Banana Bread wrote:
Bekele has proved again that he is the most greatest runner ever. It said that the first 12k was 39:09, and Bekele was a few seconds from the front. If he finished in 73:48 than he done 13k in 34:3x. That proves that he is still the best 10k runner in the world ever. after running 12k, doing a 26:40ish 10k and then keeping the pace for yet another 3k. All out he will have done a potentially literally world record. It is definitely a road, world record. I'm surprised that wasn't evan realised by any one. Am I the only one with the brains to noticed this. I literally think he would have done the world record if he had a pacer with evanly paced splits, and no crowds of runners toward's the end, to get paced through.
I was wondering this myself. As you say the pace was quite slow and the Bekele really laid into it in the second half. He look very strong and very fast. It certainly seems as if he was in the neighborhood of Komon's 10k record.
However the splits do not seems to be available anywhere so we may assume he did not break any records. Otherwise they would have been reported along with record.
Though, wouldn't he not be eligible for record as the start was en route, so he did not start from a dead stop?