East African's Nearly perfect score (1-2-3-4-7) men's 10k

martalus wrote:

Yes, competition is good! Would you prefer socialist protectionism which allows local industries/runners to get complacent and sub-standard? Thing about the US car industry of the 70s

It just shows the US white dudes are intimidated. Times were lousy. Don't give us that heat excuse either. Guys from the 70's would have smoked this field things have gotten so bad.

Brazier Dairy Queen wrote:

martalus wrote:

Yes, competition is good! Would you prefer socialist protectionism which allows local industries/runners to get complacent and sub-standard? Thing about the US car industry of the 70s

It just shows the US white dudes are intimidated. Times were lousy. Don't give us that heat excuse either. Guys from the 70's would have smoked this field things have gotten so bad.

Lower quality than 70s, 80s, disinterest, intimidated or not, whatever, it doesnt matter. Trying to compensate by importing Kenyans is a lousy idea

End of story wrote:

When 95% of letsrinners are cheering for the East Africans and not Rupp that should put an end to the false narrative that LRC is racist.

In my opinion, they are more likeable and less shady than Rupp, so I base my decision on that.

Deport them somalians and kenyans so they wont take our medals from our white athletes

We should just give everyone a medal like they do in real races

Will there be anyone NOT of East African descent on the starting line for the 10,000 in London this summer? It's sure starting to look like it's going that way. If not this summer, in years to come?

Who is this stroker in 5th place?

So will the Kiwi guy who trains in Kenya going to be the only white guy at the world champs 10k?

At least Mead came up through our educational system. These US Army Africans came fresh from Africa after finding a loophole. Undermining our home distance prospects.

Troll rating 7/10 for bringing out most of the usually wackos to comment. But nobody seems to understand that the American car industry has gone steadily downhill since the introduction of Japanese imports. The average American car is a fraction as reliable as the average import. Detroit only tries to compete in the Light Truck area, which is tariffed.

martalus wrote:

Yes, competition is good! Would you prefer socialist protectionism which allows local industries/runners to get complacent and sub-standard? Thing about the US car industry of the 70s

What happened to the OP on this thread? Are the mods censoring free speech again?

You can't stop free speech! America got BLACKED in the 10k!

And it happened again in the chase...

Surely you guys can't support the fact that Kenyans are taking the places of the likes of Bayer and Cabral? These guys may be American citizens, but they're Kenyan in every other sense, and have found a loophole which allows them to compete for America.

You're all happy with this, yeah?

Brit Abroad wrote:

And it happened again in the chase...

Surely you guys can't support the fact that Kenyans are taking the places of the likes of Bayer and Cabral? These guys may be American citizens, but they're Kenyan in every other sense, and have found a loophole which allows them to compete for America.

You're all happy with this, yeah?

If enlisting in the military is a "loophole" than I'm very happy it exists. These guys are enlisting to serve and protect America and could someday end up in places in Iraq or Afghanistan. Happy they get the chance to compete and proud they're willing to serve.

Fastcraxk wrote:

Brit Abroad wrote:

And it happened again in the chase...

Surely you guys can't support the fact that Kenyans are taking the places of the likes of Bayer and Cabral? These guys may be American citizens, but they're Kenyan in every other sense, and have found a loophole which allows them to compete for America.

You're all happy with this, yeah?

If enlisting in the military is a "loophole" than I'm very happy it exists. These guys are enlisting to serve and protect America and could someday end up in places in Iraq or Afghanistan. Happy they get the chance to compete and proud they're willing to serve.

Bullshit. This is a loophole if there ever was one. If they were good enough to make the Kenyan national team (and not get screwed by AK, but that's another story) they would have stayed in Kenya. Gee, I wonder how many regular (non elite athlete) Kenyans are beating down doors to join the US Army?

I'm pretty sure the Kenyans in the WCAP program will never actually see combat duty overseas so yeah it's a pretty big loophole.

Barabbas wrote:

Fastcraxk wrote:

If enlisting in the military is a "loophole" than I'm very happy it exists. These guys are enlisting to serve and protect America and could someday end up in places in Iraq or Afghanistan. Happy they get the chance to compete and proud they're willing to serve.

Bullshit. This is a loophole if there ever was one. If they were good enough to make the Kenyan national team (and not get screwed by AK, but that's another story) they would have stayed in Kenya. Gee, I wonder how many regular (non elite athlete) Kenyans are beating down doors to join the US Army?

Truth!

Bump!