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    Miles and Miles

    Member since 09/30/2002.

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    21 years ago 10/18/2002 4:19am EDT
    re: no-brainer

    What about all the sprinters that go through our US colleges? I don't see them having a problem supporting their people. We have guys training here that claim to be from Trinidad and Tobago (I don't know where that is and they probably don't either). Khalid is an American citizen as soon as people actually start supporting him then he might give back more to the US. If I were him I would skip the US Olympic Trials and run London again. He actually makes money to run London and all the losers here in the US keep saying he isn't REALLY American.

  • buf this

    Anonymous Poster

    21 years ago 10/18/2002 4:30am EDT
    re: Wong Kei-ying

    and like Pre, she is speaking against the biggest injustice in competitive distance running of her time.

  • Laughing

    Anonymous Poster

    21 years ago 10/18/2002 11:47am EDT
    re: Mickey Gilley

    Pure PC drivel from Mickey Gilley. We'll have runners capapble of competing at the highest levels when they are no longer under the spell of PC liars like MG, and when they realize that to run like the North and East Africans, they must train hard, putting in the mileage necessary. Instead of listening to RW and anti-American media mavens and college professors they should be listening to Lydiard and Snell.

  • trini

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    21 years ago 10/18/2002 11:50am EDT
    re: Miles and Miles

    ...are the most southerly islands in the Caribbean. Just north of Venezuela. Perhaps you have heard of Ato Boldon. Maybe you have heard of Hasely Crawford, Wendell Motley, Edwin Skinner, Edwin Roberts, Mike Paul, Brian Lara, Dwight Yorke, Shaka Hislop, Ian Morris, Stern John, CLR James, Geoffrey Holder, Peter Minshall, Janelle Commisiong, Stephen Ames, Jack Warner, VS Naipaul. Why don't you try entering any of those names in your search engine?

    Perhaps you have heard of the the steelpan. Have you ever wondered where the asphalt which lines your roads comes from? Who the world's largest producers of urea, ammonia, and natural gas are? Do yourself a favor and look for the answers?

  • Hot Dog Meat

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    21 years ago 10/18/2002 5:21pm EDT
    re: trini

    Mickey Gilley is correct.

  • du-can

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    21 years ago 10/18/2002 5:27pm EDT
    re: Laughing

    Uh, what exactly did Mickey Gilley say that you didn't like? I don't think anything he said contradicts that Americans should train hard...

  • Dave Sines

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    21 years ago 10/19/2002 12:33am EDT
    re: du-can

    I know I'm late in this discussion, but why the hell would we need another Pre? Mo Greene is outspoken, and he is an ass. Besides, we don't need someone crashing their car due to being drunk while driving.

    As far as being as good as Pre, seems to me that Jorge and Dathan are on their way.

  • Mickey Gilley

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    21 years ago 10/19/2002 12:45am EDT
    re: Dave Sines

    Laughing, you apparently missed some of the classes on reading comprehension at your continuation school. The "drivel" was a quote from Tony Reavis, not me. (I just sing both kinds of music -- Country and Western) It is PC, but it is also an excellent observation by Reavis. If you read some of the articles on LetsRun before Chicago, KK talked about how hard he trains, e.g., he sometimes has to be helped into the car after his long runs because he finishes them so hard. If you looked at his website, his wife's articles on training for the marathon obviously reflect Lydiard-style training approaches. The point is that we have an American who knows how to train hard and make sacrifices to reach the pinnacle of world class performance. The mainstream press and the running community should be recognizing this and promoting KK as a model the rest of us can emulate.

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