Wow. Galen Rupp actually gave a good interview. What did I just watch?

Pretty good and a nice improvement over his past, guarded interviews.

This reminds me of how Tom Brady is now better at interviews and public relations after he got away from Bill Belichick.

He seems likeable and understands what he does- it is hard to relate to many people who 'just run'. He answered the questions normally in my opinion. Being interviewed is tough, especially if the interviewer does not know much about the sport.

This is a common false belief about investigative journalism that the "hard question" is how you determine the truth. In actuality, you cultivate sources, find documents, do background research, and so forth, and then you demonstrate the distance between the canned or evasive answers, and the doping program or whatever.

His interview at the finish line was much better than usual too.

You're right, no one ever talks about this

I think he was just on guard during his prime years. This video shows who he really is. This was always there. Now he can just relax and be himself with his career in twilight years. I have nothing against Galen except his possible taint with Salazar.

Look how much healthier he looks now compared to ...

And he learned how to maintain eye contact when talking to someone.

I wonder when and why he ran 35 miles. That's the only thing we didn't already know. As usual, he won't give away the slightest detail about his training or current fitness level.

i don't think he was socialized at all in hs, college etc. he's probably happier now, alsal struck me as a sadomasochist type

It's like there wasn't a 5 year investigation that resulted in "ZERO athletes gaining a competitive advantage," and ZERO athletes banned. AlSal is gone. I'm not sure what else you want at this point.

Helps having a professional interviewing you. Not a LetsRun jamoke in the mixed zone after a race.

Actually Galen was more likely to hug people from behind, never do any of the work, clip their heels and piss them off. #FACTS

You do realize that Jay Cutler is statistically your best QB of all time, right? I understand he doesn't have the moxie of Luckman or Mcmahon, but he blows those geezer's doors off with a football in one hand and a dart in the other

For realz. McMahon was the definition of average and had the fortune of the one of the greatest defenses of all time and Walter Payton. All in an era when defense and running backs were the keys to a dominate team.

Cool headband and punky QB act though.

I thought it was clear that my response was sarcastic but I guess not

Galen was at a Dick’s Sporting Goods event last year and they did a quick Q&A. None of the questions were pre-screened, and he was very personable. Quite normal and talked easily…

I actually thought he displayed some real wisdom here, which surprised me. The idea of just focusing on individual lampposts to knock the race out piece by piece seems totally on the money to me.

DFW’s review of Tracy Austin’s autobiography makes the same point; the singular thing about the best athletes is that they can ‘see ball, hit ball’ under all the pressure in the world.

Really! Why haven't I heard about this until now?