Get a job wrote:
it's not like our military is lacking in live action abroad.
Get on the front line, instead of hiding in your closet.
Get a job wrote:
it's not like our military is lacking in live action abroad.
Get on the front line, instead of hiding in your closet.
Hkfsgjb wrote:
I don't get it, everyone always complains about the tactical championships and then Rupp breaks away with 63's in the first 5K and then everyone complains that it wasn't a good race?
it wasn't a good race because all the fan favorites stunk it up.
Army crushed it though, HOOAH!
To all the people who think that "these African runners have an advantage in the heat", see climate of Nairobi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nairobi#Climate
Half of all US military members fon't see combat. Think of these guys as a marketing tool.
10 minutes, are you insane? I think they showed 3-5 minutes in total.
If you show, they will watch wrote:
Nbc really has to be trying to pi55 off as many distance fans as they can. Nobody can be ignorant enough to think what they just did was the proper way to show a distance race that decided who we were going to send to the Olympics.
If somebody recorded that it would be interesting to see how much race time wise was actually shown. My guess would be under 10 minutes.
(not counting seeing them pass by in the background during shot put coverage)
Roesler looked as if she packed it in the last ten when she lost out on the spot.
Congratulations to Kipchirchir and Korir! By joining the army, they agreed to be sent into combat if necessary, so totally unlike the Chickenhawks that fill the Republican Party. And they showed up in the heat today. Rupp ran a fine race and practiced some of the surging that will go on in the Olympics. It is a shame, however, to have only one runner that is likely to be close with a lap to go in the Olympic final. I thought that True had a shot to be there--not at the finish but when the kicking started. Having the race at this hour was yet another bad USATF decision.
Damn. What other ways are there to follow the competition? Impossible to follow other runners in the race; can't tell who is in 3rd, 4th, etc. Gosh darn I wish Track and Field had more respect. Could anyone imagined if they butchered an NFL game with this kind of coverage. Sheesh.
condam wrote:
10 minutes, are you insane? I think they showed 3-5 minutes in total.
If you show, they will watch wrote:Nbc really has to be trying to pi55 off as many distance fans as they can. Nobody can be ignorant enough to think what they just did was the proper way to show a distance race that decided who we were going to send to the Olympics.
If somebody recorded that it would be interesting to see how much race time wise was actually shown. My guess would be under 10 minutes.
(not counting seeing them pass by in the background during shot put coverage)
It was 3min and 55 sec from start to first commercial break. Didn't time the rest. Anyone got it TiVo'd and have a stopwatch?
They weren't showing the race that whole time though
fadsfadsfds wrote:
condam wrote:10 minutes, are you insane? I think they showed 3-5 minutes in total.
It was 3min and 55 sec from start to first commercial break. Didn't time the rest. Anyone got it TiVo'd and have a stopwatch?
The 10k looked like a very interesting race to watch if we could of seen it with out all the shot put and breaks.
But did anyone else think that last 200 seemed wierd? It almost seemed like that Kenyan Army guy let Rupp win this.
Rupp looked tired and I didn't think he was going to win. ( i know he has had amazing kicks in the past) Then all of a sudden with less than 200 to go that guy dies? Didn't look right to me. I need to watch this again.
Anyone know the final mile split for Galen Pup?
Clerk wrote:
Carnage out there. It is absurd how much better Rupp is than the field
Five years ago we were so ripe with US distance and major milestones: Ritz, Solinsky, Teg running big SUBs that only the East Africans had donned (really on the tail-end of Mottram) and Rupp who was tiptoeing in the waters these guys were knee deep in. Rump is 30; Sol 31; Ritz 33; Teg 34. It's sad that those bright lights no longer rock our worlds as they beastmode the _______ out on the track.
Watching two Kenyan-born ARMY guys hit 2-3, with our elder Kenyan-born statesman Lagat DNFing...it's a bitter taste for sure. We are once again in the drought of US-born distance running.
ohgod wrote:
Anyone know the final mile split for Galen Pup?
1:05.69
1:08.56
1:06.21
1:00.74
djtikitim wrote:
The 10k looked like a very interesting race to watch if we could of seen it with out all the shot put and breaks.
But did anyone else think that last 200 seemed wierd? It almost seemed like that Kenyan Army guy let Rupp win this.
Rupp looked tired and I didn't think he was going to win. ( i know he has had amazing kicks in the past) Then all of a sudden with less than 200 to go that guy dies? Didn't look right to me. I need to watch this again.
There's no conspiracy.
Kipchirchir was straining from the moment he made the surge with a lap to go. You could see his head angle and neck tightened, eyes wide and almost bulging out. It was obvious to me that Rupp would destroy him in the final 200m
Watched the race live...Kipchirir was just cooked. Every time he accelerated it looked very forced while Rupp just glided right back up to his heels. He pretty much collapsed at the finish.
YungEtiope wrote:
This is a prime example that the disgusting bigotry that's spewed by the uber-right is starting to permeate athletics.
I can't wait till the Transgenders fill the ranks of womens sports! Then we can...well actually we won't need women in the sport anymore. Oh well I got to fly to SA and adopt so I got to go.
For crying out stop quoting and feeding the troll post. They stop responding if you stop quoting their cry for attention post.
It's odd, because U.S. high schoolers are running faster than they have in the last decade. The key is developing those talents beyond college and not blowing it just to run 8:55 for 3200 in a high school race no one will remember.
Anyone know why Mead dropped out? Will he run the 5k still next week???
The 800m is always unpredictable. My thoughts are, you run the 1st round like a semi, the semi like a final and once you make the finals, everyone has a shot.