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NothingNew wrote:

You didn't answer my question (not surprising), but I'll answer yours. Once again THE BARE FACTS is anything but. You don't necessarily "put your age down EACH and EVERY time you register for a new race". This is from the Dyestat article:

"she made an error on his year of birth, an error she says was a combination of the large number of siblings she has and a mistake she made converting the birthday Solomon provided from the Ethiopian calendar to the one commonly used in the United States. Naomi says that error, saddling Haile with a birth year of 1987 instead of 1990, was repeated on the entry for the half marathon in Austria, and again when Haile traveled to the United States to compete in the Hartford Half Marathon. In the case of the US race, the registration was completed on-line with Active.com, creating a member profile in the database which followed Solomon in successive races contested using the same registration company. A check of most of the Virginia and Washington D.C.-area road races Solomon entered in 2007 confirms that they currently use Active.com for race registration."

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stillmatic460 wrote:


you idiot i am from ethiopia i was born here but my parents were born there, i have been there over a handful of times so im pretty sure i know what i'm talking about, i would be calling myself and my family members clueless if i were assuming that,the gregorian calendar is confusing, the calendar still confuses me to this day if, his sister claims to have made an honest mistake then respect that because there is nothing you can do, his age has been investigated and they found no proof that he is 20 or older, so get over it and stop hating on the boy let him run and have the shot any other high schooler has.

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silly old fossil wrote:

you idiot i am from ethiopia i was born here but my parents were born there, (QUOTE)


Stillmatic460, you are NOT from Ethiopia....you are American (born & raised)....stop pretending to be something you are not. You should not disrespect who, and what, you are.....AMERICAN!!!!!!Shame on you!

I highly doubt you will emigrate there....Ethiopia.

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NothingNew wrote:

"she made an error on his year of birth, an error she says was a combination of the large number of siblings she has and a mistake she made converting the birthday Solomon provided from the Ethiopian calendar to the one commonly used in the United States. Naomi says that error, saddling Haile with a birth year of 1987 instead of 1990, was repeated on the entry for the half marathon in Austria, and again when Haile traveled to the United States to compete in the Hartford Half Marathon. In the case of the US race, the registration was completed on-line with Active.com, creating a member profile in the database which followed Solomon in successive races contested using the same registration company. A check of most of the Virginia and Washington D.C.-area road races Solomon entered in 2007 confirms that they currently use Active.com for race registration."

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AreYou Sure wrote:

I spoke to the AD at a meet. He'd personally been to the embassy twice at the point we talked.

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