Did you know Haile G was punched by another athlete in the 10k final at 1992 World Juniors?

yup, there have been long discussion threads about it on here. Watched that clip several times.

Seriously. This happened nearly a quarter century ago. It has been re-hashed dozens of times along with the Tanui shoe incident.

The Kenyans hated Geb's sit and kick while stepping on their heels act.

Yes

He'd probably been deliberately clipping his heels as happened with Tanui

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZZ0Sg0WEV0

Okay, probably should have searched some old threads before posting about this again.

This race happened a year after I was born so I wasn't familiar with it until now.

Jonathan Gault wrote:

it's just an act of horrific sportsmanship

Some people think that running on the heels of someone else for the whole race and never helping with the lead is poor sportsmanship.

And one year later Geb does the same thing to win his first world championship but stepped on the leader's shoe.

I'm a big Geb fan but he had a rocky start in building goodwill with his racing etiquette.

Yes, old news. Just watched this the other day as well though.

That Tanui race is a the perfect example of how one needs to have more than just PURE HATE to win a 10,000.

Geb was such a little weasel.

Geb was such a little weasel.

As fast as he already was by then, maybe he was just a bit green as an international racer in those days.

Hammou Boutayeb - Now there's a weasel.

Machuka was a certified nutcase. He seriously tried to set a WR in the 10000 prelims in the 1995 WC. Needless to say, he wasn´t a factor in the final.

are you a noob? wrote:

Seriously. This happened nearly a quarter century ago. It has been re-hashed dozens of times along with the Tanui shoe incident.

The Kenyans hated Geb's sit and kick while stepping on their heels act.

True, but the Kenyans like to poke people and 'tap' an opponent's shoe/foot during races. But it's not PC to mention this.

Jonathan Gault wrote:

Okay, probably should have searched some old threads before posting about this again.

This race happened a year after I was born so I wasn't familiar with it until now.

Studying interesting history usually means you will be familiar with stuff that happens even before you were born.

Maybe you should remove the guru from your screen name for a little while.

Have you heard of Roger Bannister?

Jonathan Gault wrote:

Okay, probably should have searched some old threads before posting about this again.

This race happened a year after I was born so I wasn't familiar with it until now.

How do you call yourself LRC guru?

Not the real John Gault. wrote:

How do you call yourself LRC guru?

LRC guru, not running guru.

Read the title... wrote:

Not the real John Gault. wrote:

How do you call yourself LRC guru?

LRC guru, not running guru.

But he was only 10 when letsrun started so he can barely know what's going on here.