@@Xavier0458 he is mediocre for most of his life and towards his late 20s he all of a sudden becomes exceptional? All of the other real athletes were already world class athletes by their late teens -early 20s (haile, kenenisa, eliud, el gerouj etc.). He is as fishy as his coach. Rotten!
I have to disagree. I wouldn't count him as one of the greatest long distance runners in history at all. His times were pretty average (poor even) throughout his career. He mostly won because of lack of tactical awareness in his rivals. They always let Mo Farah play his game of slow running and then getting outsprinted by him during the last lap.
I’m no runner but the 10 and 5k are some of the most brutal track races one can ever see. Not only do you have to keep running, keep up with the front pack, keep your nerve, keep changing and updating your strategy while still focusing on the task, manage your emotions and your physical well being.......🤯...I’m glad to have lived during the time of the great Mo Farah 🔥🔥🔥.
Haha, I have a copy of the 1997 English Schools Cross Country results too. Farah was ridiculously dominant in those days. All the people saying he surged late in his career are correct but the surprise for us who were in similar age groups to him at the time was not that he became world class but that it took him so long to become world class.
Also when english schools is notoriously muddy, hilly and horrific thats a really impressive time (two years ago the mud was as deep as my knees and you literally couldn't run- and to make it worse it was just after a really steep uphill and it was snowing!).
Heres a theory and its just a theory but someone please give me a counter theory because I can't shake it. Mo went to train with Salazar who is known to have given Rupp testosterone since he was a teenager. In Moes film he tells a story about Salazar showing Mo how he lacked the power of runners at his level. In 2008 Mo was a good but certainly no world class athlete. He looked tired and defeated at the Olympics. Over the years he joined Salazar he gained all this power and he looks like an altogether more powerful well recovered athlete. Sure this could be all the facilities in Oregon but if Salazar solved Rupps lack of power with test and can mask it why wouldn't he do that with Mo. This doesn't prove anything but I believe the onus is now on Mo to clear his name not to insist on being assumed innocent especially with the issues with lieing about LCarnitine supplementation. This stuff matters because young athletes build their dreams on what these heroes achieve and if its not realistic and clean every generation will be presented with the same choices. Lose or dope. Im a huge fan of Mo and still believe he is a great athlete but my belief in top level middle distance running is sometimes challenged by what I see
A counter: It is not known that Salazar gave Rupp test. It is known that Salazar was toeing the line between fair and cheating constantly. Rupp is one of the most tested runners ever, if he was on test he would've been popped.
@@keegandutto6976 so we're saying new training methodology is responsible for the change from mediocre to world beater? Potentially...on a probabilistic level I consider it unlikely on its own from what I know and what I've seen.
@@andrewhelms1373 There are a number of documentaries now showing how easy it is to mask test. Several members of Salazars camp have come out and said that Rupps testosterone supps were common knowledge in Oregon. I agree he has been walking that line but to me he seems to show a willingness to cross it quite often and when he has the connections and influence to really push that he will, in my view jeopardising the integrity of the sport. Lots of very general claims have been made for the rise of Mo but the biggest argument ive seen taking all this into account is to just look at pictures of him before and after Salazar compared to during. He looks so so fresh and strong in 2012. He wanted it so so bad. If Salazar made the argument he could get him there and it involved blurring the lines I just don't know that he would straight up refuse it in that situation in that moment with all the chips on the line, everything he's ever wanted.
Here's an interesting fact , with the exemption of Mo Farah, in the history of middle distance events at the Olympics, only one man has won a bronze medal who was over 30! At 31 I believe. And Mo has cleaned up everybody in his early 30s to mid 30s 🤔
Interesting if it were a fact. I'd have to go back and check that but I know Zatopek won his distance triple (5, 10 and marathon) at the '52 Olympics at 30 and Keino won 1500 silver at the '72 Games. Yifter, age 33, won the 5 and 10 at the 80 Olympics.
@@aldopedroso6212 I probably researched this a while ago for the 1500m but well done for going through the lot.Just proved my point that in 120years of the Olympics, only a few over 30s have medalled. Pretty sure none of them have achieved the double double in their 30s until SIR mo came along. Im sure you can confirm this.
