Should Khalid Khannouchi and Paula Radcliffe win T&FN's AOY award?!

If Khalid Khannouchi doesn't not win T&FNews Athlete of the

Year (AOY) awards it will be a great injustice. Khalid deserve/earned the award by virture of his two SUPER marathon wins-which included a WR. The major athletes who

are up against Khalid did not go undefeated or produce a world record. Khalid dominated his event like no one else

in 2002 and deserve the AOY honors , just as Paula will

win here first AOY awards.

Paula's a lock.

KK is very deserving and I would vote for him but my gut feeling is that it will go El G as there is a strong track bias (even over field eventers it seems) in the T&FN voting. Sanchez' event was a little down this year. He should be a distant third.

I agree here too. I don't think that Paula should have any issues and quite possibly be unanimous... Her racing at all distances this year has been undeniably the best. I would even say if there was just one AOY (not one for men and one for women) that she would be the choice! KK may have a harder time of it but I would also think that he deserves it. The others were very good as well, and may win out on the track bias - but 2:05:38 and 2:05:50 are very hard`to argue with...

Who would you choose for other AOY... it could be a fun discussion for US or North America AOY, maybe Europe, Asia, and Africa as well.. any opinions?

M.J. wrote:

...I agree Paula and Khalid should win AOY.

The things is does T&FNews agree?

M.J.

They will once they read about it here.

I think Khalid wins EASILY! Hicham had a stellar season;

however, in comparison to himself-2002 was just average.

After looking to see who ran their event like noone before

the clear answer is Khalid and he did so by beating two

incredibly deep fields. NEWSFLASH: Male and Female Marathoners take AOY with ease.

Vipam

Paula's a lock. Marion doesn't even have the year's fastest time in the 100m. I also agree that KK should probably be ranked #1. He beat two of the best marathon fields ever assembled and set a WR. Hicham a very close second followed by Sanchez and Timmy. POYs are Paula's WR and Timmy's WR (although I would vote for KK's WR). TnFN seems to favor the sprints and has never really embraced KK.

The vast MAJORITY of our letsrun posters(writers) feel Khalid earn the AOY award; however, some feel that Hicham

could beat him out. When I read something I tend to read it from the first letter on the cover to the last letter on the back. In selecting AOY the year T&FN goes by in order of importance:

1.) Quality of the field

2.) Major Competition

3.) Marks/ Times & Win/ Loses

in reviewing the male contenders for AOY only one male competed against a high percentage of the SUPER elite in his event and dominated them and added a World Record. Hicham & Jonathon Edwards are two of my favortie athletes;

however, by T&FN on standards Khalid will win the AOY award!

(IF NOT THEY CAN COUNT ON ME NOT BUYING THE MAGAZINE EVER AGAIN!!!)

Vipam

They both win.

Paula going away but KK in a squeaker over El G.

Had any of El G's numerous WR attempts been successful then we wouldn't be having this discussion. Therein lies the clincher, KK broke the WR El G did not.

Paula Radcliffe should get the award not just for setting a NW, but for her stance on drugs as well. For the same reason Khalid Khannouchi shouldn't be considered. Jonathan Edwards should be made the male athlete of the year.

thats funny, I don't remember KK failing a drugs test. Jonathan Edwards, yeah right.

Jonathon Edward's is the greatest triple jumper ever. Who is KK? He is a person who gets by on EPO only testing--which is a joke--like you are SH.

being the greatest triple jumper ever is kinda like being the greatest Kazoo player ever...who gives a shit?

3 million people stood out in the cold to watch New York, how many peoplewent to every track meet in the whole world combined this year?

I think Edwards is great, but he lost too many times this year to be considered for AoY. BTW, Frank Shorter and his squad of urine collectors tested KK two days before Chicago...Before you fire off a scathing reply, I know, that doesn't mean he's clean. However, I think he is more likely to be clean than dirty...barely.

if you can't dominate a sport where only 6 people in the world compete at a world class level how can you be considered for anything?

Triple jumping is an oddity, only slighly more credible as a sport than race walking.

Greatest jumper of all-time: Jonathan Edward

When enough people start caring enough about triple jumping to start a website called Letstriplejump.com gimme a call, until then it remains a fringe curiosity event.

Catman

Jonathan Edwards is a classy gentleman and a great triple jumper; however, he doesn't deserve 2002 AOY honors by any

means. Even if Khalid hadn't competed in 2002 there other

contenders who had better season than Jonathan Edwards (one

of my favorites.) I don't know where you got your absurb

notion that Khalid is on anything but the finish line before any other marathoners. Khalid is just as classy as

Jonathan and you don't have to dislike one athlete because you like another.

Honorable and clean Khalid Khannouchi wins AOY honors based

upon his incredible talent and two (2) mindboggling and magnificent marathons! Jonathan is a great guy, but 2002

belong to KHALID KHANNOUCHI!

Vipam

catman wrote:

Greatest jumper of all-time: Jonathan Edward

Johnathan Edwards

TJ-World Ranked 9 times/#1 6 times

LJ - World Ranked 0 Times

Mike Conley

TJ - World Ranked 14 times/#1 6 times

LJ - World Ranked 8 times

Edwards isn't even the best jumper in Arkansas.