Giving Bitok prize money for a 15:26 will certainly go down as the biggest
Goodwill gesture of the year.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Post, Marty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'alan tobin'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 10:22 AM
Subject: RE: t-and-f: Goodwill 5000 results
> From an AP report on the GWG 5000:
>
> "The track and field program at the Goodwill Games witnessed probably the
> slowest 5,000-meter men's race in a major championship.
>
> The men's 5,000 field of five Kenyans, including world champion Richard
> Limo, and two Ethiopians, including Olympic gold medalist Million Wolde,
> made a farce of the race.
>
> For the first 10 1/2 laps, they loped around the track with no intention
of
> trying to run fast. Then, they picked up the pace a little with two laps
> remaining, before going to an all-out sprint over the final 400 meters,
> which was run in 51 seconds - extraordinarily fast for a 5,000-meter race.
>
> Two-time Olympic silver medalist Paul Bitok of Kenya won in 15:26.10,
slower
> than women's winner Olga Yegorova of Russia (15:12.22) Tuesday night and
> nearly three minutes slower than the world record. The time of 12:52.90
for
> 4,000 meters was slower than Ethiopian Haile Gebrselassie's 5,000 world
mark
> of 12:39.36."
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: alan tobin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 9:50 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: t-and-f: Goodwill 5000 results
>
>
> I'm calling BS on this one, must be a typo. Surely someone would have
taken
> off? Someone not sure about his kick would have taken off sometime during
> the race.
>
> Alan
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