Wait til next year when the kenyans we've never heard of are back? WEAK. Solinsky beat every Kenyan in the race. Face it!
Zurich 5000m thread.
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Soksi wrote:
Wait til next year when the kenyans we've never heard of are back? WEAK. Solinsky beat every Kenyan in the race. Face it!
Not only that but two of the Kenyan winners of diamond league 5000s this summer either dropped out or got killed.
Kipchoge barely beat Rupp, Kiptoo was a DNF. Part of elite racing is tenacity, which is a talent of its own.
Did Solinsky just have the best 5000 season of everyone this year? We already know he did for 10000.
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Sammmy Davis III wrote:
Malmo - apparently you don't folow track and field much - Rupp ran okay race but was expected to run faster - You got hhtat? You get all excited for no reason - chill dude - he ran slow time when we wanted fast time - chill dude!!! okay? that is all - All is fine - chill Malmo
Either you´re joking or you´re the idiot of the day! 13,07 slow? I think malmo knows just a little bit more about world class running than you do, boy.
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Check out the quote of the day on the homepage... looks like Get Real Real pretty much nailed it talking about CS being tentative in the last 1k.
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diceman cometh wrote:
Get Real Real wrote:
Solinsky blew it by not going after the lead when he knew they were behind USA record pace...
Please never, ever post again. Solinksy didn't "blow" anything. You have no idea what it takes to race at that level, much less to walk the razor's edge to actually a race a sub 13. Solinsky was there to race. He was not there to play the role of tragic-sacrificial-lamb-Pre guy who leads the race and gets smoked the final 400m.
Fantastic run by Solinsky- smart, composed, focused, and he kicked well off of a respectable pace. Should be yet another confidence booster in what has easily been the most impressive summer of racing by an American male distance runner ever.
And a solid run by Rupp as well- a 3 second or so PB? Not the sub 13 I'm sure he was hoping to run, but some solid experience nonetheless.
How you like me NOW, MORON; just as I predicted Solinsky AGREES with me in post race interviews:
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"The times are irrelevant. Competing is number one. The thing I'm number one mad about this race is the spot I've been thinking about all year of taking the lead and pushing it completely opened up for me to do it. I started going and I backed off because I got scared ..."
You and Malmo are self righteous sucker sapiens.
Solinsky put it in more exact words than me (how could he not, it was his personal experience), but it is exactly what I was talking about, he backed off, hesitated, did not seize the moment, etc. I ALSO prediected CORRECTLY that he would express regret in post race comments.
What Malmo and You fail to understand is that Solinsky has the Desire to be a Champion. So he is not pleased with playing it safe and running a VG time. He wants to challenge for the win, put himself in new territory and GROW. Fear of bonking in the last 600 or whatever, caused him to be conservative.
And nor his pissed, disappointed, realizes he blew it. (As I said).
You watch, this guy is going to grow, and stretch himself and see to it he gets the max from himself, he's gonna go for it more often in the future, and get better and better.
He might fall short once and a while, but it ain't gonna be by hesitating - as he so rightly notes.
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