You are right. We dominate places 5,000-20,000. The point was that threads like this just create false senses of accomplishments and are ripe with excuse making.
You are right. We dominate places 5,000-20,000. The point was that threads like this just create false senses of accomplishments and are ripe with excuse making.
Dude, I think Solomon won. wrote:
Dude, I think Solomon won. Proof:
http://trackandfieldphoto.com/DisplayJpg.php?081213_1814_2964_RLM&next=1
That is the first pic I have seen from the race. Why aren't they wearing running gear? That uniform looks like something you would see on a 40 year old fat guy out jogging for fitness.
A fanny pack would make a nice accessory with that outfit.
Picture from 2007:
http://www.runwashington.com/news/oct07starkidsrpt.html#
"Only the top runners even got a glimpse of the winners coming out from there as they were going in. With $2,000 in prize money for the first three finishers, it was no surprise to see the prolific African runners dueling. Gurmessa Megerssa (known as Kumsa - his other name) continued his winning ways from last year winning handily in 24:06. Teen sensation Ezkay Sisay (#13) has been lighting up the track with three overall wins and three top three placings since Labor Day. Solomon Semunguse (#505), only a year older at twenty was a mere eyelash behind him for third place cash with a tying 24:33."
f*** pre
thank you dyestat for your false information that Jacub Zivek was seriously injured. He finished 6th.
Dunbar has gone on college visits to Portland,Oklahoma St, and Northern Arizona, and is working on visiting Oregon and Stanford. Haile has said he wants to go to college somewhere out west. He's said he would like to find an altitude school(Obvious choices are Colorado/NAU). It would be really interesting if they ended up as teamates at the same school. What a catch that would be for that lucky school.
What a joke wrote:
You are right. We dominate places 5,000-20,000. The point was that threads like this just create false senses of accomplishments and are ripe with excuse making.
Places 5,000-20,000 is more like it. I mean it's not like the US took 1st and 4th in the 5k at the last WCs and Rupp was 13th in the Olympic 10k and 11th in the WCs, or what the US has done in marathoning recently. Try Curbing your negativity and support your country for a change.
Again, the point made was that threads like this just create false senses of accomplishments and are ripe with excuse making.
Supporting your country is fine as long as your are not supporting lame excuses or enabling behavior.
A non white kid won a race today, face up to it.
We have become a country that does not wish to take responsibility for anything.
Does "bailout" ring any reminder bells for you?
What a joke wrote:
Again, the point made was that threads like this just create false senses of accomplishments and are ripe with excuse making.
Supporting your country is fine as long as your are not supporting lame excuses or enabling behavior.
A non white kid won a race today, face up to it.
We have become a country that does not wish to take responsibility for anything.
Does "bailout" ring any reminder bells for you?
Actually, in the end, the people that have created the PC (read: Marxist) climate that has people stop from voicing the honest truth has led to most of the ills in this country. A guy wrote on another thread that it's too bad people consider the truth "racist". A non-white adult, as in "has been an adult for several years" beat a field of teenagers. It has nothing to do with his talent per se. It has to do with the cowardice of so many Americans, and self-hate of those who try to justify it. The self haters would be screaming from the rooftops if some over-age competitor from Europe, really any over-age white person, had done the same thing.
I got you yesterday too wrote:
guygonemad wrote:I Like Dunbar....but the men's times were very slow....pass Footlocker finalist must be laughing!
and if Dunbar can't run 15:20 he don't deserve to win....or any runner....that is slowest group ever!
ps...I do not understand how Soloman got to run if you can't produce a birth certificate...whatever happen to Accountability!
It's PAST not passed you idiot. You wrote the same shit yesterday. Now go drink a Rupp and get your keystrokes right.
He also used "he don't deserve to win". Try "does not" or "doesn't".
It is racist. Just like all the crap laid on Obama not being a real American just because he was born in Kenya.
Don't blame the kid for running and winning. If you have issues take it up with Maryland or his high school.
Additionally, just because the kid looks older does not mean he really is that older. Alan Webb looked like he was 30 something in high school.
Umm... you really don't know that. I don't think racist is necessarily only when someone spews hate at other races, it's also when someone makes assumptions about the way certain races are treated. There's no way of knowing if a white person would have been treated differently for the same thing because it doesn't happen, but you decided you would take that as a given because of your preconceived notions. You think that people are happy about Solomon Haile? No one likes him. What makes you think it would be so much more outrageous if a white person did it?
What a joke wrote:
It is racist. Just like all the crap laid on Obama not being a real American just because he was born in Kenya.
Don't blame the kid for running and winning. If you have issues take it up with Maryland or his high school.
Additionally, just because the kid looks older does not mean he really is that older. Alan Webb looked like he was 30 something in high school.
Obama was not born in Kenya you stupid ass ... people that were not born in the United States are not allowed to be President .... he was born in Hawaii
GET INFORMED ... It's not about race, it's about age!
You are the ass as this was exactly my point.
People saying anything (without the facts) and soon everyone thinks and believes it.
Like Obama not having an American birth certificate or being a Muslim.
You don't know how old the kid is so stop acting like a stupid uniformed racist ass.
GET INFORMED ... Obama's not a Muslim ...
He's just a socialist who wants to destroy America and rape its children.
Congrats on the win Trevor! You are the true champ!
TRUTH MANGGG wrote:
Congrats on the win Trevor! You are the true champ!
First non-African! Hurray!
What a joke wrote:
You all are a joke. Letsrun is a joke. Forums like these bring our sport down.
You all make footlocker into such a overblown big deal, and when the white guy does not win you make crap up.
Distance running in the US is really, really, bad. These forums just create false expectations and certainly a false sense of accomplishment.
Doubt that Pre would have paid much attention to crap forums like this.
No, the real joke is that you think Pre would have made the Olympic team this year.
What a joke wrote:
Don't blame the kid for running and winning. If you have issues take it up with Maryland or his high school.
Solomon only pawn in game of life.
R. Blagojevich wrote:
The african man is a high school student, so he's in the same division. Eat it, american pussies.
go paint your face and chase some zebras over in ethiopia