OverTheHillAndBack wrote:
A couple MINOR points
1) WHO DA F**** is Andy Vernon?
2) You can't win 2 Olympic Golds and simultaneously dodge competition. INCOMPATIBLE. HEAD EXPLODES.
3) Someone said "except for the london marathon". The london marathon is no small ASTERISK. Mo Farah ran over 4X his usually racing distance, against a LOADED field, in arguable one of the HARDEST and LEAST predictable events. Because Mo ran that London he is FOREVER excused from "dodging the competition."
4) #WhoIsAndyVeron
It's a pretty simple point. Mo did London for a payday. He was absolutely not dodging competition there. We are agreed on that.
Andy did not say that Mo dodges competition altogether, but that's what you idiots keep implying by listing PRs, title wins, etc. He said that he gets watered down fields to run on home soil in the UK.
He's right. For reference, here is the 2 mile field this weekend:
http://www.britishathletics.org.uk/british-athletics-series/sainsburys-indoor-grand-prix/event-schedule/Please show me a track meet in the UK where Mo had to race a really good field. I'm not saying that Mo is in charge of who is in the field, either, so don't bother going down that road.