Notice how this thread has far fewer hate than the Kenyan athlete threads do. White Aussies are foreigners who contribute less to America than Kenyans do, but Kenyans get all the hate.
If the NCAA XC favorite is, say, Edwin Kurgat, Gilbert Kigen, Alfred Chelanga, James Sugira, or some other athlete of African origin, this thread would go completely berserk.
- White Aussies go back to the Land Down Under and compete against us at the Olympics. David McNeill ran against us.
- Kenyans stay in America, get deployed to Iraq / Afghanistan and bravely serve our country, get US citizenship while renouncing Kenyan citizenship, and help us win medals at the Olympics. Look at what Paul Chelimo has done.
Logically, doesn't that mean that we should hate on the Aussies way more than we should hate on the Kenyans?
Aussies and Kiwis and Euros will never give up their citizenship to serve in the US military and run for us at the Olympics. Yet the LRC vitriol against them is far milder than the hate on East Africans. Not fair.