Hicham El Guerrouj voted the ultimate supermiler (Athelics Weekly)

Difficult to find reactions of this guy or even his media apparitions in the latest years.

Best EPO-miler of all time!

Yesterday I also found this old article by "Track and Field News"

April 1997

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If Flo Jo was still alive i wonder if she'd be heralded the same way as El G. Both set outlandish WRs that still stand and he came from and ran for a nation with , per capita of track elites, far worse doping history. I don't quite get why El G is so unquestionably revered in the sport's corridors of power

100% El Guerrouj the greatest middle distance runner of all-time. Glad AW confirmed on their end.

He didn't get the one of 2004 because I think that was done before the Olympic Games. And that year he gold some issues, asthma problem and a new child born that distracted him while racing.

The video show that its in the last 400m that El G accelerated.

What is posted

53:27 last lap 1200m 2:46:34 last 100m in 12:75

if that is true, he had to be monstrously fit.

though elg was among the epo guys

elg the only one that i peg among the iberian pensinsua / atlas mountains guys to be able to win without it.

i have coe as the number one talent clean, though that era of athlete may have had some soft tricks up their sleeve.

herb elliot, no, there was no great competition. never ran against snell, and at 28 years old, he could have been in mexico.

anal webb baby!

El G was the most dominant miler in athletics history - he rarely lost and at his prime he had one competitor, the clock.

Back when people were wiped out when racing fast.. unlike Seb and Jakob and new dopers. El G the GOAT.

El G had a fantastic career. If you take a close look at this 2004 Olympic gold 1500 meter race, he runs a 53 point 3rd lap -- his acceleration is so smooth, you wouldn't think he was moving at that pace.
But it is hard to believe that he was not using EPO. I don't know if there would ever be a way to really know.

Coe was incredible too. At the time, I was more a fan of Ovett. It was that World Cub race in Dusseldorf in '77. OMG, waving at the crowd as he rips a 25 point final 200. But with two golds in the 1500, I guess Coe gets the nod over Herb Eliot. Yet Eliot was a masterful miler. What a mind! Yet, he cited nerves as the reason he stepped away. I guess it was excruciating to be so dominant.

He was definitely the best miler out of the dozen or so North Africans, Iberians and Kenyans who were full throttle doping with EPO, giving themselves 6 - 10 seconds advantage over the rest.

Definitely the greatest miler of all time, but I just wish he ran more 3000m and 5000m races before he retired. Would've liked to see him try to break Komen's WR and go sub 12:50. Wonder if he could've done well in cross country as well...

Is that why he lost two Olympic finals at his peak, and would likely have ended with zero if the test for EPO had been introduced just 12 months earlier than it was?

In what world are you living?

I'd like to see a peak Josh Kerr against a peak El G. It would be epic. Hard to tell who would win. Josh is on his way to becoming the middle distance goat

In all seriousness, Josh Kerr proves how important motivation and being able to compete for major titles is. And consequently, how demotivating the full-throttle EPO era was for those countries that largely run clean.

He's moved to another level since his WC gold, with potentially a lot more to come.

No way he would have hung around in the 90s or 2000s. If he did, he probably would have been a 3:32 guy, accepting there was no way he was going to catch the likes of El G, so why train like a dog to get to the next level (unless he jumped on EPO, which it seems that the Brits evidently didn't do at the time)?