He will focus on the roads instead, with the Copenhagen Half, NYC Marathon and possibly pacing Kipchoge at the Ineos 1:59 Challenge.
He will focus on the roads instead, with the Copenhagen Half, NYC Marathon and possibly pacing Kipchoge at the Ineos 1:59 Challenge.
His place will go to 4th place finisher in that race, Alex Korio, who recently crushed the Beach to Beacon 10k field and is a sub-59 performer at the half, not too shabby.
One must think his appearance fee at the Copenhagen Half and bonuses for running a super fast time must be incredibly high so that he chose to skip the worlds! I think world record is under threat come Sept 16 in Denmark.
A link to the press article that appeared today in Kenya too.
He only cares about $$$$$. Shame!
National pride wrote:
He only cares about $$$$$. Shame!
Can you blame him? There isn't much money in the sport why would you focus on a hot 10k race when you can collect appearance fees/time bonuses/prize money from a major half & major marathon. Plus the check from pacing Eluid. I can totally understand this. It's sorta sad but the $$$ is in road racing.
NERunner053 wrote:
National pride wrote:
He only cares about $$$$$. Shame!
Can you blame him? There isn't much money in the sport why would you focus on a hot 10k race when you can collect appearance fees/time bonuses/prize money from a major half & major marathon. Plus the check from pacing Eluid. I can totally understand this. It's sorta sad but the $$$ is in road racing.
+1 !!
Let's do a little bit of math.
Around 25,000 euros appearance fee in Copenhagen + 15,000 if he wins the race + 10,000 if he sets a course record, let alone a world record.
If we go by sources 25,000 euros for pacing in the Ineos 1:59 Challenge, bonus 25,000 if the project is successful.
Around 100,000$ as an appearance fee for the NYC Marathon + an additional 100,000$ if he wins it.
Total? 150,000$+ worst case scenario and around 300,000$+ best case scenario. Who on earth would give up on these opportunities to go for Doha World Champs where he can't be sure even of a podium as it's a very open race.
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Truth to be spoken wrote:
NERunner053 wrote:
Can you blame him? There isn't much money in the sport why would you focus on a hot 10k race when you can collect appearance fees/time bonuses/prize money from a major half & major marathon. Plus the check from pacing Eluid. I can totally understand this. It's sorta sad but the $$$ is in road racing.
+1 !!
Let's do a little bit of math.
Around 25,000 euros appearance fee in Copenhagen + 15,000 if he wins the race + 10,000 if he sets a course record, let alone a world record.
If we go by sources 25,000 euros for pacing in the Ineos 1:59 Challenge, bonus 25,000 if the project is successful.
Around 100,000$ as an appearance fee for the NYC Marathon + an additional 100,000$ if he wins it.
Total? 150,000$+ worst case scenario and around 300,000$+ best case scenario. Who on earth would give up on these opportunities to go for Doha World Champs where he can't be sure even of a podium as it's a very open race.
$0 appearance fee for World's, 50k from the IAAF if he wins the race, 25k for 2nd, and 15k for 3rd.
It would increase his appearance fee for track races next year, but he doesn't race on the DL anymore anyways. If he wins the NYC Marathon, his appearance for every marathon he runs after it will likely go up and his appearance fee next year for NYC would probably go up another 100k. There's enough recovery time after the olympics.
The roads are where it's at.
Kipchoge was also saying that he doesn't want to make sub 2 attempt second time. Ineos gave the money, Kipchoge wants
Yes. Look at the results from the US Cross Country Championships, then look at who actually races for the US at World XC.
Another example that track distance running is dead. This is why Mo dominated the 5k and 10k for so long. All his competitors were on the roads where he gets manhandled now. They should just cut the 5k and 10k from track altogether.
Track events need to have bigger money prizes. If there was a meeting with 20.000 $ for 1st place and event like 100m, 800m, 3000m steeple, 10.000m
Or one event meetings. For exampe 5000m with 50.000$ .
Alll wrote:
Track events need to have bigger money prizes. If there was a meeting with 20.000 $ for 1st place and event like 100m, 800m, 3000m steeple, 10.000m
Who is going to pay for that? I can't imagine the ROI for the sponsor would even be close to worth it.
Xfinity and beyond wrote:
Alll wrote:
Track events need to have bigger money prizes. If there was a meeting with 20.000 $ for 1st place and event like 100m, 800m, 3000m steeple, 10.000m
Who is going to pay for that? I can't imagine the ROI for the sponsor would even be close to worth it.
If you can make 100.000$ prizes in marathon why can't you make sth like this on the track?
Over 10,000 runners joined at an avg of 300$ a pop. Not including the charity teams I think which at first glance seemed hella 'pensive $$$.
Alll wrote:
Xfinity and beyond wrote:
Who is going to pay for that? I can't imagine the ROI for the sponsor would even be close to worth it.
If you can make 100.000$ prizes in marathon why can't you make sth like this on the track?
What a dumb question.
Alll wrote:
Kipchoge was also saying that he doesn't want to make sub 2 attempt second time. Ineos gave the money, Kipchoge wants
When did he ever say that? My impression was that it was always on the table for another attempt.
Can't find it now but I saw that in some interview in january
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