GALEN RUPP APPRECIATION THREAD

Just wait until rekrunner shows up!

Rupp looked so confident today. Put in some great miles and did plenty of the work. If he had sat on the back of the pack he would have easily been at least 3rd.

…..except he didn’t. Instead, a clean athlete not coached by a lifetime ban recipient gets to represent the country.

Justice prevails for once

Exactly. He has no idea what he was taking from AS and what it will do to his kids and his own health in the future. Bad move on his part. No common sense. And to let AS massage him. Wow.

Thank goodness. Rupp is a failure for AS and nike. Tarnished every runner that is affiliated with cheating nike. Phil with his FU money doesn't care.

doping cheater out

I'm so glad he finished without injury. He's not done and can now focus on Boston or New York for redemption.

His entire 2014 season, indoor and out, was amazing.

Jogging a 61 by himself in some random half marathon in December, 2015 to get his OTQ was fun to watch as well.

You absolute, top of the line, magical sky-fairy believing, loser. You effing, effing, effing, loser. Well done.

They all are cheating?

Last 800 in the London 10,000. I still go back and watch it.

sorry, but he fastest an american born CLEAN athlete can run are what you have seen with ryan hall, galen rupp, conner mantz, and clayton young.

young is showing he can run a hall-esque effort in the 2:05 range.

the great elite marathoners of the last ten years are flat out doping cheaters, no matter the country.

clean runners have a ceiling, pause and take a good look.

Rupp was compelling during his best years. He was a villain 50 weeks of the year but when he was great, he was great and gave us some fine performances on the global stage even if it all seemed...manufactured.

Mantz and Young also make Rupp look as cool as Miles Davis.

My favorite memory is how he didn’t go out partying after he set the American Record in the 5000 and drunk drive into a rock.

Well, these are all good except for #3 you don't know if he would have claimed the record, although the guy who does hold that record also claims "fastest marathon (2:04:56)" on his social media bio even though that 2:04:56 is on a course that's not record eligible and run with a massive tailwind.

Everybody except Matt Withrow.

I think Boston is too soon, he's probably beat up from that effort. I think there's a good chance he'll run New York

If any of you hating on Rupp who are so certain of his devilish nefariousness actually think Grant Fisher is clean, then I would urge you to think a bit more objectively. The drugs Fisher’s teammate and likely old coach was involved with are way more serious than anything salazar was ever involved with.

You think Nuguse and Ingebrigsten are using testosterone gel and inhalers? and what do you think the rest of the world is using to run 12:40’s and 2:01’s-2:02’s, L-carnitine?!

don’t be naive.

I appreciate Galen's effort today, he ran to make the team. He got dropped past the halfway mark, but finished the race. Not easy, that took guts, and resolve.

Whatever comes next, it's been a great career. The 2nd American Record in the 10,000 stands out. Rupp won, and also beat the great competitor Paul Tanui, who finished ahead of Galen in the 2103 and 2015 WC, as well as the Olympics. But in their fastest match in Eugene, Rupp kicked away with 800 to go.

The Oly medals runs weren't bad either. I will point out, the top 3 at Rio had the fancy shoes, not just Rupp.