Can you imagine an NFL athlete skipping a playoff game because he's not 100%? Of course not.
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That's a team game and you can afford to be at 90%
Yet in track, everything is basically practice for the athletes except for the major championships and for the very top stars like Farah, i guess Commonwealths at home in the UK don't even count - the only championship that truly matters is the Olympics/Worlds.
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Might agree if he had not pulled out of several races recently
Track and field is largely a sport that results in the top stars being paid for being their own brand. I guess it's better for the brand of Mo Farah and Usain Bolt to not race at all than it is to race and maybe finish second or third.
But it's not good for the sport.
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Was Paula running with a stress fracture in the Olympics good for the sport. Did the press say well done for running on a broken bone. Like hell they did
I'm use there will be some former Ethiopians as competition there. It little to do with it being the Commonwealths, if the Europeans were first he'd have pulled out of that
Would it really add to that sport watching an unfit Farah get beaten. Having won multiple world titles he owes this country nothing