Would letsrun hate Pre if he were alive today?

There could be a reason for that.

He would hate Nike.

No one would care. Pre was a legend because of the time period. He had to earn his popularity because there weren't so many avenues for people to get attention. Nowadays, just throw out on social media how you are being discriminated against and you get more attention then running fast.

And if he hadn't died so young and tragically (is there any untragic death), he would not even be spoken of anymore. His legend grew with the question of what could have been.

Pre would get the same amount of attention then as Sha'Cari does today. Speaking out publicly was frowned upon at that time. Pre would have given letsrun a lot to write about.

Pre. And Sha’Carri, should never be in the same sentence.

He was relaxed, which LRC deems important.

Please explain your theory on the reason.

When I started Xc in the fall of 1980 sophomore year…I asked one of the older guys on the team who the best runner out there was

His response “some guy named Pre.”

My response “let’s go after him.”

Pre has been dead for several years.

The same guy when asked how do you get good at running

His response run 2x a day don’t quit

That advice is still valid today.

wish Pre had lived…exciting runner

Running needs some brash guys to get the public interested

guys eho talk the talk and walk thd walk

pre did

I don't know about Pre in his geriatric years, but if a new Pre came along, LetsRun would...

...rip his race tactics to shreds.

...make posts about how he "went home devastated" when he finishes fourth in the Olympics (and then resume shredding his race tactics).

...would hate on him for expressing opinions, while also complaining that every other athlete just spits out clichés.

...would make fun of his hair.

...would hate on him for trash talking (half the posts).

...would love his trash talking (but would hate it if a black guy did the exact same thing) (the other half of the posts).

...would claim that he "deserved it" if he died in an alcohol-related car crash (ah, the beauty of anonymous posting).

...if he died in an alcohol-related car crash, at least one poster would start a thread that he "really did go home devastated."

Can you provide some examples of Pre taking trash?

Knight would have built Nike around Pre and Pre wouldn’t thought any of that stuff about other runners. Where are your comments coming from? He didn’t like the AAU or Harold Norpoth, but that was about it. I don’t see any reason to think would have become a “Get off my lawn” type of guy. He was an extremely charismatic guy that got along well with other people.

Prefontaine is overrated. He probably wouldn't have a legacy if he was still alive today.