When Will Faith Kipyegon Get Some REAL Love on These Boards?

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  • El Keniano
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    2 years ago 08/07/2017 4:25pm CDT
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    2014 🥇 Commonwealth Games (defeats season form girl Hellen Obiri)

    2015 🥈 World Championships (ahead of more fancied Sifan Hassan)

    2016 🥇 Olympic Games (beating overwhelming favourite Genzebe Dibaba)

    2017 🥇 World Championships (with the Caster Semenya dynamic in the race dusting everyone including LR darling Laura Muir)

    She wasn't even most people's favourite this year with many picking Hasan over her.

    FAITH IS A LEGEND!
  • Interesting...
    2 years ago 08/07/2017 4:28pm CDT
    re: El Keniano
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    She's ridiculously underrated.
    Gold medalist, second fastest this year, yet not considered? I knew she was going to win. Muir and Hassan have shown dodgy tactics before (Rio), whereas Faith has really good tactics.
  • Scorpion_runner
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    2 years ago 08/07/2017 4:30pm CDT
    re: El Keniano
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    I love her ..She gets mad love!
  • above_average_joe
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    2 years ago 08/07/2017 4:37pm CDT
    re: El Keniano
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    I love her!
  • Vancomycin
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    2 years ago 08/07/2017 4:38pm CDT
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    I'm guilty of not considering a primary contender - not even sure why. I doubt she'll be underrated again. Back-to-back world titles is extremely rare.
  • Soft Machine
    2 years ago 08/07/2017 4:54pm CDT
    re: Vancomycin
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    I always considered her co-contender. The other shifted from Hassan to Semenya. Like everyone else, I didn't give Jenny near enough credit. So really it is Simpson I owe a bit of an apology.

    Experience won the day.
  • Linezolid
    2 years ago 08/07/2017 4:57pm CDT
    re: Soft Machine
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    Spectacular run tonight. I'm curious to see what the internediate times will be from 800m out.
  • TrackCoach
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    2 years ago 08/07/2017 5:04pm CDT
    re: Vancomycin
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    She is young, probably only 21 or 22, I know she was junior only 4 or 5 years ago. She won WJR XC at age 16, which is the youngest winner ever. With her speed and strength, I would love to see her race Ayana in a 5K or 10K. Btw, when I first saw her as a junior, she looked like a legit teenager. As good as she is, I don't think she will ever get close to GD's 1500 WR.
  • kimani
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    2 years ago 08/07/2017 5:06pm CDT
    re: Soft Machine
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    Definitely agree with El Keniano: she is consistent (can't say the same for Dibaba), throws down fast times (can't say the same for Simpson), and rises to the occasion at championships (more so than anyone else). I like Hassan but had Kipyegon ahead of her--the only person I thought could beat Kipyegon was a full force Genzebe, and she is nowhere to be found.
  • Idle speculation
    2 years ago 08/07/2017 5:20pm CDT
    re: El Keniano
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    She's the DJ Kaled of women's middle distance racing:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGXzlRoNtHU
  • El Keniano
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    2 years ago 08/07/2017 5:39pm CDT
    re: Linezolid
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    https://twitter.com/search?q=faith%20kipyegon&src=tyah
  • El Keniano
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    2 years ago 08/07/2017 5:45pm CDT
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    https://twitter.com/KResearcher/status/894667872571707392
  • ironside
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    2 years ago 08/07/2017 5:52pm CDT
    re: El Keniano
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    Great race by Faith Kipyegon. When 800 was passed in 2:17+ I was surprised F Kipyegon won. I was very impressed by Kipyegon.
  • Soft Machine
    2 years ago 08/07/2017 5:55pm CDT
    re: ironside
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    Last 800 possibly under 2:00
  • falconrunner22
    2 years ago 08/07/2017 6:31pm CDT
    re: ironside
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    When Kipyegon and Miur ran the slow 2nd lap, that told me that Kipeygon was not afraid of Semenya's big kick.
  • birther121
    2 years ago 08/07/2017 7:15pm CDT
    re: ironside
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    ironside wrote:

    Great race by Faith Kipyegon. When 800 was passed in 2:17+ I was surprised F Kipyegon won. I was very impressed by Kipyegon.

    exactly, I was sure Caster was winning at that point.
  • NERunner053
    2 years ago 08/07/2017 7:18pm CDT
    re: falconrunner22
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    To answer OP's question because she is not white and/or an American.
  • Phantasy Star
    2 years ago 08/07/2017 7:31pm CDT
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    Not a fan.

    Yet another age-cheat Kenyan who benefits from the country's systematic doping programme.

    Congrats to Jenny Simpson (clean winner) and Laura Muir (clean WR holder). Hope the cheats are exposed in due time.
  • El Keniano
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    2 years ago 08/07/2017 7:40pm CDT
    re: Phantasy Star
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    Faith winning her junior world XC title. Blatant age cheat.

    http://www1.pictures.zimbio.com/gi/Faith+Chepngetich+Kipyegon+14th+IAAF+World+oqt0LLZa46Ll.jpg
  • NativeSon
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    2 years ago 08/07/2017 9:45pm CDT
    re: El Keniano
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    El Keniano wrote:

    2014 🥇 Commonwealth Games (defeats season form girl Hellen Obiri)

    2015 🥈 World Championships (ahead of more fancied Sifan Hassan)

    2016 🥇 Olympic Games (beating overwhelming favourite Genzebe Dibaba)

    2017 🥇 World Championships (with the Caster Semenya dynamic in the race dusting everyone including LR darling Laura Muir)

    She wasn't even most people's favourite this year with many picking Hasan over her.

    FAITH IS A LEGEND!

    El Keniano,

    I've just watched a recording of the entire day's event......without knowing the results.I kept from any communication gadget.

    I jumped across my living room like a retard (ha ha ha ha ha!)

    Faith is the master (or is it the mistress?) of the metric mile.

    Faith is a living legend!

    NBC needs to respect her.

    NBC is evil!