Manzano, Hernandez, Jeff See. They all have the same custom Victorys that Rupp got. Kiptoo has had some customs also. Oregon is sponsored by Nike, Nike can give them whatever they want!
Are you surprised? If adidas was founded by some guy running track for some college, they would probably get hooked up huge too. Its just what happens. Call it unfair? Thats your choice.
hill city wrote:
Did you have a problem with Abdi's celebrating after winning the 10k? Just curious...
No, because Abdi won a national title, not a semi final heat.
I don't see why people are bothered by the advantages that he has. Advantages come in levels, whether it's the top notch facilities of Texas, Colorado, or Wisconsin compared to the many small D1 schools that could only dream of that kind of stuff, to Oregon giving Rupp an altitude tent. If you have a problem with Rupp getting hooked up with cool stuff, then you should logically also have a problem with any school that has any better facilities or advantages than any other school.
How about the T3, Albuterol and who knows what else - how about those advantages?
unrated wrote:
hill city wrote: Did you have a problem with Abdi's celebrating after winning the 10k? Just curious...No, because Abdi won a national title, not a semi final heat.
abdi also passed runners who were still finishing while imitating an airplane and weaving all over the track, cut off to jump in the water pit while someone was running by. where was his respect for fellow runners? that was FAR bigger than anything rupp ever did but somehow abdi gets a pass? abdi also frequenlty makes outrageous predictions and statements with nobody jumping on him. abdi is great, but it doesn't make sense that rupp should be attacked for doing less, while abdi is celebrated by doing more. hypocrites.
runfree, one of the great things about this board is that no one cares about your "respect" until you have toed the line and are an olympian.
WTF is "jeolousy"?????????????
A Voice of Reason (maybe) wrote:
whether it's the top notch facilities of Texas, Colorado, or Wisconsin compared to the many small D1 schools that could only dream of that kind of stuff
Colorado's facilities? You don't have a clue, moron!
You are a typical board flamer with no gonads. Since you know that Rupp is using all kinds of crap, give us your name...turn him in to the authorities. Fact is you don't know sh.., cause it doesn't exist. You are the kind of jealous, crapping poster who should try doing something for yourself (try 15 X 1000 meters) and maybe you could stand in Rupp's shadow. You are a Wuss with a capital "W".
I really don't understand some of you so called "FANS" our sport gets no attention in the country and what few fans there are attack one of our best young runners we have had in along time! So what if he gets stuff from Nike! Hell give him more if he will be able to compete with the top Africans. I just wish Nike/Salazar would add a few more to there group! Or maybe Nike should take all their money and put it into more popular sports and Rupp can go back to Soccer. That would make you happy? And where would our sport be? Piss on you haters!! Go Rupp! Go Salazar! go Nike!
PS Galan if you read this thanks for picking Distance running over soccer!
I don't care what advantages the guy has.
I don't think we have to be fans of every single runner. There are plenty of people who cheer for and against people in sports. That's why we have rivalries. To say that you're not a fan of the sport if you don't support this puny dweeb is moronic. That's like telling a Red Sox fan that if they don't cheer for the Yankees they aren't a baseball fan.
It doesn't matter to me that he skirts the professional rules. I just think the guy is a loser. I've seen his interviews, races, and pictures. He looks like a dweeb who is full of himself. Therefore I will cheer against him.
Is Galen going to run Cross for UO in the fall? If that is the case, that would be outrageous. He has got professional training twice now (including EVERY imaginable advantage a pro runner would have over a collegiate) so to go back to running NCAAs would be stupid. I have no problem with Galen (In fact I was rooting for him at the Olympic Trials), but he needs to go pro and stay pro.
Well, in other sports many athletes have advantages over others. Pro tennis players often go to elite camps at young ages, like the Bolliterri camp.
Two athletes didn't go to that camp: The Williams sisters. They played in beaten up courts in the ghetto. Instead of complaining about what they didn't have, they just got better and beat the people with the advantages.
Many Kenyan runners (especially those back in the day, 60's, 70's, and 80's) grew up in poverty, some in huts. They just went out and defeated the American runners routinely, the U.S. runners who had collegiate scholarships and various coaches.
The best revenge is by winning. I don't care what advantages Rupp has, more power to him. He still didn't win the NCAA X-C title or the trials 10K title, and my guess is the runners who beat him weren't complaining about his so-called advantages.
They just defeated him.
Just go by Galen's credo.. It's not gay if you say "no homo" first.
Speaking of "dweebs", let's see a picture of you posted here. Yep, just as I thought, it's the obese morons, and the pimple faced runts who post this hate. Enjoy your miserableness... because it is you who a "dweeb" not Galen Rupp who runs his ass off and has become the greatest legitimate distance hope this country has had in quite awhile.
Uh, just how many guys beat Galen at the Trials 10K? Fact is, if these other guys work harder, Galen will just work all the harder to keep improving and staying ahead of the competition.
Central Michigan, what is this fetish you have about gays? My bet is you just haven't come out of your closet yet. What a twit!!
What competition has he finished ahead of? I don't remember him winning anything on the college level, on the national level, or on the international level.
unrated wrote:
The problem I have with Rupp is the same as everyone else- the obvious, often times questionable advantages he has over other collegiate athletes
Which is more important? That you Americans get world class runners or that some runners don´t get advantages over other collegiate athletes? Come on! This is 2008. If his contract with Nike makes him a better runner that´s fine. The ridiculous jealousy is not helping anyone.
what i want to know is why do you dudes all love this skinny little douche so much? is it some sort of runner-clique thing that you hope he places in the top ten at the olympics, surely proving how cool all skinny runner douches are? why is everybody so defensive about the guy?
People don't like him cause he's a dork and if he represents runners everyone will continue thinking all runners are stupid dorks. That's why i don't like him. He's not cool.
He's talented, so, yeah, sweet. that's really impressive. does that mean i should be a huge fan of every single person who places in the top ten at every olympics? screw that. Maybe if he nails a couple broads, stops wearing band aids on his nose and learns to grow a beard or something. When he crosses the line and grabs a pint of guinness, then i'll cheer for your little adolescent rupp.