Craig Engels: "as soon as Nike said I had the option of doing NOP, I was in"

What's his over/under on 3:31 next season?

sdafdfsd wrote:

Or maybe Craig Engels was already doping and this is going to make it easier for him to do so.

+1

No need for the 'maybe either.

Tainted by the LRC mods and brojos.

And the 652 high school kids who post here only to get the attention of the,

LRC mods and brojos.

Testosterone Boost wrote:

Engels got $80k.

3-4 yr deal, not sure on how many option years. Usually it's 2 option years with Nike and something at Engels level.

Normal Nike reductions that we saw with Berian's contract. Though, NOP athletes are mostly immune to reductions since it's a tainted group and they do not want bitter athletes coming from a dirty group floating around. So as long as they stay there or say they publicly they are still with the NOP (Cain, Ulrey, Levins etc), Capriotti doesn't activate the reduction clauses (it says in contracts reductions are at the discretion of Nike, so there are examples of some non-NOP athletes not being reduced when they could have been)

Engel's had ZERO offers from other companies in front of him. ZERO.

That should tell you something about the character of his agent Ray Flynn.

And... Thank you Texas.

New Hampshire, you're on the line, what do you have to say?

sdafdfsd wrote:

Or maybe Craig Engels was already doping and this is going to make it easier for him to do so.

If 3:36 is the best time Engels can do with doping, then he should quit now

I love doping. It's so helpful. I can't wait to race

What's the story behind Ray Flynn/his reputation as an agent? All I know is that he seems to be a strong fixture in the pro running world, and was a successful miler back in the day.

What is the basis for the information in this post.

Just wow... wrote:

In the case of most large professional sports corporations (or any type of corporation, for that matter), it's about one thing: making as much money as possible by whatever means they can succeed at this. Of course, this means getting the required results out of their athletes to generate maximum revenue. Nothing else really matters as far as the employer is concerned. That's capitalism.

Obviously. Which is why Nike supported Armstrong as long as it was profitable, not just until his doping couldn't be covered up anymore.

It's also capitalism that the employees try to play along, which is one of the major reasons why so many athletes dope.

Here for example, our own USADA - not just LRC, lol - is convinced that NOP at minimum used prohibited methods, which equals doping as per WADA, yet Engels never hesitated to sign up.

Engles will be gone in 2 years, Rowbury will have moved on, Farah will find another stopwatch holder, and Centro will be permanently on the east coast.

Why didn't Centro give up his spot at Worlds for his new teammate Engels? Centro knew he wasn't fit, and his result at worlds was awful. He almost pulled the plug on the whole season.

its egun wrote:

Tainted by the LRC mods and brojos.

And the 652 high school kids who post here only to get the attention of the,

LRC mods and brojos.

Or perhaps tainted by Salazar performing experiments on his son to see how much of his testosterone gel could be applied before it would trigger a positive drug test?

Enlightened wrote:

What's the story behind Ray Flynn/his reputation as an agent? All I know is that he seems to be a strong fixture in the pro running world, and was a successful miler back in the day.

He has a known history, inside running figures know, of dishonesty, grin f__king (lying to someone's face and then doing something shady/dishonest), poaching other agents athletes, using people. Essentially textbook sociopath. .

(Read the book The No Azzhole Rule).

(This is a serious, factual, informed reply.)