Emile Cairess will bring home a UK Olympic marathon medal

Run4fun69.. wrote:

1. Born in Bradford, grew up in Saltaire. A very hilly part of the UK. Would have sharpened his running talents on hilly terrain from day one without it being anything other than normal.

2. XC prowess. Under 23 team European silver medal team.

3. Strong track times 13.26/27:34

4. 45:57 10mile/1:00:01 half

5. We saw in Rio and Tokyo African athletes only deal marginally better with heat/humidity, if at all. The conditions in Paris won't be vastly different to UK hot conditions meaning he'll be used to running in comparable weather.

6. Won't be a fast race, times comparable to Rio Tokyo. 2:08:30 will get the win, bronze and silver a minute slower. Times well within his capability.

Cairess will certainly finish in the top 5 and likely medal.

Man Moth wrote:

Run4fun69.. wrote:

1. Born in Bradford, grew up in Saltaire. A very hilly part of the UK. Would have sharpened his running talents on hilly terrain from day one without it being anything other than normal.

2. XC prowess. Under 23 team European silver medal team.

3. Strong track times 13.26/27:34

4. 45:57 10mile/1:00:01 half

5. We saw in Rio and Tokyo African athletes only deal marginally better with heat/humidity, if at all. The conditions in Paris won't be vastly different to UK hot conditions meaning he'll be used to running in comparable weather.

6. Won't be a fast race, times comparable to Rio Tokyo. 2:08:30 will get the win, bronze and silver a minute slower. Times well within his capability.

Cairess will certainly finish in the top 5 and likely medal.

Why not list his European XC Championship silver medal (behind Jakob) from 2022, rather than a junior team result?

Run4fun69.. wrote:

1. Born in Bradford, grew up in Saltaire. A very hilly part of the UK. Would have sharpened his running talents on hilly terrain from day one without it being anything other than normal.

2. XC prowess. Under 23 team European silver medal team.

3. Strong track times 13.26/27:34

4. 45:57 10mile/1:00:01 half

5. We saw in Rio and Tokyo African athletes only deal marginally better with heat/humidity, if at all. The conditions in Paris won't be vastly different to UK hot conditions meaning he'll be used to running in comparable weather.

6. Won't be a fast race, times comparable to Rio Tokyo. 2:08:30 will get the win, bronze and silver a minute slower. Times well within his capability.

Cairess will certainly finish in the top 5 and likely medal.

Yorkshire Fell wrote:

I’m such a massive fan I hope you’re right. He is looking in good form and should be strong on the hills. I think he’ll do well but will be out of the medals.

Cairess W? wrote:

As a Brit I hope you're right but aren't you assuming he'll do well on the hills a bit. There's no real evidence to back this up apart from a road race in which he got out kicked. Running a hilly 10k doesn't qualify you as automatically good at hills.

Run4fun69.. wrote:

He'll have run more hills than most on that course, including juiced to the gills Ken/Eth cheats.

And he's 100% clean

Run4fun69.. wrote:

1. Born in Bradford, grew up in Saltaire. A very hilly part of the UK. Would have sharpened his running talents on hilly terrain from day one without it being anything other than normal.

2. XC prowess. Under 23 team European silver medal team.

3. Strong track times 13.26/27:34

4. 45:57 10mile/1:00:01 half

5. We saw in Rio and Tokyo African athletes only deal marginally better with heat/humidity, if at all. The conditions in Paris won't be vastly different to UK hot conditions meaning he'll be used to running in comparable weather.

6. Won't be a fast race, times comparable to Rio Tokyo. 2:08:30 will get the win, bronze and silver a minute slower. Times well within his capability.

Cairess will certainly finish in the top 5 and likely medal.

Run4fun.. wrote:

Bump. Incredible run. So close

Every prediction I've made this Olympic has been right.