25 year old Ethiopians are thinking " no worries i will smoke that time next year when I am an u18"
25 year old Ethiopians are thinking " no worries i will smoke that time next year when I am an u18"
June 29th 800m
I bet he goes a bit faster based on the quality of entries.
Born when the cows were milked wrote:
25 year old Ethiopians are thinking " no worries i will smoke that time next year when I am an u18"
lol sad but true. Next year another Mo "A-Man" will step up and own this kid. 16-years-old but with a receding hairline, wedding ring, and two kids!
Maxcat wrote:
June 29th 800m
I bet he goes a bit faster based on the quality of entries.
Yes, I read that some of the top British guys will be running in that one, including Jake Wightman, Charlie Grice, and Elliot Giles.
zakattack wrote:
This man is barely 17?
https://www.athleticsweekly.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Max_Burgin_800_Loughborough-BMC-2019-by-Alan-Spink.jpg
He looks 17 to me. At that age I had a Jim Morrison hairdo and long side burns and looked 6 years older than him.
Ffff wrote:
Granville’s HS best was 1:46.45. Burgin is now close to that.
Granville’s lifetime best is 1:46.45.
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Well now he’s run 1.45.39 from the front
Roll on June 29 although he’s already the fastest in the uk so not sure how much he’ll get pushed
Crazy fast for a 17-year-old
https://twitter.com/jordanddonnelly/status/1142810903265644544
Jonathan Gault wrote:
Crazy fast for a 17-year-old
https://twitter.com/jordanddonnelly/status/1142810903265644544
A 17 year-old already running nearly as fast as Snell, one of history's greatest 800m runners. And it's still early in the season. What a bullsh*t sport.
So what drugs do you think Herb Elliot must have been on to solo run a 3:36 at 20 and a 3:35 at 22 on rubbish tracks and in rubbish shoes?
Coevett wrote:
So what drugs do you think Herb Elliot must have been on to solo run a 3:36 at 20 and a 3:35 at 22 on rubbish tracks and in rubbish shoes?
There is a world of difference between the ages of 17 and 20 - it's the same age difference as between 14 and 17 - and the tracks weren't "rubbish", as you claim. Elliott himself said they were fast. He wasn't running in mud. And he wasn't running in gumboots. If you want to know about the drugs available in his era it is nothing like what is available to athletes today. It is now an industry, with a black market in excess of a billion Euros. Track is amongst those sports that are known to be the worst offenders.
Pillock. He just turned 17. Clean as a whistle, as he was when he broke the world record at 16 and 17. Coached by his Dad, who would rather he quit than take PEDs.
Halifax wrote:
Pillock. He just turned 17. Clean as a whistle, as he was when he broke the world record at 16 and 17. Coached by his Dad, who would rather he quit than take PEDs.
Then everybody is clean. At the same age Coe was running 1.55.
Just silly. We're right to suspect '17 year old' Kenyans and other East Africans because of proven rampant doping and age cheating in that part of the world. Sounds like you have given in to the racist SJWs and doping apologists here. You can't just accuse a 17 yo of doping in a country with proper testing simply because he's fast. Shoes and tracks do matter. The sport moves on. Athletics and middle-distance in particular has been in a rut in the UK and elsewhere for decades and now it's finally growing again and we're seeing the results. I would wager that part of the reason is that young kids are now more motivated as teenage athletes in the belief that they can compete with Africans.
The point about Elliott ( who I don't believe for a moment doped) was he was leaps and bounds better than anyone else of his generation. Sad that if he was around today you would accuse him of doping simply because East Africans and Moroccans have been allowed for so long to ruin the integrity of the sport. And the difference between 14 and 17 is not the same as 17 and 20.
Elliot was leaps and bounds better at his peak, not in his teens. I accept there will inevitably be some improvement over the years in any sport but the kind of times being turned out by some schoolboys today - whatever their nationality - I simply don't believe, and I have seen great runners since the early sixties. Training, tracks and equipment will have made a difference but the biggest difference in my view is doping, although many will choose not to agree about that. Testing catches very few.