ThatAverageRunner wrote:
REAL. wrote:
Yes, Top 10 get Tokyo 2020 "A" Standard, but that does not mean they are on their respective national teams. For example, Groner will have to place Top 3 in Atlanta, but she already had the standard.
Irrelevant for the US. Top top 5 at trials get the standard.
Also irrelevant when she had the auto standard already
I thought Dan and Renato would have Lornah prepared for the heat. Big mistake!
Haven’t seen women pouring water on themselves like that since a wet t shirt contest on spring break back in the day.
Looks Like the Epo is working wrote:
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...but not the Clown Shoes. Despite Chepngetich being surrounded by the much-hyped % shoes, they all lose to a winner not wearing any version of them. Some of you may be fooled, but look closely. There was footage of the bottom of her shoes. Definitely not either the pink or the neon green, but significantly different midsole. Makes a mockery out of those who claim it is so much better than anything else (and not worth debating) that even non-Nike athletes wear them. In actuality not even all Nike athletes wear them, as evidenced tonight. KB has run in road races since the first incarnations existed wearing something else. In fact, he won Berlin in something else.
43% of the field DNF’d. At least no one died.
runningchick wrote:
Groner 6th in 2:38. Absolutely impressive in these conditions.
Beating Jack Foster's 1972 olympic 6th place marathon and she is one year older than he was. bravo!!
Film_Rep wrote:
I heard a white man might win a distance event! Wejo was so excited!!!
Yes that’s why he’s excited about the 100 ?
Go self loathe elsewhere.
wejo wrote:
41 year old Robert Groner up to 6th as 2 more in the top 8 dropped out the last 5k. Great run by her.
Robert ran great!
I would just straight up run 7 min miles and hope as many runners DNF as possible
Yesssssss! Kenya win it, congrats Chepng'etich for beating the traitor Rose Chelimo. Big ups to 39 yr old Edna Kiplagat for finishing fourth. We await more gold medals for Kenya!!!!
Well, something works... wrote:
Looks Like the Epo is working wrote:
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...but not the Clown Shoes. Despite Chepngetich being surrounded by the much-hyped % shoes, they all lose to a winner not wearing any version of them. Some of you may be fooled, but look closely. There was footage of the bottom of her shoes. Definitely not either the pink or the neon green, but significantly different midsole. Makes a mockery out of those who claim it is so much better than anything else (and not worth debating) that even non-Nike athletes wear them. In actuality not even all Nike athletes wear them, as evidenced tonight. KB has run in road races since the first incarnations existed wearing something else. In fact, he won Berlin in something else.
She wore the 4%...
a dog wrote:
runningchick wrote:
Groner 6th in 2:38. Absolutely impressive in these conditions.
Beating Jack Foster's 1972 olympic 6th place marathon and she is one year older than he was. bravo!!
This post makes no sense. Jack Foster ran 2:16, and finished 8th place.
LoneStarXC wrote:
43% of the field DNF’d. At least no one died.
I'm friends with one of the women who dropped and she said here core temp was 40 degrees when they measured it in the medic tent. Its close to heat stroke and could lead to death. Thank god she dropped. Just because some survived doesn't excuse this insane situation athletes were put in willingly by the IAAF.
Why not make it a condition to put the marathon in a mild climate. In a winter olympics you also need snow. Why not make humane conditions for the marathon a requirement? And they could have sent them anywhere. Or even have them do the entire damn thing on the track with AC.
There is really no excuse.
LateRunnerPhil wrote:
Is Rocha ever going to give up? She has been struggling and doing long walking breaks for over half an hour by now but always keeps going and going instead of just throwing the towel.
Incredible mental strength, but there's gotta be one point in the race where enough is enough even for her.
Top-30 in a WC marathon is a great result.
Any guesses on the men's winning time? Here, 2:17 best plus 15:xx for the win. So, 2:04 plus 12:xx for a winning time of 2:16?
Massively epic run for Groner - huge respect.
runningchick wrote:
I'm friends with one of the women who dropped and she said here core temp was 40 degrees when they measured it in the medic tent. Its close to heat stroke and could lead to death. Thank god she dropped. Just because some survived doesn't excuse this insane situation athletes were put in willingly by the IAAF.
Why not make it a condition to put the marathon in a mild climate. In a winter olympics you also need snow. Why not make humane conditions for the marathon a requirement? And they could have sent them anywhere. Or even have them do the entire damn thing on the track with AC.
There is really no excuse.
I totally agree with this.
rojo wrote:
And what did you all think of Jenny Meadows as a commentator?
Having done commentating myself, I can tolerate mistakes but the 800 is her event. How does she call Raevyn Rogers, Renae Rogers? And she also said she had been impressed by Ce'Ira Brown this year. Really? She's been hurt.
"And what did you all think of Jenny Meadows as a commentator?"
Not much, I'm watching on Eurosport and Jenny Meadows is giving me the shits bigtime, what with her weird accent and word pronunciation she sounds like a three year old. Also, she does crap on a bit.
runningchick wrote:
LoneStarXC wrote:
43% of the field DNF’d. At least no one died.
I'm friends with one of the women who dropped and she said here core temp was 40 degrees when they measured it in the medic tent. Its close to heat stroke and could lead to death. Thank god she dropped. Just because some survived doesn't excuse this insane situation athletes were put in willingly by the IAAF.
Why not make it a condition to put the marathon in a mild climate. In a winter olympics you also need snow. Why not make humane conditions for the marathon a requirement? And they could have sent them anywhere. Or even have them do the entire damn thing on the track with AC.
There is really no excuse.
104 is pretty much the upper limit of what the hypothalamus will allow. Anything above that is no good. Had she been training in the heat? You would almost want to avoid altitude, altitude tents or epo for conditions like this as they’d increase your blood viscosity, putting a person in real danger.
REAL. wrote:
Yes, Top 10 get Tokyo 2020 "A" Standard, but that does not mean they are on their respective national teams. For example, Groner will have to place Top 3 in Atlanta, but she already had the standard.
Big shout out to Un Ok Jo of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea who finished tenth, she literally lives to fight another day and bring back Gold for Dear Respected Comrade Marshal Kim Jong-un.
Here is decent quality, archived BBC coverage. You have to click through to some Russian hosting site, so make of that what you will.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5Im667KWKBXZvPiJFfuRDQ/videos