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Quote:The whole thing was as close as you can get to a mobile marathon spa treatment
—if going to a spa were paired with the worst discomfort of your life.
Such an extensive level of support, combined with the fact that Kipchoge wasn’t actually competing against anybody, pushed the event outside of official marathon conditions and prevented his performance from counting as a true record.
The organizers were fully aware of this;
The event, as "Outside Magazine" aptly referred to it, is perhaps best understood as:
An “Exhibition Marathon.”
It was a time trial, albeit one that had been scienced to an almost entirely unrivaled level.
The only professional marathon competition that has resembled it was 2017’s "Breaking2", a much-hyped Nike campaign that put Kipchoge and two other athletes on an Italian motor-racing track under similar top conditions.
They all failed at breaking the two-hour barrier, but Kipchoge got close enough to convince INEOS, a U.K.-based chemical company that owns several sports franchises, that two hours could be broken with just a little more optimization.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 10/18/2008 Posts: 3,434 Location: Kerugoya
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Quote:The INEOS 1:59 Challenge is a straightforward testament to how money can buy anything, including a branded sub-two-hour marathon.
Jim Ratcliffe, Britain’s richest man, appeared to spare no expense when it came to either the groundbreaking science or the marketing blitz leading up to the event.
“As much as they might like to present this as such, the first sub-2:00 marathon is not like the first sub-4:00 mile, or the first summit of Everest, much less the moon landing,” the running commentator Toni Reavis wrote before the event.
“All those challenges carried in the public consciousness the possibility of death.
This is a second-chance marketing exhibition for a plastics manufacturer and springy shoes.”
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Rank: Elder Joined: 10/18/2008 Posts: 3,434 Location: Kerugoya
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Quote:Two weeks ago.
While Kipchoge was merely dreaming of landing on the moon.
A legendary Ethiopian distance runner named Kenenisa Bekele arrived on Berlin’s famously fast course and dropped a 2:01:41.
Two seconds away from Kipchoge’s official world record.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 7/28/2015 Posts: 9,562 Location: Rodi Kopany, Homa Bay
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aemathenge wrote:Quote:Kipchoge’s run was a technical achievement that required unprecedented planning and support.
In fact, it was so heavily engineered that his new time will not count as a world record.
Kipchoge ran the fastest time ever over the marathon distance, but for heated reasons that get at the heart of the sport, he did not run a marathon. Yes, it WAS NOT a marathon, rather he ran a distance equal to that of a marathon on an "artificial terrain". Just because you ran an unrecognized and unofficial 42km "rigged" stretch doesn't mean you have run a marathon. It's like setting your own exam then you say you have passed with flying colours. Just like an exam, the marathon should be held by a recognized athletic body and run on an approved route without assistance from cars, laser lights, wind shielding pacesetters, and energy drinks on bicycles etc etc.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 10/3/2008 Posts: 4,058 Location: Gwitu
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Nobody is going to run sub 2hrs in normal marathon in our time unless on steroids. However the record will soon drop to 2.01.30 or thereabouts Truth forever on the scaffold
Wrong forever on the throne
(James Russell Rowell)
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Rank: Elder Joined: 7/28/2015 Posts: 9,562 Location: Rodi Kopany, Homa Bay
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Angelica _ann wrote:Irregardless  he is the first known human to run the marathon in under 2 hours, hata waandike namna gani nobody will ever take that away. Nope, he never ran "the marathon" rather it was a distance that is the same as that of a marathon race. The definition of "the marathon" is very clear including the requirements of that race.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 7/22/2008 Posts: 2,721
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hardwood wrote:aemathenge wrote:Quote:Kipchoge’s run was a technical achievement that required unprecedented planning and support.
In fact, it was so heavily engineered that his new time will not count as a world record.
Kipchoge ran the fastest time ever over the marathon distance, but for heated reasons that get at the heart of the sport, he did not run a marathon. Yes, it WAS NOT a marathon, rather he ran a distance equal to that of a marathon on an "artificial terrain". Just because you ran an unrecognized and unofficial 42km "rigged" stretch doesn't mean you have run a marathon. It's like setting your own exam then you say you have passed with flying colours. Just like an exam, the marathon should be held by a recognized athletic body and run on an approved route without assistance from cars, laser lights, wind shielding pacesetters, and energy drinks on bicycles etc etc. @Hardwood, why don't you go to Eldoret and reveal this great insight to all these people. I am also sure that the 20 thousand people who lined the course route in Vienna were not aware of this great infraction. 
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Rank: Elder Joined: 2/22/2009 Posts: 2,449 Location: Africa
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Rank: Elder Joined: 3/19/2010 Posts: 3,505 Location: Uganda
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hardwood wrote:aemathenge wrote:Quote:Kipchoge’s run was a technical achievement that required unprecedented planning and support.
In fact, it was so heavily engineered that his new time will not count as a world record.
Kipchoge ran the fastest time ever over the marathon distance, but for heated reasons that get at the heart of the sport, he did not run a marathon. Yes, it WAS NOT a marathon, rather he ran a distance equal to that of a marathon on an "artificial terrain". Just because you ran an unrecognized and unofficial 42km "rigged" stretch doesn't mean you have run a marathon. It's like setting your own exam then you say you have passed with flying colours. Just like an exam, the marathon should be held by a recognized athletic body and run on an approved route without assistance from cars, laser lights, wind shielding pacesetters, and energy drinks on bicycles etc etc. @hardwood why do you hate this much.. do you know that too much bile is hazardous to your health.. punda amecheka
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Rank: Elder Joined: 7/28/2015 Posts: 9,562 Location: Rodi Kopany, Homa Bay
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newfarer wrote:hardwood wrote:aemathenge wrote:Quote:Kipchoge’s run was a technical achievement that required unprecedented planning and support.
In fact, it was so heavily engineered that his new time will not count as a world record.
Kipchoge ran the fastest time ever over the marathon distance, but for heated reasons that get at the heart of the sport, he did not run a marathon. Yes, it WAS NOT a marathon, rather he ran a distance equal to that of a marathon on an "artificial terrain". Just because you ran an unrecognized and unofficial 42km "rigged" stretch doesn't mean you have run a marathon. It's like setting your own exam then you say you have passed with flying colours. Just like an exam, the marathon should be held by a recognized athletic body and run on an approved route without assistance from cars, laser lights, wind shielding pacesetters, and energy drinks on bicycles etc etc. @hardwood why do you hate this much.. do you know that too much bile is hazardous to your health.. It is FACTS not hate. I never follow the mob but rather I normally use my brain.
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