Mo Farah goes home DEVASTATED and outclassed

Let me tell you what annoys me most about Mo Farah. Out of all the races he won in his career he had to go and lose the one time I bet on him. In a European championships no less. I want my £50 back Mo.

mo money mo problems wrote:

Let me tell you what annoys me most about Mo Farah. Out of all the races he won in his career he had to go and lose the one time I bet on him. In a European championships no less. I want my £50 back Mo.

too bad he spent that in ethiopia buying a cycle of EPO

Seasoned ranker goes home DEVASTATED! Typical idiotic Mo fanboy who "doesn't think Mo is the GOAT." Yeah ok buddy. You don't think Mo is the GOAT but you're going to squabble over minutiae and freak out because Eliud doesn't have as many medals on the track and Matt Tegenkamp almost did something worth talking about? Sad!

basque wrote:

Well, we can see the same process in Sifan Hassan. High level athlete, she runs every year for five years in a row regularly 3'56-3'57, at 28 in the worlds she runs all by herself a 3'51, second only in the scores to Dibaba and the chinese of the 90s. This after crushing her rivals in the 10.000 with a final 1500 split of 3'59 in an already fast race. Next she wants the WR in HM. Why not?

Moh was never able to beat the strongest at world level, even at european level he was sometimes beaten. Miracously he goes from 3'33 to 3'28 at age 30 and get that unbeatable"kick"...

Both are ultra suspicious.

When a seasonned athlete make sudden and extreme progress in a mainly physical sport at an advanced age it's rarely good news and surely the sign of a huge doping program. He did not just have a good race, a good day, a great performance, he turned into Lance Armstrong.

Marion Jones never tested positive.

Suspect that at this stage in his career Farah's best distance is the half marathon . There have been several top class 10K guys who were not in the same class at the marathon. It is over FOUR times the distance, no reason why every top 10K runner should equally excel at 42K.

1500 runners moving up to 5K have similar mixed fortunes!

slam your fingers in the door on your way out wrote:

Seasoned ranker goes home DEVASTATED! Typical idiotic Mo fanboy who "doesn't think Mo is the GOAT." Yeah ok buddy. You don't think Mo is the GOAT but you're going to squabble over minutiae and freak out because Eliud doesn't have as many medals on the track and Matt Tegenkamp almost did something worth talking about? Sad!

Not minutiae. To some people, details and facts are important.

milermb wrote:

Suspect that at this stage in his career Farah's best distance is the half marathon . There have been several top class 10K guys who were not in the same class at the marathon. It is over FOUR times the distance, no reason why every top 10K runner should equally excel at 42K.

1500 runners moving up to 5K have similar mixed fortunes!

The half marathon is not very prestigious, like a side show compared to the main event. It's like running a 3km or 2 miles, minor event category. Mo Farah would become a minor competitor.

basque wrote:

Well, we can see the same process in Sifan Hassan. High level athlete, she runs every year for five years in a row regularly 3'56-3'57, at 28 in the worlds she runs all by herself a 3'51, second only in the scores to Dibaba and the chinese of the 90s. This after crushing her rivals in the 10.000 with a final 1500 split of 3'59 in an already fast race. Next she wants the WR in HM. Why not?

Moh was never able to beat the strongest at world level, even at european level he was sometimes beaten. Miracously he goes from 3'33 to 3'28 at age 30 and get that unbeatable"kick"...

Sifan Hassan was always a way better than MO though. So not totally the same story..

Only MO was a nobody wrote:

basque wrote:

Well, we can see the same process in Sifan Hassan. High level athlete, she runs every year for five years in a row regularly 3'56-3'57, at 28 in the worlds she runs all by herself a 3'51, second only in the scores to Dibaba and the chinese of the 90s. This after crushing her rivals in the 10.000 with a final 1500 split of 3'59 in an already fast race. Next she wants the WR in HM. Why not?

Moh was never able to beat the strongest at world level, even at european level he was sometimes beaten. Miracously he goes from 3'33 to 3'28 at age 30 and get that unbeatable"kick"...

Sifan Hassan was always a way better than MO though. So not totally the same story..

It's true than Mo Farah was even lowest profile than Sifan Hassan, but her progress in time are still suspicious. She was younger than mo farah so it's less a clear case, but she has made tremendous progress at NOP.

But Mo dopes and was wearing cheater shoes!! Why was his race so bad?????????

He didn't want to make Rupp look bad.

Not sure if this has been asked yet or elsewhere (my searching skills are average at best) but was Mobot wearing a different shoe as his looked slightly darker than the others around him (when he was with some others early on!). Does he have the FaralphaFly?

Looks like he has them in Flyknit which on TV made them look much darker

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Mo is probably a doper.

Most agree.

But don't hold up Bekele or Kipchoge as counter-examples. Obvious doping is obvious.

Kipchoge has all the signs of a serious doper, but since he's from Kenya and a media darling nothing's done about it. Bolt anyone?

Nothing is done about Mo either.

casual obsever wrote:

Nothing is done about Mo either.

At least he's reaping what he sowed with all the negative media attention.

Hopefully it'll be Kipchoge's time in the barrel soon enough.

NOPe wrote:

casual obsever wrote:

Nothing is done about Mo either.

At least he's reaping what he sowed with all the negative media attention.

Hopefully it'll be Kipchoge's time in the barrel soon enough.

Lance was brought down because he was an a-hole. Mo is going to go down way before Kipchoge. People actually like Kipchoge.

Real life wrote:

NOPe wrote:

At least he's reaping what he sowed with all the negative media attention.

Hopefully it'll be Kipchoge's time in the barrel soon enough.

Lance was brought down because he was an a-hole. Mo is going to go down way before Kipchoge. People actually like Kipchoge.

This is spot on. You don't fight pensioners in the park, call out the king at pressers, scream at people at the airport, or lie blatantly to the public without their support eventually waning.