European records don’t make sense anymore.

+1.

I actually thought it meant run on an European track.

What's your view on American sprinting?

HRH wrote:

I see Mo Farah broke the European indoor 5000 record yesterday.

As Farah is patently obviously an African, the classification European for record purposes has surely become invalid and meaningless.

Brilliant. Let's see HRH answer that one.

We're all Africans.

m767 wrote:

Brilliant. Let's see HRH answer that one.

HRH is just a pure racist (not saying this post is racist) so he likely thinks all black American sprinters are Africans too

HRH wrote:

I see Mo Farah broke the European indoor 5000 record yesterday.

As Farah is patently obviously an African, the classification European for record purposes has surely become invalid and meaningless.

Americans are (apart from a few native Americans) all immigrants. What's your point?

rekrunner wrote:

What's your view on American sprinting?

HRH wrote:

I see Mo Farah broke the European indoor 5000 record yesterday.

As Farah is patently obviously an African, the classification European for record purposes has surely become invalid and meaningless.

You need to spend more time on our homepage and twitter. One distinguishes between American-born and not American-born American.

By extension, Farah is not European-born European, which we need to point out in all headlines about Farah, I mean not European-born Farah.

rather than geographical itemization of records, we need to move to the new reality--

racial distinguishment of records.

race is the reality. nationality obviously has no meaning in our era.

THEY are not like US!!

And you know it's true.

Shamika wrote:

rather than geographical itemization of records, we need to move to the new reality--

racial distinguishment of records.

race is the reality. nationality obviously has no meaning in our era.

THEY are not like US!!

And you know it's true.

Black kids from the inner cities should get 10 seconds of their mile splits.

Shamika wrote:

rather than geographical itemization of records, we need to move to the new reality--

racial distinguishment of records.

race is the reality. nationality obviously has no meaning in our era.

THEY are not like US!!

And you know it's true.

Something that needs to be clarified to countless racist (and otherwise) LRC posters:

"Race" is not a tangible thing that can be measured. It is socially defined. A thousand years ago in Britain, there were "races" called Normans and Saxons. If you showed them to us side by side today, nobody would be able to tell you the difference. Even today, in other parts of the world, racial divisions are different. For example, Wayde Van Niekerk wouldn't be called black, white, or otherwise-he's "cape colored". Traits like skin color are genetic, but race is not, any more than ethnicity is.

Apart from a few original Homo sapiens, were ALL immigrants. Even the Native Americans.

Imagine if El Guerrouj moved to america and ran for the U.S instead of Morocco, but he still trained in africa, and held the american mile record because of that. Know take a Somali and have the same scenario except he moves to britian. That is Mo Farah. It's u0 to you if you think he's european, but in my opinion that criteria is someone born and raised in europe. I'm all for immigration, but not for the purpose of sport. That is just greedy and corrupt.

HRH wrote:

I see Mo Farah broke the European indoor 5000 record yesterday.

As Farah is patently obviously an African, the classification European for record purposes has surely become invalid and meaningless.

No he didn't.

He ran in the Sir Mo Special Entertainment Production.

Did you see Bouchart in that race. No. It was staged. He didn't want Bouchard upstaging him.

Pretty soon Mo will be a Lord.

Oh Lordy, Lordy Mo's a Lord

He got Butchy booted

That's the word

Mr. Rop stay behind me

Get on board

If you want your

Appearance fee doubled

We'll make it worth your trouble

To buy a new Ford.

Oh Lordy, Lordy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fioLxwKhMY4

It's a tough one this...

My personal belief is the line should be drawn based on place of birth, and where you were raised. For a European record you would have to be born in Europe, and raised here; at least for 'X' amount of years.

There should be nothing to stop Farah and the like running for Britain; he clearly considers himself British and was raised here; but I think European records should be reserved for those both, born AND raised in Europe.

Runners like Farah are not really the issue though; the real problem in my mind is seeing ex-kenyas running for Turkey (for example). It just makes a mockery of the competition. It needs to be made an awful lot more difficult to change nations (hasn't there been a recent move towards this?)

rojo said it wrote:

By extension, Farah is not European-born European, which we need to point out in all headlines about Farah, I mean not European-born Farah.

Why the hell not? He's been British since birth.

A mockery in the European Cross Country for example...

pr100 wrote:

HRH wrote:

I see Mo Farah broke the European indoor 5000 record yesterday.

As Farah is patently obviously an African, the classification European for record purposes has surely become invalid and meaningless.

Americans are (apart from a few native Americans) all immigrants. What's your point?

The Native Americans are immigrants too albeit from about 12,000 years ago (or less).

We all came out of Africa.

As for the original question: He holds citizenship in GB which is still considered a European nation. As for Mo, he moved to GB at age 8. About the same age Meb came to the US I think.

Jeff Wigand wrote:

rojo said it wrote:

By extension, Farah is not European-born European, which we need to point out in all headlines about Farah, I mean not European-born Farah.

Why the hell not? He's been British since birth.

He moved to GB when he (Mo) was 8. Although Dad is British. So I guess that gives him British citizenship.