Olympic 10,000m Silver Medallist Sally Kipyego Became an American Citizen Today

Classic... wrote:

Bit of a sensationalist front page if you don't know that, isn't it?

Whether she runs for the US or not, she's still an American citizen.

You probably haven't been around as long as I have. Might give you a little different perspective.

Nah....on second thought, wouldn't!

Bigly Winning wrote:

Sally is the paragon of what a naturalized citizen should be. I hope she runs for us and pulls some hardware.

+1

old guy 71 wrote:

I'm sure's a wonderful person, but so might be the American born runner she deprives of a hard earned spot.

Wonderful person has nothing to do with how fast they run. If she earns her spot then she obviously didn't deprive anybody of anything hard earned. If it's her instead of somebody else, then that person did earn it, she did.

By the way, Sally was not a top tier Kenyan when she came to the U. S.

Today I feel a little sad about this but I am also very happy for Sally.

She'll obviously make the ultimate decision of which country to represent but whatever she does, it's all up to her. She deserves it.....and she is a wonderful person.

Someone said that Betsy Saina might follow suit and I agree she might. We'll still be okay (Kenya) as a country.

Well that's what Trump must mean by making America great... granting citizenship to foreigners who can do things better and claim them for yourselves.

Similar to the GB/Scotland thing. If they're really good, Scottish athletes compete for GB.

Clearly - this has nothing to do with Trump or politics. This athlete came here to go to school 12 years ago - there are international students all over the globe. She then follows the law, and becomes an American citizen the right way. Isn't this the way it is supposed to be?

As an aside, I remember reading a story about her when she described the absolute joy of obtaining admission to nursing school. I was impressed, as she then struck me as someone with more character than the typical self absorbed runner. These are the kinds of people we want immigrating here, a notion lost when talk about immigrants is intellectually lazy, including failing to distinguish those who do it legally from those who do not.

If she earns her way on our national teams, more power to her.

Coach Morris wrote:

By the way, Sally was not a top tier Kenyan when she came to the U. S.

Well what was she doing representing Kenya at junior World Cross Country Championships then - she came to the US at around 18 and started running at 14 with 2 years of injury inbetween

Can the US now claim all her medals?

NativeSon wrote:

Today I feel a little sad about this but I am also very happy for Sally.

She'll obviously make the ultimate decision of which country to represent but whatever she does, it's all up to her. She deserves it.....and she is a wonderful person.

Someone said that Betsy Saina might follow suit and I agree she might. We'll still be okay (Kenya) as a country.

Really???

Did you say Betsy Saina (30:07 10K PR, making Marathon debut soon)???

“I am hoping for a PR,” the 25-year-old Emily Infeld said the other day while finishing up an altitude-training stint in Flagstaff, Arizona.

“It has been great with the addition of Shelby Houlihan (Irish), Colleen Quigley (Irish) and Betsy Saina (Irish) to the group,” Infeld says. “We haven’t overlapped with Amy Hastings (=Irish) or Shalane Flanagan (Irish) for more than easy runs in their buildup [to last Saturday’s Olympic Marathon Trials], but it is great having them around to look up to and learn from.”

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It is just a Coincidental Irish Synchronicityâ„¢.

No worries.

someone check the threads back in August but didn't many of you Yankee's accuse her of being a doper after she won her medal?

Oh how things change once she is one of your own.

God Bless America!!

You hypocrites!!!

luv2run wrote:

Can the US now claim all her medals?

The US can claim it but it won't be awarded to her.

We need to buy:

1. Noah Lyle

2. Michael Norman

3. English Gardner

4. Brianna Rollins

5. Kendri Harrison

6. Candace Hill

....like the Qataris and the Bahrainians do.

Ignore. This thread is about Sally Kipyego.

Fentrekker wrote:

1 2 3 green wrote:

The same country she's been expecting? She's been here 12 years.

I know this. But the United States is suddenly becoming a different sort of place, or haven't you noticed?

Disgusting.

Is the USA become the next Qatar or Turkey, giving away citizenship to every fast Kenyan?

clearly wrote:

Well that's what Trump must mean by making America great... granting citizenship to foreigners who can do things better and claim them for yourselves.

Similar to the GB/Scotland thing. If they're really good, Scottish athletes compete for GB.

Interesting.

If they are even better than really good…they compete for FLAGSTAFF.

For example:

1) the Scot Callum Hawkins who Mobliterated Sir Mo Farah and left Mo completely destroyed and muddy in a ditch on the side of the trail… the last time they raced each other…needs to come to Flagstaff in 2017 to train…and join the Flagstaff Runner Team™ as well.

2) Laura Muir (wee Scottish-Irish human who is now the most exciting female human runner on this planet also needs to come to Flagstaff in 2017 to train…and join the Flagstaff Runner Team™ as well.

3) Jo Pavey (from Not-That-Great-Britain, who needs to now come to Flagstaff in 2017 to train…and join the Flagstaff Runner Team™ as well.

Jo Pavey is not Irish yet, so when she comes to Flagstaff with Jacob, Emily, and Gavin to train in 2017…they can stay at:

4) Kenenisa Bekele (Irish)…needs to come to Flagstaff in 2017 to train…and join the Flagstaff Runner Team™ as well.

This is the Flagstaff Runner Teamâ„¢ for 2017.

Unlike Qatari and Turkish Kenyans, Sally Kipyego, like Bernard Lagat, lived here many years in order to get citizenship. It wasn't just granted in the contract while they continued to train full-time in Kenya. Kipyego and Saina will make the American ranks very very competitive at the 5/10 and marathon. Kenya will be fine, however. Every Kenyan that changes citizenship seems to free spots for other Kenyan talents that are equally as good or better.

Coach G wrote:

someone check the threads back in August but didn't many of you Yankee's accuse her of being a doper after she won her medal?

Oh how things change once she is one of your own.

God Bless America!!

You hypocrites!!!

Assume you are talking about Saina but who knows. In either case, if you can find anyone that accused her in August and now proclaims that either they would welcome her (Betsy) or have welcomed her (Sally) then you are perfectly entitled to call that person a hypocrite. But here's a little secret - message board posters are not all the same person or are the manifestation of an entire country speaking on a message board. So until that's the case, someone saying something on a thread in August and another person saying something in January - even if they are saying opposite things does not a hypocrite make.

I, too, am tired of this. These white people keep taking away spots from Native Americans. Why don't they go back to where they came from and run for their white countries?