@@SuperBEEFMAN1 That is a lot easier to research as only a few runners have done the double at the Olympics, Zatopek and Yifter doing it at 30 or older as I mentioned. I don't do age comparisons because it wasn't until the 1980's that athletes got paid. Hard to be the best in the world if you have to work 40 hours a week, MUCH easier when those 40 hours is spent training.
@@closmasmas9080 ... Not everyone knows that for sure. My two brothers would say same thing as you🤣 Bob Marley has Dread, but Braid is most used by women. Anyway, it looked dreadful on him🤣
Mr. TRP what is your occupation if you have one besides being a great running youtuber. As you have a great voice over do you do something within that field.
@@Kipchoge475 Kenenisa. Mo Farah is born in 1983, and Kenenisa Bekele is born in 1982. (Tariku is born in 1987). So Bekele was 17, while Farah was 16 in the 1999 U18 world championships. Bekele finished second with 8:09.89, while Farah finished 6th with 8:21.25. Pius Muli from Kenya won in 8:08.16, Anouar Assila (Morocco) won bronze with 8:13.54. None of those guys did anything big later in their careers. The Championships were held in Bydgoszcz, Poland (the same place that hosted the 2008 and 2016 World U20 Championships) I really hope that there exists some footage from that race, and that it will soon surface on RUclips!
Read his biography .. Good read. With a healthy KB in the picture or KIp... not a chance. I always watched him struggle. Look forward to watching him on the line again. Between KB and MO .. they're in my top 10 athletes for sure.
I have to disagree that the real race turning point for Mo Farah was not his defeat of Micah Kogo in 2010. Kogo gradually declined in relevance from late 2009 onward. Rather Farah's victory in Eugene in 2011, which had no equal among Farah's racing record up until that point. I hate to be *that* guy, but... how does one go from 6th-7th place in major championship races (not even making the Olympic final in between), or finishing in 55s of a mid-13min 5K/ 28+ min 10K, or 58s final lap of a 12:58, or coming 2nd to a guy (Dejene Gebremeskel) who lost a shoe early in the race... to becoming the most dominant track distance runner of the generation, at age 28? Mo was good in 2010, but... dare I say, not that good?
And it happened to coincide with his move to shady Al Sal... I respect Farah for how hard he’s clearly worked but there’s no doubt in my mind that doping rules were pushed at the very minimum
He also won the 2000 mini London marathon with a time of 12.39 Which I was in that year I still have the time sheet lol jus thought I'd throw that out there.
Just so you know, during the English school cross country champs, those two years Farah was in the junior boys category. This means he would have run a maximum of 4.5k and a minimum of 3.5k. I couldn’t find the exact distance for 1996 or 1997 but I know that the distances never exceed 4.5k. Furthermore the courses change from year to year. So the distance was under 4.5k, he likely ran different distances that year, and he ran on different courses. So don’t lose hope if you’re 14 and can’t run a 5k in 15:12, because I don’t think Farah did either. If anyone’s curious you can find the results at esaa.com > cross country > select a year > previous years, and that takes you to their old website with results prior to 2014 there. Great video though!
Matthew W you know what, I was just about to say something about the English Schools archive- I've found Kelly Holmes Junior Girls 1500m win in there before. I expect it was further than 3.5k because junior girls is typically 3-3.2 k and the boys race is definitely further.
Ella F Yeah, it’s full of results if you’re into analysing great runners in their youth. Or just scouting the standards if you’re racing the next year. Nowadays junior boys hover around 4.1k, I just wasn’t sure if it was different in 1997.
Matthew W i do 400 and 800 so I ended up down there when I was seeing which years girls were allowed to run 400 (because the lack of 400 competition is annoying), and also because I was interested in how the 800m competition evolved over time and the usual times run in heats so i could find out what my chances of making the final were
Ella F I’m the same, I was studying all the past results for the xc to see where I’d place. I don’t know why girls are a year offset to the guys for sprints, if everyone is able to run the 800/1500, why not the 400? I hope you made the final, wether it was in the last few years or virtually this year.
Matthew W thanks, I did make the final last year :) But not being able to properly race 400 annoys me. Had this year not been cancelled (I chose not to do the virtual one) I might have considered finally doing 400 next year, but now i only have two years left, I'll stick with the 800.
It was in 1997 I think when looking through the results pages of Athletics Weekly magazine when I first came across Mo Farah's name. I think he'd won an U-15 1500m. His name though read as Mohammed then. For some reason the name stuck with me whereas I don't think I'd have recalled any other name in the results section of that magazine at that time if they'd also have made it as big as Mo!
