Farah is DONE - 1:01:15 in the London Half

Ddddddd wrote:

Kipchoge outsprints Farah and outkicks him any day of the week.

Great video, watched it loads of times. Watched it with my 6 year old the other day, he enjoyed it too. We love Kipchoge.

My only question is what relevance this has to my point about the fields for the Big Half and the Great North Run being selected so that Mo is the only likely winner?

It's fascinating seeing so much anger about a guy who actually wins races. I'm not sure half the people here understand sport.

JimbobJ wrote:

It's fascinating seeing so much anger about a guy who actually wins races. I'm not sure half the people here understand sport.

Especially the yanks! The USA is after all a British colony.

Mo Farah: GOAT wrote:

muzziebuttboy wrote:

Lol. Mo had a wittle wind? Awwww. Takes so little to derail that snowflake. Meanwhile, in Boston last year, it was much colder, blowing harder, and raining hard! People were drenched and getting hypothermic...resulting in most of the elite field dropping out. Remember in Chicago last year...Galen the Great ran a friggin 2:06 with an injury!! No one else would have enough toughness to have finished that marathon.

Ha ha, NEVER forget Rupp is really a 2:10 man.

He's only running 2:06 with an injury because of the source of the injury. You can't big up his time as being with an injury as he's only getting that time because he's getting injured trying to bounce along on pogo sticks to try and keep up with the big boys in the first place.

Mo's current marathon pb was also done in the Vaporfly. I believe that makes him a 2:08:21 man.

JimbobJ wrote:

It's fascinating seeing so much anger about a guy who actually wins races. I'm not sure half the people here understand sport.

I believe the vitriol comes from the shady past and likely nefarious means that "a guy who actually wins races" utilizes:

1) multiple missed drug tests because of things like "I couldn't hear my doorbell"- the testers don't just ring it once.

2) association with Jama Aden- busted with preloaded epo syringes and 3 types of anabolic steroids in Sabadell

3) lying regarding whereabouts- coincidentally in Sabadell

4) Ethiopian training camps run by Aden- little testing

5) meteoric rise at a later age after being an "average" elite

6) other worldly 3:28 (twice) for 1500m as a 5/10 man after years at ~3:34

7) alarm belled off score- quickly explained away

8) entitled- see rant at airport and denegration of airline employees x 2

Equal logic wrote:

Mo Farah: GOAT wrote:

Ha ha, NEVER forget Rupp is really a 2:10 man.

He's only running 2:06 with an injury because of the source of the injury. You can't big up his time as being with an injury as he's only getting that time because he's getting injured trying to bounce along on pogo sticks to try and keep up with the big boys in the first place.

Mo's current marathon pb was also done in the Vaporfly. I believe that makes him a 2:08:21 man.

Equal logic? Ha ha, no way - Vaporflys don't make Mo Farah nothing! The guy's a DOUBLE DOUBLE Olympic Champion. That's 4 x Olympic GOLD medals. Rupp can only dream of Mo's career cause he ain't never going to get it. He tried to crash the party with the Vaporflys but all he did was crash himself. Those injuries are on him alone.

Plus remember the poorer the athlete the more pronounced the effect of Vaporflys. Probably doing v little for Mo's times compared with Rupp's as he is already proven as vastly superior.

Mo Farah: GOAT wrote:

Equal logic wrote:

Mo's current marathon pb was also done in the Vaporfly. I believe that makes him a 2:08:21 man.

Equal logic? Ha ha, no way - Vaporflys don't make Mo Farah nothing! The guy's a DOUBLE DOUBLE Olympic Champion. That's 4 x Olympic GOLD medals. Rupp can only dream of Mo's career cause he ain't never going to get it. He tried to crash the party with the Vaporflys but all he did was crash himself. Those injuries are on him alone.

Plus remember the poorer the athlete the more pronounced the effect of Vaporflys. Probably doing v little for Mo's times compared with Rupp's as he is already proven as vastly superior.

I was under the impression we were comparing non-Vaporfly marathon times as alluded by your "rupp's a 2:10 guy" statement. Full disclosure: neither a rupp nor Farah fan

Mo Farah: GOAT wrote:

Equal logic wrote:

Mo's current marathon pb was also done in the Vaporfly. I believe that makes him a 2:08:21 man.

Equal logic? Ha ha, no way - Vaporflys don't make Mo Farah nothing! The guy's a DOUBLE DOUBLE Olympic Champion. That's 4 x Olympic GOLD medals. Rupp can only dream of Mo's career cause he ain't never going to get it. He tried to crash the party with the Vaporflys but all he did was crash himself. Those injuries are on him alone.

