Is there any pride in having a paid for runner winning in your jersey?
Is there any pride in having a paid for runner winning in your jersey?
Bahrain is a desert. There won't be a day this week it won't get over 100F. It won't drop below 87. These are very poor running conditions. The conditions in Bahrain and other desert countries make very few people want to take up competitive running and even fewer are able to train to hit the worlds or olympic standards. If you have no athletes to enter or only athletes who have run like an 11 second 100, why not give someone else a chance? If Bahrain or Qatar had a homegrown marathoner running sub 2:10, they'd prob jump at the chance to enter him or her, but you have to be pragmatic about these things. Better to offer citizenship to someone training in another country than have no representation in an event at all.
What about Turkey? Not a desert. And I still don't get how having someone who lives and trains in another country and doesn't even speak your language can be a source for national pride. The swedes and Aregawi come to mind.
RIP: D3 All-American Frank Csorba - who ran 13:56 in March - dead
RENATO can you talk about the preparation of Emile Cairess 2:06
Running for Bowerman Track Club used to be cool now its embarrassing
Great interview with Steve Cram - says Jakob has no chance of WRs this year
Hats off to my dad. He just ran a 1:42 Half Marathon and turns 75 in 2 months!