WTH: 12:55 man and Pre Classic and Stockholm winner Selemon Barega fails to medal in 5000 at World Juniors! (video added)

Hahaha. This is great!

Man, I didn't see the race and don't think I taped it. Why was it on so early? All week, I've had world juniors on in the background as I worked but I sleep in til 9 on a Saturday and miss it.

It just shows me that it's really hard for people to run as the heavy favorite. They try to do to much instead of let the race come to them. We saw the same thing in the men's 1500 . Maybe he was scared of Jakob's 1500 speed and din't want it to go slow and figured Kenya has been God awful at the 5000 in recent years, no way do they went.

A terrible meet for the Ethiopian men. They have 1 medal so far - bronze in the 10k.

[quote]rojo wrote:

Kiplimo doesn't medal either... And Ingebrigtsen is half a second from gold. Wow. Anyone got credentials for 1st and 2nd??

rojo, you can "rewind" the live IAAF stream on YouTube (they also have videos of all the previous sessions).

kartelite wrote:

rojo, you can "rewind" the live IAAF stream on YouTube (they also have videos of all the previous sessions).

This is what I did. Nice race!

Why the name change for the thread?

Oh, you know how these grumpy owners are. They just like to do odd things because they can- no rhyme or reason- never mind that he'd not even seen the race at the time. Just going along with the general sentiment here on letsrun of making comments on a subject with little to no real knowledge on the subject. The mental illness here starts from the top.

toomanyspikes wrote:

Kiplimo doesn't medal either... And Ingebrigtsen is half a second from gold. Wow. Anyone got credentials for 1st and 2nd??

Mid-20-year-old B-list Kenyans sent to compete as "teenagers." Typical story.

blueberry milk wrote:

toomanyspikes wrote:

Kiplimo doesn't medal either... And Ingebrigtsen is half a second from gold. Wow. Anyone got credentials for 1st and 2nd??

Mid-20-year-old B-list Kenyans sent to compete as "teenagers." Typical story.

Nope, finished 2nd and 3rd last year at the World Youth championships in Nairobi Kenya. Guess who won that race? Selemon Berega.

lol, yes, and last year they were also "Mid-20-year-old B-list Kenyans sent to compete as teenagers.'"

I can't help notice that fifth place guy is named Haile Bekele... imagining growing up with that kind of pressure - Thanks Mom and Dad!

Don't forget the race in Lausanne. Yesterday won Kejelcha great in Rabat and Barega...?

Five is the magic number wrote:

I can't help notice that fifth place guy is named Haile Bekele... imagining growing up with that kind of pressure - Thanks Mom and Dad!

To be fair, it wouldn't be a surprise if he was born before Haile was even relevant in the sport.

Five is the magic number wrote:

I can't help notice that fifth place guy is named Haile Bekele... imagining growing up with that kind of pressure - Thanks Mom and Dad!

LOL

I honestly did not expect a 13:20 out of Jakob. That’s WAY faster than I expected him to run, and a European U20 record at 17! What a championships from him this week.

Wrong timing of the doping cycle and/or cover-up?

congrats to Jakob INGEBRIGTSEN on his double gold performance.

And that's why no one wants to lead a race. Barega blew his load doing all the leading, trying to out run and out class the field and got out kicked when it mattered. He set everyone up but himself. Perhaps he thought it was a good strategy and didn't want to risk a kick vs a 1500 guy and the Kenyans but it backfired. And barega would have got 3rd in that other DL race he won if kejelcha and the other EPOpian didn't get tangled up. Probably serves him right given that he's probably a typical age cheat anyways but who knows.

Soren Knudsen...

16:18?! Might as well DNF.