I USED to like Rupp

der... wrote:

He was possibly checking on his teammmates progress as well...

Kletus wrote:

Exactly, which is a bitch move. Look, there is nothing you can do to help your teammates at that point. Why not just use his fingers to start counting heads as he rounded the turn. He tries to be cool but fails epically. You don't need to be a rock star, Rupp. Just be your dweeby self.

der... wrote:

Since linguists state that we "define ourselves by our vocabulary choices," the readers of this forum can now surmise that you are living a life full of "bitch moves."

Way to go "Kletus."

Since you took the time to respond to my post and yet do not know how to properly place multiple quotes, I can surmise you are not very smart. And by the way, rallying behind "the readers of this forum" is a bitch move. Fight your own battles smart guy.

"properly place multiple quotes" ?

You weren't worth the bother.

And your reply was just another one of your troll BITCH MOVES.

This is exaclty the kind of trolling/absurd Rupp hating that makes no sense at all... the question yhou have to ask yourself is WHO CARES??? I meen who cares? did he win? yes! did this movement cost him a record/team points? No! so who cares?!?

This is juvenile at best although its more likely infantile. He could have sprinted the last 400 in complete business mode and these clowns would have said that he was show boating and he wanted to make the rest of the field look bad or something ridiculous like that. No matter what he does he will be hated by these "experts" who find meaning in their lives by throwing excrement at people who have reached levels of acheivement far in excess of anything that they could hope to accomplish.

Apart from bringing world peace what can this guy do to gain your respect? The good news for Rupp is that gaining your respect is somewhere between going between going to the washroom and scracthign your ass in the annals of human accomplishement, so its safe to say he has better things to do with his time.

insecurity police wrote:

Can we please have an age requirement on here? Perhaps an experience requirement, or even a common sense requirement would do.

Someone has obviously never read the Letsrun Rules...

Please note the following terms of service which govern the LetsRun.com message board(s).

Terms of Service

1) You must be over the age of 13 to participate.

You're right, there really are not words low enough to describe how pathetic the behavior is on this chat board in regards to Rupp.

It is one of the lowest things I've observed in my life. I am willing to bet that very very few of these "people" would state such things if they had to stand behind it with their real names; or had to do it face to face in real life.

Rupp being a religious person, just feels sorry for these kinds of people. I mean, really, it is hard to understand them -- there is nothing to understand... It is just pathetic, sad, bad behavior.

Lucky for Rupp he has a great family, a great coach, strong good people around him.

He's soon to be wealthy and set for life, and having a great time pursuing his running goals, and getting to travel around the world and see and compete in great cities.

He's having, and is going to have an even greater life...than all of the loser haters on this site can even imagine.

insecurity police wrote:

Because the brojos are fanning the flames my friend, their old trick to burn their own bridges. I suspect in 5-10 years they'll look back and wonder where it all went wrong.

knickers wrote:

Oh come on. You and everyone else knows he's trying to pull off a tough double and looking back too many times (sure, he looked back more than necessary...) doesn't make him an asshole or an idiot.

Why is this on letsrun.com front page?

the brojos are assholes in the respect that they are always fanning the flames on obvious non-issues. the brojos probably think they are deserving of a national championship because wejo ran one fast race pr. the brojos make me sick sometimes. love the website, i hate some of the stuff you do that is so bush-league.

The problem is that the fan boys are convinced Rupp had to turn his head 180 degrees about 4 times in the last 300 meters and not that he was showboating. I think he did a little of both and was mildly excessive.

If the fanboys would just concede that he looked back too many times to the point of possible showboating and that it was unearned because no one he beat was on his level, which he hasn't done since indoors, we'd be okay.

Rupp is verging on becoming a pro athlete and he's already said that he's not young anymore and doesn't have any excuses so he should have been known to be more subtle.

I guess Boston's "Don't Look Back" isn't on Rupp's Ipod

Ummmmmmm, since when is being able to properly place multiple quotes on a message board thread a sign of intelligence? That's a new one to me.

heyyo wrote:

The problem is that the fan boys are convinced Rupp had to turn his head 180 degrees about 4 times in the last 300 meters and not that he was showboating. I think he did a little of both and was mildly excessive.

