Prediction: Kipchoge's streak will come to an end in 2020

Bekele was not the leading man until 37.5km.

Before the main group split, they were 25 seconds away at km30. Nobody thought it would end in a record attempt at that point.

Les wrote:

Abeneziel wrote:

If Bekele is in Berlin shape, he will mop the floor with Kipchoge.

As fast as him in a whole marathon and a faster kick and finish.

The thing about Bekele is he is so inconsistent. His 2:01 and 2:03 are the only two good marathons in his career. He has a lot of DNFs and DNSs. He has never run two good marathons in a row. If we're talking about the Olympics, he has never run a summer marathon. I am not convince he can run a good marathon in the heat. He dropped out of a World Cross Country race because of heat. Also, the Ethiopians have not selected Bekele for a national team since 2012. The case against Bekele is Ethiopia has a lot of good, younger runners.

Yes, Bekele has been inconsistant and not spared by injuries in the late part of his career. But if he keeps his Berlin shape, anything is possible, and I would make him the favourite. Bekele is african so the heat won't bother it more than the others, and the marathon has been moved to a colder place.

You are talking about Monbasa, I think that the wholes teams explained how extreme it was, Bekele was still leading that race but was so hurt he could not remember how much of the race was left and went too eatly.

Is there genuine talk of Bekele being on the starting line at London? I would love to see that. Kamworor clearly has a very fast marathon in him and has nowhere near reached his potential over the distance as yet, but he seems to view Kipchoge as a god, so difficult to see him really believing he can beat him.

Bekele is literally going to destroy the world next year

bekele was always in a class by himself against anyone for the past 20 years. his issues have been self made by losing focus on training and instead focusing on business interests.

i hope to see a head to head race to finally decide the issue. but marathon aside, bekele is clearly the goat.

older runner wrote:

bekele was always in a class by himself against anyone for the past 20 years. his issues have been self made by losing focus on training and instead focusing on business interests.

i hope to see a head to head race to finally decide the issue. but marathon aside, bekele is clearly the goat.

Clearly. Prime Bekele used to eat alive prime Kipchoge on track and on cross, when both were young and at their very best.

I will never forget that 2008 5 000 final where Kipchoge just imploded at the start of the last lap, destroyed by Bekele pace in the last 2000m. One of the finest olympic performance.

Olympic marathon tends to be pretty unpredictable, obvious exception Kipchoge win in Rio. If it were Tokyo I would put a high chance he would lose based on how challenging course is and heat. He always run flat marathon and never ran in that hot of weather. Even London '17 was hot but not as hot as would be in Tokyo especially with the humidity factor. With location change it definitely helps his chances, but people slowly close gap on him over past several years as indicated in London '19 and Berlin '17. If Bekele show up in Berlin '18 form certainly, but track record is concerning as he seems to be fixating on fast flat marathon as well. I think someone like Kamworor could pull upset if he elect marathon over 10k.

I sure hope Bekele stays out of the Olympics, assuming he's even selected. That would be a bigger waste of time than Kipchoge's sub 2.

You guys need to start talking about bridgid and Vivian and Mary else phoebe and alysia will raise a stink

Get that WR wrote:

I sure hope Bekele stays out of the Olympics, assuming he's even selected. That would be a bigger waste of time than Kipchoge's sub 2.

no way...assuming Kipchoge is there, I would love to see Bekele vs. Kipchoge in an non-rabbited race. I think Bekele would have the advantage in a strategic race