ahead of Veronica Nyaruai, to complete Kenya ’s second consecutive podium sweep and their fifth overall since junior competition began in 1989.

Kosgei moved up a notch from her bronze medal performance of a year ago, while Nyaruai, two-time defending silver medallist, couldn’t quite live up to her own pedigree.

"I’m just very happy," Chepkwemoi Barasa said. "All I was thinking about was the gold medal."

Meraf Bahta, sixth overall, led Eritrea to the runner-up spot in the team competition, the first medal ever for the small nation at a World Country Championship. Sule Utura and Genzebe Dibaba, the 16-year-old younger sister of Tirunesh and Eyagayou, finished fifth and sixth respectively, to lead Ethiopia to the bronze

The theme for the event was cross-country comes home— and Kenyans indeed lived up to the billing retaining the overall title for the 21 year running.

still keyan could not win senior woman and senior men title.

do not worry kenenisa will bounce back and start to Humiliate keyans.

In reality senior women was won by kenya!

Zenebech tola is not Ethiopian she is Bahrain even though

she is born in ethiopia

Most of the sprinters in Britain and Canada origin are Jamaica but no body will not say Jamaica won.

i can give youplenty of cases

Kiplagat was born and raised in kenya. Your comparison is flawed. The fact that she represents the Netherlands is a technicality. She still considers herself a kenyan.

it will be written in any of record book as netherland not kenyan

Correct. But it is still a technicality. She is from the same gene pool as the other great kenyan runners. If Geb settled

down in the Netherlands, lived there for 5 years becoming a

dutch citizen, he would suddenly no longer be ethiopian?

I think not.

most Ethioians think so.Once you choose to represent another country's flag, you are no more an ethiopian.

The bible says.. a leopard cannot change his spots and an ethiopian cannot change his skin.

yep yep.. artifical coths that they may fly.. will not change who they are. Kiplagat is a Kenyan... Zenebech is a Ethiopian. She recently commented that she would love to represent her country.. Come home ZT come Home

Ethio Boy

Zenebech may wish she could run for Ethiopia once again but it will never happen. The top Ethiopian athletes would boycott if the even suspected a someone who changes nationalities would be allowed to return as an Ethiopian. I don't care if Kenenisa Bekele (but won't, just an example) nationalities Ethiopia wouldn't let him back on the national. They MAY let someone of his caliber later but it would be a few years.

True..what Lornah did in kenya with the dutch flag would have resulted in a riot. recently elvan abeylegesse came to train in ethiopia while visiting her parents and there was an all points bulletin for her arrest if she was caught.. even jogging.

Ethio Boy wrote:

True..what Lornah did in kenya with the dutch flag would have resulted in a riot. recently elvan abeylegesse came to train in ethiopia while visiting her parents and there was an all points bulletin for her arrest if she was caught.. even jogging.

I throw my hands in the air, this is an absolutely barking mad thread. Whatever happened to the spirit of universality that running is meant to engender. I thought God invented Association Football as a diversion for nationalistic zealots.

Now where did I put my Kalashnikov...

bump

Wow....this thread is 5 years old.