It is so inspiring and wonderful to see him at the height of his powers! He ran those last 6 laps or so all alone and had to make up time! Yes, 3:59 for the last mile? ASTONISHING! The greatest runner ever and a great man. I saw him in Boston indoors a few years ago when he ran the fastest 3000 on U.S. soil and I cried like a baby.
@ 7:15. Imagine if that other runner hadn't moved slightly out of the way for Haile in the inner lane. It's the little things like this that could determine a WR or not!
He is breaking the world record for the fourth time in the 5,000m (Henglo 1994, Zurich 1995,1997 , and Helsinki 1998) after his compatriot Kenenisa Bekele broke the record at Hengelo in 2004, and still the record is held by Kenenisa for the last 15 years and counting..
Awesome run. Running a four minute mile at the end of a blistering first 3600 meters completely solo speaks to the brilliance of Gebreselassie as an athlete.
It just goe,s to show you how fantastic the two miles world record is because gebrselassie and bekele never ran under 8 minutes !!!!!!!! Komen did it twice and his 3000 will stand for many many years to come , fantastic athlete's !!!!!!!!!!!
The guy is simply the best, and I proved it right here. His pace setters dropped out early, and he was left running alone for the second half of the race. Running next to someone or behind someone is 100% easier than running alone, and yet he displayed comfortable strides the entire time (sorta). The announcers were totally writing him off, and he still pulled through.
I wanna see that video too, people seem to forget about Komen, he's the only to have run under 8 min on 2 miles, and he did it twice. plus neither El G, Haile or bekele has been able to beat 7'20'67 on 3000m, he is one of the greatest
Even today, almost 20 years later, nobody is running close to that speed. Gebrselassie, Bekele, Komen and Tergat were all better than the 5000 runners of today. I don't know why.
+pukulu It's a strategic race. You can get some very slow paced races which tends to be the trend these days, when Farah won 10,000m at the Olympics in 2012 the lead pack did 5,000m in 12:50... which is about 20 seconds faster than second place in this race
I wouldn't accuse Bekele, Gebrselassie, Komen or Tergat of doping, although it's not out of the question. Just a couple weeks ago in the 2016 olympics Almaz Ayana ran a time so fast in the 10000 meters that suspicions were immediately aroused, but Cheruiyat's time in that race was also hard to believe. Genzebe Dibaba's coach was detained due to blood doping allegations and could not be in Rio de Janeiro, so it appears that blood doping is not yet a thing of the past.
the commentators said there was no way he was going to get the WR, even with one lap to go. That just proves that A RACE IS NEVER OVER UNTIL IT IS OVER!!!
@@Stacie45 ---fast forward---Daniel Komen's 2 sub 8:00 2miles & 7:55 3200! Sub 4 -1 mile is rather common now a days-over 500 Americans so far............Bekele runs sub 4 on his 3rd 5000 mile!!!
The truth is slowly coming out, now that people are finally realizing the E. Africans have been able to avoid all out of season testing for three decades, unlike everyone else in the world. Jama Aden, Gabriele Rosa, Jos Hermens (Geb's main man) and the rest are a bunch of vile turds, doping athletes to the gills. Geb was one of the filthiest cheats of all time, an incredible shame because he was so popular for so long. And now it turns out it was all a lie. He was just a great responder to EPO and other drugs.
Dear Bemo: With hard work and once-in-a-generation talent like his, Haile did not need to dope, not to mention the environmental factors such as having to run every day to school and having had unlimited access to altitude for most of his life time. You're a sad man who denies arguably the greatest runner in history.
i done my first 5k yesterday for 8 years, well my first race for 8 years period. i was 16 then and a 800m runner, pb for that is 1.52 my time was 15,48 which i was very pleased with, gutted to come second. makes me want to get right bak into it. i was so tired though after, i cant belive he dont get annoyed being picked up at the end.
This is beyond inspirational. Despite the commentator (might be Seb Coe not sure) doubting him the entire time he did it. Just goes to show, that even the best have their skeptics and critics. I understand the announcer was just doing his job and it did seem unlikely at the time to run that fast for the last 3 laps but... 3:59.36 for the last 4 laps...whoa. And years later he's still putting up scary times in the Marathon...you're amazing Geb.
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@SMHS28 No one knows what kind of suffering he went through. I have no problem admitting I've never pushed myself this hard. And I think if we're all honest, we don't either. Hats off to Haile, tough as nails this man.
Amazing how Haile made the commentator eat his own words, he kept saying that a sub-4 minute mile was beyond him, glad Haile proved him wrong and made history
Does anyone know where I can watch Bekele's 5000 world record? I've searched youtube all up and down and the only vids I can find aren't enabled for the United States.
@Cmastamega That would be great, except for one thing: the current world record is 12:37.35 by Kenenisa Bekele. 12:38.54 would be the 2nd fastest of all time.
Yeah, Ritz has had a pretty good year this year with a whole new set of PBs- 5K, 10K, half marathon- a world bronze medal attached- and marathon (though ironically my neighbor took down his high school state meet record, 4:08.08 to 4:07.71 this year). I'm not sure how much more he'll improve, but his great breakthrough is an optimisitic sign for American distance running.
