Kelvin Kiptum wins the Bank of America Chicago Marathon and breaks the World Record. Sifan Hassan wins the womens' race and breaks the European Record with the second fastest time ever.
Sounds kinda crazyyyy that he's dropped the 1st (2:00:35), 3rd (2:01:25), and 6th (2:01:53) fastest times in Marathon history in a span of 10 months despite not even having run a Marathon before last year. And they are his only three marathons.
Sounds kinda crazyyyy that he's dropped the 1st (2:00:35), 3rd (2:01:25), and 6th (2:01:53) fastest times in Marathon history in a span of 10 months despite not even having run a Marathon before last year. And they are his only three marathons.
Crazy yes, impossible no.
Ask yourself this, could a young Bekele have done the same with modern super-shoes? The answer is yes.
Ask yourself this, could a young Bekele have done the same with modern super-shoes? The answer is yes.
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL.
You really gonna compare young Bekele (AKA....4:49 2000 Indoors, 7:25 3000m, 12:37 5000m, 26:17 10,000m) w/o supershoes and most of these not even time trials.
To a guy nobody knew before December 2022 yet somehow can pull off 2:01s or faster every time he races in a span of 10 months with bloodshot eyes?
He has more Sub-2:02 Performances in 10 months than Kipchoge has in 5 years. There comes a point when questioning an athlete is not a bad thing to do. Also, his coach claims he ran 300km weeks three times straight. How on Earth can a guy who has more mileage than ultramarathoners + runs a marathon a day 21 days straight has the speed or even the endurance to withstand that training let alone pull off 2 of the 5 fastest marathons off in 5 months time.
Talent is correct, but whatever else he has....isn't legal.
Ask yourself this, could a young Bekele have done the same with modern super-shoes? The answer is yes.
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL.
You really gonna compare young Bekele (AKA....4:49 2000 Indoors, 7:25 3000m, 12:37 5000m, 26:17 10,000m) w/o supershoes and most of these not even time trials.
To a guy nobody knew before December 2022 yet somehow can pull off 2:01s or faster every time he races in a span of 10 months with bloodshot eyes?
He has more Sub-2:02 Performances in 10 months than Kipchoge has in 5 years. There comes a point when questioning an athlete is not a bad thing to do. Also, his coach claims he ran 300km weeks three times straight. How on Earth can a guy who has more mileage than ultramarathoners + runs a marathon a day 21 days straight has the speed or even the endurance to withstand that training let alone pull off 2 of the 5 fastest marathons off in 5 months time.
Talent is correct, but whatever else he has....isn't legal.
Every one of those races you listed was a “time trial”.
assefa tigist also got to wear an unrelease prototype of addidas super shoe no? looks like the shoe companies really cant bear to lose to each other. but hey kiptum trained really hard too