Hicham El Guerrouj voted the ultimate supermiler (Athelics Weekly)

Just Said No wrote:

xzadcby wrote:

Best EPO-miler of all time!

He was definitely the best miler out of the dozen or so North Africans, Iberians and Kenyans who were full throttle doping with EPO, giving themselves 6 - 10 seconds advantage over the rest.

affa wrote:

Kvothe wrote:

El G was the most dominant miler in athletics history - he rarely lost and at his prime he had one competitor, the clock.

Is that why he lost two Olympic finals at his peak, and would likely have ended with zero if the test for EPO had been introduced just 12 months earlier than it was?

oops, coevett beat me to it wrote:

Just Said No wrote:

He was definitely the best miler out of the dozen or so North Africans, Iberians and Kenyans who were full throttle doping with EPO, giving themselves 6 - 10 seconds advantage over the rest.

6-10 seconds advantage over the rest, as we know Western athletes don't dope or use EPO right?

Avocado's Number wrote:

I have no problem with the top pick, but it's an absurdly anglocentric list thereafter:

El G, Seb Coe, Herb Elliott, Steve Ovett, Roger Bannister, John Walker, Jim Ryun, Peter Snell, Steve Cram, Jakob Ingebrigtsen, Said Aouita, Noureddine Morceli, Sydney Wooderson, Filbert Bayi, Kip Keino, Walter George, Jack Lovelock, and Gunder Hagg.

Wooderson over Bayi and Keino? Walter George and Jack Lovelock over every African runner since El G, who was born fifty years ago? Seven out of the top eight with British ancestry? A silly poll of largely uninformed British sports fans.

Nuguse USA wrote:

Just saw this:

Moroccan middle-distance man beats Herb Elliott and Seb Coe in AW vote to find the greatest miler in history
Hicham El Guerrouj has out-kicked Herb Elliott and Seb Coe in an AW readers’ poll to find the No.1 miler of all time.
A similar vote in 2004 saw double Olympic 1500m champion Coe emerge as your clear favourite ahead of 1960 Olympic 1500m champion Elliott with El Guerrouj a well beaten third, but over the past 20 years the Moroccan has cemented his reputation and legacy and has won this 2024 poll convincingly.

Source

Link:athleticsweekly.com/athletics-news/hic...

hehacy wrote:

Avocado's Number wrote:

I have no problem with the top pick, but it's an absurdly anglocentric list thereafter:

El G, Seb Coe, Herb Elliott, Steve Ovett, Roger Bannister, John Walker, Jim Ryun, Peter Snell, Steve Cram, Jakob Ingebrigtsen, Said Aouita, Noureddine Morceli, Sydney Wooderson, Filbert Bayi, Kip Keino, Walter George, Jack Lovelock, and Gunder Hagg.

Wooderson over Bayi and Keino? Walter George and Jack Lovelock over every African runner since El G, who was born fifty years ago? Seven out of the top eight with British ancestry? A silly poll of largely uninformed British sports fans.

I think it was a poll made up entirely of men who have broken the mile world record.

Fact is that only three Africans have broken the mile WR, and none of them were Kenyan.

Nuguse USA wrote:

@ Avocado's Number

@ Roger Meyers

@ Newname

I'm aware that the ranking is biased to British runners (or some of their outputs).

Generally its quite difficult to do a ranking. One should take in account;

1. The conditions of the runners (was him being helped by a context?)

2. The impact made by the runner

3. World Records

4. Titles

Nuguse USA wrote:

Difficult to find reactions of this guy or even his media apparitions in the latest years.

AW deniers wrote:

The Anglo centric slant of the list is no surprise. We don't really do abroad in UK except for the old empire dominions

Avocado\'s Number wrote:

AW deniers wrote:

The Anglo centric slant of the list is no surprise. We don't really do abroad in UK except for the old empire dominions

Good to know that, at least in some things, you're as provincial as we in the U.S., where a poll to pick the top athlete in the world during this century might well be Tom Brady or Lebron James.