Jorge Torres

Best 5ker in the country? yes and no. He is going to be the best 5ker the US has ever seen. lighting quick. his brother 2nd best ever.

THAT'S NOT POSSIBLE!!!

I haven't seen edwardo doing much lately.

Jorge should be running the 10,000

You're joking, right?

Jorge is running the 3000 tonight in Sweden and I believe he is going to run a 10,000 later this summer.

Maybe we just have to wait another couple years, then he too can pull a Goucher and surprise all of us.

It looks like Jorge has a ways to go to become "lighting quick". Here are results from his 1,500m race in Leverhusen, Germany on 7/23:

Race A

1 Stefan Eberhardt GER 3:43.36

2 Jonas Stifel GER 3:43.67

3 Carsten Schlangen GER 3:44.36

4 Jonathon Riley USA 3:44.50 SB

5 Edward Mutai KEN 3:44.77

6 Lee Merrien GBR 3:44.77

7 Mykola Trubachov UKR 3:45.05

8 Henrik Skoog SWE 3:45.24PB

9 Christophe Chayriguet GER 3:45.46

10 Christian Klein GER 3:45.62 PB

11 Ahmed Sansar GER 3:46.10 PB

12 Patrick Schulz GER 3:46.11

13 Torben Grothaus GER 3:46.28

14 Jorge Torres USA 3:47.37

Today Jorge pulled off his second DFL within a week. This time in the 3,000m in Stockholm...

DN Galan-Men's 3,000 meters:

1 Isaac Songok KEN 7:35.84

2 Benjamin Limo KEN 7:36.79

3 Augustine Choge KEN 7:37.24

4 Boniface Songok KEN 7:38.95

5 Khalid El Amri MAR 7:39.46

6 Sigei Robert Kipngetich KEN 7:40.47

7 Boaz Cheboiywo KEN 7:43.02

8 Matt Tegenkamp USA 7:43.33

9 Luke Kipkosgei KEN 7:57.67

10 Ryuji Ono JPN 7:57.98

11 Terukazi Oomori JPN 7:58.25

12 Jorge Torres USA 8:00.11

DNF Joseph Kosgei KEN

DNF Charles Bett KEN

DNF Mushir Salem Jawher 1978 BRN

tom the bomb wrote:

Best 5ker in the country? yes and no. He is going to be the best 5ker the US has ever seen. lighting quick. his brother 2nd best ever.

Hahaha, that's the best joke of the day.

Give him time... I bet he'll be our best 5ker by the time the next olympics come around.

He should drop out and save himself for Zurich.

He'll be injured long before then and won't even make the team....file that away for future reference.

Torres proved that the world is flat and went ahead a fell off of it. He will get burried by all the other current and up and comming US distance core. He is a has-been. I'm not hating on him he WAS great, but I'd say it's about time for him to begin using his college degree.

Torres is much better on the grass...the guy just doesn't have it on the track.

Jorge Torres comes close to running under 13:20 early in the season and now he's done, what is going down? Of course! It's Wetmore at work again.

torres rocks and is a huge talent, when healthy (like gouch) and will run sub 1315 in the next two years. he'll be fine. i haven't seen people ripping on cragg lately, or dathan, or other injured studs who aren't racing now.

people just love talking trash about wetmore and his runners. i really wanna know who has it in for wetmore on this board and why. seriously lets hear it. If you people really have something personal against him voice it and be done with it, get it out of your system. i dont want any crap about him ruining US distance or his athletes either, b/c thats arguable.

did you find something he said or did offensive? whats the problem? did you write him b/c you read running with the buffs but get pissed when he saw your times and deleted your email? im not saying thats wrong, i just want to know. its gone on for years on this board, so speak or forever hold your peace.

... wrote:

torres rocks and is a huge talent, when healthy (like gouch) and will run sub 1315 in the next two years.

When healthy, when healthy... the same old story with Wetmore, isn't it?

Not sure, Torres is slow in the 3k but great in 5k, so maybe his 10k will be his main event later

He's like 20 seconds or so behind Kennedy in the 3k, and same amount for 5k

When/where is his 10k?