Billy Coburn Emma’s Dad and Aisha Fan wrote:
I am Emma’s Dad and spend a ton of time with Aisha, who is one of the most amazing, sweet, giving, thoughtful, hard working athletes I know. So any of you people who post anything negative about her should be shamed.
Hey Billy, you hit that?
Bahrainiac wrote:
Nucla wrote:
It is so very special that you were born on a particular patch of land. Good job
APL gets to compete for Jamaica because her dad's d*ck was born on that particular patch of land. Is that so special? There is absolutely nothing Jamaican about APL, she's never lived there, doesn't care about that nation and does nothing for it. Vacationing at a beach resort there and flipping tips to the native bellboys, doormen, maids, and valets doesn't count. Why the hell would she want to represent Jamaica in competition except for purely selfish reasons? Ask any track coach in Jamaica who APL is and you'll get blank stares in return. C'mon, Stacey Dash and Rachel Dolezal are equally Jamaican. People like APL and Alexi Pappas are American jayvee scabs who scramble through loopholes to become Olympic tourists. No, not "a good deal different" from the E. African mercenaries who are at least chasing a paycheck for their families back home. It's cheap and it's weak, exploiting a loophole that exists to allow athletes to flee tyranny without giving up their careers as athletes. Leave the country if you want to represent some other country so badly, go live and train there.
Why do you care what a stranger does with their life? Have you take any steps to get these rules changed? That seems like the best way to get the outcome you desire.
TrackCoach wrote:
Because you are allowed to do something does not make it right. And, I have no doubt she is a nice girl and class act, etc., but good people do bad things. Nationality and citizenship have a special meaning to people like me and many others. - That's all I am saying.
You're a clueless nobody and a jerk.
Strawman misdirect. If you don't care about right and wrong, go check out into your liberal rainbow pothead haze and leave discussions like this to the adults.
Bahrainiac wrote:
Strawman misdirect. If you don't care about right and wrong, go check out into your liberal rainbow pothead haze and leave discussions like this to the adults.
How do you feel about Meb running for the USA? I'll give ya a 4/10 so far BTW
Zero reason to be anything but positive about them. No reason to spread the bitterness of your own sad, pathetic lives.
That's been clearly addressed in what I wrote, learn to read.
Obviously the quality of race conditions (higher altitude, shorter non-banked track) makes Ms. Coburn's (And Ms. Praught Leer's) races impressive no matter what, but just from a fan perspective be interesting to see if the Colorado record Ms. Coburn set is a very short- lived one.
The record she broke was held by Colorado Buff junior Dani Jones, who ran 4:39.50 in last season's Colorado Open at CU-Boulder's ~2 year old banked 300M track. With this year's addition of that meet coming up next weekend, and Ms. Jones seeming to be continually improving (most recently indicated with her best- to- date 10th place finish (ran while I believe she was a little ill) at the NCAA cross country championships), could she challenge the 4:38 mark Ms. Coburn just set?
(Per
http://cubuffs.com/documents/2018/1/24//Colorado_Invitational_2018.pdf
, the women's mile is scheduled to start at 12:55 PM Mountain Time on Feb. 3rd.)
And, of course, as others indicated earlier in this thread, it would be interesting to see what time Jenny Simpson could run if she ever ran a serious race in Colorado, especially on the fast CU track, if she was at near peak shape. (Assume it would be a state record that could probably last awhile?)
[quote]comedyrelief wrote:
I am guessing Simpson has run considerably faster in her training runs. That being said, that is still a stout time on a track that is not easy to run
Bizarre logic.
I'm guessing the CU coaches would love to see Jones run a little faster than 4:38.08.
Yes, CU’s new 300 meter indoor track is fast, but it is most definitely not banked.
Dani Jones did take the Colorado record back today, running 4:36.05 in (lower altitude) Boulder..
http://cubuffs.com/news/2018/2/2/track-and-field-jones-clocks-fastest-mile-at-cu-invite.aspx
Mr. Coburn, can you please relay to New Balance to change the color of their uniforms? Those fluorescent bottoms with the black seam on the rear are not a good look, no matter how amazing and fit you are. That color doesn't work with light skin tones either. They need to get better designers in there.