India is a blossoming distance powerhouse

“Indians at American schools” are Americans, not Indians. In America as well as on this forum, it’s common to compare blacks to apes. Even Joe Rogan (in)famously did that.

Indians in India don’t think blacks are inferior or simian. They have plenty of local people who would be black-passing.

Hey, idiot, ever heard of a metaphor or simile? Some Indians live like pigs. Are they pigs? No. They are humans. Living filthily.

when you have to wear a respirator on all your runs, it raises your vo2 max.

You're putting me in a position where it looks like I am picking on India, which I don't want to do. But India has ONE sub-4 miler in its history ... and he did it THIS YEAR. I wondered if they had somehow never run the mile regularly, despite being ruled by Britain for 200 years?

Nope. How many men in Indian history have gone below 3:38.00? Would you believe ONE?

Your post is dumb.

Yes, and he was the one who ran 13:19 last year. Who did you think did that? He is a good runner and at the level of the word's best steeplers of the '70s, but there is STILL NO indication they are a blossoming powerhouse.

Show us 25 men running under 13:15 a year, without drugs, and then you might have something.

Try going to most city's what? Don't leave us in suspense. Which countries is India developing?

Try going to most city's ... porta-potties during a heatwave. That'll give you a whole new appreciation for "developing aromas."

Believe India is developing Bhutan.

Hi Donald 45 !

Probably if more Indians had nice conditions to train in, we would have a lot of great Indian distance runners. But if you live in just about any Indian population center, running outdoors sucks — you’ve got cars and wild dogs chasing you and just no good trails or anything. When that changes, India could/should dominate.

I'm sure someone has said it, but for a country four or fives times more populated than the US, India is sure lacking in Olympic and World Championship medals. Call me when some dude pops a 3:26 (or a 2:05 for that matter).

Not really. I talked to one of the athletes training under Scott Simmons and he told me he was doping. They don't get tested by USADA, and as they are abroad NADA does not test them.

No country on Earth has ever produced 25 men in a single year,who can run sub 13.15 without drugs.

I've never quite understood what was going on with India on the sports front. I remember thinking to myself at one point, that I knew a guy who won more medals than India in the Barcelona Olympics. Seemed kind of odd.

My doctor friend said that Indians and many south Asians are prone to having small organs, and that is why they are more prone to developing illnesses such as Type 2 diabetes and heart disease, despite not being especially overweight or leading an unhealthy lifestyle. I guess that goes for their heart and lungs as well. Not meaning this to come across as racist, it was part of studies which have compared BMI, body composition and health outcomes on a global scale.

I don't think anyone anywhere has to lose sleep about India becoming a distance running powerhouse, its never going to happen.

Culturally Indians are not that keen on sports to begin with, with some national interest in cricket badminton and tennis.

Families are not keen to have their kids engage seriously in sports. No one is going to impress anyone in India because their child is a great runner, jumper hurdler etc. And in Indian culture flaunting successful kids is a big deal. Success always meaning a good job and lots of money. So most young people opt for the academic route. Almost all top Indian runners come from poor backgrounds.

There is no real program to develop young athletes in high school or universities, facilities are terrible and so are coaches. If you're not seriously training in your late teens early 20s you don't have much hope of developing int a world class distance runner.

Ideal locations to train are hard to find, running on roads is a death sentence, and the weather isn't helpful.

Because of the historically terrible results in the Olympics the national sports body isnt keen on spending more money on developing a sport that has no support at home.

Indians best hope is to identify talent at home and ship them out to US/Europe for development, sort of like Kenyan runners in the NCAA program.

Both A. Sable and Parvej Khan would not have been this good if they had stayed and trained in India. Sable in fact spent some time in Kenya training with Chelimo before coming to the US.

Prediction: no medals for India in Paris in track and field. Chopra has been battling injuries and if hes fit he may have the only shot at a medal.

And we still don’t

That first Fred Wilt book “ How they Train” had a chapter about distance running and cross country in India…..

well, I just thought I’d point that out ha

correction: Run, Run Run

If it is so bad, why do you live there? You're a huge Bollywood fan?