KIPCHOGE GOAT takes Down Mo Farah

El Keniano wrote:

seasoned ranker wrote:

*yawn*

This was already put to bed in the other GOAT thread. It was an unimportant race, especially compared to the double golds later that year at the OG that one of these mentioned runners couldn't qualify for.

This race was set up as a supposed WR attempt for Farah.

Is it more important than the Olympics? Who holds the WR?

get logic wrote:

seasoned ranker wrote:

It was an unimportant race, especially compared to the double golds later that year at the OG that one of these mentioned runners couldn't qualify for.

What an idiotic post.

It is not like Farah and Kipchoge would have the same path to "qualify" for the Olympics, you moron.

Farah's entire focus of 2012 was the 5,000/10,000 at OG. All he had to do to qualify was jog faster than the UK slugs.

Kipchoge was focused entirely on the roads in 2012, racing several half marathons and prepping for his 2:05 debut in spring 2013. Anyone knowing Kenya could tell he only ran Kenyan Olympic Trials 10,000 in 2012 to please the athletic federation, which is key to good will and future team selection.

The OG 5000m/10000m is much more important than the race the OP posted. That's my point. Farah smoked all the 3 guys that smoked Kipchoge in his qualifying race, so obviously he would have had no troubles making the Kenyan team.

seasoned ranker wrote:

get logic wrote:

What an idiotic post.

It is not like Farah and Kipchoge would have the same path to "qualify" for the Olympics, you moron.

Farah's entire focus of 2012 was the 5,000/10,000 at OG. All he had to do to qualify was jog faster than the UK slugs.

Kipchoge was focused entirely on the roads in 2012, racing several half marathons and prepping for his 2:05 debut in spring 2013. Anyone knowing Kenya could tell he only ran Kenyan Olympic Trials 10,000 in 2012 to please the athletic federation, which is key to good will and future team selection.

The OG 5000m/10000m is much more important than the race the OP posted. That's my point. Farah smoked all the 3 guys that smoked Kipchoge in his qualifying race, so obviously he would have had no troubles making the Kenyan team.

Kenyan trials are run at altitude. Some people just perform better. No evidence Farah is one of them.

El Keniano wrote:

seasoned ranker wrote:

The OG 5000m/10000m is much more important than the race the OP posted. That's my point. Farah smoked all the 3 guys that smoked Kipchoge in his qualifying race, so obviously he would have had no troubles making the Kenyan team.

Kenyan trials are run at altitude. Some people just perform better. No evidence Farah is one of them.

The 2012 Kenyan 10000m Olympic Trials that Kipchoge failed to make the team in were run at Eugene. Do you even follow the sport?

Farah's career in a nutshell. Please take the time to read:

https://amp.theguardian.com/sport/2017/aug/11/mo-farah-track-legacy-world-athletics-championships

Sledge_hammer wrote:

tony the tiger wrote:

Are you fu-cking retarded ??

There were 3 Kenyans at the 5k race in the London Olympics that beat Kipchoge and made it to London

Mo literally toyed with these 3 and won the gold one week after winning the 10k

Well, he competed in the weakest era of the track. Let's see how he's doing on the road. His marathon PB though is just a 2:06 in his hometown, if I recall correctly. And a horde of East Africans have run sub-2:05 already.

He competed in weak era , oh he does the mobot when he destroys the East Africans on the track , oh he got a goatee blah blah bah blah blah just STFU , mayne