Rupp OUT!

kramerr wrote:

LRC girl wrote:

I met Galen Rupp once. I accidentally dropped a pen on his foot. I was going to ask for his autograph, but the pen fell out of my hand. Well, by the look on his face you would've thought I dropped a brick on his damn foot. Excuuuuuuse me.

...I have nothing else to add to this...

Hahaha. Seriously?

Yeah, it was at Boston Indoor Games a few years ago.

tghpdx wrote:

[quote]kramerr wrote:

[quote]LRC girl wrote:

oh that's a shame for you LRC girl - I have met him several times, my daughter got his autograph, he was very friendly and accommodating, this was right after winning the pac 10s. He is a nice person, and a good ambassador for the sport even though most of you think other wise.

Well, I met him shortly after he lost a race to Lagat, so he probably wasn't in as good a mood as he was after winning Pac 10. Ain't no thing, though.

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LRC girl wrote:

tghpdx wrote:

[quote]kramerr wrote:

[quote]LRC girl wrote:

oh that's a shame for you LRC girl - I have met him several times, my daughter got his autograph, he was very friendly and accommodating, this was right after winning the pac 10s. He is a nice person, and a good ambassador for the sport even though most of you think other wise.

Well, I met him shortly after he lost a race to Lagat, so he probably wasn't in as good a mood as he was after winning Pac 10. Ain't no thing, though.

Typical d*ck move by Rupp. Remember Peyten Jordan when he refused to shake hands after Solinsky dropped him on the last lap.

Typical d*ck move by Rupp. Remember Peyten Jordan when he refused to shake hands after Solinsky dropped him on the last lap.

You can't let that go; that is your view of the race you watch it over and over a that is all you will ever see. I watched the race I saw a tired Rupp getting out of the way of a celebration - hey what about the day and a half it took Chris to respond via twitter after Rupp destroyed the record "sorry I was off twitter for a while" is that a typical dick move?

Its not a typical d*ck move because Solinsky isn't a d*ck like Rupp is. Secondly it's dumb to compare the two. The first one you are assuming that Solinsky had access to twitter, you don't know what was going on with him. In Rupps case the video is right there for everybody to see. Solinsky owns Rupp, takes down the record. The race was supposed to be about Galen remember he kept switching meets because the course wasn't Rupp certified. Remember he wanted a 10k time trial in Eugene just for the point of going after the record. Nobody expected Solinsky to do what he did. All this lead to Rupp pouting after the race refusing to shake hands and congratulate Solinsky until Rupp was verbally and physically instructed to do so. That you can not dispute because that is on video.

stuck with match.com wrote:

All this lead to Rupp pouting after the race refusing to shake hands and congratulate Solinsky until Rupp was verbally and physically instructed to do so. That you can not dispute because that is on video.

That's weird. I never saw the video where you could hear audio of Rupp being "verbally...instructing". But since you say it's there, I guess I can't dispute it!

suburbanxcore wrote:

stuck with match.com wrote:

All this lead to Rupp pouting after the race refusing to shake hands and congratulate Solinsky until Rupp was verbally and physically instructed to do so. That you can not dispute because that is on video.

That's weird. I never saw the video where you could hear audio of Rupp being "verbally...instructing". But since you say it's there, I guess I can't dispute it!

Watch the video you can see that dude pull galen aside, his lips move and he points to solinsky. But of course obviously he wasn't instructing him to congratulate he was clearly telling rupp Steve Perry is the greatest singer of all time and the point was very Steve Perry like.

stuck with match.com wrote:

and the point was very Steve Perry like.

+1 for Steve Perry reference

From Hanson's Twitter:

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5 more days before the trials. That means 3 more long runs of 20 miles. For all those people gullible enough to think that Rupp was running. 5:13 PM

agip2 wrote:

I feel like a genius. I modified my contest predictions last night to eliminate him. Thought he would show up on the starting line, then not run, though.

Apparently you didn't think that, because you picked him in the contest...

My guess is that one day we will see another thread with this exact same title.

True.. I don't understand what he gained by all this.

Different News wrote:

My guess is that one day we will see another thread with this exact same title.

LOL!

Bill Russell won a championship as a head coach.

Salazar's rationale for Rupp to pull out of the trials was somewhat reasonable (an indoor season is hardly the most important goal and running the marathon now would have given him plenty of time to be at peak shape again this summer), but there was nothing in the reasoning that would not already have been true or known before Rupp declared. So, why did he declare at all?

jjjjjjjjjjj wrote:

So, why did he declare at all?

He hasn't declared. He's still listed as open and will be scratched tomorrow.

I called this the day letsrun published published Rupp was entered. There was at NO point a >0% chance of Rupp running the OT marathon.

As I said before, he is the queen of DNF and DNS in elite US running. Any time his name appears entered in a race, you have better odds betting on no finish that you do betting on any placing.

Pathetic. Really embarrassing to the sport. Gee, I wonder why mainstream media aren't interested in covering a bunch of guys (Sol, Rupp) who can't even say if they'll start a race until days (or minutes) before the gun.

Jeff Wigand wrote:

jjjjjjjjjjj wrote:

So, why did he declare at all?

He hasn't declared. He's still listed as open and will be scratched tomorrow.

So why was he entered at all?

Pizzaguy wrote:

stuck with match.com wrote:

and the point was very Steve Perry like.

+1 for Steve Perry reference

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=te1CVVlaJzA