Lots of triggered SJWs in this thread.
LetsRun.com wrote:
Knight stayed close enough to the NAU guys to unleash his dick in the final minute to get the win.
https://twitter.com/letsrundotcom/status/931907072710643712https://twitter.com/letsrundotcom/status/931907387920994304After the race, he said he wasn't even feeling good today and at his best today.
"I feel fantastic, "said Knight to flotrack after the race. "My name is now up there with the greats. My parents came out to see me, whenever they come out I have a great race."
"It was my first time racing the Allabama guys so I didn't know what was going to happen. I knew the NAU guys were serious, serious guys."
He added that he was cramping up 4k in but had to "suck it up".
"To be honest, I don't know how much I had left (at the end) as I was little off and cramping up."
Doesn't he need to win more than one to have his name up there with the greats?
Fact:
Grant Fisher moved to the U.S. When he was three.
Facts:
His mother is American, his dad is Canadian. The family lives in the USA. Grant Fisher is a U.S. Citizen and has competed as an American on US age group national teams and at US championships.
Observation:
Canada doesn't seem to make any such fuss about this stuff.
rojo wrote:
Dumb wrote:
Just say second Canadian and stop being racist af
Racist?
So by pointing out that this black Canadian NCAA champ was born in Canada and the other black Canadian NCAA champ (Simon Bairu) wasn't born in Canada, somehow we're being racist?
Can you explain that to me?
Rojo, you write/cover running in a journalistic manner the way sport writers wrote about NCAA football and/or NFL fifty years ago. Go to Fox Sports, ESPN.com of SI.com. Writers do not start columns with "white quarterback &/or black quarterback" the way you and your fellow 19th Century writers at Letsrun write your articles. Is your response going to be: Black runners running fast is a new phenomenon. That response would not be accurate.
curious fan wrote:
LetsRun.com wrote:
Knight stayed close enough to the NAU guys to unleash his dick in the final minute to get the win.
https://twitter.com/letsrundotcom/status/931907072710643712https://twitter.com/letsrundotcom/status/931907387920994304After the race, he said he wasn't even feeling good today and at his best today.
"I feel fantastic, "said Knight to flotrack after the race. "My name is now up there with the greats. My parents came out to see me, whenever they come out I have a great race."
"It was my first time racing the Allabama guys so I didn't know what was going to happen. I knew the NAU guys were serious, serious guys."
He added that he was cramping up 4k in but had to "suck it up".
"To be honest, I don't know how much I had left (at the end) as I was little off and cramping up."
Doesn't he need to win more than one to have his name up there with the greats?
In the media's eyes, the Great One is the last person to win. If you don't win the following year, then they forget about you.
I was hoping Grant Fisher would pull of a win, but Justyn Knight seemed to win. I also have a soft spot for Peter Seufer, he is really nice. Justyn has a heart of gold, I'm not taking away that from him, but I just think some other people get unlucky, because I'd rate them higher then him. I wouldn't put him up there with the greats, because Bekele wasn't in that race, who literally would have destroyed the field. It looked like an amazing experience to run that course. Obviously, I don't think I would have made the top 100, but it would have been very extremely exciting. The course, the amazing support of that crowd and the route. If only I could dream literally of competing. The best I can do is dream of Bekele and Ayana. I might not be elite, but I can enjoy watching them be the best.
SMiLE wrote:
Lots of triggered SJWs in this thread.
Nice contribution to this discussion. How does not even trying to address what people are pointing out do anything for this conversation? This has nothing to do with "triggering" and "SJWs." It has everything to do with the brojos inflicting their biases into every conversation about running. When Rupp won Chicago it was "American born" to show so sort of difference between him and Khalid Khannouchi. What is the point of doing this? It's just their racial biases shining through whether that is their intent or not. They needed to find a special way to highlight Rupp's accomplishment because he isn't African. Now we have NCAAs and we have to say Knight is Canadian born. We can't just say Canadian? Why does this matter and why does it get promoted? Then on the women's side, they talk about the winner's age but why not also talk about how BYU always has older runners? This site swings in favor of white dudes and they don't want to address it. They put up posts like this, in part, because it drives clicks.
