CASEY COMBEST WAS FRAMED

Hey dude, read the article. First off, its many months old, referring to indoors. Second, it seems like Combest's issues are unrelated to racial discrimination, but his own private life which is his own business. He openly admits twice that college wasn't for him, and he didn't have a whole lot of desire for academic pursuits. That's fine, but when your resume is only JUCO and 2.5 years old, you're not going to get an invite. I wish Combest the best, and think he is incredibly gifted, he could be the fastest white kid on earth -- but when you drop track for a while, you have to start at the bottom. Prefontaine isn't going to invite him if he doesn't have any recent fast times. He can get these pretty easily by competing at local USATF association meets. With an automatically timed race, that's a legit qualifier for USATF nationals, and away we go. He doesn't need a big meet to get back in the mix -- considering how fast he is he could do it all by himself.

It would be awesome to see Casey rip up the track next year. In fact, I'll be on the record that if needs to find a meet for a qualifier, I'll let him sleep on my couch in Boston and he can run the 60m at my club's automatically timed indoor invite.

Caveat emptor though, if I'm not mistaken, while he is a great 55-60 man, the 100 is good, but the 200 is not as great. Short bursts of speed do not = big sponsorship.

Furthermore, considering most of the meet directors are Caucasian, there is nothing they would love more than a white kid coming to their meets and kicking butt.

If you would read the article, the guy did have a scholarship and failed to qualify to even attend KY. Maybe, just maybe, this is not a case of racism. Perhaps Casey Combest never ran at Kentucky because he failed English- which is his own fault. Maybe he didn't do anything at the college level because he dropped out of college. Who forced him to drop out? Maybe he didn't get a contract with Nike because he quit running. Do you know why Gatlin got a scholarship and a contract? Because he is fast as hell. Who is faster right now? Combest or Gatlin? Who won more NCAA titles? Maybe that is why Gatlin got a scholarship and a contract. Combest did drugs- you think that may have contributed to his lack of success? He felt intimidated and pressure to do well as white athlete competing in an event dominated by African Americans. That is HIS problem. Nobody else can change the way he feels, except for him. This case has NOTHING to do with racism and EVERYTHING to do with a guy who was too weak to be successful. Get a life man. More importantly, stop being so ignorant. I don't know, maybe using blacks as an excuse is the only way that you can justify sucking so bad.

Combest is working in a factory and not intrested in running. He hasn't trained in awile.

We got that dumbass Casey Combest to admit to drugs that we found in his car--we don't want any whiteys getting in our way!!!! He has to admit to drug use or we will put him in jail. This keeps us from having to invite him to any meets or giving him a lucrative contract--we are saving tax payers millions!!!! We just changed that phone number you gave into a fax number, dumbass.

By the way, Ryan Shay did NOT get hit by a car on accident--but what are you idiots gonna do about it? We are slowly poisoning Webb right now--but there is nothing that you whiteys can do about it. We poison everyone with monosodium glutamate MSG and who can stop us?

The drug thing is a lame excuse for sure. Little doubt that the government did frame Casey. They are good at doing shit like that.

The only reason Casey Combest doesn't get invited to meets is because he is white and he could easily kick Mo Green" and Tim Montgomery's butts.

Wejo's father could very easily rectify this situation.

Indeed, Jason could easily get Casey Combest into the Prefontaine Classic too. Is there are more marxist hater of white people on letsrun? I don't think so.

Clearly the racist shit is just plain stupid. I won't even comment on that.

I hope this dude comes back. I remember watching him at the Indoor HS national meet, not knowing who he was, and just seeing this white kid warming up doing some bounce-hops. I have NEVER seen anything like it. He was bouncing to the friggin' roof. That is barely an exaggeration. Like I said, this was before I even knew if he was a star or not. But I took one look at those warm-up hops and said "holy crap, this kids has explosive spring in his legs like NO ONE I have ever witnessed, black or white." Sometimes a runner's talent is just that apparent. He is/was one in a million. Let's hope he returns.

Hmmmmm if it isn't racism then what is it? Should we call a spade a spade or a club? Didn't the government do a good job of framing James Earl Ray and covering up the assignation of JFK? I thought they did a splendid job. The best job they did was covering the fact that Hitler was a zionist Jew. People actually thing Mein Kampf was written by him--that's a luagh--it was written by my jewish brothers. But white people are so ignorant that they can't accept fact from their fairy tales--it doesn't matter who tells the truth nobody is going to believe it.

you wrote:"Furthermore, considering most of the meet directors are Caucasian, there is nothing they would love more than a white kid coming to their meets and kicking butt."

I don't know many meet directors, but, I would think that statement is not true.

Why would a race director care what shade of skin an entrant has?

I read this article about Mr. Combest thinking....My God will some company or shoe company or SOMEBODY with half-a-brain put a few dollars behind this guy? I would hope so.

Yeah, if Combest was black, they'd let him slide. To say that black guys aren't cut extra slack is the pinnacle of being disingenuous.

Hitler wasn't a zionist. He may have been battling zionists (better known to college students as 'communists' and 'bolshevists' - but look at who they were), and in a roundabout way, ended up helping them, with their getting massive sympathy after the war. But he wasn't a zionist. He wasn't a runner either. You post the same goofy crap on other sites, I've seen it.

i never heard of casey combest until recently, and everything i have seen or heard about him point to one thing: he would run the black off of any competitor but due to increasing racial tension and un healthy attitudes toward caucasian athletes. drugging africans and putting them on pedestals is no sport worthy of acknowledging. the drug wrap is completely bogus and we all know it. yeah, marijuana is sucha performance enhancing drug. get real. let this man run and prove to the world he is a supreme individual and feirce on the competition. we all know he was born to run, not bred for strong work in the fields like his competitors.

Media directors are under pressure from the media like everyone else in sports. The media doesn't want white Americans to excel in too many areas. That's the way it is right now. This is not the board to go into the reasons behind this. (yeah, we can hear the cries from the brainwashed already, making fun of conspiracy talk, or screaming anti-semitism - as if anyone can define that anymore - or some other lame PC scream to drown out the truth) If you don't think that most white kids have been brainwashed (here and in Europe) into thinking they can't compete with non-whites in many sports, then you've been hiding under a rock. Blacks have more talent on average, but the numbers we see are entirely artificial due to low or a lack of participation by whites. But, in the minds of PC brainwashed youth today, only whites are bad, only 'minorities' are discriminated against.

does anyone have any more info on casey combest? he sounds very interesting regardless of the "cover up." anyone know of any sites regarding his recent race?

if casey combest was framed, why would he cop to the drug charges in an interview with a newspaper?

http://www.courier-journal.com/cjsports/news2003/02/17/sp021703s367746.htm

The irony of all this is that Combest is actually black. His parents pretty much look white, but in the earlier generations, there was a lot of race-mixing going on. I'd say he's 30-40 percent black, maybe more. Plus he's got some Hopi Indian blood in him. That explains ... well, I think it's obvious ...

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Hopi are endurance trail runners not sprinters.

whitey wrote:

The irony of all this is that Combest is actually black. His parents pretty much look white, but in the earlier generations, there was a lot of race-mixing going on. I'd say he's 30-40 percent black, maybe more. Plus he's got some Hopi Indian blood in him. That explains ... well, I think it's obvious ...