Scorpion_runner wrote:
This is disappointing, and this is why he is still in the background of Hall. Hall did London twice by the time he was 25!
And then after Chicago he will do Boston. That will be three straight years without running a major international marathon.
We need another quality american male marathoner ASAP, so that we can have someone who is willing to run some overseas
marathon majors.
He just came off running a 2:06 marathon, and instead of opting to run Berlin, he chooses to run Chicago? It will be another sit and kick fest, and it is not that there is anything wrong with that, but the conspiracy theory it going to start flying for sure.
Is Nike protecting this guy, and keeping him away from marathon races that they can't control like Tokyo, London and Berlin?
Galen didn't even start his marathon career by the time he was 25. He was too busy getting an Olympic Silver medal in the 10k and running multiple American Records on the track. Plus, if Hall won Chicago you know he would be back to defend his title, but he didn't, did he? Oh, and where's Hall's Olympic medal in the marathon? Is it too far in the background?
When you win any WMM, they are going to pay a really big appearance fee for the defending champ. It almost looks embarrassing for the race organizers if you can't get your defending champ to come back unless there's some reasonable circumstance (Olympic year). Rupp is best off getting titles in NY and Boston. It would be really special if an American were to win all the WMM in the US. An American record would just be the icing on the cake. He already has a medal.