Would you run for a foreign country in the Olympics if you had the B standard?

I'm a software engineer, but thanks. I tend to, you know, design and implement user-friendly software rather than act maliciously on the interwebs, but it's all good bro.

You can have dual citizenship, but you can't use it as an adult. I highly doubt you know anyone with TS clearance who has used a foreign passport as an adult. There is a difference between having dual citizenship and using dual citizenship.

Depends which country you go to - there are plenty of countries (like Qatar, for example) where all it would take is one person saying yes for you to have a new citizenship.

You definitely don't have to renounce your American citizenship - the only way that can be taken from you in this situation is if you fight for your new country in a war against the US.

I highly doubt you know anyone with TS clearance who has used a foreign passport as an adult.

I know several foreign nationals with clearance who have taken US citizenship, and I know one US born citizen who took British nationality, and that didn't affect her clearance at all.

You are wrong. Just give it up.

I'll bet you $50 the latter doesn't have a top-secret clearance if she took up and used British citizenship as an adult, unless it is specifically related to the government work she does. I've been through the process and I know how it works.

No you haven't - as you said yourself, you gave up before the process was complete.

And I hate to break it to you, but going through a process doesn't make you an expert. Like claiming to be a surgeon because you've had your appendix out!

Like Lagat? No I have FAR more integrity than that.

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Galen Rupp Number on Fan wrote:

Like Lagat? No I have FAR more integrity than that.

Lagat ran for Kenya because he didn't have his citizenship yet not because he couldn't qualify.

Though congrats on having "more integrity" than Lagat. I'm sure that's working well for ya

Thanks for the confirmation of my position. It is nice to be proven right.

GenericID wrote:

Thanks for the confirmation of my position. It is nice to be proven right.

When my pee looks like water I don't flush

That's just good sense.

probably more for the same reasons guys like Aish, Henwoood etc sought out US citizenship... most us road races only pay good prize money to US citizens, so be changing to another country for a US based runner you would potentially be reducing your earning potential massively...

Interesting question. I know of someone who lives in the us and runs in some of my local races who was born in a small African country. Do not know what his prs are but probably runs in the 14:xx range for a 5k. He had represented his home country in the 0lympics and everyone just thinks its pretty cool. I think, given the opportunity, few runners would turn it down.

The two countries that I have dual citizenship for both impose standards that are harder than the IAAF A standards.

FML, Canada and UK.

Anyone remember Gary Fanelli? Ran for Brooks in the 80's, ran a lot dressed as Elwood Blues (Blues Bro's). He was a legit 2;14 marathoner and ended up running for America Samoa in the 88 Seoul games. There was such a log jam in US marathons then that he couldn't make our team. I think his brother was coaching for Samoa?

Hilarity ensued in Opening Ceremony as he proudly walked into the stadium, 6'2" ivory skin and a Samoan sarong and sandals, waving to the crowd with the native Samoan wrestlers, etc.... It was Shorter or Liquori who was doing the commentary and they were laughing their butts off.

Judging by our foreign policy, you would think the only people with TS clearance in the US were Israeli citizens.

Yes

Anyone who thing you train twice a day just to represent their country is delusional

Don't think I would change my name though

dual citizener wrote:

The two countries that I have dual citizenship for both impose standards that are harder than the IAAF A standards.

FML, Canada and UK.

Yeah one of my friends here is from Canada, and she said they've been making it harder and harder to get on the Olympic team. I don't really understand. Isn't that kind of self-sabotage?

Given the opportunity, I don't know how I could turn it down.

From a training standpoint, it provides the specific goal; from a personal standpoint, it would be a chance to experience the Games in a way most of us will never have.