Get a move on ladies!

The mens 5000 metres was superb: the women’s 5000 metres was a total bore. It took decades for women’s middle distance running to become part of the Olympic programme. There was nothing longer than 400 until 1964 and after that gradually longer events were added.
However, at Athens and now at Beijing, women are proving beyond all doubt they do not deserve to have these events. The women are simply not competitive and have set new depths of utter Olympic boredom. Some laps in the 5000 metres were run in over 90 seconds. The finishing time was pathetic. Watching the race you could be forgiven for having a death wish. Compare this with the mens 5000 metres run by Bekele of Ethiopia in a world class time. Bekele had already won the 10 000 metres. What an athlete and how he dealt to those Kenyans swallowed up in his Beijing track dust.