Whacka whacka wrote:
The box includes a red rubber nose and an orange wig.
The joke will be on Kipchoge in the end. In twenty years time when all the top runners are racing in the Nike 25% Solar (powered) Kangeroos, and the marathon world record is 1:49, he'll be a distant memory.
We'll have discussions here between those who say Kipchoge was the GOAT and those who say whoever the current WR holder is - 'there's no way you can compare Kipchoge to a guy who has ran sub 1:50. It's not just the shoes, runners today are much better athletes and better trained. Kipchoge just got lucky when the competition was poor and there were few Chinese and North Koreans competing back then.'
Nobody says Bannister was better than El G. And Bannister's breaking of the four minute mile was 1,000 times of greater and real historical significance than the sub 2:00 contrived set up.
If Bekele beats Kipchoge next year, especially if at Tokyo for the gold, Kipchoge will be quickly forgotten. Guys will be running sub 2 hours routinely in races by the end of the 2020's.