I had a thread on politics a few weeks ago that was up to eight pages of responses (some very thoughtful) before a moderator deleted it. I wasted hours crafting that thread, and responding to various posts. But it taught me an important lesson, that I am not to take this place particularly seriously.
I had a thread on politics a few weeks ago that was up to eight pages of responses (some very thoughtful) before a moderator deleted it. I wasted hours crafting that thread, and responding to various posts. But it taught me an important lesson, that I am not to take this place particularly seriously.
A fine thread about racing a baboon was deleted. Perhaps for subtly comparing the baboon to Jakob Ingebrigtsen? Who knows what twisted logic in the depths of the mods' minds.
Meanwhile another thread about silverback gorillas, but not about running, sits untampered by mod ire.
My pick would be a classic thread from a few years ago on Johan Fourie, a South African miler with exceptional talent who was prevented from competing in the 1980's due to the apartheid boycott, and yet who ran 3:33 and 3:50 with no serious opposition or even pacemakers. The thread was deleted seemingly at random by the moderators.
Johan Fourie (born December 2, 1959) is a South African middle-distance athlete who was one of the world's leading 1500m/mile exponents in the 1980s but was prevented from competing internationally in his prime due to the sporting sanctions imposed on South Africa in condemnation of the policy of apartheid. Fourie's best 1500m performance was 3:33.87, a time recorded at the SA Championships in Stellenbosch in 1987 without significant opposition or pacemakers and his best mile time was 3:50.82 also recorded in 1987. During the mid-1980s he trained with Swiss Pierre Délèze in Europe. Délèze, who defeated Sebastian Coe over 1500m in Zurich in 1985, believed that Fourie was capable of running a sub 3:30 1500m, given the appropriate race conditions
Perhaps the most nominated thread gets to be restored as an Xmas gift to us from the Brojos?
Ah, Johan Fourie, one of my favourite runners when I was a kid. Man was a beast for his time. There are some videos on Youtube of South African races in the 80s where he features.
Merge all the Seth de moor threads and merge into a single thread!
The problem with this suggestion for anyone that watches ShoeTubers and keeps up with the ShoeTubers thread is that time has revealed Seth as a paragon of virtue among ShoeTubers. He was never part of the STCJ but is still killing it in his niche and may gearing up for some big Masters titles.