Japanese running culture is just so far above and beyond the State's. Imagine the headlines if at any US race there were even just 5 Americans under 2:09.
How many Olympic and World Championship medals have Japanese runners won this century in the 1500 through marathon? How does that number compare to the US medal count?
Japanese running culture is just so far above and beyond the State's. Imagine the headlines if at any US race there were even just 5 Americans under 2:09.
Imagine there being any headlines in the US about running regardless of the stats lmao
Japanese running culture is just so far above and beyond the State's. Imagine the headlines if at any US race there were even just 5 Americans under 2:09.
How many Olympic and World Championship medals have Japanese runners won this century in the 1500 through marathon? How does that number compare to the US medal count?
This exact argument is always brought up and it's complete garbage. We're talking about the marathon, don't bring every single distance into it. The Japanese men are better than the Americans in recent history and they have far more depth. That's just a fact right now and the depth has always been really. What was Rupp today? 7th at a US championship race. Don't even bring him up. His medal was 8 years ago.
I hope he does New York this fall and then Boston Spring 2023. Seems like an appropriately spaced out racing schedule for him based on how he has been running about two races a year for the past few years. Then he'll be 38 and can decide if he wants to retire with all 6 major wins or if he wants to go for another Olympic gold at 39.
How many Olympic and World Championship medals have Japanese runners won this century in the 1500 through marathon? How does that number compare to the US medal count?
This exact argument is always brought up and it's complete garbage. We're talking about the marathon, don't bring every single distance into it. The Japanese men are better than the Americans in recent history and they have far more depth. That's just a fact right now and the depth has always been really. What was Rupp today? 7th at a US championship race. Don't even bring him up. His medal was 8 years ago.
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I hope he does New York this fall and then Boston Spring 2023. Seems like an appropriately spaced out racing schedule for him based on how he has been running about two races a year for the past few years. Then he'll be 38 and can decide if he wants to retire with all 6 major wins or if he wants to go for another Olympic gold at 39.
I hope so too. But you just know London and Berlin will put in their own bids wanting big splash returns after Covid.
I hope he does New York this fall and then Boston Spring 2023. Seems like an appropriately spaced out racing schedule for him based on how he has been running about two races a year for the past few years. Then he'll be 38 and can decide if he wants to retire with all 6 major wins or if he wants to go for another Olympic gold at 39.
And despite it all (including their insane Olympic Trials standards) and five years to prepare they didn't produce much in the Olympic marathon in their home country (outside of Osaka who trained in the US).
2021
Japan 6th 62nd 73rd
USA 8th 29th 41st
I guess it was better than Ethiopia who produced three DNF's.