You heard it here first
• no Gebrhiwet
• Ethiopian Athletics Federation dumb enough to select Hadis as alternate instead of Kejelcha
• Barega sucks at championship racing
• Telahun Haile's good but not good enough for the win
• same for Chelimo
• no Cheptegei
Of course there are some other good athletes like Mo Ahmed, but at the end it won't be even very close.
Doesn't have the speed to beat the best at the top level. All well and good beating up on Euro fodder and running fast time trials. Let's see what happens when he needs to drop 53 last lap against the top dogs.
I'll take Barega, thanks.
Where'd you see that Gebrhiwet is not doing the 5000m?
nattygoat wrote:
Doesn't have the speed to beat the best at the top level. All well and good beating up on Euro fodder and running fast time trials. Let's see what happens when he needs to drop 53 last lap against the top dogs.
Umm, didn't Jakob already put down a 53 second lap vs Gebrihwet? Like a couple of months ago?
If a clean 19-year-old kid could win Worlds that would be absolutely astonishing.
Whatever the case, he'll be up against some serious dopers. Italians will have their "teenagers" ready to roll.
I'll be rooting for Jakob.
I think they call them Afrotalians.
dinglebrain? wrote:
nattygoat wrote:
Doesn't have the speed to beat the best at the top level. All well and good beating up on Euro fodder and running fast time trials. Let's see what happens when he needs to drop 53 last lap against the top dogs.
Umm, didn't Jakob already put down a 53 second lap vs Gebrihwet? Like a couple of months ago?
Yeah around there, but it wasn’t as fast as Gebrhiwet’s 53 so he didn’t get the win. It’s almost like he’s in a middle distance purgatory— hasn’t quite cracked 3:30 yet and couldn’t pull out a win with a 53 last lap in a 13:0X en route to a huge, impressive PR.
Lots of guys can rip 53 on the last lap of a 13:0X race. In fact it’s basically a requirement to be in medal contention.
He might do, he might not do,
if he do, he is mightly in doha.
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Jakob WC
He Might Do.
Ha. If he Do.
He is Mightly in DoHa.
https://www.iaaf.org/competitions/iaaf-world-championships/iaaf-world-athletics-championships-doha-2019-6033/results/men/5000-metres/heats/startlistdeuces wrote:
Where'd you see that Gebrhiwet is not doing the 5000m?
I want him to have a bad day so Corvette will finish what little cracking he has left to do.
zxy wrote:
https://www.iaaf.org/competitions/iaaf-world-championships/iaaf-world-athletics-championships-doha-2019-6033/results/men/5000-metres/heats/startlistdeuces wrote:
Where'd you see that Gebrhiwet is not doing the 5000m?
whats up with the dude with a 16 minute 5000 pr and a 2:55 marathon pr?
This can't seriously be a race between the 3-4-5 of last year's world junior race. There's got to be someone better.
Hope he wins easily so that he is 100% for the 1500m.
I honestly wouldn't be surprised if Jakob were to win double gold, but even one medal of any color for a guy turned 19 last week and who is still clearly on an upward trajectory would be incredible, especially as most of the guys he's running against are likely dopers.
If Jakob wins gold in either event, he would have to considered an all-time great already. If he wins gold in the 1500, you'd have to put him above Jim Ryun. Sure, no WRs yet (unsurprising given the nature of the present WRs, yet remarkably he could be getting close next year), but a Gold at 19 would probably surpass what Ryun achieved in the sport.
Is J. Ingebrigtsen American?
Coevett wrote:
Hope he wins easily so that he is 100% for the 1500m.
I honestly wouldn't be surprised if Jakob were to win double gold, but even one medal of any color for a guy turned 19 last week and who is still clearly on an upward trajectory would be incredible, especially as most of the guys he's running against are likely dopers.
If Jakob wins gold in either event, he would have to considered an all-time great already. If he wins gold in the 1500, you'd have to put him above Jim Ryun. Sure, no WRs yet (unsurprising given the nature of the present WRs, yet remarkably he could be getting close next year), but a Gold at 19 would probably surpass what Ryun achieved in the sport.
Getting Gold in one non-Olympic race makes someone an "all-time great", right?
You are off your meds, buddy.
Phantasy Star II wrote:
If a clean 19-year-old kid could win Worlds that would be absolutely astonishing.
Whatever the case, he'll be up against some serious dopers. Italians will have their "teenagers" ready to roll.
I'll be rooting for Jakob.
Imagine thinking the Ingebrigtsens are clean LOL
give me a break wrote:
Getting Gold in one non-Olympic race makes someone an "all-time great", right?
You are off your meds, buddy.
At 19 it does, mate.
This only proves that the world's best runners agree with me that the WC is a joke. Whoever wins is not going to be the "champion." The champion is the best runner and those have already proven themselves - or you wouldn't have started this thread.
Greats can only be objectively proven, in time. Records are a bonus, merely a consequence of a mix of favourable circumstances and conditions at the time of the performance. The effort of the athlete, of the individual, however---with consistent quality performances, particularly when it matters, over the entirety of a career---is what makes a "great".