I am sure there a some people out here who are also looking for the European XC season so the races will be in Tilburg this Sunday.
Make your predictions top 10 in Male/Female
I am sure there a some people out here who are also looking for the European XC season so the races will be in Tilburg this Sunday.
Make your predictions top 10 in Male/Female
I'll throw a few names that'll will make it to the TOP10.
Some random kenyans representing Turkey
Antonio Abadia (Spain)
Ross Millington and Andy Vernon (GB&NI)
Henrik Ingebrigtsen (Norway)
Some french lad
Some Belgium lad...
as for women...
Bjerkeli Grøvdal (Norway)
Random Kenyans
Westphal (France)
Gebre (Spain)
The weather in the Netherlands is currently horrible with hard winds and lots of rain. I wonder if the Kenyans can deal with this.
JabbyJaywalker wrote:
The weather in the Netherlands is currently horrible with hard winds and lots of rain. I wonder if the Kenyans can deal with this.
Did you watch Kamworor winning in Cardiff? :)
Male: Turk/Kenyan, Griffiths, Mechaal, Hendrik I
Female: Can, Grovdal, Krumins
m U23 no idea, probably again the French: Gressier and Hay
w U23 Moller, Griffiths, Gehring, Dattke
m U20 Jakob I
w U20 Sclabas, Healy, Lau, O'Sullivan
Although a muddy track will make this very different from the last three installations who all favored good track runners with mostly hard and flat course with a few artificial obstacles. Cf. how Can struggled in Edinburgh when she dominated the Euro XC
Watch out Elena Burghardt of Germany in the women's race.
Not any Americans.
Here's mine:
Women:
1 Susan Krumins (NED)
2 Karoline Bjerkeli Grovdal (NOR)
3 Yasemin Can (TUR)
4 Fabienne Schlumpf (SUI)
5 Elena Burkard (GER)
6 Charlotte Arter (GBR)
7 Trihas Gebre (ESP)
8 Ancuta Bobocel (ROU)
9 Sara Moreira (POR)
10 Jess Piasecki (née Coulson) (GBR)
Men:
1 Yemane Crippa (ITA)
2 Kaan Kigen Ozbilen (TUR)
3 Adel Mechaal (ESP)
4 Hassan Chahdi (FRA)
5 Henrik Ingebrigtsen (NOR)
6 Antonio Abadia (ESP)
7 Isaac Kimeli (BEL)
8 Dewi Griffiths (GBR)
9 Polat Kemboi Arikan (TUR)
10 Napoleon Solomon (SWE)
U20 men : will be an easy run for Jakob.
U23 men : 3 french men in top 5, like last year.
Senior men : between Mechaal, Crippa, Chahdi and the kenyans.
U20 woman : Sclabas FTW, the brittish girl is strong too.
U23 women : between the german and british girls, Senechal for the 3rd place.
Senior women : Yasemin can is going to Stinson it ! Krumins and Grøvdal are looking strong, Westphal and Bouchard will be contenders for the top 10 (both ran in the NCAA).
This isn't a bad list - only a couple of mistakes, the main one being Crippa winning!!!
How so.. he just won on the same course a week ago.... plus HE selected not to race in the U23 but move up to the seniors race.... i dont know whether he is fitter than than Kenyans (pardon Turkish) but he is most certainly of all the other guys on that list, included Henrik (that's a long race for him)
I predict another East African parade, much like what happens in the US.
Barabbas wrote:
I predict another East African parade, much like what happens in the US.
I don't think it will be as bad as in the last 2 years of this event (especially 2016). Yasemin Can hasn't been in form this year (only 5th in the European Champs 10,000) and the Turkenyans flopped badly in the men's 10,000 at those championships (10th and 2 DNFs). Mind you, I do think Crippa (former Ethiopian) and Ozbilen will do very well.
Go, Laura! wrote:
Barabbas wrote:
I predict another East African parade, much like what happens in the US.
I don't think it will be as bad as in the last 2 years of this event (especially 2016). Yasemin Can hasn't been in form this year (only 5th in the European Champs 10,000) and the Turkenyans flopped badly in the men's 10,000 at those championships (10th and 2 DNFs). Mind you, I do think Crippa (former Ethiopian) and Ozbilen will do very well.
Crippa has been adopted by an Italian family as a orphan when he was a child. He has lived most of his life at relative high altitude in Northern Italy. The former Ethipian is in your mind only.... mr clueless
Crippa is actually running well this season. I'd pick him to win too.
KAV wrote:
Crippa has been adopted by an Italian family as a orphan when he was a child. He has lived most of his life at relative high altitude in Northern Italy. The former Ethipian is in your mind only.... mr clueless
I know all that, Mr Lacking Comprehension. But, nevertheless, he is of Ethiopian descent and my response was in the context of the poster who said it would be an "East African parade."
He won't even be on the podium.
First race is underway W-U20, course not too bad, quite twisty with lots of varying terrain although still on the flat side.
What a shame for Sarah Healy and Amelia Quirk falling around halfway.
Nadia Batocletti (ITA) wins from Delia Sclabas.
Jacob Ingrebitsen off shortly in the M U20 race.