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Poster: european#
Subject: RE: Mottram: Another Message to the Americans
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15min wrote:

The guy who beat him at the mile about a month back? Or the one who beat him at 10k a little before that? Or Nick Symmonds, who beat the Olympic gold medalist, or Teg, who just set a new AR in the 2 mile, or Ryan Hall, with his half marathon and amazing marathon debut...


Timing is everything. Symmonds is a middle distance runner. Teg got easily handled at PRE, and struggled at US champs. Ryan Hall ran a fantastic half marathon in Jan, yes. A great debut marathon. But that has nothing to do with international TRACK competition, which is the object of discussion here. Where is your boy Ritz-he's a track specialist, right? Do you honestly believe Ritz could compete with that field in Ostrava? Honestly? Perhaps in the future, perhaps. But it takes guts to actually show up at these races first, and then real big balls to compete. I give credit to Blincoe - at least he showed up. (granted, it would be difficult for an American to show up in Ostrava after Nationals, but when was the last time you saw a top American distance athlete compete in a Golden League event? I'm sure Ritz has had the opportunity. Why not take it? In the end, Americans have to go to Europe if they want respect, if they want to compete on an international level, and when they have the opportunity, they turn it down. Why?
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