To prove your point: In 2017 it was an undulating but not too muddy course in norwich, in 2018, it was in the middle of beast from the east in knee deep mud and steep hills in leeds (2019 was also leeds but not muddy) and in 2020 it was a flat, faster course in liverpool. I can at least vouch for 2017-18 and say that the courses change loads, I didn't do it in 19-20.
www.esaa.net/1997/xc1997.pdf Yes, it's 15:42. He definitely did win English Schools titles by huge distances though. I remember watching them at the time.
haha! It's pronounced DAAAARby not DEEEERby. Cool video though! Chris Thompson from the 2010 BUPA 10K is still going! He went out with Bekele in the Vitality Big Half this year!
I was a pretty good physicist,no Albert E,but amongst the top 1% for my generation,but THEN I met PROFESSOR ALBERTO SALAZAR, and not for Albert E,getting there I knew I could under his chemical approach to studying physics,I would have 20 Nobel Prizes!! All his post 2011 titles should say ,'....the joint winners of the 5000m title is No Salazar
Going to point out that you just can't compare British schools CC championship races from one year to the next, they will have been totally different courses and most likely different distances, in different conditions, so the 2+ minute improvement likely wasn't that. Especially as all the times were roughly that different, it just demonstrated they aren't comparable races at all. That being said, I recognise, infact ran against at least one of the names in that list - 3rd placed Murphy ( there was more than one brother and they were from our neighbouring rival school, so I can't be certain which was which). None of us could come that close to them, and Mo beat them aged just 14!! Most runners in that line-up would have been at least 2 years older than him I believe, but it does depend on the age group entered. Also yeah 15.42, not 15.12. Otherwise love Mo, such a huge inspiration. I was lucky enough to be in the stadium for his 2012 Olympic medals and will never forget it.
There was two different Daniel Komen and the legendary Komen did not run 2010 aside of Farah or Kipchoge. Legendary Komen just ran himself out of poverty and retired, those late 1990's World Records use to be highly prized and couple of them seems everlasting.
You’re a young unknown runner, running against the world record holder, and his time is over a minute faster than yours... That sounds like Billy Mills in the 1964 Olympic 10,000 meters, a race that many consider the greatest in Olympic history. Yes, Farrah is definitely a remarkable athlete. His double gold in the 5,000 and 10,000 at both the 2012 and 2016 Olympics, along with his 6 World Championship golds, place him up with the all time greats. I was just pointing out that your lead in to this story is one that repeats itself in track and field.
He still won the race ,so I suppose it doesn't matter,but I think 🤔that school race sheet where his name and finishing time were faded looks more like a faded 4 than a 1 to me which would make his time ⏲️ 15.42 rather than 15.12, Like I said he still won , so happy days for that 👍, and actually if he won by less then, its even more impressive to see what he became, I think this is an even better note that even though he had God given talent, when he was younger he was still quite close to the others around him, so he REALISED HIMSELF, and I think as he grew that maybe it's his hard work and determination that gives him the edge on the competition, obviously fitness and preparation but knowing and working on all of his shortcomings and not leaving things to chance, over the years his dedication and meticulous prep work has translated itself transformed into performance and a glittering well deserved career that he has worked hard for(like a lot of other people who have natural talent and don't make what they could have , of it🤔? ) when they make people like him they are from a different of athletes like Michael Johnson, Chris Hoy, or Usain Bolt or Michael Phelps ,it's as if these people don't know how to lose,☝💯 especially when it counts,and ESPECIALLY in the big tournaments when there's gold on the line ,and Mo Farah is another one cut from that same cloth
XC times in Britain aren’t very good indicators of actual ability as the courses are often incredibly muddy and hill compared to in America. Most of the time he gained between those two years was likely primarily down to differences in course
Random Guy yep, you can say that again! Definitely not a good indicator, for example at Loughborough (uk inter counties) this year in the 5.3k u17 girls race, people with 17 minute 5k times were running 20 minutes, I know people who were running 26+ minutes with 19-20minutes 5k times (I didn't run there, I still have ptsd from doing it as an u13.)
Really great videos. Always..... BUT ffs the titles are so misleading. Stop over sensationalising everything. Let the quality of the narrative and the athlete get you your views. Don't succumb to click-bait... its a slippery slope.
