Good chance that there could be NO Americans in the 1500m in Bejing

I'm confused.

How are Lamong, Leo, and Lagat not American?

Your're an idiot.

American HA HA, below is your troll rating.

.005/10

I felt generous today.

I gree LONG LIVE TRUE USA RUNNING! Not these IMBREED AFRICANS.

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Lagat is an america. He's lived here for a very large portion of his life, speaks english, and has integrated into American culture.

Lomong is in the process of doing so. Leo the Lion has done so also.

They are Americans. If you want to complain maybe you should tell Webb and Wheating to run faster instead of bashing Lagat, Leo, and Lomong.

American?? HAHA!! wrote:

Imagine if Lagat, Lomong, and Manzano made the 1500m Olympic Team??

We'd have a mexican and two africans representing the "USA."

And I also find all the Webb bashing hilarious.

The guy opens the season with a 3:55 mile and all the sudden he's washed up. That must be nice to be so "washed up."

I have a sinking feeling that Lomong & Manzano will no make it out of the semi's--they may be peaking a little early.

You are the worst.

Don't know Lomong very well, but Manzano and Lagat are two of the classiest guys on the US distance scene. Just watch any interview with Lagat. He's thrilled to be an American. He loves it here. He's spent his entire adult life here. He's more of a true American than a racist bastard like you.

Stop rooting for Webb just because he's white. Root for him because he's the american record holder and has the raw potential to one day win a world championship medal.

That said, there is no way, in my opinion, that he's touching Manzano or Lagat at the trials. Probably not Lomong either. And it has nothing to do with his nationality or what he ran in high school. It has to do with the fact that Lagat just beat an international class field at Pre and Manzano made winning the entire NCAA 1500 look like a joke yesterday. Not to mention there are a whole horde of talented guys hovering just behind those two just waiting for an opportunity just like this...

Webb is good, and I'm sure he'll be back in a world or oly final one year. But that year is not this year.

By the way, people like you make me ashamed to be an American.

This thread is a joke. The TC is a fat white man living in Alabama with a Confederate flag hanging out of the window of his trailer. HurrahZ for white trash!

USA! USA! USA!

God does it really matter what they look like or where they were born as long as they can run and represent the US? Get a grip you guys.

American?? HAHA!! wrote:

Imagine if Lagat, Lomong, and Manzano made the 1500m Olympic Team??

We'd have a mexican and two africans representing the "USA."

I remember when idiots like you were predicting MEB-ABDI-and KHALID were going to be the three marathoners. How did that workout? Go Hall, Ritz and Sell.

There's an economist name Kjell Nordstrom. The guy's brilliant. Anyways, I was at a talk he gave earlier this year and made the point that while the United States is currently in an economic slowdown/downturn/recession/whatever, it's only short term, and the simple reason is how America isn't a nation in the sense that other countries are nations, but, rather, an idea.

Let me put it this way:

How difficult is it for an immigrant to become fully integrated in Swedish society - for him/her and his/her family to be totally considered Swedish? Three Generations. How about Japanese society? Most Japanese find this question to be silly. The answer is never. But, in the United States, it's a few years. Come here, work hard, gain your citizenship, and you're an American, no questions asked.

To get back to his point, it's this reason that the brightest minds will continue to come to American companies. Most people would consider Google to be truly an American institution, but how many realize that Sergey Brin was actually born in Moscow during the peak of the Cold War?

For God's sake, The Terminator is the Governor of California.

This is the true beauty of American society and the United States. It's an idea of a better life, fortune, success, and peace. If you come here legally, work hard, and follow the law, then you are welcome and, with the proper processing, an American - immediately, not in a generation, or three, or never.

Lagat, Mozano, and Lomong have just as much a right to be the United States' representatives at the Olympics in the 1500m as Alan Webb does - period, end of story.

Amen.

Also, you made a mistake in saying that Leo Manzano is not American. He may not have been born in the United States, but he was born in North America.

Bernard Lagat is AMERICAN.

Khalid Khannouchi is AMERICAN.

Lopez Lomong is AMERICAN.

Leo Manzano is AMERICAN.

DO YOU UNDERSTAND?

MAYEROFF wrote:

Bernard Lagat is NOT AMERICAN.

Khalid Khannouchi is NOT AMERICAN.

Lopez Lomong is NOT AMERICAN.

Leo Manzano is NOT AMERICAN.

DO YOU UNDERSTAND?

Yes--this was my original point.

Thank you for a adding KK to the list as well.

Do you want to include Meb and Abdi as well?

From the cheap seats wrote:

Do you want to include Meb and Abdi as well?

Yes.

And for the record--I love when Lomong was interviewed after some race this year and he said something about loving, "Field and Track."

I'm sure Lomong's "USA" chant would sound close to Borat's-- US and A!! US and A!! US and A!! US and A!! US and A!! US and A!! US and A!! US and A!!

BREAKING NEWS: They are going to be shooting a sequel to Coming to America--staring Lopez Lomon, Bernard Lagat, Manzano, Meb, and Abdi.

All of us track geeks should be pumped!

American?? HAHA!! wrote:

Imagine if Lagat, Lomong, and Manzano made the 1500m Olympic Team??

We'd have a mexican and two africans representing the "USA."

And I also find all the Webb bashing hilarious.

The guy opens the season with a 3:55 mile and all the sudden he's washed up. That must be nice to be so "washed up."

I have a sinking feeling that Lomong & Manzano will no make it out of the semi's--they may be peaking a little early.

there have been a lot of foreign born American athletes or non white runners. Alberto Salazar was born in Cuba, Frank Shorter was born in Germany, Pre's Mom was from Germany, Sydney Maree, and there are a lot more cool latino's :

Rudy Chapa, Doug Padilla, Jorge/Edwardo Torres, Franklyn Sanchez, German Fernandez, AJ Acosta, Leo Manzano, Jacob Hernandez, German Fernandez.

The thing is that the face of america is so diverse there is no longer a "stereotypical" american who is clean cut, we come from a host of different backgrounds

period, end of story.[/quote]

you defend openess with a closed view

scratch a liberal and underneath

closet totalitarian

amen

All of them CHOSE to live here; you are an American by some quirk of DNA. In some ways, I am more impressed by those who come to the US by choice than by the people born here. People who become citizens probably have more civics knowledge than most natural born US citizens.

Here is an idea: At age 18 everyone must take a citizenship test. If you were born here and do not pass, you get a green card and have to take a class. You then have to take an even harder test. If not, we pay for your way to another country that will take you.