Kenenisa Bekele disses Mo Farah and Galen Rupp: "Times are very important,"

bekele fan wrote:

"Times are very important," Bekele said. "On the track I don't see anyone out there looking like they can reach my marks at the moment. In the marathon, running two hours, 10 minutes and winning would not give you full happiness. Winning in two hours, four minutes would be a different feeling.

Rupp has never run fast for 26.2. Farah has never run fast at anything but the 1500.

Well, he's got a point to a certain degree about times. however, the levels of happiness are different for every individual, he can't speak for Galen for that.

Let me play devil's advocate a little bit. For those that think Galen can run "2:05 - 2:06" , what makes you believe he can sustain that kind of pace when he could not handle Kipchoge's "pedestrian" 2:08:44 ?

How nice that Kenenisa thinks this.

He's not even going to win.

conova is nothing but an agent for iaaf .

pushing certain agenda's and all to do with continued

destruction of long distance for european /american athletes

and doping and freedom to dope , plays a massive part of this .

bekele = micera ,

he ran during 1st generation epo test so would'nt of been able

to abuse like in past unless got free pass , but with micera very different story .

of course confident w.r will last , cant dope like used too

will go eventually though with newer ped's and newer gw501516 type peds

For all the posters and readers of LR : tell me if this guy is not one who needs to be cured by some analyst ! I discover now I'm an agent for IAAF, who wants the distruction of long distance for European and american athletes !

Now he has a new obsession : after igf, his new nightmare is gw501516.

I think it's the phone number of somebody. The guy can become a good writer of spy-stories, with his "mania" to see everywhere any kind of conspiracy !

Talent is as talent does wrote:

doctorj wrote:

Well, he's got a point to a certain degree about times. however, the levels of happiness are different for every individual, he can't speak for Galen for that.

Let me play devil's advocate a little bit. For those that think Galen can run "2:05 - 2:06" , what makes you believe he can sustain that kind of pace when he could not handle Kipchoge's "pedestrian" 2:08:44 ?

Kill yourself.

A tactical, 75 degree race.

How about the fact that he beat 2:03 & 2:04 runners in the race?

I sometimes just assume everyone here is trolling because so many comments indicate a lack of brain cells.

Face it kid, he couldn't hold Kipchoge's pace at the Olympics and by Galen's own account couldn't keep up with Kirui. Further more kiddo, if anything Galen is showing is that he is a consistent 2:09-2:10 runner. Process that.

Ahhh, fanatics like you are precious.

Why do you think an elite coach has to know something about a pharma that can cause cancer ? To pretend an elite coach has to know pharma good for curing diseases is the same as to pretend doctor or pharmacists have to know something about training methodology.

I don't know anything about all these pharma because I don't have any interest in this direction (I'm not a doctor), and serious doctors, pharmacists and physiologists don't know anything about training and its effects, because are not coaches or methodologists. And every time some of them wants to speak about training without knowing its effects they can only say stupidities, exactly how myself if I want to speak about gw50xxx.

- Crazy Talk

Lots of people couldn't hold on to Kipchoge's 2:08 In Rio. Who knows how fast Rupp can go but lots of people care about place over time.Meb won Boston, NYC and Olympic Silver and fourth with a modest PB.Same goes for the current marathon WC who was 4th in the Olympics.On the flip side, is seems like there are lots of 2:06 or better guys who never repeat that or are not that great in tactical races.

doctorj wrote:

Talent is as talent does wrote:

Kill yourself.

A tactical, 75 degree race.

How about the fact that he beat 2:03 & 2:04 runners in the race?

I sometimes just assume everyone here is trolling because so many comments indicate a lack of brain cells.

Face it kid, he couldn't hold Kipchoge's pace at the Olympics and by Galen's own account couldn't keep up with Kirui. Further more kiddo, if anything Galen is showing is that he is a consistent 2:09-2:10 runner. Process that.

Ahhh, fanatics like you are precious.

bekele fan wrote:

"Times are very important," Bekele said. "On the track I don't see anyone out there looking like they can reach my marks at the moment. In the marathon, running two hours, 10 minutes and winning would not give you full happiness. Winning in two hours, four minutes would be a different feeling.

And yet: he didn't seem happy after running 2:01 and Desisa seemed delighted at the weekend...

the heartaches wrote:

bekele fan wrote:

"Times are very important," Bekele said. "On the track I don't see anyone out there looking like they can reach my marks at the moment. In the marathon, running two hours, 10 minutes and winning would not give you full happiness. Winning in two hours, four minutes would be a different feeling.

And yet: he didn't seem happy after running 2:01 and Desisa seemed delighted at the weekend...

Well if I was just 2 seconds off the world record in the marathon, I too would be a little p I s s ed at myself.

Eh.. wrote:

Bekele is at another level than Salazar's epo-elf, I just like that Hall is also at another level than Rupp when it comes to distance

classic.

I want to be an EPO ELF for Xmas!

the heartaches wrote:

bekele fan wrote:

"Times are very important," Bekele said. "On the track I don't see anyone out there looking like they can reach my marks at the moment. In the marathon, running two hours, 10 minutes and winning would not give you full happiness. Winning in two hours, four minutes would be a different feeling.

And yet: he didn't seem happy after running 2:01 and Desisa seemed delighted at the weekend...

He missed the WR by nothing, of course he is disappointed.

He could have run in Doha but choose to set chase his own goal.

Plus...EARS!

the heartaches wrote:

bekele fan wrote:

"Times are very important," Bekele said. "On the track I don't see anyone out there looking like they can reach my marks at the moment. In the marathon, running two hours, 10 minutes and winning would not give you full happiness. Winning in two hours, four minutes would be a different feeling.

And yet: he didn't seem happy after running 2:01 and Desisa seemed delighted at the weekend...

He didn't want a fast time. He wanted THE fastest time.