This clearly documents when he jumped on the gear, unfortunately. One doesn't magically fix finishing 6th and 7th like that against world class competition. They all do it, so it's an even playing field, I guess.
Whilst I agree the results you located from the English Schools Cross Country race are very faded, Mo's time looks, to me, more like 15:48 than 15:12. Mind you, I should add that, as well as it being very faded, I also have awful eyesight.
I wonder under whose guidance he jumped to the elite of distance runners ? anyway, it was 15.42 not 15.12 in that junior race, a little better than Hutchins national girls record
Farah with hair is something I won't forget for a while
It looks like someone photoshopped his hair on 😂
Yeah that was a tad traumatizing
@That One LMAOOOOOO pineapple mo farah
When people talk about what the greats are willing to sacrifice, this is often one of them.
Looks like a girl. Didn't recognize him
man your narrating skills are world class
Mo Farah is my favorite runner and also one of the Best Distance runners in the world
And one of the most doped up
@@Xavier0458 he is mediocre for most of his life and towards his late 20s he all of a sudden becomes exceptional? All of the other real athletes were already world class athletes by their late teens -early 20s (haile, kenenisa, eliud, el gerouj etc.). He is as fishy as his coach. Rotten!
I have to disagree. I wouldn't count him as one of the greatest long distance runners in history at all. His times were pretty average (poor even) throughout his career. He mostly won because of lack of tactical awareness in his rivals. They always let Mo Farah play his game of slow running and then getting outsprinted by him during the last lap.
I’m no runner but the 10 and 5k are some of the most brutal track races one can ever see. Not only do you have to keep running, keep up with the front pack, keep your nerve, keep changing and updating your strategy while still focusing on the task, manage your emotions and your physical well being.......🤯...I’m glad to have lived during the time of the great Mo Farah 🔥🔥🔥.
Haha, I have a copy of the 1997 English Schools Cross Country results too.
Farah was ridiculously dominant in those days. All the people saying he surged late in his career are correct but the surprise for us who were in similar age groups to him at the time was not that he became world class but that it took him so long to become world class.
He sure is talented but he needed time to find the best drugs in order to perform at the highest level (thank you nike Oregon project and Mr salazar).
@@davidrapin446 I've heard this theory- saying he sort of judy appeared of of nowhere.
1:45 its actually 15:47m, not 15:12
I think it's 15:42 so either way it's pretty far from 15:12
I noticed the same, I stared at it for quite a while lol
@Qu Z you’re right
yeah, I didn't think he made that big of a gap until he said 15:12 which confused me
Yeah 15:25 is the age group record, so I didn't really think he ran a 15:12.
1:59 I was excited because I realized that I am faster than Mo was as a kid. Then I realized that he ran this 17:44 when he was only 13😂
Also when english schools is notoriously muddy, hilly and horrific thats a really impressive time (two years ago the mud was as deep as my knees and you literally couldn't run- and to make it worse it was just after a really steep uphill and it was snowing!).
When I was 13 - 14 I was faster than Mo. Much faster. But that is only because he was about a year away from being born....
The English schools is not a standard course or distance I did it and it was 4.4km in Liverpool.
yo he should go back to that hair at 1:17. no joke
he can’t grow it back 🤭
pineapple lookin ass
So there's people who meme and joke about identifying as an attack helicopter and there are truly people who identify as attack helicopter
@@heartaking4537 why?
Good Morning he’s bald
Great Video, Mo Farah is one of best distance runners in history!
Heres a theory and its just a theory but someone please give me a counter theory because I can't shake it.
Mo went to train with Salazar who is known to have given Rupp testosterone since he was a teenager. In Moes film he tells a story about Salazar showing Mo how he lacked the power of runners at his level. In 2008 Mo was a good but certainly no world class athlete. He looked tired and defeated at the Olympics. Over the years he joined Salazar he gained all this power and he looks like an altogether more powerful well recovered athlete. Sure this could be all the facilities in Oregon but if Salazar solved Rupps lack of power with test and can mask it why wouldn't he do that with Mo. This doesn't prove anything but I believe the onus is now on Mo to clear his name not to insist on being assumed innocent especially with the issues with lieing about LCarnitine supplementation.
This stuff matters because young athletes build their dreams on what these heroes achieve and if its not realistic and clean every generation will be presented with the same choices. Lose or dope.
