Yared Nuguse pulls out of millrose???

Runtothelight wrote:

I mentioned my time because at 14:15 for 5k, no one cared if I ran or not. If you are the NCAA 1500 meter record holder, people care. I don't understand why you are lmao about "maybe he has a test." I frequently missed practices because of labs or tests in college, and missed one or two track meets. I guess your college experience was different.

Think he’s laughing because you obviously have no clue why he withdrew anymore than the average person here, yet you wanted to pretend like you did.

You don’t miss the Olympics unless you’re in a body bag. You don’t miss Millrose for a test in late January at the beginning of a semester.

We get it: you like the guy and were excited to mention that you have some interaction with him. You liking him doesnt make being soft any better.

Aren't most guys this way?

jjjjj wrote:

He usually waits until the last second before pulling out

Running is a unique sport in that the fans are also participating in the sport.

We have all raced sick, injured and under prepared. And, we all know it takes more guys to race this way than when things are going great.

We all know, we would race in the Olympics injured, sick and under prepared.

You see it all the time at the Olympics.

Peter Elliot raced in the Olympics needing a cortisone shot right before each race. Guts.

Steve Ovett left a hospital bed to compete in his race in LA Olympics. Guts

Nguese is soft and we all know it because we have done what he couldn’t. That is sack up and race when the chips are down.

Goose will never be a father. Guy is the undisputed king of pulling out before a big moment.

Iron Bars wrote:

Seems like a head case. Lost all respect for the guy for pulling out of the Olympics. Can't you at least show up and jog a lap if you are injured?? Jeeze...

oh please - if he had done that he would have been crucified on this website by the very people who are calling him out for not participating at all. Hell, there are people here that would post crap about him no matter what he did.....

BS wrote:

Iron Bars wrote:

Seems like a head case. Lost all respect for the guy for pulling out of the Olympics. Can't you at least show up and jog a lap if you are injured?? Jeeze...

oh please - if he had done that he would have been crucified on this website by the very people who are calling him out for not participating at all. Hell, there are people here that would post crap about him no matter what he did.....

Anyone being honest knows this. Look at how badly Brazier was skewered for trying to race on an injury and not being able to compete to his best ability.

Letsrun is just full of bitter posters and there’s no satisfying what they lack.

BS wrote:

Iron Bars wrote:

Seems like a head case. Lost all respect for the guy for pulling out of the Olympics. Can't you at least show up and jog a lap if you are injured?? Jeeze...

oh please - if he had done that he would have been crucified on this website by the very people who are calling him out for not participating at all. Hell, there are people here that would post crap about him no matter what he did.....

Regarding Nuguse pulling out of the Oly 1500 with no replacement at the ready, to what degree is the coach (Mike Holloway) to blame? In a recent interview with the WesFly crew, Engels mentioned that Nuguse was dealing with the injury 10 days before the 1500 heats. At that point, shouldn't Holloway have assessed the situation and brought Engels into the loop, telling him to get ready if it seemed more likely than not that Nuguse wouldn't be fit to race? Dunno if the boss wasn't on top of the situation, or if he inquired about Nuguse's fitness and the athlete replied "I'm good" or minimized the concern somehow. If so, had Engels been in Nuguse's position, would he have been upfront about the injury and not opposed to a substitute flying to Tokyo "just in case?" In the interview, Engels hinted that he likely would have just popped some ibuprofen and run injured. Fair play, but that seems no more or less selfish than Nuguse's late scratch, absent an executive decision from the coach.

Nuguse pull out game SKRONG

I think Holloway has 0 say in this decision.

It's not his call at all it's up to Jared and his coaches at ND

The national team coach can't force a dude who qualified to scratch

harvard of the tropics wrote:

But he will forever be a Millrose participant because he was listed as an entrant.

10/10, legitimately the funniest comment I’ve read on LRC in a long time

serial quitter wrote:

jjjjj wrote:

He usually waits until the last second before pulling out of an event.

Strange

That's because he waits to see who is in the field and then gets scared. The 3000 field is stacked. He would have gotten smoked and didn't want to be humiliated.

When he qualified for the Olympics, he knew right away that he would be pulling out because he got scared. In order to do it in what he thought would be the best way to do it, he faked an injury. In the process, he screwed over Craig Engels. He's pitiful.

Oh come on... Craig Engels was probably good for a 3:36 at best during the Olympics.

367243189650 wrote:

surveysays wrote:

Another thread highlighting the idiocy of many Letsrun posters.

Agree. This is pure spam. Probably same person posting under many names. Already wasted too much of my time…and the more they hate, the more it raises my opinion of the target of the hateful posts.

I feel like 50% of this threads posters are the type of people who won’t accept that there are black American born distance runners that are good, Aka people that only champion Rupp, Hocker, Kessler etc. 48% of the other posters are just Ole miss and Wesfly supporters who have 4mm peters who can’t make a proper sentence without some type of “toxic” alpha energy. The other 2% are logical people who get ripped and called snowflakes.

This is my personal hell that I was damned to when I decided to have coffee over be Mormon.

Being*

John Macardle wrote:

BS wrote:

oh please - if he had done that he would have been crucified on this website by the very people who are calling him out for not participating at all. Hell, there are people here that would post crap about him no matter what he did.....

Anyone being honest knows this. Look at how badly Brazier was skewered for trying to race on an injury and not being able to compete to his best ability.

Letsrun is just full of bitter posters and there’s no satisfying what they lack.

Remember when Emma had her first bad race in awhile in the Olympic final? Yeah everyone burned her at the stake for that one. Idk if it’s because the hopes and dreams of Letsrun posters are clinging in the balance of an American medaling or what. We should be happy the Olympics happened and we got to see fast races this year.

So sad you tried to pull the race card on this, which is ridiculous

Nguese was soft and selfish, his color has nothing to do with it

Soft for not racing

Selfish for not organizing for a replacement when he knew he was injured

We as actual runners, rather than armchair football fans, have all raced injured, sick and unprepared. We all know it takes guts.

Now we all know Nuguse is gutless.

harvard of the tropics wrote:

But he will forever be a Millrose participant because he was listed as an entrant.

+1.5

we are all runners and know wrote:

So sad you tried to pull the race card on this, which is ridiculous

Nguese was soft and selfish, his color has nothing to do with it

Soft for not racing

Selfish for not organizing for a replacement when he knew he was injured

We as actual runners, rather than armchair football fans, have all raced injured, sick and unprepared. We all know it takes guts.

Now we all know Nuguse is gutless.

Racing while sick or injured is stupid.

Yes, but in the Olympics, representing your country, you do it. You race no matter what.

If you only raced when you were 100%, you’d never race.

Everyone runner has raced injured or sick. It’s the nature of the sport. Yeah it sucks. Yeah it’s risky. We have all done it for lesser racers than the Olympics because other people were counting on us or we were representing school, club, team, college., etc.

If you go to the Olympics, you’re expected to race, no matter what. If you don’t, everyone knows your weak.

we are all runners and know wrote:

If you don’t, everyone knows your weak.

Or smart. Racing sick or injured might end your career.

In old times people were brainwashed into thinking, that one has to sacrifice everything for the country. Later they learned, that the country doesn't appreciate it, sacrifices get forgotten very fast and one is left with nothing. See Vietnam veterans.