They come up with an excuse every year, and their fan bois defend them in this decision.
Frankly its ridiculous that no one among our top runners runs any of the classics in Europe as part of the World Athletics Cross Country Tour. I don't even think people here are aware of such a thing.
Its so weird how cross country seems so important at high school and college, just to be totally irrelevant after that.
Whose high school or college did it seem important at? Not mine, that's for sure.
Football and basketball are the two important school sports.
1. If you're talking about your experience in 1981, you are living as vicariously as everyone else here. No need to be rude, man!
2. Your injury situation sounds unfortunate, and I'm sorry to hear it. Seems very different from healthy US runners passing up a global championship.
I dont think that you understand the meaning of vicarious.
Rude? Is that your "go-to" defensive mechanism. When you don't agree with someone you call them "rude"? Rude is being hostile towards athletes whom you have no vested interest in just because they don't want to run the events that you think they should.
Life would be a lot easier for you if you'd just sit back and enjoy these athletes and their amazing accomplishments for what they are.
I seem to be able to do that, without pointing fingers. You can to.
Vicarious: experienced in the imagination through the feelings or actions of another person. I think that objectively describes your experience of elite 21st-century athletics. Please feel free to prove otherwise.
You were rude. It's not a big deal; most of us are once in a while, and as adults most of us can own that. Maybe you can't.
'Sit back and enjoy their amazing accomplishments without pointing fingers.'
I'm not their grandmother. In every professional sport, fans can enjoy great performances and also critique decisions of the protagonists.
ESP w WXC champs being in Florida in a year, USATF needs to almost force grant fisher and other top guys run.
Jakob likes racing. A lot of the top us runners like winning medals and running fast and all that and they’re quite good at it, but Jakob just loves racing as much as he can. It’s one of the reasons it’s so easy to be a fan of him, he never turns down an opportunity to compete
Good point.
With these American guys dodging World XC (where pressure is much lower than outdoor track WC or OG), it's literally as if they dislike racing.
Grant has publicly expressed his desire to run XC but also that there needs to be better incentives (financially and championship wise)
Fisher essentially saying I would, but my hands are tied is bs. Present and future US pros can back up their "expressed desire to run XC" by being more assertive in contract negotiations and ensuring financial incentives/compensation to compete in the World Athletics XC Tour are in place.
"grand scheme" of what? Did you ever run World X-C?
Just curious.
The grand scheme is that each gets to chose his own priorities. So do you.
Yes, as I stated in a previous post, I ran in Madrid, 1981. My roommate won it.
the grand scheme is that shoe-contracts dictate those priorities. Those contracts are largely build towards the WC or OG, with bonus related to world rankings, etc. Why did the ADP/WCAP athletes run US Cross and WXC? Because their employer found it important, ie. more important than running Houston half. Therefore as true distancefans, that program should get a lot more love. They want to race the gathering of all great distancerunners.
I found it kind of a disgrace how all those pro's talk about 'ow I would love to run xc' but than don't show up. In the Coffeeclub pod it is often discussed, like how they would love a race like Eurocross, but they don't even seem to bother to try to get to WXC, or even run their national championship because all that matters is that one summer race and the qualifcation for it.
Therefore I was a proponent for the loads of autoqualifying xc-spots. Make those meets matter as much as a timetrial on a highschooltrack in Cal. Winning legendary races should matter more. That the US don't have hardly any (gold-label) XC race is on them. They should organize them. The country is full of dedicated xc-courses.
Most top Americans haven't even opened their season yet and are still building up mileage from their break after outdoors. Indoors/outdoors are very long seasons and you still see some Americans burning out before outdoors are over. If Americans ran a cross country season, they'd be absolute toast at some point during outdoors.
Most top Americans haven't even opened their season yet and are still building up mileage from their break after outdoors. Indoors/outdoors are very long seasons and you still see some Americans burning out before outdoors are over. If Americans ran a cross country season, they'd be absolute toast at some point during outdoors.
Wouldn't this imply that Americans run more meets than anyone else?
They come up with an excuse every year, and their fan bois defend them in this decision.
Frankly its ridiculous that no one among our top runners runs any of the classics in Europe as part of the World Athletics Cross Country Tour. I don't even think people here are aware of such a thing.
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