Pic of solinsky low class brojos

I'm extremely disappointed. This is a low-class, low-blow to a dedicated athlete. I support both Rupp and Solinsky, and can even see how a rivalry would be good for the sport, but the triumph of one should NEVER be made into an occasion to belittle the other. This is the equivalent to a high school runner narrowly defeating another runner, then seeing his coach gloat about it to the defeated runner. Totally disrespectful and classless. I hope the saying is true: that many pros avoid LetsRun and its negativity like the plague.

Great job Letsrun!

Solinsky has turned into a crybaby!

Lack of class again. Just like trying to take away Blake's moment. Also like the Luchini thing. Half of the front page stuff is tabloid journalism at best. Grow up Brojos.

There's a longstanding rivalry going back to Old Europe between WASP people like Rupp and Eastern European half-Chinese people like Solinski. I also feel that we should not let their bad blood spill over to our shores. That's not what America is all about.

I am all for promoting healthy rivalries (which I think help everyone) but Rupp's performance does not detract from Solinsky's accomplishments. They are both great runners who will hopefully continue to improve in the years to come.

I think the Brojo's like the controversy which fuels interest but reading some of the hater's on these boards I cannot help but think that they fuel some of the vitriol.

Still, I do enjoy the site and no one can say that it does not have personality!

ByrneWolf wrote:

I am all for promoting healthy rivalries (which I think help everyone) but Rupp's performance does not detract from Solinsky's accomplishments. They are both great runners who will hopefully continue to improve in the years to come.

I think the Brojo's like the controversy which fuels interest but reading some of the hater's on these boards I cannot help but think that they fuel some of the vitriol.

Still, I do enjoy the site and no one can say that it does not have personality!

I can honestly say that I visit these boards far, far less now than I used to due to the low level of class. The bar keeps getting lower. I'd say I'm a bigger fan of Rupp than Sol simply because he seems to overcome all the doubters and haters again and again and again and because his consistency of performance and improvement in my opinion are unrivaled by US distance runners. That said, I appreciate this treatment of Sol no more than I appreciated the treatment of Rupp last year after Rupp went in with all the expectations and pressure, put in work and got trounced in the end by an amazing performance by Sol. Sol deserved praise then, but actually so did Rupp. Rupp did not deserve to be put down. Rupp deserves praise now, but Sol does not deserved to be tarnished.

They probably have a healthy rivalry built off respect for eachothers ability and achievements. The rivalry which is largely imagined by this site is not productive and doesn't seem to fall in line with the mission statement of the website.

If a quality website were to surface and bury this one, you certainly couldn't say they weren't warned. If I were Sol I would not give the Brojos the pleasure of my time unless they got on their knees and begged.

America the Beautiful wrote:

There's a longstanding rivalry going back to Old Europe between WASP people like Rupp and Eastern European half-Chinese people like Solinski. I also feel that we should not let their bad blood spill over to our shores. That's not what America is all about.

half-chinese?

Quit crying you f****** babies, it's just a damn picture.

funny wrote:

Quit crying you f****** babies, it's just a damn picture.

Quit crying you fucking baby, it's just people talking about a picture.

Absolutely disgraceful, which has become expected unfortunately. The brojos have no shame, no class, and no self-respect, and I think they've probably reached a point where they don't have any respect from anyone in the sport who knows of them. I don't know why anyone would be so eager to be hated and looked down on, but the brojos sure do love it.

Disrespectful? People around here need to sack up and have some self-confidence. I don't know Solinsky, but he probably couldn't care less what some lame forum throws up on their site. The fact that so many are bent out of shape about this reinforces the inferiority complex this entire sport has. Start your own lame forum and post whatever pics you want. And they do have a picture of Galen "The Cannibal" Rupp just below Solinsky. If I were you clowns I'd be bitching about how lame that pic makes Rupp look. On the other hand, it probably frames him exactly the way he wants to be portrayed...a delicate little flower with a matching outfit and accessories.

Very low indeed.

Notice the picture filename: It is named rupp2648b.png , not a filename with solinsky* or anything in it. How can a "rubb 26:49" expressed with the pictured content?

Could "freedom" be expressed with a picture of an executed Saddam Hussein?

Seems they had

http://www.letsrun.com/photos/2011/rupp2648.png

as a first version (crappy screenshot).

Then they thought "we can do worse".

And proved it.

funnier wrote:

funny wrote:

Quit crying you f****** babies, it's just a damn picture.

Quit crying you fucking baby, it's just people talking about a picture.

It more resembles whining then talking

We could put a pic of Rupp on the front with a big red X for losing the race?

Some crazy runner guy wrote:

Seriously guys WTF why would you do that?

QFE

It was an ignorant thing to do.

I have no doubt that things are done here purposely to create controversy, not because it honors the sport, but only because it drives traffic. It’s good to see there are so many supporters of the new wave of runners …. Like Rupp, Webb, Solinsky, Hall, Ritz, Lagat and Tegenkamp who have completely rewritten the record books in the last two years.

However, the moral hazard is that you will never know if a post on this site is honest or identity fraud (as most are). I don’t know if a post on this site is from a real person or an 18 year kid paid to pretend. I don’t think fraud was ever in the mind of a long distance runner.

I hope that there will be an alternative in the next few years.

I know everybody here is so fond of the Crossfitters, maybe you could take a page out of their forum book. If you sign up for an account at Crossfit.com forums I believe it has to be your real name which they actually do a check on to confirm it's a real person. Not that it couldn't be faked, but that's their culture. No anonymous bullshit, put up or shutup. If nothing else, that's one thing people here could learn from Crossfit.

It's funny how quickly the concept of fraud crept into this site. I can pretend I'm someone and drive business. And I can get paid for my fraud.

How can someone spend years of hard work and then give up all of those lessons? Just for money? And so the circle goes on and on.

Letsrun is sensationalist and a tabloid at best. However, there is no better site out there for all that is running, and the drama and controversy draws me in, even if it\'s classless. Until there is something better at least...