The OP had a legitimate point although I believe RoJo's take on this situation is one of the best ones. I have run very few championship races on the track, one or two at hs league, one at state hs class c. I blew up in the last one, and I would have been happy to lose a deuce by 1:15 to the frosh who ended up winning. I guy you call AlSal btw, and I did use the story once with a new acqaintance who did t&f in hs himself, and he enjoyed the story; I am sure I skipped the blowup part.
I realize a prior poster introduced discracing self and country, but claiming people with legitimate if probably incorrect opinions about whether or not a sports competition rule are. "disgracing the human race" is not mere hyperbole. This is especially glaring when several days ago. RoJo praised Chelimo being a member of an organization responsible for causing over 100,000 deaths per year of neutral civilians in target countries, not to defend their own country but to enrich international corporations and affect US politics, while at the same time recruiting people to be enemies of USA and teaching them that targeting civilians is OK by US laws of war despite the Geneva Conventions, Kellogg Briand, etc.
Perhaps some here have some awareness of Olympic history? Off the top of your head, who can name every Olympic 10K champ in the 1916, 1940, and. 1944 Olympics, and why the number of champions is less than 3? 5 seconds to answer correctly from now, without peeking to the end.
Look it up if you do not know, kids have an excuse for being wrong but not sports fans with degrees from 4 year and longer colleges and universities.
Who remembers Munich 1972 and what happened between the Israelis and people in one of their target territories during the conduct of a hostile and illegal Israeli military operation? Sending Chelimo and his war buddies to Rio was the equivalent of Israel sending its gang of war buddies to Munich, a really stupid and dangerous idea as far as the IOC is concerned, although from the top US leadership standpoint, a counter-terrorist strike would have been a great opportunity to spin the propaganda into fooling a lot of people about who the real bad guys are. Fortunately in Munich, while a bunch of people got killed, although fortunately none of them were neutral non combatants,.