no one currently can fill Bolt’s shoes, but eliud’s berlin performance moved him into the top spot as a face of running
no one currently can fill Bolt’s shoes, but eliud’s berlin performance moved him into the top spot as a face of running
Is Christian Coleman popular among regular folks?
yhrebray wrote:
Oh, you poor thing:
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=mo%20farah,eliud%20kipchoge
Wow. More people Google Mo in Kenya than they do Eliud.
El K, I really quite like you as a poster but you just got served. Sorry mate.
Subway Surfers wrote:
@scorpion talker wrote:
Please explain why the NFL is still so popular" Despite somewhat declining ratings, it is still the most popular sport in the US by far. Edeleman (sp?) gets a 4 game suspension for PEDs, comes back, and no one except Patriot haters care. And if it was one of "their guys" they wouldn't care either.
If anything, it is guys like you constantly harping on PEDs that are harming whatever little popularity running still has.
The NFL is reliant upon plays from quarterbacks, it's a big game of chess. Running is 100% performance, when the biggest stars are getting busted the credibility just dies a little bit more. Just wait for the next bust.
Can't compare the NFL to track at all. It's a very specialized American (only) TEAM sport, with extremely frequent breaks in play and frequent substitutions. Track is an INDIVIDUAL sport that is 100% athletic performance -- no plays, no substitutions, very little strategy compared to football. It's also a WORLD sport with a world governing body that (supposedly) cares about PED use. The NFL is a strictly American sport that pays lip service to PED use -- 4 games, really? Track athletes can get banned for 4 years or life.
Les wrote:
Subway Surfers wrote:
The NFL is reliant upon plays from quarterbacks, it's a big game of chess. Running is 100% performance, when the biggest stars are getting busted the credibility just dies a little bit more. Just wait for the next bust.
Can't compare the NFL to track at all. It's a very specialized American (only) TEAM sport, with extremely frequent breaks in play and frequent substitutions. Track is an INDIVIDUAL sport that is 100% athletic performance -- no plays, no substitutions, very little strategy compared to football. It's also a WORLD sport with a world governing body that (supposedly) cares about PED use. The NFL is a strictly American sport that pays lip service to PED use -- 4 games, really? Track athletes can get banned for 4 years or life.
More people are interested in the NFL than are interested in track. Yes, most are in the US, but still more interested in track, or more specifically, distance running, than in the entire rest of the world combined.
Michael Norman
Sydney
HHH Runner wrote:
yhrebray wrote:
Oh, you poor thing:
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=mo%20farah,eliud%20kipchogeWow. More people Google Mo in Kenya than they do Eliud.
El K, I really quite like you as a poster but you just got served. Sorry mate.
Eliud has only started standing out from other Kenyan runners in the last three years and finally, in 2018, has become our biggest star since Kip Keino. Before Rio, Kemboi, Rudisha, Kiprop, Tergat, Wanjiru, Ngugi and many others were more famous. The only reason Farah got googled was because Kenya's flavour of the moment was always asked how they would fare against him. It was the same for Bekele and Gebresselassie.
Bolt was such a polarizing figure, there is no one even close today to match his popularity and dominance in the last 10 years. Kipchoge, Farah, or McLaughlin maybe the new face, but tell that to general population who believes running is only played out in the Olympics.
A lot of my female running friends know Shalane Flanagan better than any other runner. If you do the google trends comparison, Shalane and Mo are basically 50-50 in the USA, and while Mo probably has greater general appeal, I think Shalane Flanagan has greater specific appeal among American women.
marathons aren't the Sport, they're the Hobby. That's why they're popular.
There are currently no ambassadors for track, it's dead in the water until someone sniffs the 100m world record again, which likely won't happen until they stop testing for the 2020 olympics.
I bet at least 90% of the joggers paying big money to be in marathons don't know who Kipchoge is. Not a spectator/fan sport, just a "fitness" craze. Ever more ironic as evidence mounts of long term heart damage.
