They went thru the half way in 65:39

Sucks that my fav runner (the italian dude who took 2nd at the worlds) twisted his ankle at the water station around the 10k mark =\

he is spanish...he also served a 2 year suspension for epo use...

yea they just talked about that

maybe i need a new fav runner

hmmm

somebody is surging, and the pack is braking up.



holy crap the pace looks amazingly fast.

what about Gebreselassie?

class act
smiles all the time
great running technique

he's running?

edit: nevermind, he's cool though. bekele (i think that's his name) also has a nice technique. i remember at the worlds, they were running next to each other, and their stride matched perfectly (length and speed wise; you only saw the outline of bekele's feet, as they were matching with geb's).





i just heard the last mile was run in 4:40

The live transmission rocks, you're right, but the british eurosport commentators suck... they failed to identify the eventual winner as the half-marathon world champion! And kept saying that last year's winner looked better and was the better runner... until he got a sidestitch and got dropped...



Paulo

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yea wtf was up with last year's winner going off to the side when he got a stitch (like 1 km from the finish)?? he went behind the car or something.

I agree. It was great watching the live feed from NY, (while my family in NJ could only see the 1hr NBC highlight show) but the commentators, were...Ill be nice and say sub-par. Some of their comments...sheesh. Where'd they find these guys?

Z

well, the first year the Triathlon France Iron Tour was on TV, they had no triathlon specialists so they asked pierre fulla who is a gym specialist...

the first day was an individual TT over a sprint distance. The guy tried to interview Simon Lessing, during T1, being on Simon's way to his bike...
Fulla is like 5 foot tall...Lessing didn't even see him and just run through. Next thing we saw was Fulla on the ground! so bad commentators can lead to interesting situations!