the olympic marathon champion constantina tomescau-dita will be running the chicago marathon (see front page story) and her main competition could be bezunesh bekele who was wrongly taken off the ethiopian marathon team in favor of dire tune by the ethiopian federation. redemption time, GO BEZUNESH.
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i beg to differ
this race reminded me of '93 5k when ismael shot off after a few laps & geb + pack didn't bother chasing him ( because ismael was 18 & running at near wr pace & i expect 99% of the world expected him to crumble at the end & get run over ) - only last coupla laps they realised he wasn't fading much at all & they started their desperate chase, but just too late - nothing wrong with geb that meet as he won the 10k
dita's race was similar, but not same stunning pace - she just didn't crumble & they left their chase too late
poor strategy
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Originally posted by eldricki beg to differ
this race reminded me of '93 5k when ismael shot off after a few laps & geb + pack didn't bother chasing him ( because ismael was 18 & running at near wr pace & i expect 99% of the world expected him to crumble at the end & get run over ) - only last coupla laps they realised he wasn't fading much at all & they started their desperate chase, but just too late - nothing wrong with geb that meet as he won the 10k
dita's race was similar, but not same stunning pace - she just didn't crumble & they left their chase too late
poor strategy
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Originally posted by eldricki don't think anyone ever posted the respective splits of dita & the big 2 for last few miles/km of the race
that woud be a lot more instructive
40k splits:
1 Constantina Tomescu ROU 2:19:07
2 Chunxiu Zhou CHN 2:20:07
3 Xiaolin Zhu CHN 2:20:07
4 Catherine Ndereba KEN 2:20:08
5 Martha Komu KEN 2:20:08
Finish times:
1 Constantina Tomescu ROU 2:26:44 (SB)
2 Catherine Ndereba KEN 2:27:06 .
3 Chunxiu Zhou CHN 2:27:07 (SB)
4 Xiaolin Zhu CHN 2:27:16 (SB)
5 Martha Komu KEN 2:27:23 .
So the last 2.2k was run in:
Tomescu - 7:37
Ndereba - 6:58
Zhou - 7:00
Zhu - 7:09
Komu - 7:15
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i'd hardly accuse cathy & zhou of employing "brilliant strategy"
bezunesh bekele who was wrongly taken off the ethiopian marathon team.Go African athletes!
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The young Ethiopians certainly aren't shying away from the marathons. It was announced on the front-page that Dire Tune is racing in New York this year - that will be her fourth of the year (1st Houston, 1st Boston, 15th Beijing) and her sixth in 17 months and she's only 23 - isn't this a bit much?
Likewise, Magarsa Tafa will be running in Berlin next week. This will also be her third of the year and her 11th overall marathon, aged 23 too.
Robe Tola already looks slightly stale. She's only 21 and has run eight marathons and since running 2:24 in 2006, her next marathons have been 2:39, 2:36, 3:26! (Osaka WCh), 2:33 and 2:34.
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