The Ethiopian put on a Wale of a show. Makes me wonder if he has actually done a water jump before.
Cue at 7:20
The Ethiopian put on a Wale of a show. Makes me wonder if he has actually done a water jump before.
Cue at 7:20
That was great! 3 falls in one race. Did he end up 3rd? Hopefully, he at least got a medal. Probably has a wife and 4 kids at home to feed.
The other guy from Eritria with the receeding hairline probably has more children to feed at home.
http://www.iaaf.org/competitions/iaaf-world-u20-championships/news/world-u20-championship-bydgoszcz-2016Something amiss wrote:
That was great! 3 falls in one race. Did he end up 3rd? Hopefully, he at least got a medal. Probably has a wife and 4 kids at home to feed.
THE FALL AND RISE
With 550m to run in the men’s 3000m steeplechase final, the medal contenders had been whittled to four: Kenya’s Amos Kirui and Vincent Kipyegon Ruto, Eritrea’s Yemane Haileselassie and Ethiopia’s Getnet Wale.
Moments later, disaster struck for Wale, the Ethiopian crashing to the track after stumbling upon landing in the water pit. As Kirui and Ruto pushed the pace along at the front, Wale spent the ensuing 400 metres fighting his way back into medal contention, which he accomplished as he approached the final water jump in third place.
And then it happened again.
In an almost identical fall, Wale crashed to the track emerging from the water, but rose to his feet just as fast, somehow summoning the energy within him to continue on his medal hunt.
Up front, Kirui surged clear to win in 8:20.43, while Haileselassie found an extra gear to take silver in 8:22.67. Ruto, meanwhile, faded badly in the home straight and was chased down by Wale, who with a dogged effort lunged forward over the line, crashing to the track for the third time in a little over a minute to snatch bronze by 0.01 in 8:22.83.
Wale may be left with an array of bumps and bruises when he departs Bydgoszcz in the morning, but in his carry-on luggage he will have the ideal painkiller: a hard-fought medal for his country.
Whatever follicle-compromising disease is running rampant in the horn of Africa, it must be stopped! Can the U.S. airdrop Rogaine over the villages?
Ftyftftffftftfyt wrote:
The other guy from Eritria with the receeding hairline probably has more children to feed at home.
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Great interview with Steve Cram - says Jakob has no chance of WRs this year
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