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

He won't annihilate the distance WR's. I will bitch.

It looks like kenenisa will not contest the 3000 meter indoors.

His brother and seleshi are trying to make the team.

Marcos geneti started last year with a bang and ran excellent 7:32 PB (indoors) its also his overall pb. he was wiped out from his effort in mombassa.

This years indoor 3k will be stacked with mottram, (possibly) seleshi and t bekele.

Kenenisa must be seething to get back and get his world xc title back... i think he gets it back easily and establishes himself as the only man with 6 world xc titles

the only guy to win on all 3 surfaces

by the end of his career he will probably have over 20 world and cross country titles.

he has another 16 world indoor and outdoor as well cross country titles (inflated by the short coarse). He can pick up another 8 or so world cross, world road titles, indoors and outdoor titles in the next 6 years.

nobody will get to 24 titles.

What the fucckk are you talking about dude? Take that drivel somewhere else.

Peace / I'm outta here

Why don't you Bekelick my b@lls!?

Bekele will also be in Edinburgh on Saturday to defend the Great Edinburgh international cross country title he has won for the last two years.

I'm eating bacon and eggs right now.

For lunch, I'll likely have a salad of some sort, probably with chiecken.

And for dinner, I'm thinking of some stir fry.

Yeah...that's the ticket.

i can not wait to see kenny kick z-t a**

Bekele to chase more World Cross Country gold in Edinburgh

Tuesday 8 January 2008

Edinburgh, Scotland - Ethiopia's Kenenisa Bekele, his honeymoon over and back in full training, has confirmed he will compete at this year's 36th IAAF World Cross Country Championships, Edinburgh, Scotland (30 March).

Bekele will bid to win his sixth World Cross Country Championships long course title in Holyrood Park, Edinburgh. He also has five individual titles from the short course race which had its last outing on the World Cross Country programme in 2006.

The Olympic and World 10,000 metres champion bounced back from an unexpected defeat at last year’s World Cross in Mombasa to win a third successive World 10,000m track gold medal in Osaka, defeating Zersenay Tadese the Eritrean who deservedly had claimed victory in Mombasa over the country.

Now Bekele who has been back in intensive training since returning from his honeymoon, is determined in Edinburgh to better the five long race World Cross victories achieved by the Kenyan pair of John Ngugi and Paul Tergat.

"I will definitely be competing at the World Cross Country in Edinburgh this year," said Bekele reconfirming an announcement he made at his wedding to Ethiopian film star Danawit Gebregziabher in November.

"I was deeply disappointed at what happened in Mombasa and I am determined to get the title back.

"Winning for a sixth time means very much to me and I feel the conditions in Edinburgh will suit me much more than they did last year."

Bekele's decision comes as no surprise as the Scottish capital is a favourite venue for him, where in the last two years he has won the BUPA Great Edinburgh international cross country title.

He will return on Saturday (12) to Holyrood Park to chase a hatrick of victories at the Great Edinburgh International, which is an IAAF XC permit race, in a field which will also include Tadese and the 2005 winner Eliud Kipchoge of Kenya.

Bekele's schedule this winter will see Edinburgh as his only cross country race. However, he plans competing indoors over 3000m in Valencia on 9 February and then over Two Miles at the Birmingham Grand Prix on 16 February

ANY OTHER ATHELETE OTHER THAN K.B, E.K, Z.T?

GREAT BUPA Edinburgh X-Country 12 Jan 2008

Men’s Race 9.3 km

1. K Bekele (ETH) 27:42

2. Z Tadese (ERI) 27:43

3. E Kipchoge (KEN) 27:43

4. J Ebuya (KEN) 27:43

5. D Ritzenhein (USA) 27:56

6. J Torres (USA) 28:14

Women’s Race -

1. G Burka (ETH) 19:58

2. L Masai (KEN) 20:13

3. V Cheruiyot (KEN) 20:34- chest infection

4. S Twell (GBR) 20:34

5. A Kalovics (HUN) 20:38

6. L Yelling (GBR) 20:40

i am very happy kenenisa bounce back and kick top class athletes a**

I have a 10:00am meeting this morning with the VP, so I got out for a quick 3 miler before work.

I stand corrected. it looks like he will run to defend his indoor title.

with kenny vs seleshi vs tariku it should be interesting who makes it to the final.

seleshi is fed up loosing to kenenisa.. and may have a small boost from pressing him last year.

Mottram and lagat will also hopefully enter.

