Crazy. You don’t think you’d see that at this level and with Gidey, arguably the goat. This is not HS or NCAA xc. Well, it happened to Bekele on Mombassa, but not so close to the finish, and Do Nascimento in NY and Teare in Stillwater…..etc., etc.
Didn't it happen to Cheptegei and then he won it the next year? Cross country really does evoke high school. Everyone so cashed at the end. That girl walking up the hill. I was evoked.
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Crazy. You don’t think you’d see that at this level and with Gidey, arguably the goat. This is not HS or NCAA xc. Well, it happened to Bekele on Mombassa, but not so close to the finish, and Do Nascimento in NY and Teare in Stillwater…..etc., etc.
Didn't it happen to Cheptegei and then he won it the next year? Cross country really does evoke high school. Everyone so cashed at the end. That girl walking up the hill. I was evoked.
XC is beyond awesome. I’m being a bit facetious, but I think it would be worth having 10K xc replace the track race at the Olympics if you can’t do both. Same athletes, great individual races AND team titles.
Didn't it happen to Cheptegei and then he won it the next year? Cross country really does evoke high school. Everyone so cashed at the end. That girl walking up the hill. I was evoked.
XC is beyond awesome. I’m being a bit facetious, but I think it would be worth having 10K xc replace the track race at the Olympics if you can’t do both. Same athletes, great individual races AND team titles.
Look at the depth of the ETH, KEN and UGA though. No other countries would make top 10 unless they limit to 3 athletes per country. Then every other country would be fighting for 10th! Mind you few Europeans made the trip to Oz ...
Logan from the Cook Islands...come on mate. Don't enter a race with the best runners in the world if you can't run below 8:00/mile pace. How did he even qualify/get accepted?
XC is beyond awesome. I’m being a bit facetious, but I think it would be worth having 10K xc replace the track race at the Olympics if you can’t do both. Same athletes, great individual races AND team titles.
Look at the depth of the ETH, KEN and UGA though. No other countries would make top 10 unless they limit to 3 athletes per country. Then every other country would be fighting for 10th! Mind you few Europeans made the trip to Oz ...
Well, watching those three countries fight for an Olympic team title would be epic. I say teams of 5 with 4 scoring….this current race is amazing, but in the Olympics it would have so many more eyes on it. It would be great for the sport writ large. Needs to be a real xc course, like this one.
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XC is beyond awesome. I’m being a bit facetious, but I think it would be worth having 10K xc replace the track race at the Olympics if you can’t do both. Same athletes, great individual races AND team titles.
Look at the depth of the ETH, KEN and UGA though. No other countries would make top 10 unless they limit to 3 athletes per country. Then every other country would be fighting for 10th! Mind you few Europeans made the trip to Oz ...
That's no reason not to have it. It's not like the Winter Olympics is accessible to half the world.
Logan from the Cook Islands...come on mate. Don't enter a race with the best runners in the world if you can't run below 8:00/mile pace. How did he even qualify/get accepted?