Paul Chelimo OH So Close - loses in Shanghai by .02 after looking over shoulder 19 times during final lap

Looked more like taunting. You don't look 20 times. It was obvious he felt good. A "well deserved" second place finish.

Proper headline: World Champ places fifth.

He’s a bad/dirty racer. Always looking around too much, cutting people off, tripping himself, pushing and grabbing people. Doesn’t seem to know how to race in a pack. He deserved the loss today.

How to fix this? Easy, institute the Coach Nelson rule: 10 push-ups for every time you look back in a race. The record was 140 push-ups earned on the final lap of an indoor 3200.

Too bad wrote:

He’s a bad/dirty racer. Always looking around too much, cutting people off, tripping himself, pushing and grabbing people. Doesn’t seem to know how to race in a pack. He deserved the loss today.

Never had a clean finish, this guy ... Newton's law of universal gravitation states that a particle attracts every other particle in the universe using a force that is directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between their centres ... proof positive!

It's frustrating how someone could spend so much time training to reach such peak conditioning, which clearly requires mental discipline, and yet consistently makes simple but costly mistakes while racing.

El Keniano wrote:

Too bad wrote:

He’s a bad/dirty racer. Always looking around too much, cutting people off, tripping himself, pushing and grabbing people. Doesn’t seem to know how to race in a pack. He deserved the loss today.

Never had a clean finish, this guy ... Newton's law of universal gravitation states that a particle attracts every other particle in the universe using a force that is directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between their centres ... proof positive!

Did Paul sleep with your wife?

I think turning your head slowing you down is overstated even if it's done a lot, unless it means the person stops going full gas because they think they have a safe lead. Haven't seen video of this though.

Good result early season. I’m not worried.

What do we know about today's winner? Another guy coming out of nowhere running stellar times at age 15?

Balew blew by him.

30:45X-C1978 wrote:

Looked more like taunting. You don't look 20 times. It was obvious he felt good. A "well deserved" second place finish.

- I'm glad he failed ... AGAIN! Chelimo is a complete chucklehead & just to think the US taxpayer funded his travel given WCAP.

- The WCAP athletes that enlisted under the Military Accessions Vital to the National Interest (MAVNI) program .... I don't call them soldiers ... owe an apology to the Special Forces operating in Africa. The following link takes you to an alleged response to what occurred in the death of Green Berets in Niger --- note the lack of folks that could speak the language & understand the culture. This is why the MAVNI program exists & ZERO WCAPers have served in Africa! It's BS!

Lickety Split wrote:

- I'm glad he failed ... AGAIN! Chelimo is a complete chucklehead & just to think the US taxpayer funded his travel given WCAP.

- The WCAP athletes that enlisted under the Military Accessions Vital to the National Interest (MAVNI) program .... I don't call them soldiers ... owe an apology to the Special Forces operating in Africa. The following link takes you to an alleged response to what occurred in the death of Green Berets in Niger --- note the lack of folks that could speak the language & understand the culture.

Yeah, it's Paul Chelimo's fault that some US Green Berets got ambushed by ISIS in Nigeria. If he were there, he could have yelled something at them in Swahili (which they wouldn't understand) and scared them away. You foolish cvnt.

Haha. Agree it was excessive and obsessive. I think someone needs to tell him that the information he gains from looking won't help him win.

Maybe he was just wondering where Asbel was.

Trump's Sons wrote:

Lickety Split wrote:

- I'm glad he failed ... AGAIN! Chelimo is a complete chucklehead & just to think the US taxpayer funded his travel given WCAP.

- The WCAP athletes that enlisted under the Military Accessions Vital to the National Interest (MAVNI) program .... I don't call them soldiers ... owe an apology to the Special Forces operating in Africa. The following link takes you to an alleged response to what occurred in the death of Green Berets in Niger --- note the lack of folks that could speak the language & understand the culture.

Yeah, it's Paul Chelimo's fault that some US Green Berets got ambushed by ISIS in Nigeria. If he were there, he could have yelled something at them in Swahili (which they wouldn't understand) and scared them away. You foolish cvnt.

- Easily could have occurred in East Africa ... particularly the Kenya-Somalia Border.

- Via the Department of Defense, I'm reporting Col Sean Ryan for violating US Army regulations with respect to corporate/professional sponsorship and WCAP amongst their athletes --- primarily "Chucklehead Chelimo" aka SPC Paul Chelimo. Based on multiple Diamond League appearances, HE DOES NOT WEAR WCAP ATTIRE BUT THAT OF NIKE. Thus, while brave US Soldiers are defending our country he's "triple-dipping": Soldier + Nike + Prize Earnings at the expense of the US taxpayer.

Edris has not started his doping program yet.

With you ... wonder if the Army tests WCAP for things beyond marijuna.

wejo wrote:

Coaches how would you teach him not to do it so often? Clearly it makes him feel comfortable when he runs and you don't want to coach that away.

I would get him to wear those sunglasses with rearview mirrors built in so he can look backwards whether he wishes without moving his head. I don't know why more runners wear these type of glasses that can give them a competitive edge.

This is posted in another thread:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dA7372AdBLg&t=91s