doot doot wrote:
And that’s a failure of the selection process when you have one guy (of 5 in the 12:4x/12:5low range) with a 12:52 season best who has zero championship credentials who happens to have a faster season best than a 3:47/12:46/26:49/sub-60:00 guy (over the past year and change) WITH championship experience who would be chosen over the latter.
Ethiopia doesn’t need a “back of the pack” 12:52 guy when the 12:46 guy towed an entire contingent to sub-12:50 unless he has Sihine duty aka he HAS to rabbit Barega and Gebrhiwet and take it to Cheptegei.
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In a selection scenario it would have made at least some sense to not select 2013 Kenenisa because of the injury recovery. Hindsight is 20/20 re: Great North that year, sure. In a selection scenario you do not pick newcomer 12:52 Bekele over Kejelcha. Ever.
What you wrote makes sense...however, what Ethiopia does for selection doesn't always make sense so wouldn't be surprised if Kejelcha wasn't named to the 5,000m team (wouldn't be surprised if he was either)
in 2013 Bekele still won the 10,000m at Pre...not super fast, I recall around 27:10 but still beat other top Ethiopians that were later named to the team like Merga, Kuma (??) and top Kenyans.