Bosse, 800m, praises Kzot, but ignores Tuka

Sorry for the miss-spell of the Pole's name. All those consonants ....anyway...Kszczot....

By the way, here in Thailand - not a single TV channel has been showing WC.

In Thailand - the only sport they focus on is soccer with eyes on Premier League with fa team for most Thais being Arsenal followed at some distance by M.U.

Thailand is also becoming a nation of "fatties". Everyone uses motorbikes to go anywhere. No one walks - except the evening exercise people around the park. But that is a small minority.

The less effort - the better in Thailand. The best Muay Thai boxers come from less wealthy Lao, Issan or Myanmar backgrounds.

Ghost in Khon Khaen, Thailand

Ghost wrote:

Bosse also said that Kzot was lucky to not have been dqd because Kzot almost stepped on the grass at one point?

Ghost in Khon Khaen, Thailand

Yeah, Kszczot even said in his interview after the race that he stepped on the rail with about 250m left, trying to pass Rudisha on the inside.

Not sure if stepping on the rail is an infraction worthy of dq by IAAF but going by this Kszczot was indeed lucky. Lesser offenses (stepping on lane markers) have often resulted in dqs in 200/400 races around the bends.

Ghost in Khon Khaen, Thailand

Ghost wrote:

In a 3 mins interview with France TF1 after race, Bosse is all praise for Kzot and Rudisha but does not once even mention Tuka (bronze).

Bosse also said that his season was not good but that his race was decent ("mouiller le maillot pour l'equipe de France"), 5th is on the up because he was 7th in last WC.

He then said ("je vise la boite pour le prochain championat") he aims for a podium next year.

Bosse also said that Kzot was lucky to not have been dqd because Kzot almost stepped on the grass at one point?

Ghost in Khon Khaen, Thailand

You're right..

Bosse also mentions that Kzot could be DQed and that he may some day be upgraded to 3rd place..Of course, implying that the 3rd place finisher, Tuka is on something and may be eventually caught.

I mean I'd be suspicious if Tuka outkicked everyone to take the win, but given that he was 3rd I can't say I am. But props to Kszczot though, I've always been a big fan of him and he ran aggressive and got a really solid 2nd place, which I knew he was capable of in the right kind of race. I'm also glad that he beat Tuka haha, makes me think back to the Euro Champs race last year when Kszczot absolutely destroyed everyone in the last 120m.

Is this the old Ghost In Korea? I used to love reading the biographies you'd post on the Irish Runners.

tuka is one of the guys that carry a huge red flag. he's probably a nice guy just taking bread off the table of another.

i love track and you get to study human performance, the science, the sport and human aspects. you realize it is polluted more or less, and then more than less and then it's close to completely fake. most annoying is the hyperresponder taking out the all time great clean talent. i can handle al-sal dabbling on the line but not a full meal deal PED user like a Ramzi on everything in mass under the sun.

then you wonder, what is the point>, when you know more than 2/3 of the competetitors would not be at the championships clean.

then you see guys like al salazar, nike corp execs, the marion joneses and the rest doing what they do ,justifying it all. the lying, that maffia behavior, the corrupt corporation bullys (when they are backed up with the gang),

at the end of the day, track is more a study about the hairless primate, what he does with his bananas and what he'll do the get them.

the thing you can learn, it seems, especially in track and field is how the human lies so very well, or rather stupidity, the inability to see the truth, gullability is a most deadly sin.

its shakespeare on steroids.

now the brojo's want no tolerance to PEDs, but really, where is the practiality? you would have to blow the entire gate of track and field to do the testing. and you have to put every athlete under a big brother system to watch them. now that proposal is far more evil than a tuka scamming a medal. and these PEDs in moderation have tremendous medical value and the knowledge of the experiment is not properly documented and passed on to the general public. what a waste of useful medial info all for the sake of ego maniacs getting their coaching honors, their glory and bucks, and in the case of a salazar, the corporate car, which is what? a benz or farrari.

it's shakespeare on steroids

Shakespeare was on ephedrine and bull testicles (no steroids back then, but no testing either)

Plus he cheated with the 10,000 monkeys on 10,000 typewriters, then took credit. Dirty as Ramzi, Marion and Lance combined.