Official Rio Olympic Men's Marathon Thread

Cambodia vs. Jordan for DFL

Mebs vomit counter specialist wrote:

Meb mentioned he had to stop 7 times, starting at mile 13, and in the nbc interview that he threw up (at least once?) possibly more

Anyone catch the vomit count? It's important to me

Famine. Genocide. Homelessness. Lack of drinking water. Things that are important.

Meb's vomit count..not so much

A solid 7/10 though

i chose D2 wrote:

Cambodia vs. Jordan for DFL

There still they're. Bettor than all of us...

Well that was fun to watch, time for my current long distance run of 4 miles!!

(Avoid splitting your ITB and having it surgically stapled back together if possible)

loving this Cambodian guy; so excited to finish second-last

rojo wrote:

We picked the winner of the race correctly.

That's one way to put it. Another way is you only picked one out of three medalists.

It looks to me as if you mentioned four of the top ten in your article.

Hard to tell if that's impressive. It could be that the medalists in the majors almost always come from the guys you mentioned, with a bunch of randos filling out the top ten.

It'd be interesting to see how you did compared to the bookies or the LRC poll.

rojo wrote:

The joke is on us wrote:

Absolutely, they have been so far off on Ward, there credibility is severley hurt, didn't even have Ward as top 6 in the trials let alone the Olympics, if they dont appologize and admit they were way of then there credibilty is official done with respect to Marathon projections anyways.

We wrote an article on who was going to medal - not a fluff NBC feature. They could run that race 100 times and I dont think Ward would medal.

Do you want us to also apologize to Tanzania's Alphonce Felix SIMBU who received ZERO mention in the preview but beat Ward? The guy behing Ward - Tadesse Abraham - also received zero mention.

Or what about other top 10ers Eric Gillis and Callum Hawkins?

How is our credibility done? We picked the winner of the race correctly.

Ya, probably should have had mention of Alphonce as well. But this is an American site, so missing Ward is much much more egregious. I mean he is literally at all the USATF road events this site (should) follow. I thought he was just picking easy events that he could win because of the lack of any credit here, I guess those were better events than I thought.

Time for my long run of 0 miles. Don't get PTTBTW, anyone see the stands on the final straightaway. They had massive bleachers lined up the whole stretch. Not a single person in the stands until the very end.Should have finished in the stadium.

SloweRyan wrote:

Well that was fun to watch, time for my current long distance run of 4 miles!!

(Avoid splitting your ITB and having it surgically stapled back together if possible)

It was broadcast over the air live on the west coast

HipsterDoofus wrote:

Now the good stuff. Hot Russian chicks in synchronized gymnastics.

Makeup by Rowbury.

Makeup by Rowbury AND Tami Faye Bakker

Lelisa crossed wrists at finish is expression of solidarity with protests against government of Ethiopia. He is from Oromia. You can look up rest if interested.

https://twitter.com/hashtag/oromoprotests

Not personal showboating. A lot of people in his country have been shot in protests against government. Government will not be pleased with Lelisa.

Two time medalist wrote:

Rupp haters... SUCK IT!

So disappointed to see Flanagan leave a congrats for Rupp off her twitter feed. I expect that JV attitude from Goucher and the bird flock. But they are colleagues at Nike. Suck it up.

i chose D2 wrote:

loving this Cambodian guy; so excited to finish second-last

Thank you for mentioning the Cambodian runner! He has had a long road to the Olympics. Ow Kumn!

The last guy that did push-ups at the finish line was the Christian Murray guy that got busted for doping... the dude that ran in board shorts.

Minnesota goat wrote:

Lelisa crossed wrists at finish is expression of solidarity with protests against government of Ethiopia. He is from Oromia. You can look up rest if interested.

https://twitter.com/hashtag/oromoprotests

Not personal showboating. A lot of people in his country have been shot in protests against government. Government will not be pleased with Lelisa.

Interesting. I just assumed he was a huge D-Generation X fan.

GJK wrote:

The last guy that did push-ups at the finish line was the Christian Murray guy that got busted for doping... the dude that ran in board shorts.

Christian Hesch

brogan1 wrote:

Minnesota goat wrote:

Lelisa crossed wrists at finish is expression of solidarity with protests against government of Ethiopia. He is from Oromia. You can look up rest if interested.

https://twitter.com/hashtag/oromoprotests

Not personal showboating. A lot of people in his country have been shot in protests against government. Government will not be pleased with Lelisa.

Interesting. I just assumed he was a huge D-Generation X fan.

I pray Lelisa faces no retribution for this brave action. Most track fans have no idea how brutal and corrupt the ruling elite are in Ethiopia.

I feel like the bridge is built and finished.......the '80's to now....I am thrilled with Team USA!

Yeah, probably should apologize for them, too. Seeing that you left them out as well. It's okay to admit you are wrong from time to time. People respect that more than defending yourself against trolls.