Katey B. wrote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-fgerFFBZg
I just watched this. The way some people were complaining about his celebration at the end, you would think he was doing cartwheels and blowing kisses to the crowd for minutes on end. There was nothing wrong with it. Good for him.
Crosses himself about 6 seconds from line. Pops school name on singlet as he crosses the line. What race were you watching?
running commenter wrote:
Justin Knight celebrated the whole last 100 meters like a total dbag. I was kind of hoping he'd trip.
running commenter wrote:Justin Knight celebrated the whole last 100 meters like a total dbag. I was kind of hoping he'd trip.
Er... wrote:Crosses himself about 6 seconds from line. Pops school name on singlet as he crosses the line.
What race were you watching?
Probably the race in which he didn't like a Canadian black kid that won.
FightFor15 wrote:
SMiLE wrote:
Lots of triggered SJWs in this thread.
Nice contribution to this discussion...? This site swings in favor of white dudes and they don't want to address it. They put up posts like this, in part, because it drives clicks.
Canada born Canadian Knight is white?
Non US born American Fisher is black?
I learn something new every day.
You are looking for something that is in your head
Justyn Knight is a class act, seems super gracious and polite in victory and defeat. He won a National title, he should be excited! If this bothers you so much, why weren't you upset when Tiernan shushed the crowd before the finish line last year at NCAAs?
Katey B. wrote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-fgerFFBZg
What amazes me about this clip is how Jerrell Mock is right with Knight with maybe 400m to go and ends up in 169th, apparently without falling. He must have lapsed into some sort of coma. He must have walked at some point.
The post about excessive celebration was an attempt to draw unfair criticism of a great runner. He didn't do very much at all.
The post was click bait by a poozer.
Learn to read champ - he wrote "tend to" not "always."
Words count.
But Letsrun.com administrators will not say Canadian born fisher wins ncaa if he wins. That is the difference. They will only say an American won NCAA. They need to stop emphasizing nationality.
Most importantly, he's the first African-North American runner to win the race. It's not common for African-North Americans to dominate in long distances in this nature. Having West African genetics structures your body to perform at shorter sprint distances rather than long distances. East Africans are the opposite, obviously. That's why you see majority of Kenyans and Ethiopians in distant running and you see a majority of West Africans in short distances. It proves the point of why Knight runs such short mpw compared to other runners. I am African-American and what I found out was that for me to perform well at 5k-10k distances, long mile weeks weren't the best workouts for me, instead I ran 40-50mpw running my pr at sub 15:30 and sub 33 which was good for me senior year of HS. I did do well as a sprinter, 23sec 200m guy and 50sec 400m guy. Not trying to be the guy that brings race into it, but the fact that he's biologically structured for sprints and wins a 10k is impressive.
Try to think of other inherent West Africans that dominate at long distances? Yeah you can't
Naturalrunner wrote:
But Letsrun.com administrators will not say Canadian born fisher wins ncaa if he wins. That is the difference. They will only say an American won NCAA. They need to stop emphasizing nationality.
I would then have corrected it to: Canada born Canadian citizen (who also has US citizenship and represents the US nternationaly) wins NCAA XC
Then adding that the last US born NCAA XC winner is still Rupp.
Hshehheheje wrote:
FightFor15 wrote:
Nice contribution to this discussion...? This site swings in favor of white dudes and they don't want to address it. They put up posts like this, in part, because it drives clicks.
Canada born Canadian Knight is white?
Non US born American Fisher is black?
I learn something new every day.
You are looking for something that is in your head
If that's what you choose to take away from what I wrote and only include a small part of it to base everything you say off of it then that's fine. The disparity in treatment on this website between white male runners and everyone else is not in my head. This websites dedication to point out where some American runners were born and not others is not in my head. I do not think the intent is malicious but the website certainly creates something that they do not need to be doing when they label Knight as Canadian born.
Look no further than how much they had to put "American born winner" in front of Galen Rupp's name after Chicago. Rupp and KK are both American, both runners, and both champions. We do not need to distinguish between where KK and where GR were born, as if to say that GR is a true American and KK is not. It's garbage. Let's have a dialogue instead of you just picking and choosing what you want to quote. Why do you think there is no bias here at LRC? It's a website run by older white men who harp on nationality and encourage threads about women's bodies. Sure, nothing going on here. Nothing at all.