I wonder if kenny b will look at the 1500 entries and try and bust that open ala geb 99

I heard Bekele took a walk through town today. He was wearing flip-flops.

More info when I receive it...

not too shabby a run for ritzenhein. granted he was still behind what looks like was the lead contenders, but he was 5th and not too far behind. that's still credible, isn't it? everyone who beat him is a 12:54 or faster 5000m runner and kipchoge ran a 26:49 10,000m this last summer, but this is cross country and track events and xc times don't mean much when youre 13 seconds back, even if its a 10,000m. still a good, healthy looking run. i wonder how ritzenhein is feeling and how he is handling his modified training(being at lower altitude, running on soft wood chips, changing diapers, etc.)?

On the topic of other runners, did anyone see how Bill Braske did in the Hometown 5K? I know he was training for it for quite some time, and said he was "ready to roll". He had gotten down to 16:20 or so about 4 months ago while doing some high mileage, but then suffered a calf injury.

Do you guys prefer V8 or tomato juice?

Haile going for the 10000m track event instead of the marathon is a major turn of events for the athletes in Ethiopia and possbily the Olympics. Should Haile make the team for the Olympic he would surely try to run the quick out of his younger countymen and break away from the Kenyans. Kenenisa Bekele may not try to assist his mentor as he did in the last Olympics so Haile knows his pace will have to shed his opposition. The 10000m has just become one of the marquee events for the 2008 Olympics!

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Jan. 22, 2008, 1:29PM

World record-holder may pass on marathon at Bejing Olympics

Associated Press

BRUSSELS, Belgium — The pollution and heat at the Beijing Olympics may scare off at least one marquee athlete. Marathon world record-holder Haile Gebrselassie is considering skipping that race.

The Ethiopian distance great could still try to compete in the shorter 10,000 meters, an event in which he has won two Olympic gold medals.

"We have our doubts," Jos Hermens, Gebrselassie's manager, said today in a telephone interview. "It is an extremely dangerous marathon."

On a normal day, Beijing's pollution exceeds by nearly five times the safety benchmark set by the World Health Organization.

"He has a bit of a lung condition as well," Hermens said about Gebrselassie's pollen allergy. "So, all in all, is it worth it?"

Gebrselassie would be a favorite in the marathon on the final day of the Olympics. But Hermens is worried about heat stroke, which can leave lasting damage for an athlete. The 10,000 meters is less punishing, and Gebrselassie will likely try to qualify for the strong Ethiopian team at the shorter distance.

Hermens' management team looked into the hottest marathon races over the past 20 years and found that many of the top finishers never really recovered for the rest of their careers.

That concerns the manager of the 34-year-old Gebrselassie.

"What he says is: 'Great if I win, but if it means the end of my career, then I really don't feel like it,'" Hermens said. "He is convinced he still has a real chance" to win his first marathon gold at the 2012 London Olympics.

The marathon has a special aura in Ethiopia since barefoot runner Abebe Bikila won the 1960 Rome marathon and repeated the feat, with shoes, in Tokyo four years later.

"Of course, it is a dream for him as an Ethiopian to become a marathon champion after Bikila, but he can still do it in London, too," Hermens said.

Gebrselassie smashed the marathon world record last September with a time of 2 hours, 4 minutes, 26 seconds in Berlin, and ran the second fastest time Friday (2:04:53) when he won the Dubai race.

Gebrselassie dropped out of the London Marathon last April because of breathing problems related to his pollen allergy.

International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge has repeatedly said some competitions might be postponed if the Beijing air is too polluted.

After winning the 10,000 at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and 2000 Sydney Games, Gebrselassie finished fifth in Athens in 2004 in a race won by teammate Kenenisa Bekele.

In addition to his Olympic golds, Gebrselassie has four 10,000 world championship titles and has broken two dozen world records.

In an effort to cut pollution, Chinese authorities plan to shut down factories and take cars off Beijing's streets during the Olympics.

Beijing's coal-burning factories, power plants and vehicles regularly spew enough fumes to shroud the city in a brown, pungent haze. Residents have become accustomed to the soot that coats their clothes. Some wear surgical masks when outdoors.

will kenenisa break the 3k idoor game? almost stay for 10 solid year koman really was amousing guy.

koman 7.24

kenenisa 7.30

i doubt but will imorove his own record to 7.27

Tariku looked like a beast last week. The two could push eachother to a WR.. TB can go 7:27 and KB can go 7:26 agree with the previous post.