Official 2017 IAAF World XC Live Discussion Thread

Agent of chaos wrote:

Dibaba doped wrote:

How is it that Dibaba ran a 5:27 2000m!? Thats insane! Kiprop only ran 5:19

I'm actually kind of hoping you are as stupid as this post suggests. I'm sick of EVERYTHING on this site being chalked up to troll attempts!

My sides! 😂😂😂

H Bomb wrote:

watcher of the skies wrote:

That was rather disturbing to watch. When I saw him go through those little hills, it did seem like -wait- he is seriously slowing down, and the announcers at first didn't mention that Kamworwor was pretty close behind on that dip and rise. But I felt a bit sick to my stomach watching that race- of course I was rooting for Kamworor and Kenya. But I would have liked to see a fierce race down the homestretch, not an watch an athlete suffer extreme physical and emotional damage in an attempt just to finish.

Bad thing was watching him suffer, good thing he's 20 years old and will rebound to do great things!

True. He looked like he was standing up at least with his teammates after he crossed the line.

Dibaba doped wrote:

How is it that Dibaba ran a 5:27 2000m!? Thats insane! Kiprop only ran 5:19

Last leg was 200m shorter.

Ethiopia wins with a tie breaker, yet again!!!

actually by a point.

H Bomb wrote:

Thereal truth wrote:

Looks like 4th for u.s women! What a race from them!

Are you kidding? Our top woman 3 minutes behind the winner, lucky she didn't get lapped!

I quickly corrected that to 5th so pay more attention to the posts and I'm not kidding- in case you haven't realized cross country is scored by POINTS based on PLACEMENT and not time.

Looks like Uganda will grab bronze by 2 points over US thanks to Cheptgei's 30th place finish

Looks like 5th for us men but it was very close- less than 10 points separating them from 3rd

Thereal truth wrote:

H Bomb wrote:

Are you kidding? Our top woman 3 minutes behind the winner, lucky she didn't get lapped!

I quickly corrected that to 5th so pay more attention to the posts and I'm not kidding- in case you haven't realized cross country is scored by POINTS based on PLACEMENT and not time.

I'm pretty sure most of us know XC is based on points. Nevertheless, being 3 minutes behind the winner is embarrassing. 3 minutes?!? When it comes to distance running, the best days for America was the early 80s. We can't even put together a team of Kenyans that wins. Put a USA singlet on them and suddenly they suck like the rest of us. We should probably just stick to bass fishing, bowling and competitive shooting.

It looks like Cheptegai received too much of a boost from the home crowd, and unknowingly ran out of his skin until it was too late. It was troubling to watch. I really wanted him to win.

Thereal truth wrote:

Looks like 5th for us men but it was very close- less than 10 points separating them from 3rd

Looks like it is Ethiopia then Kenya then Uganda then Eritrea then America but the 3-5 is so close that we'll have to wait for the final results

Thereal truth wrote:

Looks like 5th for us men but it was very close- less than 10 points separating them from 3rd

results anywhere? IAAF doesn't have them.

in japan wrote:

It looks like Cheptegai received too much of a boost from the home crowd, and unknowingly ran out of his skin until it was too late. It was troubling to watch. I really wanted him to win.

Yes I felt the same way- but what a thrill to hear a crowd cheering like that for XC. Reminds me of Oregon athletes winning the OT's at Hayward.

Watching that race come to a conclusion brough the same sense of disbelief as a certain recent presidetial election.

I'm pretty sure most of us know XC is based on points. Nevertheless, being 3 minutes behind the winner is embarrassing. 3 minutes?!? When it comes to distance running, the best days for America was the early 80s. We can't even put together a team of Kenyans that wins.

OK - reality check here for this dimwit.

1. This was our B team. Our best athletes had no interest in doing a meet which has little effect on their livelihood (i.e. shoe sponsors don't care about World XC) and was in a country where the travel burden + possibility of contracting illness are not insubstantial.

2. The best days were the 1980s? Let's see. In the two Olympic Games we attended in the 80's we got one medal in 1984 and 0 medals in 1988 in the distance events. We got SEVEN medals in 2016, plus a boatload of 4th through 10th places finishes.

Surprisingly, we did poorly in an event we care little about, on another continent, in a third world country, at a time of the year that is almost five months from the meet that matters most for professional distance runners.

For a happier Cheptegai ending, see the 2016 Carlsbad 5000.

H Bomb wrote:

Thereal truth wrote:

Looks like 4th for u.s women! What a race from them!

Are you kidding? Our top woman 3 minutes behind the winner, lucky she didn't get lapped!

At the pace the leaders were traveling a lap took over 6 min, so there is no way she would have been lapped or even been close to being lapped.

Math is so hard right?

Gotta be tough and courageous to run balls out like that and die but still stagger to the finish. Mad respect for the Ugandan.

And Scotty Simmons goes home humiliated

and hungover!