Agree? Kipchoge compares breaking 2 hrs in the marathon to the moon landing: "“It’s like the first man to go to the moon."

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  - Speaking on a crackly phone line from his training camp in Kenya on Wednesday, Kipchoge said breaking the two-hour barrier in the Austrian capital in October is “more important” than world or Olympic titles or big city marathon victories. “It’s like the first man to go to the moon,” he said.
    
    https://www.athleticsweekly.com/athletics-news/eliud-kipchoge-shoots-for-the-stars-1039924285/
    
    [i] Note: the comments came from a Q&A he did with the media today. Here is the full audio of the teleconference thanks to a link from Alberto Stretti.
    
    https://event.sharefile.com/share/view/s68b0901142a42bba
    
    Here are some of the highlights:
    
    https://runningmagazine.ca/sections/runs-races/kipchoge-fields-questions-about-ineos-159/

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  - ...like it’ll probably be faked and fraudulent..?!

- missilesilo
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  - Not even close.
    The only athletic accomplishment that compares to the moon landing is Alex Honnold's free solo of El Cap.

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  - The first will always be the first (see Bannister), but the moon landing was a team effort. It's all him out there trying to go under 2:00.

- BSB
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  - moon landing more bigly wrote:
    
    The first will always be the first (see Bannister), but the moon landing was a team effort. It's all him out there trying to go under 2:00.
    So you think all the about 30 pacers jumping in and out in the 2 hour attempt will not be like a team?

- Charlesvdw
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  - I am a Kipchoge fan.
    But if he breaks 2 in Vienna, it will NOT be a genuine world record.
    A major accomplishment, but not really breaking 2.

- Nancy Boy
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  - Program apollo cost, $288.1 billion
    Breakin2 cost, $ 1 million?, $2 million?
    not even close.

- Semenyagoat
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  - Another runner gone crazy from doping

- Who still believe we landed on the moon
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  - Who still believe we landed on the moon
  - Know what those two things have in common? Neither of them happened.

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  - Neil Armstrong is probably literally chuckling in his grave

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  - That's a stupid notion, but it does raise the better question of how fast Kipchoge could run on the moon. I think I could probably outrun him there.

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  - I'm pretty sure the spaceship does a marathon in closer to 2 minutes than 2 hours.

- New cc runner
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  - Besides a human actually standing on the freaking moon, all the stuff developed to get them there is what made the moon landing awesome.
    
    Nike is coming up with some cool stuff for Kipchoge. Product related and training related.

- Nancy Boy
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  - On July 20, 1969 every tv in the world was showing the moon landing
    
    On October 12, 2019 nobody would care ineos breaking 2
    
    No, not even close

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  - LetsRun.com wrote: Speaking ... on Wednesday, Kipchoge said breaking the two-hour barrier in the Austrian capital in October is “more important” than world or Olympic titles or big city marathon victories. “It’s like the first man to go to the moon,” he said.
    
    I view it a mere formality and hardly on that level, nor anywhere near the level of Bannister's breaking 4. He proved in Breaking 2 it could be done.
    
    For him to do it without the carbon shoes and in a record quality performance (and without rabbits . . . hey, a guy can dream) would be far more noteworthy.
    
    Personally, I'd be more excited to see him run fast / well in a hilly marathon (sans rabbits).

- Flounder
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  - Not even close to the same thing. The moon landing required the efforts of thousands of people working together to send humans there and bring them back home alive.
    
    Only a true moran of the lowest IQ could suggest that they are equal.

- igxiyd
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  - A tiny group even knew or cared about the first Sub-2 try. And most of them disparaged the attempt.
    
    Yeah...just like 1969.

- lwood
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  - That's a darn good comparison. Agreed.

- Greg
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  - That's what he believes.
    
    Sub 2 hours is unheard of.
    
    I would never have expected it to be a possibility.
    
    All of the pacers and all that, if that's what it takes, great.
    
    Too bad he can't do it in a regular marathon.

- doctorj
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  - Other than the running community nobody really gives a damn about breaking 2.
    
    Back in '69 the ENTIRE world was anxiously waiting...especially the Soviets.