Im a huge fan of Mo and still believe he is a great athlete but my belief in top level middle distance running is sometimes challenged by what I see
Ummm Farrah left Salazar I think because he didn’t wan to dope . Idk
A counter is that he made that next step and developed his kick in 2010 and I believe he went to the Salazar camp at the start of 2011
A counter: It is not known that Salazar gave Rupp test. It is known that Salazar was toeing the line between fair and cheating constantly. Rupp is one of the most tested runners ever, if he was on test he would've been popped.
@@keegandutto6976 so we're saying new training methodology is responsible for the change from mediocre to world beater? Potentially...on a probabilistic level I consider it unlikely on its own from what I know and what I've seen.
@@andrewhelms1373 There are a number of documentaries now showing how easy it is to mask test. Several members of Salazars camp have come out and said that Rupps testosterone supps were common knowledge in Oregon. I agree he has been walking that line but to me he seems to show a willingness to cross it quite often and when he has the connections and influence to really push that he will, in my view jeopardising the integrity of the sport.
Lots of very general claims have been made for the rise of Mo but the biggest argument ive seen taking all this into account is to just look at pictures of him before and after Salazar compared to during. He looks so so fresh and strong in 2012. He wanted it so so bad. If Salazar made the argument he could get him there and it involved blurring the lines I just don't know that he would straight up refuse it in that situation in that moment with all the chips on the line, everything he's ever wanted.
I always thought mo Farrah went bald at 10
Here's an interesting fact , with the exemption of Mo Farah, in the history of middle distance events at the Olympics, only one man has won a bronze medal who was over 30! At 31 I believe. And Mo has cleaned up everybody in his early 30s to mid 30s 🤔
As i said!! There are 2 mo farah, before and after EPO
Interesting if it were a fact. I'd have to go back and check that but I know Zatopek won his distance triple (5, 10 and marathon) at the '52 Olympics at 30 and Keino won 1500 silver at the '72 Games. Yifter, age 33, won the 5 and 10 at the 80 Olympics.
@@aldopedroso6212 I probably researched this a while ago for the 1500m but well done for going through the lot.Just proved my point that in 120years of the Olympics, only a few over 30s have medalled.
Pretty sure none of them have achieved the double double in their 30s until SIR mo came along. Im sure you can confirm this.
@@SuperBEEFMAN1 That is a lot easier to research as only a few runners have done the double at the Olympics, Zatopek and Yifter doing it at 30 or older as I mentioned. I don't do age comparisons because it wasn't until the 1980's that athletes got paid. Hard to be the best in the world if you have to work 40 hours a week, MUCH easier when those 40 hours is spent training.
Thank you for this. Serious questions need to be asked for the sake of the sports integrity. His 'not me guv' act isn't good enough anymore
Wasn’t expecting the Dreadlocks
Braid is completely different from Dreads
@@luisafrance1635 my mistake. My uncultured self thought that 1:19 looked like dreads
@@closmasmas9080 ... Not everyone knows that for sure. My two brothers would say same thing as you🤣
Bob Marley has Dread, but Braid is most used by women. Anyway, it looked dreadful on him🤣
Always a great content and I am always happy for you and for this channel , mate.
Mo with dreads looks good. My man needs to bring his hair back
Dreads not Braid
I love your videos you are a great story teller!
These are amongst my favourite videos on RUclips
This channel is so great. I always ask myself where does he get all the information from? Amazing work!! Chapeau!
Then he met Alberto Salazar !!!
ahahaha +1
Say’s an iEthiopean. You dont like Somali succes we all know
And he was put on the juice. The rest is history
Roundabout 2010 too .... Coincidence?
Was going to say the same... funny how he got fast. Salazar got done & mo disappeared.
Mr. TRP what is your occupation if you have one besides being a great running youtuber. As you have a great voice over do you do something within that field.
he has a video about him , I think he did a science degree and runs too but look it up
One of the best athlete of distance running 🏃.🎉👏
English Schools this year was where the Liverpool cross challenge was
That hair!
I would LOVE to see footage of Bekele(2nd) and Farah(6th) running 3000m in the 1999 World Youth Championships!
Kenenisa or his younger brother?
