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Craig Mottram

Contrast in styles: Gebrselassie beats Mottram

Posted by simon on 11/9/2006

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Austtralia's long-striding Craig Mottram is the only non-African who is not scared of the distance kings on road or track. This rare side-on footage is a great chance to study the contrasting styles of two of the greatest runners around. Mottram, six-foot-two, comes in the final lap of the 5,000m at the London GP in 2004 on equal footing with Ethiopian multi-world record-holder Haile Gebrselassie, but is already starting to lose form. Watch Gebrselassie kick hard but effortlessly to leave the Aussie floundering, simply by spinning his legs faster. Gebrselassie is barely five-foot-five. For style purists, the Ethiopian is a magnificent example of how to do everything right, yet he famously runs with a sllightly crooked left arm -- the result, he says, of his daily 10k runs to and from school as a child carrying a pile of books! Source: Motion Gallery.

Warped and twisted, but a good week

Posted by simon on 9/4/2007 on simon's blog

Marked as it was by another stunningly mediocre performance, this time in the Pearl Street Mile, and ending with a banged-up hip, knee and ankle from an evasive fall during a night-time run, how could this qualify as a good week? But it was, in a warped and twisted way.

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