briswiss wrote:
NativeSon wrote:
You are in the minority
No. Bekele is the GOAT ??. Not even close. The marathon isn’t everything. Bekele is literally better at every single other distance and is 2 seconds off of eluid kipchoke’s marathon pb. If Bekele wanted to run 10 straight sub 2:03 marathons he could have but when you’re the ?it’s hard to get motivated sometimes
Also please reprint my free shirt I am getting for being an OG vip member with 26:17 within the goat
This is nonsense. I will give the the fact that Bekele is the overall distance GOAT. But your argument for why is nonsense. His talent is not why he is the GOAT, it is his accomplishments. The fact that he can half a*s his training and do well is not something to adore about him.
Further, in the marathon, it has not been the case that he consistently does well on abbreviated training. He has been defeated outright by less talented runners many times.
You can say he's within 2 seconds of Kipchoge by one metric. However, Kipchoge has won the olympic marathon handily, won 4 london marathons, set course records in the 2 greatest marathons on Earth, and until Sunday had only ever been beaten at the distance by an EPO cheat.
Kipchoge is by far the Marathon GOAT, and Bekele is not even #2.