It's athletics and sport. Ageism !?!?!?! give me a break how woke can you be
Is it ageism when an MLB team lets a pitcher walk because his velocity and control has diminished? How about when an NBA player cannot hit the jumper? Is it doing the soccer player dirty when you always have to substitute because he is winded 30 minutes into a match?
A better analogy might be an above average 24-year old minor leaguer who gets released because the organization does not project him as a big leaguer.
Some of NAZ Elite people have had extended “pro” running careers. Of the people cut by Hoka, none of them project as World or Olympic Team members in the future.
The major change is they’re just an objectively worse team now with no proven marathoners? Who decided to cut the entire marathon squad? Shows how little whoever is now running the organization knows about this sport.
It would be cool if there were a broader investigation of Hoka concerning the ageism claims. it's not just NAZ where Hoka does this, and it is a problem. just a tip for journalists. maybe look at how much women versus men are paid too
There's no such thing ageism in sport. No court in the land is going to compel a shoe company to continue funding athlete's who are getting older and slower. They were lucky to be sponsored and have contracts as semi-elites in a sport that barely generates any money period. ...And nobody is buying Hokas because this group existed and wore them. They're not Nike or Adidas or New Balance. Hokas are popular with the regular people and hobby joggers because they feel like your walking (or jogging) on clouds. They make faster shoes too, but the general public wears them because of comfort. My elderly Dad wears them religiously because comfort, not because NAZ "elite" wears them.
That said, I'm glad to see Hoka trying to invest in younger athlete's with NIL deals. That is money much better spent. Now, Hoka should provide Salman and Congdon with some fast t&f shoes that are stiff and aren't shaped like a smile!
do the digging yourself it’s true everything I said. I’m neither anyone of the above mentioned persons you think. I know there are so many doping whistleblowers but don’t get me mixed up. I have reasonable proof that Ben, Yong Rui and his sister Romania were training together in flagstaff in 2017 immediately before and after Jordan was busted for drugs who was also in Flagstaff living together with both of them. Look at the video below. It’s was well taken video with clear shots of Ben and Yong.
credit to the videographer Romania (Yong’s sister). Again you need to do some digging. ✌️
They are cutting everyone over 28 and last weekend a Man from Switzerland ran 2:04.40 at age 42 (Fater than the American Record by Khalid Khannouchi and faster than Ryan Hall ran at Boston. No Patience in developing Their Athletes
They are cutting everyone over 28 and last weekend a Man from Switzerland ran 2:04.40 at age 42 (Fater than the American Record by Khalid Khannouchi and faster than Ryan Hall ran at Boston. No Patience in developing Their Athletes
The dude from Switzerland is Renato Canova’s pupil I believe. He is based in highland Kenya with much less man made elektramagnetica pollution than in US cities and suburbs. It’s possible with right avoidance and care measures to stay away from cellular towers and other electromagnetic entities to run 2:04 at 40s. Bekele in one prime example. The place he trains in Ethiopia and by extension where he probably lives is well known to be relatively free of such pollution.
also I would say 27-28 is the tipping point for athletes without drug assistance. You are on a decline after 23 in the mile, after 24 in the 5k and after 25 in the 10k if you originate from elektramagnetically unpolluted environments like highland Ethiopia. It’s different for HM and FM and there are less age restrictions. It’s also different if you originate from US and European cities and suburbs.
HOKA kinda knows American athletes would not have survived the polluting agents in American society and so cut them at 28. That’s the right thing to do. In 10 years time after RFK has cut all pollution from American society, maybe just maybe Americans will have a better age limit of around 30.
As a space-time specialist (physicist) I assess the degradation of elektramagnetica environment by the falling age limits of respective world record holders in the mile 5k and 10k when they ran their respective world records.
for instance if today it takes a 22 year old athlete to break the 1500m WR as opposed to 23 when El G set it up then that must point to a slightly increased toxic burden on the physiology of the best athletes. If it requires a 25 year old athlete set the 1500m WR instead, you will know that
1. the elektramagnetica environment is still polluted and increasingly polluted because the laws of physics of human nature say so
2. That athlete took drugs to circumvent the toxic physiologic effects so that he has the strength to run a new 1500m WR. (My assumption though is that El G the reference point is clean which I believe)
that’s really the reason why coaches and athletes do drugs. They are struggling to even hold the fort at 23, 24, 25, much less 28, 29,30 in this modern polluted age.
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do the digging yourself it’s true everything I said. I’m neither anyone of the above mentioned persons you think. I know there are so many doping whistleblowers but don’t get me mixed up. I have reasonable proof that Ben, Yong Rui and his sister Romania were training together in flagstaff in 2017 immediately before and after Jordan was busted for drugs who was also in Flagstaff living together with both of them. Look at the video below. It’s was well taken video with clear shots of Ben and Yong.
credit to the videographer Romania (Yong’s sister). Again you need to do some digging. ✌️
don't act like it is rocket science. Why do you need proven marathoners that won't do any damage heading up to the trials in 2028? They have now the neccessary space to add incoming athletes and try to get them to the LA-games. The chance they got a Abdi in their 2024 roster is zero.
Up to the 2020 trials Hoka was way back in the shoe game, but they catched up so they are now a significant option for incoming athletes.
He did built the team from scratch and having invested so much he loathed to see it go up in smoke and wanted every chance at success including cheating. Jordan was HIS athlete forever, no 2 ways about that. Jordan can run and hide underneath a rock ice in Antarctica and train there like a recluse but he cannot escape the hand that fed and cloth him taught him everything that was his coach.
It’s Rui Yong btw. Soh Rui Yong. He has a Facebook page where indeed a certain whistleblower by the name of Joe KS frequents and attacks. Please get the names spelled correctly if you want to be credible. His sister’s name is Romaine.
The attacks are in part due to claims of suspected fraud and cheating on Rui’s part in Flagstaff with Jordan and Ben. I’m a big fan of Rui actually back then as he frequented the restaurants I used to work at as a part time student at NAU. But Rui’s ship started collapsing when Jordan got multiple ADVs as these 2 came and went home together after their meals at the restaurant. They had each other’s back throughout their time in Flag as Rui was a relative newcomer to the area and Jordan needed social company and some encouragement after going through a performance downtime.
Rui was never caught for any ADVs. you could say he is clean but everyone of us knows that on todays milieu it’s no longer a concrete proof of being clean. It’s more like everybody is guilty until proven innocent which is also WADA’s stance in some of their legal cases against various athletes.
Rui is still running professionally but has since been left off the Singapore team to major games due to strange reasons. However given Singapore tough anti-fraud laws it is not quite hard to envisage that the real reasons for Rui’s debacle with the Singapore authorities is his former fraudulent activities in flagstaff. It can’t be anything else.
do the digging yourself it’s true everything I said. I’m neither anyone of the above mentioned persons you think. I know there are so many doping whistleblowers but don’t get me mixed up. I have reasonable proof that Ben, Yong Rui and his sister Romania were training together in flagstaff in 2017 immediately before and after Jordan was busted for drugs who was also in Flagstaff living together with both of them. Look at the video below. It’s was well taken video with clear shots of Ben and Yong.
credit to the videographer Romania (Yong’s sister). Again you need to do some digging. ✌️