Cole Hocker says in post-race interview that "God carried his body across the line"

“Your god took time out of their day”—this is nonsense, because God and the angels exist outside of time. Time is a creature of God.

and I thought Rooks was the Team USA king dullard

Every time a successful athlete thanks or mentions God in an interview, LRC turns into a midwit atheist subreddit circa 2007, without realizing that that movement has mostly evolved into wokeness.

Godly use of PEDs.

That's a very Christian response. What verse is it?

The ungodly speaks.

It's usually spelt with a "c" - and I don't mean Christian. You should know that when others refer to you, like they do.

It just makes me wonder what God might be willing to do for Cole if he'd just get that hair cut.

Huh?

The last three American medalists in the 1500 (Cole, Centro, and Manzano) are devout Catholics, as are Salazar/Rupp (who you mentioned), Meb, Ritz, and many others. Look at the high schools attended by top American distance runners, if it is a Catholic school, there is a 95% chance they are Catholic. [Kipchoge is also a Catholic and most Ethiopian runners are either Orthodox or Catholic (similar beliefs) and I think these are a lot of the people that you see dropping to the track.]

As for Protestants/non-Catholics — the BYU guys are Mormons and there are a bunch of Evangelicals (Ryan Hall, CJ Albertson, etc.)

When any athlete feels the need to do prayers on the track or thank God in their interviews, it intensifies my suspiscion that they are using diversion tactics ('look at me I'm such a wonderful, God fearing person') in order to hide something!

Christian and unvaxxed. Based Hocker.

Catholics and Orthodox are very similar, though they differ on two basic doctrines, the Filioque and papal primacy. They also diverge a bit in terms of devotions and art (Catholic 3-D statues and Eastern 2-D icons), also think that Orthodox do not emphasize Christmas as much on their calendar, instead it is the Ephiphany. The theology is a bit different too, as the Catholic Church has a strong tradition of Scholasticism which the Orthodox generally reject. But they are very alike in terms of sacraments, mysticism, apostolic authority and devotion to the Virgin Mary.

There is a whole spectrum of Protestantism, some strands very classical and closer to Catholicism (such as conservative Anglicanism or Lutheranism), all the way to what we would probably consider evangelicalism or non-denominationalism, which tends to be very suspicious of sacraments and any kind of hierarchical authority.

How do you know Centro is a devout Catholic?

I thought it was the catholics and not the Orthos that were devoted to the Virgin Mary.

... but he's not dead yet

The god is a weirdo. He's worse than Trump. God spends time helping runners but not little kids starving. What a weirdo God is.

We should get him. We should get God. Honestly if we all combine our strength we can overpower God, like the way 100 little kids can overpower one big guy.

Seriously God is going down after school.

God spoke to me and he said he had nothing to do with Hocker’s win. My delusion is just as plausible as his.

Unfortunately religion is not a testable drug.