Mo Farah out to produce ‘something special’ in world 10,000m

Kid running after kipchoge wrote:

Has Mo ever been confronted in an interview with a question about his irritating sit and kick never doing anything else tactic?

Most interviewers have more intelligence.

Interviewer: Mo, you won another gold, but you waited until late in the race to kick. That annoyed me. Why didn't you go out early and put in a lot more effort and risk your gold for a chance at a fast time without pacemaking?

Mo: Good one.

All He Does Is Win wrote:

Kid running after kipchoge wrote:

Has Mo ever been confronted in an interview with a question about his irritating sit and kick never doing anything else tactic?

Most interviewers have more intelligence.

Interviewer: Mo, you won another gold, but you waited until late in the race to kick. That annoyed me. Why didn't you go out early and put in a lot more effort and risk your gold for a chance at a fast time without pacemaking?

Mo: Good one.

No. A good interviewer would be more like this:

Mo, some critisize you about not being bold enough athlete, that you always go on the safe side at races, sitting and kicking, rarely aim for records or personal bests. If you take Bekele or Geb for example you could see a combination between tactical races when they go for the win, but along side you also see many records attempts and fast times. Some say that in order to be the GOAT one must have both of them. You have a 3:28-29 time for 1,500m. That's faster than Bekele and Geb. You also have a 59:32 half marathon. You definitely have a potential at least as Bekele's and Geb's. Why don't you go for records as well?

Mo: this interview is over.

Mo: Because I can't use infinite EPO like they could.

And nobody cares about fast times in pointless paced races.

Zlatan wrote:

What's he got planned chaps?

“Every year certain things happen where it gets to a point where suddenly Mo knows that he’s ready,” Black said. “Last year it was the Anniversary Games, when he ran a 5,000m. This year it was probably about 12 days ago. He did something in training, without killing himself, that confirmed to him and the rest of us that he was ready. He then took his shoes off and said: ‘That’s it, job done’. You’ll see something special.”

He takes a dump on the track?

His job is to win wrote:

Kid running after kipchoge wrote:

I think any real and decent track and field fan should want one thing- to see Mo lose. Unless he wins with a WR- and that's not gonna happen. No true fan of the sport wants to see another sit and kick

I'd be quite please watching Mo win again.

The point is to win. He has his strategy.

It's his competition's job to devise a plan to meet him, not his job to do something different.

What you're asking for is like asking GSW to not shoot 3s next playoffs of for Tom Brady to do all running plays -- just to see if they can win in more ways than one.

I think it just would be special to see him win again.

He is 34. People forget how old that is in track running. It would round off a historic number of major champs wins. And he isn't as speedy as he once was

Kid running after kipchoge wrote:

Has Mo ever been confronted in an interview with a question about his irritating sit and kick never doing anything else tactic?

That;s what happens in most championship races. Its his competitors who need to change tactics

Didn't see anyone complaining on here when Centrowitz won the 1500 in the slowest time for decades

Kid running after kipchoge wrote:

Has Mo ever been confronted in an interview with a question about his irritating sit and kick never doing anything else tactic?

27:01 isn't fast enough for you in a championship race?

Indeed. He ran faster in Rio than Geb ever did in the Olympics, a few seconds off the Olympic record. Pathetic sit and kick.

800ftw. wrote:

Kid running after kipchoge wrote:

Has Mo ever been confronted in an interview with a question about his irritating sit and kick never doing anything else tactic?

27:01 isn't fast enough for you in a championship race?

And then 27:05 in Rio?

Olympic record is 27:01 by Bekele and Farah ran 27:05 but apparently Farah just sits and kicks and Bekele always took it out fast or some bullshit?

Mo has been working on his Patronus. Interestingly, it takes the form of Galen Rupp.

Would anyone have been any happier if Mo had won his last 9 global medals by 5s or 10s? The Mo-haters would have (still) claimed it was down to EPO. By now it would be "boring" just to see him process to another victory. And if he'd had the temerity to be good enough to take down the times of the much beloved Kenny B, most posters on here wouldn't be able to contain themselves.

A 10k tactical battle with a burnout at the end is often great (to me) to watch. And all the while, every one of the runners in that field has the chance to turn on the gas and try to stretch it out if they think that will win them the race. The fact that they don't isn't Farah's fault - it's their own.

800ftw. wrote:

800ftw. wrote:

27:01 isn't fast enough for you in a championship race?

And then 27:05 in Rio?

Olympic record is 27:01 by Bekele and Farah ran 27:05 but apparently Farah just sits and kicks and Bekele always took it out fast or some bullshit?

Hey! You are NOT ALLOWED to be reasonable when it comes to critiquing Mo Farah. Please revise your statement to reflect this.

Today the track is way less popular than 10 years ago. more and more good Kenyan and ethiopian runners go from young age to the marathon. that's why there is a tremendous improvement in the marathon times, and almost no improvement in the track times. Belayneh Dinsamo record of 2:06:50 stood for 10 and a half years until broken in 1998. since then the same Dinsamo's record was broken 305 times again! you have so many good marathoners today that could have gone to the track and kick Mo's ass to the next world. but the track is just not popular as it was. I compare Mo to a Kid who instead of moving to the next grade, just keep staying year after year in the same first grade and racing kids 6 years younger than him.

That's not why. EPO testing and blood passports are why.

All He Does Is Win wrote:

That's not why. EPO testing and blood passports are why.

those EPO tests and blood passports aren't being used in the marathon???

think before you write

800ftw. wrote:

His job is to win wrote:

I'd be quite please watching Mo win again.

The point is to win. He has his strategy.

It's his competition's job to devise a plan to meet him, not his job to do something different.

What you're asking for is like asking GSW to not shoot 3s next playoffs of for Tom Brady to do all running plays -- just to see if they can win in more ways than one.

I think it just would be special to see him win again.

He is 34. People forget how old that is in track running. It would round off a historic number of major champs wins. And he isn't as speedy as he once was

Yes, and the key is push-ups and core work. That's what allowed him to go from an "also ran" to 8 straight global titles and breaking the 1500m British record.

Kid running after Kipchoge wrote:

All He Does Is Win wrote:

That's not why. EPO testing and blood passports are why.

those EPO tests and blood passports aren't being used in the marathon???

think before you write

EPO doesn't have the same effect in the marathon. Everyone knows this...

Marathon is more about efficiency than absolute oxygen values.

Kid running after Kipchoge wrote:

Today the track is way less popular than 10 years ago. more and more good Kenyan and ethiopian runners go from young age to the marathon. that's why there is a tremendous improvement in the marathon times, and almost no improvement in the track times. Belayneh Dinsamo record of 2:06:50 stood for 10 and a half years until broken in 1998. since then the same Dinsamo's record was broken 305 times again! you have so many good marathoners today that could have gone to the track and kick Mo's ass to the next world. but the track is just not popular as it was. I compare Mo to a Kid who instead of moving to the next grade, just keep staying year after year in the same first grade and racing kids 6 years younger than him.

Kipchoge, the best marathoner in the history of the world (and seemingly your favorite, too), quit track after finishing 7th at the Daegu 5000m-far behind Mo and many others-and then failing to make the London Olympic team.

Remind me again about how many marathoners could "kick Mo's ass" on the track?