Mo Farah's PB's at age 22

you guys don't get it. GOAT talent isn't just inherent in a person's running performances starting from a young age. oftentimes, it's made or broken by whether or not he's had american technicians tinker with his running form in some high-tech lab.

He's had steady progression since he started training seriously. His times as a teenager were run on pure talent and mickey mouse training.Ricky Simms -

I first saw Mo at 14 running in Ireland in a junior cross country race. He was so far ahead of the others, he was in a different field! He signed with us in 2000 and even though he was very good, you couldn’t have predicted then he’d one day win world championships.

Back then, he was still leading a bit of a student lifestyle, liked fun with his friends and didn’t apply himself 100 per cent. Mo’s like Usain Bolt; he likes to be around people, all the social interaction. He was only leading the life that normal kids do but by the winter of 2005, I think he’d changed.

So 10 years ago, aged 22 he started training properly.

Farah was coasting on talent. Take a look at the video of the Commonwealth 5000 in 2006. He looks as soft as putty. Skinny fat even.

Carlos Lopes showed a much more meteoric rise and kept it going for even longer.

Here come the excuses. This is a weak argument. You think any junior is training properly. And it took him 5 years???

You think Mo is the only one who "likes people" and didn't train as seriously as he could have?

Why do you fail to acknowledge the obvious.

Plus you quote his agent? Lots of people can dominate school boy XC.

Dismissing facts because they don't suit your fantasy.

Zlatan wrote:

Dismissing facts because they don't suit your fantasy.

What facts? A quote from his agent and speculation about his training?

You are the one in fantasy land.

Lemme guess a Brit?

Zlatan wrote:

So 10 years ago, aged 22 he started training properly.

Not really. At the 2008 Olympics (age 25), he didn't make it out of the 5000m heats, running 13:50...

So the "magic" came later...

Another guy living in fantasy land picking and choosing the facts that support his 'argument'.

As if 13:50 was his best at the time. It's called a bad race. He had already finished 6th at the previous world championships.

Zlatan wrote:

Another guy living in fantasy land picking and choosing the facts that support his 'argument'.

As if 13:50 was his best at the time. It's called a bad race. He had already finished 6th at the previous world championships.

l

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Very very rare that someone gets a PB at the Olympics. Not really relevant...

The point is that he did not make it out of the heats at age 25...

I can't recall Bekele or Geb not making it out of the heats in their mid 20s.

Galen Rupp's PB's at age 22, and he happens to be faster than Mo Farah-

1500m - 3:44.39

Mile - 4:03.13

3000m - 7:51.17

5000m - 13:30.49

10,000m - 27:36.99

Looks like if you train hard, consistently, you can do great things.

Gfvvvfgvgfvfgvfg wrote:

The point is that he did not make it out of the heats at age 25...

Yes and like I said it's called having a bad race. Same thing happened to Bershawn Jackson yesterday.

You are insinuating that Mo was incapable of making it out of the heats which is blatantly not true and you know it.

Zlatan wrote:

Another guy living in fantasy land picking and choosing the facts that support his 'argument'.

As if 13:50 was his best at the time. It's called a bad race. He had already finished 6th at the previous world championships.

You haven't presented one fact...give me ONE. You just keep with the same lame-ass retort.

quit sniffing his jock.

Zlatan wrote:

As if 13:50 was his best at the time. It's called a bad race. He had already finished 6th at the previous world championships.

Here's a fact, his time for 6th place was.....13:47. Hmmmmm.

It's the Africans that are suddenly invincible. Funny that nobody talks about that. Mo trains for years with steady progression to reach his peak while the Africans come out of nowhere to be world beaters aged 20.

Mo didn't know how to bench press back then. Obvious explanation for his improvement.

vuelta wrote:

It's the Africans that are suddenly invincible. Funny that nobody talks about that. Mo trains for years with steady progression to reach his peak while the Africans come out of nowhere to be world beaters aged 20.

Great point.

I'm assuming that by "Africans come out of nowhere" you mean that they weren't running British county cross country?

Leirbag wrote:

Galen Rupp's PB's at age 22, and he happens to be faster than Mo Farah-

1500m - 3:44.39

Mile - 4:03.13

3000m - 7:51.17

5000m - 13:30.49

10,000m - 27:36.99

Looks like if you train hard, consistently, you can do great things.

"... and he happens to be faster than Mo Farah"

Remind me again of the number of times that Rupp has beaten Farah since 2011??

This is true. But if he were white, say like Tuka, he'd have to put up with even more accusations.

and in 2006 he ran 13.09.40 - a 21 second improvement so he that's obviously when he started juicing...