@@Kipchoge475 Kenenisa. Mo Farah is born in 1983, and Kenenisa Bekele is born in 1982. (Tariku is born in 1987). So Bekele was 17, while Farah was 16 in the 1999 U18 world championships. Bekele finished second with 8:09.89, while Farah finished 6th with 8:21.25. Pius Muli from Kenya won in 8:08.16, Anouar Assila (Morocco) won bronze with 8:13.54. None of those guys did anything big later in their careers. The Championships were held in Bydgoszcz, Poland (the same place that hosted the 2008 and 2016 World U20 Championships) I really hope that there exists some footage from that race, and that it will soon surface on RUclips!
Also, if I've counted correctly, Bekele and Farah have raced each other 16 times from 1999 to 2018. The current score is Bekele - 12, Farah - 4
@@charlesthorndike2702 thanks for the info.i'm a big fan of anything Bekele 😊
MO FARAH WITH HAIR AYOOOO🔥🔥
For those wondering how fast he was in last 400m, he closed the English Champs 5k in 50.89s.... hard to beat someone this fast on the last lap!
It is important to note it was a race over 14 minutes. With a running start as well.
Lisbon Apartments
I agree, however most 5k/10k runners can not break 50s for 400m
Please make more videos about athletes careers, especially their past which most know little to none about. Great video
Love this channel
Guys hair looked like sid the science kid
The new thumbnail is great
Great research. Well done, love you work TRP.
My fav Hero Mo farah....🏃🏃♥️♥️
Read his biography .. Good read. With a healthy KB in the picture or KIp... not a chance. I always watched him struggle. Look forward to watching him on the line again. Between KB and MO .. they're in my top 10 athletes for sure.
Thank you as always for the research
great video as always!
I have to disagree that the real race turning point for Mo Farah was not his defeat of Micah Kogo in 2010. Kogo gradually declined in relevance from late 2009 onward. Rather Farah's victory in Eugene in 2011, which had no equal among Farah's racing record up until that point.
I hate to be *that* guy, but... how does one go from 6th-7th place in major championship races (not even making the Olympic final in between), or finishing in 55s of a mid-13min 5K/ 28+ min 10K, or 58s final lap of a 12:58, or coming 2nd to a guy (Dejene Gebremeskel) who lost a shoe early in the race... to becoming the most dominant track distance runner of the generation, at age 28? Mo was good in 2010, but... dare I say, not that good?
And it happened to coincide with his move to shady Al Sal... I respect Farah for how hard he’s clearly worked but there’s no doubt in my mind that doping rules were pushed at the very minimum
Nice
Farah was already a legend when i was born
He also won the 2000 mini London marathon with a time of 12.39 Which I was in that year I still have the time sheet lol jus thought I'd throw that out there.
Damn I love this channel already
I just click to laugh at their faces expressions 😂🤣
You should do a video on guys who have repeatedly come in 4th, or just missed the podium for their running careers. The bokeh runners...
Just so you know, during the English school cross country champs, those two years Farah was in the junior boys category. This means he would have run a maximum of 4.5k and a minimum of 3.5k. I couldn’t find the exact distance for 1996 or 1997 but I know that the distances never exceed 4.5k. Furthermore the courses change from year to year. So the distance was under 4.5k, he likely ran different distances that year, and he ran on different courses. So don’t lose hope if you’re 14 and can’t run a 5k in 15:12, because I don’t think Farah did either.
If anyone’s curious you can find the results at esaa.com > cross country > select a year > previous years, and that takes you to their old website with results prior to 2014 there.
Great video though!
Matthew W you know what, I was just about to say something about the English Schools archive- I've found Kelly Holmes Junior Girls 1500m win in there before.
I expect it was further than 3.5k because junior girls is typically 3-3.2 k and the boys race is definitely further.
Ella F Yeah, it’s full of results if you’re into analysing great runners in their youth. Or just scouting the standards if you’re racing the next year.
Nowadays junior boys hover around 4.1k, I just wasn’t sure if it was different in 1997.
Matthew W i do 400 and 800 so I ended up down there when I was seeing which years girls were allowed to run 400 (because the lack of 400 competition is annoying), and also because I was interested in how the 800m competition evolved over time and the usual times run in heats so i could find out what my chances of making the final were
Ella F I’m the same, I was studying all the past results for the xc to see where I’d place.
I don’t know why girls are a year offset to the guys for sprints, if everyone is able to run the 800/1500, why not the 400?
