Anyone Else Sickened Seeing Rupp & Rowbury Now Commentators?

You’re right.

I might be in the minority, but I think Kara Goucher does a great job (most of the time.)

Rupp & Goucher would be my commentator picks - though if I remember right, there may be some bad blood between them.

Well we'll always have their abusive TUE lists, how many athletes do we get that?

But Rupp was using super-shoes in 2015 way before all the cool kids were doing it (because they didn't have them, for years)

Hard to believe we are 10 years into super-shoes now in a few months.

runningmagazine.ca

The lengthy list of vitamins, medications that two elites took before Rio - Canadian Running Magazine

Tim Huebsch

Fancy Bears released detailed information regarding the vitamins and medications that Shannon Rowbury and Galen Rupp consumed pre-Rio.

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To my surprise, Rupp is quite good.

You are right, of course, that I shouldn't speak for everyone. I just meant "we" in the sense of "in civil society" we don't usually use "disgust" to describe things like this.

For example, if Galen was at a party with us or on a run, we wouldn't use this kind of language or respond with the emotion of "disgust." If we got a chance to talk to him about what running for Alberto was like, we might tell him that it seems super sketchy and that after everything we've seen over the years, it is hard to believe anyone at the upper end of our sport.

But "we" would not corner him and put a finger in his chest to tell him that we are disgusted with his new gig as a TV announcer.

p.s. But your point is well taken that I shouldn't speak for others...

Yep. That is true. I upvoted you. I should also have been more clear because I was only thinking of the men (Shalane is clearly on his level as well).

In my mind, I think the difference between those guys/gals and Galen was that they mostly had a peak year or two in that decade. Galen was literally the 10x national champ and was competing at the highest level the whole time. Jager, I think, was closest to being at the top the whole time...

Rupp is great as a commentator. Been pleasantly surprised.

Rowbury wasn't on NYC was she?

Yes. Plus one of only 2 likely doping Americans on the leaked list.

Meh, that ship has sailed. Let it go. Whole new era.

Why can accusations be made against Rupp or Valby or Wiley? Whenever I even hint about Tuohy being suspicious, my thread gets deleted.

imagine if you created a post with positivity? you would actually feel way better.

I suspect you don’t have an impeccable past. If someone suspected of you doing anything out of lines and posted it here, you would be spun out, wether you were guilty or not.

I am sure Rupp and Rowbury are fine. You also have living legends such as Shorter, Virgin, Klecker, and many others who would bring lots of fan interest to the game!

One of the best since Toni Reavis.

Maybe his thyroid meds enhance his commentating performance.

I did not know they had doping tests for commentators.

Still, I'm not bothered.