Yes maybe Geb might have been able to beat Mo in a championship 10000m but that is only two runners in the history of the sport capable of beating Mo in a championship race when all were at their best possibly 3 if you count Jeilan. Saying Mo is champion in a weak era is rubbish.
Mo was clearly struggling last night and I would not be surprised if he does not win the 5000m. Looks like he might struggle for the remainder of the season based on that performance. If Vernon did not have to go wide to pass lapped runners at the start of the last lap it would have been close. I bet he ran a faster last lap than Farah as he started further back and had to go wide.
With regards to Bekele, Ethiopia has 0 out of competition for athletes. Bekele can just stay in Addis and never get tested. In contract Mo has constant out of competition tests even when he is in Kenya. Bekele runs the second half of a 10k in under 13 minutes and is clean yet mo has a PR of 12:53 for 5k and is dirty? Complete nonsense and double standards. If Mo is dirty Bekele most certainly is. Dodgy agent, no drugs testing, runs second half of a 10000m faster than the world record was for 5000m until 1994 and according to Lets Run idiots Mo is much more likely to be dirty than him. Laughable.
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Author: Mat G
Subject: RE: FARAH WINS EURO 10K AND SHOWS WHY HES THE WORLD BEST
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True, Paris 2003 second 5000 well under 13 mins is pretty remarkable, but kenenisa is not a druggie.
Initially he and hermens agreed for him to move up to marathon only after Rio 2016, but for three years he was plagued by calf injuries. At some points during this three-year struggle kenenisa thought he may have to retire, so persistent was the injury. This influenced their decision to move to the marathon earlier than initially planned.
Point is: a doping kenenisa is out of the question. It was the right decision for him to move to the roads. This is the last area where he's yet to match Geb's exploits.
Lastly, Geb in his prime (say, 1998) could have beaten Mo pretty much at his best. Tergat, not so sure.