Galen isn't doing interviews

haha..dude..your fanboy'ing so hard..I hope Galen at least texts you back from time to time

John Utah wrote:

broken arrow wrote:

Exactly, it shows your true character. It is Real easy to do an interview when you win, but when things go wrong and you have a bad day and you are still cordial and do an interview it speaks volumes about who you are. Shalane was of course disappointed but explained what happened and will now move on, she did not run and hide. I hope she runs another marathon and has a positive result before she transitions into the next phase of her career.

Guess who doesn’t need your approval?

It has nothing to do with my approval, just stating the facts regarding a persons character. When you can no longer run from point A to point B really fast, it is your character that you are judged on. Nobody cans at that point how fast you ran in your youth many years ago.

broken arrow wrote:

John Utah wrote:

Guess who doesn’t need your approval?

It has nothing to do with my approval, just stating the facts regarding a persons character. When you can no longer run from point A to point B really fast, it is your character that you are judged on. Nobody cans at that point how fast you ran in your youth many years ago.

Ok, your opinion has been noted. Why would Rupp care what you think? He cares what his family thinks, what his close friends think, but why on earth would he care about what you think? You are not the judge of his character. You are just an internet dude with an opinion.

He has his priorities right.

Haha. Haters gonna hate. Haters are filled with hate and will post endlessly on how much they hate

Plenty of other sports where an athlete in Galen's position avoiding the media would be called out, really not debatable

just bad for our sport...... wrote:

Agree 100% wrote:

+100

The only thing worse would be some dude with a letsrun shirt coming toward you with a pad and pencil.

More like a pad and crayon.

John Utah wrote:

broken arrow wrote:

It has nothing to do with my approval, just stating the facts regarding a persons character. When you can no longer run from point A to point B really fast, it is your character that you are judged on. Nobody cans at that point how fast you ran in your youth many years ago.

Ok, your opinion has been noted. Why would Rupp care what you think? He cares what his family thinks, what his close friends think, but why on earth would he care about what you think? You are not the judge of his character. You are just an internet dude with an opinion.

He has his priorities right.

You’re right.

Only sad people need people to behave like celebrities.

Apophis99 wrote:

just bad for our sport...... wrote:

The only thing worse would be some dude with a letsrun shirt coming toward you with a pad and pencil.

More like a pad and crayon.

Except Gault**

He does fine work.

John Utah wrote:

Not sure why you cannot cope with people who have different viewpoints than your own.

Says the guy who is making a point of responding to each and every critic of Galen Rupp. 9.98/10 on the unintentional irony scale.

Rupp is the one who can't handle adversity. He talks to the press and vaguely press-like entities when life is good (sometimes) and avoids it when it's not.

I realize that you have overt mental problems and are probably unemployable, but I don't feel sorry for you, because you inconvenience everyone else, that goes for anyone who lives on the dole while spending all day spewing nonsense online. How's that for my supposedly liberal take on the world?

John Utah wrote:

broken arrow wrote:

It has nothing to do with my approval, just stating the facts regarding a persons character. When you can no longer run from point A to point B really fast, it is your character that you are judged on. Nobody cans at that point how fast you ran in your youth many years ago.

Ok, your opinion has been noted. Why would Rupp care what you think? He cares what his family thinks, what his close friends think, but why on earth would he care about what you think? You are not the judge of his character. You are just an internet dude with an opinion.

He has his priorities right.

One last time. This has zero to do with me or my opinion. People who are at the top of their sport are getting paid a lot of money to do what they are doing. With that said if they want to be perceived as a spoiled brat who is who only approachable when things go their way that is fine, but they will be judged by that. A true champion in any sport is cordial and approachable whether they win or loose. End of story.

At least for John Utah he has a place to talk about Galen being a poor loser, there aren't many places outside of LetsRun that know who he is or care

SloweRyan wrote:

At least for John Utah he has a place to talk about Galen being a poor loser, there aren't many places outside of LetsRun that know who he is or care

I'm jealous of them

Picture of Flotrack's Crappy Character wrote:

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None of the DNF's are invited to the press conference and should not be. Its for the winners and placers, thats the news not the DNF's.

Yes, I would guess most of the elite DNF's are in a bad mood, most people would be and would want to get the hell out of there.

John Utah wrote:

John Utah with a Middle School crush wrote:

haha..dude..your fanboy'ing so hard..I hope Galen at least texts you back from time to time

Haha. Haters gonna hate. Haters are filled with hate and will post endlessly on how much they hate

Hate is saying unreasonable comments just to have a voice heard.. I'll post it again, and I am glad others see the point..only in running would quitting an event with no serious injury other than bruised ego be considered an honorable, respectable move. I was cheering for Rupp at Rio, even among a lot of media scrutiny, his resume speaks for itself and I respect that. On 4/16/18 though, when it got tough as nails out there, the mental breakdown showed, idk how that's hating and not stating the facts we all saw. This move puts the NOP in even more shade.. *awaiting fanboy attack from Agent Utah*

Who gives a $hit about being likeable to you "wanna be's". Dude is "doing him" and nothing more. He doesn't owe you nobodies a damn thing.

And spare me the pontificating on character when I've noticed many on this board share that they voted for Donald Trump.

I'm pretty sure 95% percent of you keyboard warriors are nothing more than 5' 7", 125lb douce bags anyway.

Vulcan wrote:

Who gives a $hit about being likeable to you "wanna be's". Dude is "doing him" and nothing more. He doesn't owe you nobodies a damn thing.

And spare me the pontificating on character when I've noticed many on this board share that they voted for Donald Trump.

I'm pretty sure 95% percent of you keyboard warriors are nothing more than 5' 7", 125lb douce bags anyway.

It would be nice if the most talented American distance runner had an inkling of class and sportsmanship, just a touch of it, a tad. In his defense nobody outside of Letsrun cares about him or knows who he is so it doesn't really matter, but just to put things in perspective Bill Belichick has won 5 Super Bowl's and the entire Boston sports media is going on month 4 of non stop killing him for failing to address benching Malcolm Butler. Galen doesn't perform and he disappears, unlike nearly every other notable American distance runner male or female, he has no accountability and in the world of professional sports it is fair to expect some.

If Rupp had an inkling of class and/or sportsmanship he wouldn't be running for NOP. That team is seriously lacking in both.

bad loser wrote:

John Utah wrote:

Looks like he's doing everything right. Getting paid big bucks to run for a living. Solid family life. Winning medals at the Olympics. Dude has it dialed in. The fact that you (and people like you) don't like him is just an extra benefit I would think. A cherry on top.

Rupp is a bad loser, just like Ronda Rousey is a bad loser. It's an unattractive quality. It's weakness. People respect those who don't run away anytime things don't go their way.

Compare how Rupp and Ronda handled setbacks to how Shalane handled things today (or Conor McGregor after losing to Nate Diaz). Did interviews and answered questions. Rupp did what he always does when things go poorly. He disappeared.

So what? Some people do interviews all the time, Rupp doesn’t. Everyone is different. Let the kid be.

John Utah wrote:

broken arrow wrote:

It has nothing to do with my approval, just stating the facts regarding a persons character. When you can no longer run from point A to point B really fast, it is your character that you are judged on. Nobody cans at that point how fast you ran in your youth many years ago.

Ok, your opinion has been noted. Why would Rupp care what you think? He cares what his family thinks, what his close friends think, but why on earth would he care about what you think? You are not the judge of his character. You are just an internet dude with an opinion.

He has his priorities right.

John, you just delivered the knock out punch! You are mopping the floor with these guys.