I hope you made the final, wether it was in the last few years or virtually this year.
Matthew W thanks, I did make the final last year :) But not being able to properly race 400 annoys me. Had this year not been cancelled (I chose not to do the virtual one) I might have considered finally doing 400 next year, but now i only have two years left, I'll stick with the 800.
I love your videos 👍
It was in 1997 I think when looking through the results pages of Athletics Weekly magazine when I first came across Mo Farah's name. I think he'd won an U-15 1500m. His name though read as Mohammed then. For some reason the name stuck with me whereas I don't think I'd have recalled any other name in the results section of that magazine at that time if they'd also have made it as big as Mo!
Good stuff!
G.O.A.T. in distance running
English schools cross country changes distance and location ever year with different courses so you can’t compare
Yeah, it's totally incomparable. Conditions can be completely different. And the distance isn't measured highly accurately either.
To prove your point:
In 2017 it was an undulating but not too muddy course in norwich, in 2018, it was in the middle of beast from the east in knee deep mud and steep hills in leeds (2019 was also leeds but not muddy) and in 2020 it was a flat, faster course in liverpool. I can at least vouch for 2017-18 and say that the courses change loads, I didn't do it in 19-20.
Ella F 2019 was so muddy as well!!
Joe Milton to be fair, every year was so muddy! (i think the mud wasn't quite as bad though from what I heard- I didn't do that year so i don't know)
@@ellaf3877 2019 was bad but it had nothing on 2018 cuz I'm pretty sure it snowed that year
From the looks of the not so clear list at 1:50 of this video, looks more like 15.42m than 15.12m
Regardless, good content man!
www.esaa.net/1997/xc1997.pdf
Yes, it's 15:42.
He definitely did win English Schools titles by huge distances though. I remember watching them at the time.
1.19 beast!!!
Its was really awsome
African runners are greatest,,,bekele,kipchoge,gebreselase
Awesome
All great distance runners had a world record or something close
I live with British Cross Country age groups (I live in Ireland ) and the junior boys is equivalent to 8th grade
I just clicked because of the thumbnail🤣🤣
haha! It's pronounced DAAAARby not DEEEERby. Cool video though!
Chris Thompson from the 2010 BUPA 10K is still going! He went out with Bekele in the Vitality Big Half this year!
I was a pretty good physicist,no Albert E,but amongst the top 1% for my generation,but THEN I met PROFESSOR ALBERTO SALAZAR, and not for Albert E,getting there I knew I could under his chemical approach to studying physics,I would have 20 Nobel Prizes!!
All his post 2011 titles should say ,'....the joint winners of the 5000m title is No Salazar
I believe the result from the XC School race was 15:42 (not 15:12) Just my observation - Nice upload!
Yes, that's correct.
www.esaa.net/1997/xc1997.pdf
seeing mo farah with hair is spooky man
The best racer in history
Always behind Kenenisa Bekele
Bekele was destroyed in 2012 he was way behind Mo
Going to point out that you just can't compare British schools CC championship races from one year to the next, they will have been totally different courses and most likely different distances, in different conditions, so the 2+ minute improvement likely wasn't that. Especially as all the times were roughly that different, it just demonstrated they aren't comparable races at all. That being said, I recognise, infact ran against at least one of the names in that list - 3rd placed Murphy ( there was more than one brother and they were from our neighbouring rival school, so I can't be certain which was which). None of us could come that close to them, and Mo beat them aged just 14!! Most runners in that line-up would have been at least 2 years older than him I believe, but it does depend on the age group entered.
Also yeah 15.42, not 15.12.
Otherwise love Mo, such a huge inspiration. I was lucky enough to be in the stadium for his 2012 Olympic medals and will never forget it.
There was two different Daniel Komen and the legendary Komen did not run 2010 aside of Farah or Kipchoge.
Legendary Komen just ran himself out of poverty and retired, those late 1990's World Records use to be highly prized and couple of them seems everlasting.
What's that song name 6:38
Bro the guy 2010 in Zürich was Daniel Jepchirchid Komen not mistaken with the legend Daniel Komen guys
What's surprising is that Mo had hair at one point.
Who thinks that they can predict the time my friend can run he is 12 years old and his pb in 10k is 37 minutes
The xc distance he ran at English schools was just over 5k
You’re a young unknown runner, running against the world record holder, and his time is over a minute faster than yours... That sounds like Billy Mills in the 1964 Olympic 10,000 meters, a race that many consider the greatest in Olympic history.
