Official 2015 IAAF Doha Diamond League Live Discussion Thread

For all those who always complain about the lack of coverage for track meets in the US, I'm in Saudi Arabia and was going to try to watch this meet on TV. I have the regional sat program with pretty much every channel, and the Doha meet is nowhere to be found. There are dozens of regional soccer games (several in Doha right now as well), but no channel has track, not even Qatar's largest sports channels under the BeIN brand (former Al Jazeera Sports). So even in countries where they are spending big money for track, they still don't cover it! Maybe they're trying to encourage me to just drive there next time...

Who won? I'm at work now, damn!

elmore345 wrote:

Who won? I'm at work now, damn!

Hagos Gebrhiwet 7:38.0 to Farah's 7:38.22

gebrehiwot, in a very tight finish!

i thought you were with someone's mum, ya big liar!?

elmore345 wrote:

Who won? I'm at work now, damn!

Farah goes home DEVASTATED!

(Isn't that the LR bit?)

Ha, yeah I'm a gigalo.

It showed Gebrhiwet as scoring points in the Diamond League for the 3000m. Will those points transfer over to the 5000m or is there actually a separate Diamond League scoring (and prize purse) for the 3k?

If so how many 3k's are there? The only other one I can think of was the one in I think Birmingham last year.

Cheers dude!

erwtrdgdf wrote:

Farah goes home DEVASTATED!

(Isn't that the LR bit?)

I don't think so, nice opener for him,exciting race for TV, mo pockets a big appearance fee, life is good...

Dewey_Runner wrote:

It showed Gebrhiwet as scoring points in the Diamond League for the 3000m. Will those points transfer over to the 5000m or is there actually a separate Diamond League scoring (and prize purse) for the 3k?

If so how many 3k's are there? The only other one I can think of was the one in I think Birmingham last year.

Yes the 3k/5k are a combined DL event (as are 1500/mile).

Cain, Rowbury, Farah....NOP is struggling!

How'd that Komen-eqsue prediction pan out???

And for the rest of the hopefulls???

At least someone got it right...

Form issues - for some reason, I think Mo Farah's form doesn't look good at the moment. Too much side-to-side motion and too much head motion...Interestingly, the form of Hagos Gebrhiwet is even worse. Just imagine how good he could be, if he would run as smooth as Haile or Bekele..., it is sad, that he never had a coach to improve his form.

probably not wrote:

erwtrdgdf wrote:

Farah goes home DEVASTATED!

(Isn't that the LR bit?)

I don't think so, nice opener for him,exciting race for TV, mo pockets a big appearance fee, life is good...

Mo is finished. He likely had to lay off his usual drug regimen after being caught trainingwith Hamza Driouch who has been suspended. His loss today at the Doha meet is devastating evidence of his decline. He is kaput. Finished. Even PC officials will have a hard time covering for his wayward activities should he rebound from this staggering arse-whipping over the 3k.

The heat is a definite problem in a 3k, though the humidity was just 22%, so you can understand why they didn't come anywhere near the pacers. Nevertheless, it is a huge drag to see this happen in every race with Mo and/or Galen when they are supposed to be going for time, and somehow the whole field lags and lets Mo slow the pace down and get the lead with 800m left. This time it sounds like the young Ethiopian became the sacrificial lamb by getting him to go very hard with 400m to go, disrupting the Mo show, and the Ethiopians boxed him enough to give Gebrhiwet the edge needed to take it home, but Mo gave it a very good try in the sprint and came close to him. It makes you wonder whether we are ever going to get a fast Mo race at 3k-10k.

7:38 with a 1:53, I think (54.4 last lap for leader), does not suggest anything like low 7:20s.

Farah's 2nd place might actually be a good thing. Will put things into perspective...

Winning all the time isn't real life.

i hope you're joking, you troll.so you're saying that it's considered a career 'decline' when you go off drugs and run clean? maybe for your times, but he's still the same athlete, just without unfair advantages.your thinking somehow suggests that the times/performances farah was achieving were simultaneously legit and cheatingplus, he lost by less than 1/2 a second. not an arse-whipping

EPO man Mo is finished wrote:

Mo is finished. He likely had to lay off his usual drug regimen after being caught trainingwith Hamza Driouch who has been suspended. His loss today at the Doha meet is devastating evidence of his decline. He is kaput. Finished. Even PC officials will have a hard time covering for his wayward activities should he rebound from this staggering arse-whipping over the 3k.

Swiss Ball wrote:

Farah's 2nd place might actually be a good thing. Will put things into perspective...

Winning all the time isn't real life.

^ This. Losing will keep Farah hungry.