Plus remember the poorer the athlete the more pronounced the effect of Vaporflys. Probably doing v little for Mo's times compared with Rupp's as he is already proven as vastly superior.

Incidentally, are you tonythetiger? If so, why have you changed your screen name?

Disingenuous wrote:

JimbobJ wrote:

It's fascinating seeing so much anger about a guy who actually wins races. I'm not sure half the people here understand sport.

I believe the vitriol comes from the shady past and likely nefarious means that "a guy who actually wins races" utilizes:

1) multiple missed drug tests because of things like "I couldn't hear my doorbell"- the testers don't just ring it once.

2) association with Jama Aden- busted with preloaded epo syringes and 3 types of anabolic steroids in Sabadell

3) lying regarding whereabouts- coincidentally in Sabadell

4) Ethiopian training camps run by Aden- little testing

5) meteoric rise at a later age after being an "average" elite

6) other worldly 3:28 (twice) for 1500m as a 5/10 man after years at ~3:34

7) alarm belled off score- quickly explained away

8) entitled- see rant at airport and denegration of airline employees x 2

Entitled? Lol. He’s from a council estate in London.

Sometimes it is what it is: you a vile racist.

You’re a vile racist kunt wrote:

Disingenuous wrote:

I believe the vitriol comes from the shady past and likely nefarious means that "a guy who actually wins races" utilizes:

1) multiple missed drug tests because of things like "I couldn't hear my doorbell"- the testers don't just ring it once.

2) association with Jama Aden- busted with preloaded epo syringes and 3 types of anabolic steroids in Sabadell

3) lying regarding whereabouts- coincidentally in Sabadell

4) Ethiopian training camps run by Aden- little testing

5) meteoric rise at a later age after being an "average" elite

6) other worldly 3:28 (twice) for 1500m as a 5/10 man after years at ~3:34

7) alarm belled off score- quickly explained away

8) entitled- see rant at airport and denegration of airline employees x 2

Entitled? Lol. He’s from a council estate in London.

Sometimes it is what it is: you a vile racist.

I'm racist because I called Farah out as entitled? Lad, do yourself a favour and look up the definition of racism. My statement nor I am anything of the sort. Secondly, I noticed there was no rebuttal for any of the preceding 7 bullet points.

Good luck with this one:

I’ll help the racist out... wrote:

Mo - 22

Rupp - 1

Head to head

If it was 12-9, or 10-7, then fair enough in terms of banter...but it’s 22-1! That’s absolute domination.

Mo also fell in the only race where he lost to Rupp...and got back up and finished less than a second behind him.

HHH Runner wrote:

Yes it was incredibly windy (up to 40mph gusts apparently, solidly 15-20mph though) but the wind was coming almost directly from the West, meaning the runners had about 50-60% of the race with a tailwind, 30% with a brutal headwind and the rest with a crosswind.

The elites all bemoaned the weather yet plenty of people I know ran big big PBs, some of which were quite unexpected too.

the op is right........ farah is done

Why is dewi wearing soccer shorts?

You absolutely nailed it. Mo does this every time. I think back and I don't think I've ever really seen him dominate a race fully. If for whatever reason every African athlete could not make the flight into London for the marathon Mo would run over 2:10 despite being able to solo it much faster and without trashing his body. Instead he'd outkick some Matt Llano/Stinson level elite in the last 100 and celebrate as if he just won Olympic gold. Next we'll see him win a local parkrun in 15:XX with identical strategy, celebrations, and armwarmers.

Disingenuous wrote:

You’re a vile racist kunt wrote:

Entitled? Lol. He’s from a council estate in London.

Sometimes it is what it is: you a vile racist.

I'm racist because I called Farah out as entitled? Lad, do yourself a favour and look up the definition of racism. My statement nor I am anything of the sort. Secondly, I noticed there was no rebuttal for any of the preceding 7 bullet points.

Good luck with this one:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.express.co.uk/news/uk/709392/F-g-pathetic-Mo-Farah-s-wife-foul-mouthed-airport-rant-tania-delta-airlines/amp

Farah is doping cause his wife has an attitude.

Got it. New one.

No. Farah is doping plus he behaves like a sublime jagoff. Maybe its due to the doping?

Don’t think a 2.03 is possible for Farah, and I don’t think he will finish top 3

Aussiestatman wrote:

Don’t think a 2.03 is possible for Farah, and I don’t think he will finish top 3

I think the opposite. For him to speak so confidently ahead of the race makes me think he’s looking to shock the world.

Mo ran 3:28 twice because he has that speed. So he used the same doping for the 1500 as the marathon? When you win what could be the the last 10k and 5k Olympic gold medals when every competitor and every fan in the world knows what he’s going to do, and he *still* wins, well that’s just what dominance looks like.