We denied Mohammed Farah the luxury and the joy of performing the 'Mobot'!

Given the level of Nativeson's obsessiveness, you can forgive him his excitement over this small race.

Farah has essentially ruined his life for the best part of a decade, so he needs a bit of respite until the Olympics and it happens all over again.

If 6 were a 9 wrote:

Regardless of semantics it was great he got beat and we were spared the "stupid-face" as someone else mentioned on another thread.

rojo wrote:

NativeSun,

Don't let the haters hate. I love how you use the word "we". True sports fans live and breathe in their fandom so we is appropriate.

Some peopleare always hating. Heck when I was coaching at Cornell, somebody got my when I used the term "we" to refer to the team I was coaching. So if they always are going to hate, you might as well use it.

Alleluyah!

I get you.

Tommy2Nuttz wrote:

Congrats to the Kenyans..I always root for them to win..phenomenal running by Kamworor and Muchiri today. In those cold wet windy rainy conditions too. No way was Farrah going to win today.

Great day for Kenya any way you look at it.enjoy the victory..lets hope for more of the same in Rio.

Hear hear Tommy.

ronwilson wrote:

I share in your joy, NativeSon. Always great to see Mo Farah lose. Or Galen Rupp lose. Or any of the Alberto Salazar's athletes to lose. I'm a hater.

I hear you.

Rio 10k will be quite captivating .

On the women's side, I hope Jechirchir and Cynthia Limo link up with Vivian cheruiyot.

Well said, NativeSon, well said.

I have been waiting for a great talent to come along and defeat Mo. That man has finally arrived, and his name is Geoffrey Kipsang Kamworor.

I hope both Kenya and Ethiopia are in Rio so that we can see the greatest double-10000 matchup in history: Mo v. Kam/Karoki and Cherouyiot v. Dibaba/Defar

Well, I think Alice Aprot would like to disagree with you on that, NativeSon. She is currently on the same level(or better) as Linet Masai was when she ran 30'26". Her only shortcoming maybe lack of finishing speed but she sure makes it up for that with Kamworor's type front running.

NativeSon wrote:

On the women's side, I hope Jechirchir and Cynthia Limo link up with Vivian cheruiyot.

true sport fans are the biggest losers on the planet. I'd rather accomplish something on my own than linking my mood and fate to something that I can't directly influence.

ilmango wrote:

true sport fans are the biggest losers on the planet. I'd rather accomplish something on my own than linking my mood and fate to something that I can't directly influence.

Let us know when you get that Olympic gold.

tony the tiger wrote:p.s this is a race where both of them were favorites in this distance

Mo Farah's thresholds is the 10k

it may be

however, he is no bum at 1/2M & i wouda been surprised when lining up if he was in anything slower than shape of

~ 59-flat

to get hammered by nearly a minute by a guy who fell over at the start & apart from suicidal effort to catch up within 80 / 90s !!!

( yes, suicidal, but this resurrection weekend, so he got re-animated )

only put in his big move ~ 3 miles from finish is more testament to talent of guy who hammered mo rather than mo having any serious deficiency at 1/2 M

jjjjjj wrote:and don't forget about the fact that the U.S. whomped on Kenya at World Indoors.

the relevance of indoors in an olympic year is severely devalued

if any elite wins indoors or runs a sensational time indoors, i woud be very very worried for them as they may have peaked at wrong time

a games year is no time to be messing about running indoors other than a leg-stretching exercise to break monotony of hardest training of their life

ventolin^3 wrote:

tony the tiger wrote:p.s this is a race where both of them were favorites in this distance

Mo Farah's thresholds is the 10k

it may be

however, he is no bum at 1/2M & i wouda been surprised when lining up if he was in anything slower than shape of

~ 59-flat

to get hammered by nearly a minute by a guy who fell over at the start & apart from suicidal effort to catch up within 80 / 90s !!!

( yes, suicidal, but this resurrection weekend, so he got re-animated )

only put in his big move ~ 3 miles from finish is more testament to talent of guy who hammered mo rather than mo having any serious deficiency at 1/2 M

So you agree then, the favourites won. Thanks for your contribution.

Mo could probably buy Iten if he wanted to and make those runners work for him.

anon mofo wrote:

NativeSon wrote:

Our drugs are very efficacious.

The potency level is out of everyone else's scope. It is out of this world.

At least the Kenyans are admitting to their cheating now, I suppose.

Yeah this made me scratch my head. What are you trying to say here Native Son? Kenya has better drugs than everyone?

ewgvac wrote:

ilmango wrote:

true sport fans are the biggest losers on the planet. I'd rather accomplish something on my own than linking my mood and fate to something that I can't directly influence.

Let us know when you get that Olympic gold.

Uh, you're missing his point....grown adults who live and die by & derive their self-esteem from sports outcomes are losers. Even worse when the competitors are college kids.

He is simply saying you could put you energy into so much else, like self improvement. Whether it's a gold medal or just a pb. You can feel good about what YOU accomplished. And not being like Native Son here and being bragadocious with regards to the accomplishments of others and using the term "we" when you had nothing to do with the results.

I agree, if anything this race showcases Kam gifted raw athleticism than Mo Farah 1/2 marathon capability

KAPCHEROP wrote:

Well, I think Alice Aprot would like to disagree with you on that, NativeSon. She is currently on the same level(or better) as Linet Masai was when she ran 30'26". Her only shortcoming maybe lack of finishing speed but she sure makes it up for that with Kamworor's type front running.

NativeSon wrote:

On the women's side, I hope Jechirchir and Cynthia Limo link up with Vivian cheruiyot.

I totally forgot about Alice. Some might have to go down to the 5k. Wacera is good too and so is Viola Kibiwott.

The trials will be explosive.

Your mom grows some wrote:

ewgvac wrote:

Let us know when you get that Olympic gold.

Uh, you're missing his point....grown adults who live and die by & derive their self-esteem from sports outcomes are losers. Even worse when the competitors are college kids.

He is simply saying you could put you energy into so much else, like self improvement. Whether it's a gold medal or just a pb. You can feel good about what YOU accomplished. And not being like Native Son here and being bragadocious with regards to the accomplishments of others and using the term "we" when you had nothing to do with the results.

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