Jake Robertson is eyeing Mo Farah: "If my brother and I are in shape we at least can make him hurt for it"

I can't believe people are even taking this seriously. If a Kenyan or Ethiopian man of comparable ability to the Robertsons made claims like this, he would be roundly laughed at.

Your friend wrote:

"If my brother and I are in shape we at least can make him hurt for it"

FINALLY. I hope Jake gets in shape enough to take a go at Farah and finally someone would be brave enough to just run as fast as they can from the start and take it to him. If Jake can't, expect the same: Everyone slows to whatever pace Mo sets and he destroys you over the last 800-1000. Same as always.

Hahaha spot on

Ehso wrote:

I can't believe people are even taking this seriously. If a Kenyan or Ethiopian man of comparable ability to the Robertsons made claims like this, he would be roundly laughed at.

i know. they run well at half marathon, but they haven't show any ability that they can run a good 10k. Didn't one of the brothers drop out at payton jordan?

if kamworwor can't do it, i don't see why they can. LOL

LetsRun.com wrote:

Steve Landells of the New Zealand Herald has a great article out on Jake Robertson, who missed basically all of 2015 and 2016 due to injury, but is on fire in 2017 after the sub-2 team figured out what was wrong with him.

He has huge goals - he wants to take a crack at Mo Farah.

"One reason I want to target the 10,000m is to race Mo Farah who has been undefeated for a long time (the last time he was beaten over 10,000m was in 2011). I really want to have one last crack at him before he retires on the track. If my brother and I are in shape we at least can make him hurt for it (the win)."

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/athletics/news/article.cfm?c_id=19&objectid=11856334

They don't stand a chance at any distance at any time of being anywhere close to Mo. They will embarrass themselves.

Yawn wrote:

Ehso wrote:

I can't believe people are even taking this seriously. If a Kenyan or Ethiopian man of comparable ability to the Robertsons made claims like this, he would be roundly laughed at.

i know. they run well at half marathon, but they haven't show any ability that they can run a good 10k. Didn't one of the brothers drop out at payton jordan?

if kamworwor can't do it, i don't see why they can. LOL

27'28" on the road in Berlin... LOL (at you)

What happened to Jake at Payton Jordan? He posted about it beforehand on twitter, then dropped out and never even mentioned why.

I'm a kiwi and I follow the Robertson's with interest. I hope they do break through. But at this stage it's just big talk. They're not at Farah's level - they're 27:33 and 27:45 10k runners.

I don't know who I dislike more, those back-stabbing twins or slow-mo..

Talk is cheap.

Even if they hang on for 5k they will still have made the pace fast enough so that someone else can take him down

I don't think it will happen. Whatever the pace is set Mo will be comfortably drafting and after dropping 52-53 second last lap there wont be anyone close to him

Definitely have adopted the positive Kenyan mindset. It's great to believe in yourself, but the Robertson brothers are the equivalent of "pretty good" Kenyans who go out with the leaders because they believe they can win even though their fitness indicates they have no shot.

Yawn wrote:

NB # wrote:

Jake and Zane running tactically fast from the gun to take the late race kick away from Mo. Yes...Let that dream become reality.

not gonna happen. they are good but NOT that good.

this pipe dream has supposed to come to fruition for the last 7-8 years and never does. yawn.

Kenyans wrote:

El Keniano wrote:

Not a fan and I wish people would stop associating them with Kenya. Nothing Kenyan about them. By the way, does anyone know why Ethiopia didn't work out for them? They barely lasted a couple of months after all that crap they talked about Kenya last year.

You are just a racist who likely doesn't consider Brother Colm a Kenyan.

Nothing to do with race, we have plenty of white Kenyans and they're nothing like these two. And yes, Bro Colm IS Kenyan. Heck, even Chris Froome, who now lives in the UK, still comports himself more like a Kenyan and has a love for the country that they can never comprehend.

Ehso wrote:

I can't believe people are even taking this seriously. If a Kenyan or Ethiopian man of comparable ability to the Robertsons made claims like this, he would be roundly laughed at.

The difference is that the Robersons have a chance of being in the race and being able to take it out for 8k before blowing up. A kenyan of comparable ability is finishing like 15th at the trials and watching the race on tv

No mention of why Jake dropped out of the Payton 10,000, pulling up sharply and limping off the track with about 2k to go. Does anybody know anything about this? Looked a bit like he tore his hamstring.

In fairness, he was looking very strong before that.

El Keniano wrote:

Kenyans wrote:

You are just a racist who likely doesn't consider Brother Colm a Kenyan.

Nothing to do with race, we have plenty of white Kenyans and they're nothing like these two. And yes, Bro Colm IS Kenyan. Heck, even Chris Froome, who now lives in the UK, still comports himself more like a Kenyan and has a love for the country that they can never comprehend.

Eh.. They lived in Kenya for long enough..but I see what you mean. They kinda seem like white cracker boys. That being said, white cracker boys don't really fit in anywhere—maybe part of the reason they moved to Kenya. They are as much Kenyan as anything else. To be honest, I think you are just being mean.

The Mullet is still alive in NZ??

From the article-

"The problem was diagnosed properly by the SUB2 team as a nervous system problem in my back," he explains. "The sciatic nerve, which run down the knee into the top of my calf was creating the sensation that my calf was tearing, even though it wasn't. "

What crack of shi@

so many runners who actually compete at the highest level of international racing have made the same claims and come up way short. (kamworor, tanui, etc)his quote should read, "if my brother and i somehow get into better shape than Farah is and feel good on the day and farah doesn't, then we can at least make him hurt for it."i'd love to see it happen but it's all empty words. they might not even qualify to get to the racehell, rupp can't even beat him and he's way better than robertson (remember, rupp got 2nd in 2012 and 5th in 2016 Oly's)

LetsRun.com wrote:

Steve Landells of the New Zealand Herald has a great article out on Jake Robertson, who missed basically all of 2015 and 2016 due to injury, but is on fire in 2017 after the sub-2 team figured out what was wrong with him.

He has huge goals - he wants to take a crack at Mo Farah.

"One reason I want to target the 10,000m is to race Mo Farah who has been undefeated for a long time (the last time he was beaten over 10,000m was in 2011). I really want to have one last crack at him before he retires on the track. If my brother and I are in shape we at least can make him hurt for it (the win)."

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/athletics/news/article.cfm?c_id=19&objectid=11856334