I loved the interview and love his attitude. Not everyone wants to listen to PR trained athlete spew out diplomatic answers like Grant Fisher and friends.
I find Marco to be extremely annoying. He is argumentative and combative without any obvious reason. One day he may realize the world does not revolve around Marco, and that although he is a talented runner, he is just not that important.
He definitely has a chip on his shoulder. The reason for it is he has unresolved issues from his father leaving his family when he was a young kid. He spoke about it in a clip posted on Instagram by The Running Effect about 8 weeks ago. He said he's driven by the insecurity that he's not enough along with the desire to be accepted.
I hope one day he comes to peace with what his father did and realizes those actions were about his father, not him. In the meantime, he's channeling his pain in productive ways, and I applaud him for it.
Running may not be the most important thing in life, but for Langon it appears to have deeper personal meaning. Taking it seriously is also the only way he's going to be able to achieve his goals of becoming an NCAA champion and more.
For what it's worth, his video interview has been the second-most watched video of the weekend on the LRC YouTube channel. It's second only to Jane Hedengren's interview, and their interviews are the only ones with over 10k views as of this writing. All the other ones are under 3k, including Josh Hoey's interview following his indoor world record. So, even if people find Langon to be off-putting, he's at least generating interest.
He is talented but quite brash….perhaps a conversation with coach Marcus ( or maybe Even Jay Wright) is needed as I do not think he is currently representing the best Villanova has to offer.
Kid is certainly something, and def wasn't happy about the race for multiple reasons
A TON of talent!
But.......he needs to chill out a bit. If he's gonna beat himself up for running 13:05 indoors in December he's gonna be in for a rude awakening. You can't run "pissed off" all the time.
I find Marco to be extremely annoying. He is argumentative and combative without any obvious reason. One day he may realize the world does not revolve around Marco, and that although he is a talented runner, he is just not that important.
He definitely has a chip on his shoulder. The reason for it is he has unresolved issues from his father leaving his family when he was a young kid. He spoke about it in a clip posted on Instagram by The Running Effect about 8 weeks ago. He said he's driven by the insecurity that he's not enough along with the desire to be accepted.
I hope one day he comes to peace with what his father did and realizes those actions were about his father, not him. In the meantime, he's channeling his pain in productive ways, and I applaud him for it.
Running may not be the most important thing in life, but for Langon it appears to have deeper personal meaning. Taking it seriously is also the only way he's going to be able to achieve his goals of becoming an NCAA champion and more.
For what it's worth, his video interview has been the second-most watched video of the weekend on the LRC YouTube channel. It's second only to Jane Hedengren's interview, and their interviews are the only ones with over 10k views as of this writing. All the other ones are under 3k, including Josh Hoey's interview following his indoor world record. So, even if people find Langon to be off-putting, he's at least generating interest.
Sorry, but doesn’t excuse him being a jerk. That’s a choice he gets to make every day (all the more so if he already knows where his rage stems from). Therapy is a wonderful thing….
There’s a fine line between arrogance and confidence that most pro athletes straddle. Not Marco. No straddling for him at the beginning of this interview. He started pulling back so at least he has some self awareness.
I can't lie, a lot of y'all are taking this interview too seriously. This is actually one of the best interviews I've ever seen. It is pure comedy. But it is also extremely real. Marco is extremely real. The sport needs more guys like this. Bring on more f-bombs Marco !!
I find Marco to be extremely annoying. He is argumentative and combative without any obvious reason. One day he may realize the world does not revolve around Marco, and that although he is a talented runner, he is just not that important.
He definitely has a chip on his shoulder. The reason for it is he has unresolved issues from his father leaving his family when he was a young kid. He spoke about it in a clip posted on Instagram by The Running Effect about 8 weeks ago. He said he's driven by the insecurity that he's not enough along with the desire to be accepted.
I hope one day he comes to peace with what his father did and realizes those actions were about his father, not him. In the meantime, he's channeling his pain in productive ways, and I applaud him for it.
Running may not be the most important thing in life, but for Langon it appears to have deeper personal meaning. Taking it seriously is also the only way he's going to be able to achieve his goals of becoming an NCAA champion and more.
So he should be seeing a therapist. Heaven help him if he ever gets a serious injury that takes running out of the equation. I'd worry for his well-being.
I can't lie, a lot of y'all are taking this interview too seriously. This is actually one of the best interviews I've ever seen. It is pure comedy. But it is also extremely real. Marco is extremely real. The sport needs more guys like this. Bring on more f-bombs Marco !!
The issue is Marco has very little wit, and he is obviously acting like it is winning or nothing. This won’t end well.
It was a good performance and he lost by thousandths of a second to the NCAA xc champ, no shame in that. There is shame in the way he handles himself in interviews. But the anger there is coming from the races themselves, because if you watch that race, you'll see that he was running easily through most of the race, had plenty more in the tank, and was angry because he knew that he could have made no doubt about the outcome if he had had the ... chutzpah to push the pace earlier.