Pretty awesome news - i think it's awesome when people who gain so much from the U.S. decide to become citizens -- best of luck ches!
www.runblogrun.com/2015/07/edward-cheserek-to-become-us-citizen-this-july-by-elliott-denman.html
Pretty awesome news - i think it's awesome when people who gain so much from the U.S. decide to become citizens -- best of luck ches!
www.runblogrun.com/2015/07/edward-cheserek-to-become-us-citizen-this-july-by-elliott-denman.html
I hope this thread doesn't become the typical LetsRun cesspool. I'm glad Ches has become a citizen, hopefully he will be another great runner for the U.S. that has decided to officially represent us.
interesting
Pumped to hear the news! He has been here for many years and I'm sure has a great understanding how lucky he is. I think he has more talent than anybody the US has ever had. We got Lagat passed his prime and we are getting Ches while he is still young. Should be a fun next few years if he can continue to improve!
Before the NOPe stuff I would have said Ches and Jenkins would be with Salazar, but after everything I don't know if they will give him any new athletes. With more information supposedly coming out it would be crazy to give him anybody.
Good luck Ches!!!!
Big fan of Cheserek and a big fan of this news.
This seems really fast though? Aren't there a ton of guys who have been here with wives and kids who are still waiting?
I'm pretty sure he's been trying for a while, so this is no surprise. At least he went to high school and college here and can speak the language passably. He's undoubtedly foreign, though. Running 50 miles to take the test that enabled him acceptance into an American school is a little different from our ways and will build his legend, but not in a way many U.S.-born citizens will relate to.
good luck to Ches - he should be a good addition to the country. He seems to be a good egg.
Probably the 10k next year?
will believe it when I see it
I don't believe anything Ches says
When he first arrived in the USA he told everyone he was an orphan - turned out not true
Said he never ran before he came to USA - not true had trained and raced in Kenya before coming to the USA
After his 1st steeple race in HS - said it was the 1st steeple he ever ran - not true he ran a few in Kenya before he came to USA
I'd cheer this much more if he hadn't imbibed the sit and kick ethos of his coach and his coach ex officio (Salazar having so much influence over the program). But he has won just about everything in the NCAA and it will be interesting to see what effect he has on the national scene in the Trials next year.
log on wrote:
will believe it when I see it
I don't believe anything Ches says
When he first arrived in the USA he told everyone he was an orphan - turned out not true
Said he never ran before he came to USA - not true had trained and raced in Kenya before coming to the USA
After his 1st steeple race in HS - said it was the 1st steeple he ever ran - not true he ran a few in Kenya before he came to USA
Funny - I remember the buzz when he came over and started doing 20 milers in Bernardsville months before running his first HS race and at very least points 2 and 3 were well known then as his pre-HS times were all over the message boards (incld steeple). Maybe he just has a very sarcastic sense of humor you weren't privy too..
0/10 You are trying to hard
pathetic troll wrote:
0/10 You are trying to hard
Dead serious. Deport the liar.
I don't care much about Cheserek either way, but Iwould support the OP's suggestion if it were extended to everyone -- citizenship applicants, naturalized citizens, born citizens, etc. -- anyone who lies is deported.
What do we do with all the American-born citizens that lie? Should we deport them as well? This country is going to look a lot like it did 10,000 years ago if we had to get rid of everyone that has ever told a lie. Chances are you will also be deported to whatever country is designated to except these liars you hate so much.
Andrewww wrote:
Pretty awesome news - i think it's awesome when people who gain so much from the U.S. decide to become citizens -- best of luck ches!
http://www.runblogrun.com/2015/07/edward-cheserek-to-become-us-citizen-this-july-by-elliott-denman.html
This isn't news.
log on wrote:
will believe it when I see it
I don't believe anything Ches says
When he first arrived in the USA he told everyone he was an orphan - turned out not true
Said he never ran before he came to USA - not true had trained and raced in Kenya before coming to the USA
After his 1st steeple race in HS - said it was the 1st steeple he ever ran - not true he ran a few in Kenya before he came to USA
Nobody cares. You don't even know him haha stop acting like you guys are friends or something. Where did he say this stuff? You have no proof...only the time that I wasted typing this.
he's a duck wrote:
pathetic troll wrote:0/10 You are trying to hard
Dead serious. Deport the liar.
Dead serious. Deport that illegal alien Mexican rapist who lives in San Francisco, but that offends the PC libtards.
That article is horribly written, but I guess the "news" is that he may apparently be getting close to having citizenship and that it may happen this month. His pursuit of citizenship has been publicly reported for years and was supposedly underway in 2013.
http://www.nj.com/hssports/blog/boyswintertrack/index.ssf/2013/01/edward_cheserek_of_st_benedicts_prep_named_gatorade_national_cross-country_runner_of_year.htmlHannon added the Cheserek is currently in the process of trying to becoming a U.S. citizen.
``It's a long process, but we're working hard to get it done,'' said Hannon. ``Edward's dream is to run for the U.S. in the Olympics one day.''
log on wrote:
will believe it when I see it
I don't believe anything Ches says
When he first arrived in the USA he told everyone he was an orphan - turned out not true
Said he never ran before he came to USA - not true had trained and raced in Kenya before coming to the USA
After his 1st steeple race in HS - said it was the 1st steeple he ever ran - not true he ran a few in Kenya before he came to USA
Nice try, but his story has been consistent from the start. He was a national champion in Kenya - including in the steeple - and he had a family. From November 2010 a few months after he arrived in the US:
Despite his trips over the mountain as a young boy, Edward didn’t start running competitively until the eighth grade, when he made his school team. He went on to win all the local school races for runners 19 and under at the Kenyan Junior Nationals Championships: the national high school 8-K cross-country championships, and the 5K (14:30), 10K (29:46) and 3K steeplechase (9:06).
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“I was told that Edward was the 10,000-meter-champion of the Rift Valley Province, and the headmaster of his high school said Edward lost days at school because of poverty and family problems,” Quinn said.
* * *
He admits to missing his family, but calls Coach Hannon “my guardian, my father” and said being around the team “makes me very happy.”
he's a duck wrote:
BS wrote:Funny - I remember the buzz when he came over and started doing 20 milers in Bernardsville months before running his first HS race and at very least points 2 and 3 were well known then as his pre-HS times were all over the message boards (incld steeple). Maybe he just has a very sarcastic sense of humor you weren't privy too..
No. He is just a liar, incapable of telling the truth. I just hope that this age-cheater grampa ches gets busted for his doping before he scams his way into becoming a US citizen. They should deport this fraud immediately.
Man you look silly now....
http://www.nj.com/hssports/blog/boyscrosscountry/index.ssf/2010/11/runner_from_kenya_thankful_for_once_in_a_lifetime_opportunity_at_st_benedicts.html