El Keniano wrote:
Vgxggcxvhb wrote:
Not even close.
My wife knew Bolt. My 8 and 12 Year old know who Bolt is.
If I asked who is Kipchoge, they’d probably say bless you.
Aww, how quaint domesticated men like you, whose entire existence and world view is informed by their wife kids, still exist. Sweet. So back to the question at hand. Since your wife and kids have never heard of Kipchoge, who do they know? Rupp? Centrowitz? Murphy? Maybe Jager? And does that make them the biggest name in the sport?
One of the lamest, douchiest insults I’ve ever seen on here
Dr. Van Nostrand wrote:
El Keniano wrote:
Aww, how quaint domesticated men like you, whose entire existence and world view is informed by their wife kids, still exist. Sweet. So back to the question at hand. Since your wife and kids have never heard of Kipchoge, who do they know? Rupp? Centrowitz? Murphy? Maybe Jager? And does that make them the biggest name in the sport?
One of the lamest, douchiest insults I’ve ever seen on here
Yeah. Actually regretted that once I reread it.
FFF wrote:
Alexi Pappas
The winner of the Chicago marathon:
Gwen Jogginson.
So here’s the thing. Kipchoge probably sells more shoes for Nike worldwide than anyone else, correct? At least they picked him over others for their running campaign for that reason. And the coverage of his Berlin run was unprecedented outside of the Olympics. So that, to me, makes him the biggest name in the sport. Of course minus Bolt’s personality which only Lyles seems to have an inkling of. Lyles and Miller-Uibo have the chance to be it but only if they start scaring the WRs.
What do you mean, Bolt was "such a polarizing figure?" From your usage here, I sense that you don't know what "polarizing" means. "Galvanizing" would be more accurate.
El Keniano wrote:
So here’s the thing. Kipchoge probably sells more shoes for Nike worldwide than anyone else, correct? At least they picked him over others for their running campaign for that reason. And the coverage of his Berlin run was unprecedented outside of the Olympics. So that, to me, makes him the biggest name in the sport. Of course minus Bolt’s personality which only Lyles seems to have an inkling of. Lyles and Miller-Uibo have the chance to be it but only if they start scaring the WRs.
In the last 2+ years Kipchoge has won the Olympic gold medal in the marathon, done the sub-2 attempt which sold a lot of shoes, and set the world record. He did it all without breaking through to mainstream fame or even name recognition.
El Keniano wrote:
So here’s the thing. Kipchoge probably sells more shoes for Nike worldwide than anyone else, correct? At least they picked him over others for their running campaign for that reason. And the coverage of his Berlin run was unprecedented outside of the Olympics. So that, to me, makes him the biggest name in the sport. Of course minus Bolt’s personality which only Lyles seems to have an inkling of. Lyles and Miller-Uibo have the chance to be it but only if they start scaring the WRs.
No, not at all correct. As discussed, outside of athletics, nobody has heard of him. I'm imagining for shoe sales it'll be a US athlete in basketball, football or something (I'm not American so don't know who is the most famous).
In Europe (where I live), no-one who isn't a fan of athletics would have any idea who Lyles or Miller-Uibo is - it's all about Mo Farah in the advertising. He's obviously nowhere near as famous as Bolt, but still... No-one is saying that Farah is better than Eliud, but in term of fame, Farah all the way...
El Keniano wrote:
HHH Runner wrote:
Wow. More people Google Mo in Kenya than they do Eliud.
El K, I really quite like you as a poster but you just got served. Sorry mate.
Eliud has only started standing out from other Kenyan runners in the last three years and finally, in 2018, has become our biggest star since Kip Keino. Before Rio, Kemboi, Rudisha, Kiprop, Tergat, Wanjiru, Ngugi and many others were more famous. The only reason Farah got googled was because Kenya's flavour of the moment was always asked how they would fare against him. It was the same for Bekele and Gebresselassie.
And the gold in the mental gymnastics competition goes to....