Doha Friday

[tafnut]

The start lists (and results tomorrow) at

http://www.iaaf.org/GP05/results/eventC ... index.html

good male match-ups:

100 - Gatlin vs. Crawford
400 - Tyree W vs. Francique
800 - Mutua vs. Yiampoy
1500 - oodles of Africans
3000 - see 1500, only better
2000(boo)St - Shaheen
110H - TT vs. Olijars
400H - Carter vs. Herbert
SP - Hoffa vs. Olsen
JT - Greer (AR?!) vs. Makarov & Parvainen

women's fields offer similar excitement

[eldrick]

Re: Doha Friday

some epic races in prospect here !

gatlin v zebra over 100

it's going to be hot there & you would expect a time well below 10.00 in this

the distance races are unbelievable !

unfortunately, the weather is going to be too hot for fast times ( abbie ran 8'35 there last year, when she was in early season form able to go close to 8'20 )

choge v choge in the 3k !

senior ran 7'27 last year ( off a slow 2k split ) & junior ran that 3'34A last week - that must be worth at least 3'31 - 3'32 at sea-level & the kid is a 5k runner !!!

burika ran 4'10A at altitude also & probably not a paced 4'10

who knows how close to 4'00 flat that may have been at sea-level & in a paced race ?

she then demolished both the WC & OG champ in the 5k!

i assume she's a distance runner (5k), so just how fast can she go at 3k & beyond ?!

damn the hot weather though!

i doubt we will see faster than 7'35 or 8'35 again because of it

if they run anything substantially quicker than this, then expect some incredible times in cooler GP meets in europe

[doug0914]

Re: Doha Friday

i just did a search on the weather in doha qatar todays high is 97 and todays low is 86, currently at almost 11 am qatar time it is 95 degrees farenheit.