American Citizenship: next Robert Cheseret, Sam Chelanga...Sally Kipyego?

Anyone who is granted US citizenship this year may not be able to compete for the US in 2012, but he or she could follow Lagat's example and compete for his or her original country while holding US citizenship. I know the Letsrun boards will EXPLODE with pride if any new Americans medal in London, even if it's for their country of origin!!!

You can't do that legally. Kenya was not aware that Lagat was an American. Bernard cheated.

Robert Cheseret holds the rank of Specialist and is not an Officer.

No, I actually didn't. Learn to read, Einstein.

Cuttudachase wrote:

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot wrote:

Jorge Torres is NOT retired, clown. How do you know that Jager and Teg won't move up to the 10,000? How do you know that Cheseret or Chelanga wouldn't try to make the team at 5000m? Oh, that's right, you don't because you're clueless.

Clueless? You're saying Jager will keep Chelanga from making a US team! Now that, my friend, and you have to agree, is clueless.

Again proving the point that she wasn't good enough to make the Kenyan team. If at least three other Kenyan women were always better than her at the Kenyan trials then she's probably not good enough to beat the best Kenyan women plus the best Ethiopian women to medal. Wouldn't have mattered what her nationality was "those years."

Leeeeeeeroy Jenkins wrote:

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot wrote:

For all Kipyego's potential, as someone already asked where was she for Osaka, Beijing, and Berlin?

She lived in Kenya you jackwad. If she had been an American those years we would have seen and heard plenty about her in those races.

As of February, Robert Cheseret is not commissioned in the army. He enlisted into the army as a E- 4 Specialist and is enrolled in the army wold class athlete program ranked as a Specialist.

He can get his citizenship as an enlisted soldier (I have a few army buddies from the Phillipeans who got their citizenship while enlisted in their initial term), and he might have already done that.

As far as joining the Army as an elite runner, I think it was a fantastic move. With the army world class athlete program, he'll be training at altitude at Fort Carson, CO with the training, health/sports facilities, and financial support of the army. Dan Browne excelled with them along with a number of other notable runners. He probably could have gotten onto the nike/oregon team or mammoth or something, but he would not have recieved nearly the same amount of opportunity and salary.

Being an E 4 in the army, I think it's awesome that he represents us soldiers who keep grinding it out.

I love Chelanga, but isn't he kind of old? We can't talk about him like the next big thing. He's at his prime; maybe he'll hold it for a long time Lagat. But how much faster can you really expect him to get? I'd say marathon is where it's at for him.

Get a clue! Sam Chelanga just recently turned 26 last month and he's definitely not in his prime as a distance runner.

The maturation of distance runners are totally different then reaching peak in your adult life. Extensive research have shown and general knowledge that distance runners average peak is between 30 to 35; however, there are rare instances in which athletes don't peak until their late 30's to early 40's.

Please stop trollin' and your last question, "How much faster can you really expect S. Chelanga to get?" He isn't out of college and most middle/long distance athletes get alot faster once they join a good elite group and they don't have to train for the collegiate system.

First: Cheseret is an e E-4...not an officer.

Second: he is in the Army world class athlete program. He enlisted as a means to get citizenship (a lot of soldiers do, very respectable in my opinion) and he also enlisted to specifically to train with the Army world class athlete program for 2012. Soldiers in WCAP are not deployable as they are considered the most physically gifted and elite the military has to showcase (their MOS is to train, nothing else).

Cheseret, with his abilities, will no doubt serve the rest of his term in the WCAP...and as a soldier, I'm psyched to follow his career.

You are partially correct. Robert will no doubt finish this Olympic Cycle, however, if he does not make the Olympic team, he could be reassigned to a regular unit. This has happened to most of the WCAP guys currently in the program, as well as those who at one time were in the program.

As for your earlier post regarding Dan Browne, his first stint with WCAP was his best, ie..a few National Championships on the road, track, and XC..but when he made the Olympic Team he was not on WCAP..he was on the NIKE Program.