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@alexbronzini He's an MEK lobbyist

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@OldSchoolBoston @BPLBoston My family's jewelry store (Homer's). Thanks for sharing!

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@SenSchumer evil

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@CyclingWorlds @UCI_cycling @FFCyclisme @Dep_74 Terrible

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@USAmbUN shame.

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@tariqpanja nominative determinism

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@DLappartient @tourdepologne @UCI_cycling I hope you get a riders' strike, you useless leech

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@JeffDLowe she was only a replacement for the Road Race. She was always going to do the track.

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@emarko414 @LanterneRougeYT Congrats on all your HS success, but (1) the 800 is a completely different race, and (2) I think you can understand that hard pacing (and continuing on despite failing to drop) Josh Kerr is qualitatively different from your junior racing

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@emarko414 @LanterneRougeYT doing what Ingebrigten did, which was suboptimal

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@emarko414 @LanterneRougeYT So in your races you go straight to the front from the gun and absolutely hammer it? I doubt that. You have to be much better than everyone else to essentially rabbit the race and win. There's a big difference between sharing the pacing responsibilities or going from 1-2 laps and

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@thintallnasir @Furious_n_fast @LanterneRougeYT Cheptegei does have a good kick (I never argued otherwise), but my argument is it is his general fitness level/stamina (what we call strength in the US) is what makes him elite. Agree to disagree.

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@thintallnasir @Furious_n_fast @LanterneRougeYT Kick is more than just how fast you can run at the end of a race. Then you're really just talking about fitness because only the fittest guys will still have the reserves to do the fastest final lap. Bekele never had top end speed. He was just fitter.

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@thintallnasir @Furious_n_fast @LanterneRougeYT of distance events on the track. If you call this having a superior kick, then we have different definitions.

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@thintallnasir @Furious_n_fast @LanterneRougeYT Cheptegai is synonymous with strength running, not sit and kick. Sure, in championships he's not so dumb as to go to the front at the start and even split, but he wins non-rabbited races by being the strongest at the end—just like virtually any winner

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@thintallnasir @Furious_n_fast @LanterneRougeYT I disagree. When Barega is on he has a nasty kick.

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@Furious_n_fast @LanterneRougeYT I completely agree he wouldn't have expected this improvement from Hocker. I do always wonder when someone has enough left to kick as hard as hocker often does how much more potential he has in a really hard race.

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@Furious_n_fast @LanterneRougeYT You have to be much better than the competition to beat them the way Ingebrigten tried tonight, provided they don't have positioning problems, which they didn't. Look at how Cheptegei won the 10k. That's the easiest way to beat a field with better kickers.

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@Furious_n_fast @LanterneRougeYT Could have hit the wind with around 600-800 to go and wound it up from there