Rupp will run 2:09:12 for Silver tomorrow.

Ruppitup wrote:

A tactical race will be held Rupp goes with top 3 at mile 24 comes in silver with a sprint finish Ward can't hang and comes in 7th Meb 8th.

S.P.D C.S

Damn. A day before the Olympic Marathon. What is he thinking?!

It's not tomorrow numbnuts. It's Sunday morning. You don't know what you're talking about. What a goofball demented nutjob!

Ruppitup wrote:

A tactical race will be held Rupp goes with top 3 at mile 24 comes in silver with a sprint finish Ward can't hang and comes in 7th Meb 8th.

S.P.D C.S

Do what now? wrote:

Ruppitup wrote:

A tactical race will be held Rupp goes with top 3 at mile 24 comes in silver with a sprint finish Ward can't hang and comes in 7th Meb 8th.

S.P.D C.S

Damn. A day before the Olympic Marathon. What is he thinking?!

haha. he's going to be spent on Sunday!

Rupp will medal but it won't be until Sunday.

Ruppitup wrote:

Rupp will run 2:09:12 for Silver tomorrow.

S.P.D C.S

Who is "Silver" and why does he have Rupp running a 2:09 training run?

Is that his new coach? Or is that what they're calling Salazar now?

Do what now? wrote:

Ruppitup wrote:

A tactical race will be held Rupp goes with top 3 at mile 24 comes in silver with a sprint finish Ward can't hang and comes in 7th Meb 8th.

S.P.D C.S

Damn. A day before the Olympic Marathon. What is he thinking?!

LOL, a tactical solo race. That would be quite a spectacle!

putippuR wrote:

It's not tomorrow numbnuts. It's Sunday morning. You don't know what you're talking about. What a goofball demented nutjob!

Ruppitup wrote:

A tactical race will be held Rupp goes with top 3 at mile 24 comes in silver with a sprint finish Ward can't hang and comes in 7th Meb 8th.

S.P.D C.S

Fanboy is so blind with lust for Rupp he doesn't even know what day it is.

RUPP = ZERO MEDALS

He'll probably trip 3 other runners and be DQ'd.

Precisely. Since Americans always get preferential treatment, Rupp will be allowed to run his marathon solo, on the track, like the women's 4x100m relay team. But he'll do it the day before the actual marathon. If his time stands up, the medal is his!

Dragon Runner wrote:

Do what now? wrote:

Damn. A day before the Olympic Marathon. What is he thinking?!

LOL, a tactical solo race. That would be quite a spectacle!

+1

Solomon. wrote:

Precisely. Since Americans always get preferential treatment, Rupp will be allowed to run his marathon solo, on the track, like the women's 4x100m relay team. But he'll do it the day before the actual marathon. If his time stands up, the medal is his!

Dragon Runner wrote:

LOL, a tactical solo race. That would be quite a spectacle!

Ruppitup wrote:

Rupp will run 2:09:12

At the very least, it would be nice to see an American male finally run faster than Frank Shorter's 2:10:46 from 40 years ago!

Nope.

99% chance Rupp will win gold.

Book it.

If anyone's going to be running an intelligent tactical race it's going to be Meb and most likely Ward.

Guy makes one innocent mistake like sending runners to race on the wrong day and you guys are all over him.

Solomon. wrote:

Precisely. Since Americans always get preferential treatment, Rupp will be allowed to run his marathon solo, on the track, like the women's 4x100m relay team. But he'll do it the day before the actual marathon. If his time stands up, the medal is his!

Good theory, but wrong. Here are the 2 competing rumors-

1) Since he already knocked Farah to the track, but didn't get DQ'd, this is both his punishment for that infraction and a preemptive move to keep him from tripping others in the marathon.

2) Salazar petitioned successfully to have him run on Sun due to the forecast for higher pollen on Sun, less on Sat. Rupp is technically disabled due to allergies, so international disability act allowed this to happen. (and if Caster can run with men, Rupp can run by himself)

Yes! 3 Americans in top 10! That's awesome. I'm so glad Rupp got silver...that makes 2 now and very impressive. I didn't know this Ward but he must be good to beat Meb. Oh, who won and what was the winning time?

Congrats to Galen Rupp on winning his second silver medal. Good job USA

This was actually a strikingly accurate prediction other than the fact that in the sprint finish he couldn't catch 2nd and settled for 3rd. Nicejob OP.

Oh wow it says that Ward was actually 6th too, not 7th. Still a pretty spot on guess.

Yeah, and the final three medalists did break away. But it was a tad earlier than mile 24.

Still, better predictions than anything else I read out there. Especially for Ward. Awesome race there. Too bad Meb wasn't closer to OP's prediction as well.

Does anyone know what actually happened with Meb? Or was it flat out just a bad day?