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You are reporting the following post to the moderators for review and possible removal from the forum Poster: wanjiru Subject: RE: Tegenkamp Post 5000 Meters Comments Body: Hey, Teg. They are better than you. You weren't impatient. You raced well. You trained hard. Bekele trained hard. He is a better genetic specimen than you. Patience wouldn't have kept you in that race or gotten you in it. It's called 8:00, 59, 61, 60, 60, 53. Don't beat yourself up over not being able to do that. One person in the history of humankind can do that: KB. Those Kenyans ran incredibly to get medals. You are not as good as them right now. You will never probably be as good as them, but go ahead and try. Just don't cry about how the surges hurt you. Of course they did, because they can surge and hold it better than you. Remember that mile you ran in Wisconsin? Well KB would have beaten you with his closing mile today. Ok? Just say it: those guys are gods compared to you. You're a mortal when it comes to beating Bekele (unless he has a disaster). Americans, chill the hell out about not getting medals. How would you like to be put on a line with me (Sammy Wanjiru) or Kenny B and face the task of beating us. I'm proud of what Teg did to get in the final and how well he runs. I'm proud of Ritz and Hall and Sell and (gulp) Rupppp and Flanagan and many others. Find another country with white distance runners who had so many finalists, top-10's, A-standards and generally hard-working people. We are lucky to have what we have and need to stop being so stupid about medals. What if they gave points out to the top-15? Then we'd be praising all of our great competitors for their top finishes. This isn't 1972 and Frank Shorter, people. Yea, Shorter would have crushed Wanjiru today. He ran lots of 2:06's in 85 degree heat and humidity. This isn't Steve Spence. Hall and Ritz would have CRUSHED those guys today, like by several minutes. The competition is unbelievably good. UNBELIEVABLY good. Yea, we should have had 3 in front of Asbel Kiprop and Rachid Ramzi. Those guys aren't that good anyway. Yea, Wheating should have beat Alfred Yego for bronze even though Reed couldn't even do it and Kaki couldn't even make the final. Boo hoo, what a tragedy for the US. Jesus. I'm proud of the American competitors, and I'm impressed with the talents of the US and the world. Too much whining on this board and too much whining by stupid athletes who have every right to believe they're the best but need to get real sometimes. Hit the submit button below if you want us to review the post. If you feel this is urgent or want a reply, email us at letsrun@letsrun.com about the post and please include a link to the thread the post is on and what page number/post on that page it is
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