I was looking at the world junior results today. I saw in the men's steeple that one young man ran 9:51. Another 9:24.
Those are joke times. It struck me that these guys probably qualified last spring, their coach told them "We need you for xc" so they went over their in base phase and embarrassed themselves and our country.
College coaches, please note, you should be ashamed of yourselves if this is the case. Maybe they had a bad race, that's why I left the names out.
But if you are going to let a young man represent the USA, then they need to focus on that and they should redshirt xc this year. Etiher that or decline the trip. I'd rather the $4,000 or whatever it must cost to go to China be spent on anti-doping.
- A patriotic american
PS. AJ nation should redshirt this fall but undoubtedly his college coach will probably only think about himself.