A Titan Will Fall - HUGE Ban Coming

there's your running Titan

lol at thinking ANY track athlete outside BOLT is "lance level". even the great kipchoge.

lance was a household name. recognizable by almost every american.

Kipchoge could deliver UPS packages for 3 months in the usa before a single person would recognize him....maybe even longer.

Bolt is HUGE....but no other track athlete comes close at all. not felix, not mo farah (lol)

This sort of vapor thread is the worst of letsrun.

this 1000x.

cycling is a bigger sport than track, even with the Olympics; Lance is on worldwide television for three weeks straight during his Tour years + cancer + best-selling book, Livestrong (however much that was shield to his doping) etc etc...

what track athlete even comes close to his total cultural impact? Even Bolt is more akin a famous figure skater or swimmer, as his off-track relevance is minimal.

Taking stab here, Michael Jordan.

yeah but bolt did implant himself into the cultural psyche in 2008 especially. plus his damn last name is perfect!

bolt for awhile was maybe the most famous athlete PERIOD in the world.

You don't think Blaise Ferro is the most famous athlete in the world currently?

Y are all of you so dense? Look at what keeps being deleted. It’s Molly S.

I'm horrified to realize it could also be 800+ GOAT Augustine Choge. A true titan of the sport. Only human to have ran

sub 1:45
sub 3:30
sub 7:30
sub 12:50
sub 60

You must be losing it due to your hard on for Choge. Choge never broke 12:50.

STAND BY!

"Titan" was perhaps an overstatement. Also, words like "news," and "forthcoming" may not be appropriate.

If after all this it's a US track athlete that no one outside the USA has A) ever heard of B) doesn't care about, it will be laughable.

Don't be Farah or Radcliffe...

So it's not so big, and the person has already been banned/served their ban? That would fit in with the deleted posts.

oh yes would be so shocking if it would be one of Aden's friends, specially the one who refused to have her blood samples analysed afterwards

most second rate americans fit this description, but rupp exemplifies it

I've just wasted 15 mins reading through 19 pages of...sh*t.

I've got to say Rupp has got to be the biggest, well-known American athlete in the UK amongst road runners.

His silver in 2012 with Mo.

His Rio bronze which was a beast of a run.

Marathon champs, this Olympic marathon, Chicago, even came over for Great North run the other year. He's well known, and I'd say liked.

I'm a running nerd and haven't heard of a single one of these track runners, it'd be like asking a Brit to name a single NFL player, I couldn't even name a team.