Where will he go now? Continue coaching at his present school or look for opportunities elsewhere?
Where will he go now? Continue coaching at his present school or look for opportunities elsewhere?
Not retired. Just a ploy.
It's been clear for a long time he was having trouble coming back, but I guess this makes it official.
He was a great runner and an inspiration. I agree with the description of his 10000m AR as the Billy Mills moment of the 21st century.
f@ct check wrote:
Boffin wrote:American records at 5000m and 10000m, a bunch of NCAA titles, 2 Footlocker titles, and all you can dwell on is one random race where he fell?
Actually only held the 10,000m American record and one Footlocker title in a race with a 21 second margin of victory (best ever at the meet).
You are right - my bad. Still, regarding the 5000m record, as far as I'm concerned, Chris Solinsky is the fastest American so far (not to take anything away from Lagat, who is a great runner and fine citizen by all accounts - but I just don't see his times as "American records".) Note: I realize that nobody asked me or cares what I think about the AR, so no need to flame.
Hard not to compare and contrast his career to someone like Rupp and ask "what if"...
The 10K race was great, but "bully mills moment"??
Come on
That race brought tears to my eyes when I watched it a few months ago. I literally have the exact same dimensions as solinsky and he was such an ispiration to me because of that.
The letter why wrote:
The 10K race was great, but "bully mills moment"??
Come on
All I can say is that's what it felt like to me, watching it live on Flotrack. I'm not old enough to remember the Tokyo Olympics, but to me it was the same kind of moment.
Gatorkid5 wrote:
Where will he go now? Continue coaching at his present school or look for opportunities elsewhere?
Maybe he's had a job offer that's going to require his full time attention? Wisconsin could bring him in to try and stop the slide. Michigan had success bringing in a former great in Kevin Sullivan.
LetsRun.com wrote:
We've written an article about his great career. The first post now links to it or you can find it here:
http://www.letsrun.com/news/2016/04/chris-solinsky-retires-rank-five-best-moments-career-sub-2700-dominant-foot-locker-title-epic-2011-usa-5000/
Nicely researched and written, LetsRun - a high-quality article! Thanks!!
LetsRun.com wrote:
We've written an article about his great career. The first post now links to it or you can find it here:
http://www.letsrun.com/news/2016/04/chris-solinsky-retires-rank-five-best-moments-career-sub-2700-dominant-foot-locker-title-epic-2011-usa-5000/
Comparing his 10k to that of Billy Mills...Were you alive or have at least studied your running history to understand who and what Mills did?
areusure? wrote:
LetsRun.com wrote:We've written an article about his great career. The first post now links to it or you can find it here:
http://www.letsrun.com/news/2016/04/chris-solinsky-retires-rank-five-best-moments-career-sub-2700-dominant-foot-locker-title-epic-2011-usa-5000/Comparing his 10k to that of Billy Mills...Were you alive or have at least studied your running history to understand who and what Mills did?
I don't get it. These two things seem equally significant to me:
-Native American orphan raised on a reservation upsets the entire world to win Olympic gold.
-Pro runner for Bowerman Track Club wins 10000m race at Payton Jordan Invitational and gets the American record.
Samesies, right?
Maybe there is a little bit of hyperbole in the Billy Mills comparison, but in fairness, Solinsky was an afterthought in a 10000m race which he ended up winning in American record time. The focus was totally on Rupp's AR attempt: would he get it? Would he miss it? Solinsky stole the show in spectacular fashion. In that sense, it was a Mills-like performance.
However you want to rank Solinsky's performance historically, it was pretty freaking exciting.
Solinsky's 10000, to me, is a greater performance than Billy Mills' Olympic win. For one, he broke a huge barrier that a U.S. runner had never come close to running before. Secondly, the time was 1 minute and 18 seconds better than anything Billy Mills ever ran, ranking Solinsky the third fastest in the world over 10000 during 2010, a much more competitive time period than the days when MIlls ran. Lastly, Solinsky had a better overall career, accomplishment wise, than Mills when taking into account high school, college, and professional running. To me, Solinsky's 10000 run, and his 5000's that summer, were more meaningful to United States running than Mills' Olympic run because it opened the door to U.S. born runners being competitive on the world level after over a decade of being dormant.
Can't compare times 50 plus years apart. Mills also held a WR. Olympic Gold is exponentially better than anything Solinsky did. He was fun to watch in 2010 though.
Mills never held the world record...he had the American record but not the world record.
Victorious88 wrote:
From Poland wrote:Actually that is unsurprising.
I don't owe nobody in my family nothin'
Oh yeah? I don't believe, that nobody, can not swear.
"Chris Solinsky would have broken 26:40 and 12:50 if it wasn't for his dog."
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SO TRUE!!!!
Also, he would be the current American Record holder at 5k rather than African/Kenyan Legat, if he hadn't been obviously pushed off the track by Alimirew during that certain Dimond League Race - it was total Bull$hit!!!!
The camera shot is blocked by the plants on the inside apparently but there are other angles that clearly show what actually happened to him. Merga was later punished as a consequence for instigating 'pushing' that season. Solinsky should have kicked Alimirew's his ass for that!!!! You could tell he was pissed off super big time - watch the race again.
Difference.
Mills travels the globe telling people that even if eveyone tells you that you are little and scrawny and cannot do it, you can still succeed.
Solinsky tries to remind everyone that he isn't little and scrawny.
it's too bad that as long as Walsh is the head coach for the W&M boys, they will never do anything significant like they used to...dude has no idea how to develop talent, even if he's got a distance legend as an assistant coach