If the fanboys would just concede that he looked back too many times to the point of possible showboating and that it was unearned because no one he beat was on his level, which he hasn't done since indoors, we'd be okay.

Rupp is verging on becoming a pro athlete and he's already said that he's not young anymore and doesn't have any excuses so he should have been known to be more subtle.

"...we'd be okay" ???

oh my god people, we're all Not Okay, because Rupp looked back, OH NO! --No, we're not okay, and we won't be okay unless we all admit something that we did not see and do not believe.

oh the humanity, oh the horror, Rupp looked back "too many times" and now we're all not "okay."

what will we do, how will we ever be "okay" again?

someone please save us from this awful not "okay-ness"

--get a grip you lightwit.

Rupp can look back as much as he wants.

if he wanted to showboat, he would have done something like moonwalk across the line.

god knows he had the time.

Kletus wrote:

der... wrote:

He was possibly checking on his teammmates progress as well...

Exactly, which is a bitch move. Look, there is nothing you can do to help your teammates at that point. Why not just use his fingers to start counting heads as he rounded the turn. He tries to be cool but fails epically. You don't need to be a rock star, Rupp. Just be your dweeby self.

DITTO. there is nothing worse than a raging dork playing captain cool.

i remember back at the olympic trials when he got SECOND in the 10k and promptly pulled out a "stop rupp" t-shirt like he was some dominating force or the second coming of prefontaine. what a joke. i'm pretty sure abdi had just won, and the shirt probably should have read "stopped rupp."

this kid is a huge douchebag, and he's faking a persona that he: a) never was, b) is not currently, c) nor ever will be. he should just embrace the fact that the show "silver spoons" is basically based on his life, hop on his little model choo-choo train and go locate his testicles...because i've seen boys born with deeper voices than him.

The energy of some of you astonishes me! How can you find it within yourselves to write so much about why you don't like him?!

Actually "More Fire,"

It's just come over the wire YOU ARE THE HUGE DOUCHE!

You will never accomplishing 1/10th of what Rupp has already in his life, let alone what he will accomplish today even if he finishes 6th.

You will always be a huge douche.

It must be sad to be you.

Try not to kill yourself when you figure it all out.

some coked up brit wrote:

The energy of some of you astonishes me! How can you find it within yourselves to write so much about why you don't like him?!

--because they are imitating some coked up brit.

or should that be "prig"?

Did any of you think maybe he was looking back more than one because he was having trouble seeing where Forrest and/or Chelanga were. They were lapping people and Forrest was pretty wide. Maybe at first glance he wanst sure if he could spot them.

for everyone hating on RUPP.

STOP

PLEASE

I love how all of this losers come on here and say rupp is an asshole for looking back in his 10k trying to conserve as much energy as possible. I have an idea, the next time one of you are in a race of that magnitude with more racing to be done we will see how you react, oooohhhh wait you couldnt have stepped on the track with 800 to go and beat him

why????? wrote:

for everyone hating on RUPP.

STOP

PLEASE

I love how all of this losers come on here and say rupp is an asshole for looking back in his 10k trying to conserve as much energy as possible. I have an idea, the next time one of you are in a race of that magnitude with more racing to be done we will see how you react, oooohhhh wait you couldnt have stepped on the track with 800 to go and beat him

Exactly.

More Fire is perhaps the bitchiest bitch of them all. What a loser. Hey More Fire, are you weaned off momma yet? Still in the basement? You sound like a career loser, too. I wouldn't want to know you. It might rub off. And stay away from Rupp. I'm afraid you will contaminate people with your loser attitude. Perp.

I think you are the one who needs to get a grip. I don't care if he showboats, but call it what it is. I'm glad you had fun by interpreting my usage of the word "okay", but all I meant was that we wouldn't have to comment and argue over how he won if people would recognize his last 300 as as a weak attempt at showboating and not him being a good team captain.