front page of LRC--Brooks Johnson--(my father was coached by this guy, the most over-rated of all coaches)
IN FACT there are numerous "boy scouts" and "girl scouts" on the premiere podiums of human accomplishment-
how about: Neil Armstrong, Steve Cram, Edmund Hillary, Roger Bannister, Frank Shorter...i could go on.
what Brooks Johnson implicates are those who never actually acheive top podium (but merely come somewhat close, just as Suzy Favor Wong (i'm a ho') Hamilton did)
AS
Brooks Johnson was never a world class coach, so too he makes second class statements excusing second class behaviour from second class athletes...