Bekele" Mo Farah CANT break my world records"

Bekele is really saying that mo can't be on as much good diet as I was, as the ethopians have some seriously good diet. But I think mo can be on some all American proper good diet. And the person saying earlier that Mo was too old, he is the only 30+ year old to first set his pb at 1500m that old and secondly to break into the all time list at 1500m past the age of 30.

He got beaten at the 1500m mainly as he was training for the marathon at that time and isn't a 1500m runner, so mr obvious, you're missing the obvious that mo's speed would translate up, the fact he was so fast at such a short distance when training showed how effective Salazar's all American diet is, and is impressive. He has never got near the WR 5000 and 10000 times, as why would you kill yourself for 13 or 26 min when you can sprint away in last 600m and win all the medals?

low 12:50s wrote:

Farah can only run what is PR is. 12:53. He cannot run faster unless he runs faster.

Your imaginary capabilities are illogical; they are not real. 0/10 is your score.

Dude, chill out. Did Mo sleep with your girlfriend or something?

It's fairly obvious that Mo could run considerably faster than his PR in both the 5k and 10k. If you want to exclude the "eye test" from your argument and go straight by numbers, good for you. The majority of people who know track would agree that Mo is capable of much more.

More clown comments. 0/10 @ macdaddy/COL

Centro beat Lagat way, way past his prime. Alamirew, Gwet, Gebremeskel, and Kejelcha are all within a few years of their prime (I'm assuming Kejelcha was not really 17--he will improve, though). Farah regularly beats all of these guys and has beaten the three Ethiopians above, as well as all of the Kenyans, since 2011. How is your analogy in any way probative or even suggestive?

by your "logic," no one would ever run faster than their first race, because you think they are simply as fast as what they ran and have no capability to do anything different. But people do pr on multiple occasions, so they do have a capability to run faster than their best race to this point until they are on the decline.

Mo already knows this to be true for the simple fact that testing is better than in KB's WR days.

Um, he said he can't be his records, right? What part of " 'low 12:40's' does not beat 12:37 (or , let's say "high 26:20's" does not beat 26:17)" don't you understand? Basically, you agree with Bekele! And now Farah is past his prime. If he had any shot at those records, it has passed him by.

So maybe Bekele is a better "analyzer of the sport" than you give him credit for. In fact, nearly everything he said in the interview I thought was very astute.

Yes, but I'd say it's worth more than all the opinions here, including yours and mine. And if Bekele is "selling Farah" short at all, maybe he is engaging in just a little bit of "trash talking" or bravado, or even trying to give Farah a kick in the butt to take a real shot at one of those records, something he has refused to do so far. So give Bekele credit for his confidence, and for his challenge to Farah.

The fact is Olympic golds and WC gold supersedes any WR.

Another problem is chasing WRs might burn you out.

For example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Komen

Also Webb after his record run. He never ran the same.

I think this is also why Kiprop is reluctant to get the 1500m WR even though he's a shoe-in.

COL wrote:

And rarely would I ever assign injury to a coach. The athlete is the one that usually is responsible for injury (not listening to his/her body).

Let's also note that some injuries come with out a warning... We're talking about bodies and tissues here, sometimes there's no warning signs.

Old Man Mo wrote:

The time has likely passed for Mo to break these WRs. Geb was 25 when he set his 5k and 10k WRs, and Kenny B was 21-23 when he set the 5k and 10k WRs. At 32, Mo is long in the tooth by comparison.

Some still question if any of those records were accomplished clean. Was PED testing good enough back then.

Drugs are better these days. Microdosing has been fine tuned. Coaches testing blood samples to WADA specs is today's reality. Ten years what is possible today was unthought of.

jjjjj wrote:

Centro beat Lagat way, way past his prime. Alamirew, Gwet, Gebremeskel, and Kejelcha are all within a few years of their prime (I'm assuming Kejelcha was not really 17--he will improve, though). Farah regularly beats all of these guys and has beaten the three Ethiopians above, as well as all of the Kenyans, since 2011. How is your analogy in any way probative or even suggestive?

It's because you can't read. I wasn't talking about Centro beating Lagat. I was talking about him beating Asbel Kiprop and the other sub 3:30 runners.

Farah regularly beats these guys in slow race that have little to do with 5000m ability and more to do with sprinting ability. Also, those guys are not consistent. Sometimes they show up in 12:4x shape, sometimes they show up in 13:20 shape. So it is a fact that you can't assume Farah is also a 12:4x runner just because he beats them. That's basic math.

If you disagree with anything I just said, then you are letting us all know that you know little about running fitness.

chasing WRs burns you out wrote:

The fact is Olympic golds and WC gold supersedes any WR.

^ this

Who ever heard of Kipketer?

Bekele says that when you compare his times to Farah, Farah is nowhere near. He never suggests Farah would be close (which he would). That's my point.

Also anyone who thinks Farah is only as good as his PBs, tell me, do you really think Rupp is faster over 10,000m? If so, why doesn't Rupp just run all out to defeat Farah? Surely Rupp knows by training with Farah that he can run the kick out of him early?

Can they not break the records now due to better EPO testing? coincidence or not?

Nils Schumann wrote:

chasing WRs burns you out wrote:

The fact is Olympic golds and WC gold supersedes any WR.

^ this

Who ever heard of Kipketer?

Not ^ THIS

Right ... Who ever heard of Komen? Niyongabi forever, right?