Originally posted by kuha

But, of course, you totally missed my point. The Olympic gold is still the Olympic gold, and the incredible manner in which Wanjiru smashed the record, and the rest of the field, and the environmental conditions, under the expectations of winning the once in every four years festival that is the Olympics, set him on a pedestal far above a time-trial world-record run under near-perfect conditions. That's just my opinion, of course, and of course we will never know what would have transpired if Geb had been in Beijing, but he wasn't...
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