Yes, Farrah is definitely a remarkable athlete. His double gold in the 5,000 and 10,000 at both the 2012 and 2016 Olympics, along with his 6 World Championship golds, place him up with the all time greats. I was just pointing out that your lead in to this story is one that repeats itself in track and field.
Wait... There are more than one Bekele?
He still won the race ,so I suppose it doesn't matter,but I think 🤔that school race sheet where his name and finishing time were faded looks more like a faded 4 than a 1 to me which would make his time ⏲️ 15.42 rather than 15.12,
Like I said he still won , so happy days for that 👍, and actually if he won by less then, its even more impressive to see what he became, I think this is an even better note that even though he had God given talent, when he was younger he was still quite close to the others around him, so he REALISED HIMSELF, and I think as he grew that maybe it's his hard work and determination that gives him the edge on the competition, obviously fitness and preparation but knowing and working on all of his shortcomings and not leaving things to chance, over the years his dedication and meticulous prep work has translated itself transformed into performance and a glittering well deserved career that he has worked hard for(like a lot of other people who have natural talent and don't make what they could have , of it🤔? ) when they make people like him they are from a different of athletes like Michael Johnson, Chris Hoy, or Usain Bolt or Michael Phelps ,it's as if these people don't know how to lose,☝💯 especially when it counts,and ESPECIALLY in the big tournaments when there's gold on the line ,and Mo Farah is another one cut from that same cloth
Agree that the time looks like 15.42 rather than 15.12
"Mo Farah's INCREDIBLE Face That Forever Changed Running" Is what I read.
It seems that it's more like 15:42 the time he ran in 1997.
MO, hair, YES!!!
XC times in Britain aren’t very good indicators of actual ability as the courses are often incredibly muddy and hill compared to in America. Most of the time he gained between those two years was likely primarily down to differences in course
Random Guy yep, you can say that again! Definitely not a good indicator, for example at Loughborough (uk inter counties) this year in the 5.3k u17 girls race, people with 17 minute 5k times were running 20 minutes, I know people who were running 26+ minutes with 19-20minutes 5k times (I didn't run there, I still have ptsd from doing it as an u13.)
Mo Hairah
N.O.P.
No mention of Alberto?
Dang, was Sarah sponsored by the three strips at one point?
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1:45 you can read it's a 15.42 (not 15.12)
Mo Farah defo one of the all time greats
7:03 wasn’t Daniel komen already retired
That's a different Daniel Komen. Yes, you're right.
Add subtitles，Please..
Really great videos. Always..... BUT ffs the titles are so misleading. Stop over sensationalising everything. Let the quality of the narrative and the athlete get you your views. Don't succumb to click-bait... its a slippery slope.
i KNOW the man who coached him back then.Martim Mcdonough-in his 90s now -remarakable man
TRP: He's Capable of completely sprinting the final lap.
Me: What do you think they did the whole race. :P
What he is applying on his legs at 0:10
This clearly documents when he jumped on the gear, unfortunately. One doesn't magically fix finishing 6th and 7th like that against world class competition. They all do it, so it's an even playing field, I guess.
1:45 isn't it 15m47s instead of 15m12s?
Can you make a video about Paula Radcliffe?
How about 20 more videos on Hicham, Eliud, Kenninsa and Jakob?
Whilst I agree the results you located from the English Schools Cross Country race are very faded, Mo's time looks, to me, more like 15:48 than 15:12. Mind you, I should add that, as well as it being very faded, I also have awful eyesight.
His move to US and Salazar "programme". Very suspect, he was an average athlete beforehand.
He wasnt average at all. He had been ID'd from a young age. Complete nonsense
You complete muppet...
average? jus go 2 sleep
Farah's coach doping issues are a clue from his incredible achievements
prove it
@@mickphotos prove the opposite
@@davidv.a.8112 innocent until proved otherwise
@@mickphotos keep blind yourself
I thought the thumbnail was photoshopped 😂
04:04 he realized pane e acqua just didn't cut it against the east africans:p
I wonder under whose guidance he jumped to the elite of distance runners ? anyway, it was 15.42 not 15.12 in that junior race, a little better than Hutchins national girls record
how many world records?