Pretty hard to believe but it's true as I came across this interesting article when I was reading African papers searching for links to provide you free of charge.
http://www.nation.co.ke/sports/athletics/Julius-Kirwa-headache-over-women-10000m-time/-/1100/2766296/-/ibjrddz/-/index.html
Someone smarter than me has to be able to think of a way than making Kenyans chase qualifying times in the distance events. Just let them enter whatever three they'd like.
The women's 10,000 is really hurting right now. So we have no Defar and Dibaba as they haven't raced all year, Kenya has zero qualifiers and Ayana and Dibaba seem focused on the 5000. You'd think one of them would have run the Ethiopian 10,000 trials so they could cruise to gold.
Oh well. Someone has to win a medal. Go Molly!!
And before I hit post, I decided to do a little research. Sure enough the Kenyan paper is wrong. The qualifying window began last January so Kenya has 2 10,000 qualifiers - Saina and Kipyego.
But thanks for clicking on the link. I think we earned 1/2 of one penny.
Hand Muddle Huddle a 10,000 medal now? Kenya paper: Kenya has zero women's 10,000 women with qualifying time
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rojo wrote:
But thanks for clicking on the link. I think we earned 1/2 of one penny. -
rojo wrote:
And before I hit post, I decided to do a little research. Sure enough the Kenyan paper is wrong. The qualifying window began last January so Kenya has 2 10,000 qualifiers - Saina and Kipyego.
Actually they have three Saina, Kipyego and Kaptich, see here
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also they have tons of women qualified via the world cross country championships
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Still 45 days to get a qualifier, I thought I read they are having a 10000 in Oregon on August 8th, for good runners the Standard is a formality.
They also seem to have 10000's when good runners ask for it, and they sometimes let good runners into other countries National Championships, like Defar and Kidane have run in the British championships several times, still Huddle and Flanagan can medal. -
stop the crazy kenyan wrote:
also they have tons of women qualified via the world cross country championships
This needs to be highlighted, some of the Kenyan Women don't have much of an incentive to get the qualifying time because they managed to run very well at WXC.
I think it was this year the ruling came into effect (or was it 2013) in which if you come top-15 in the senior WXC events, you are considered to have the qualifying standard for the WC 10000m. -
RunWild wrote:
I think it was this year the ruling came into effect (or was it 2013) in which if you come top-15 in the senior WXC events, you are considered to have the qualifying standard for the WC 10000m.
I'm pretty sure Huddle doesn't have a medal yet, because first she will need to run the race and finish in top three. -
I hope she medals. The problem is that these world champs and Olympic Games are in venues that are not conducive to distance running. I realize that distance running only takes a small part of T&F. But Beijing is a cesspool, major pollution and next year Rio is hot and HUMID, both places are terrible for distance running. When it is hot and humid sometimes an athlete does not perform of to his/her standards if the body does not adapt.
