You are literally talking about the high school record. Obviously nobody else has run that time. Is every high school record holder suspicious?
No. But if the improvements go far beyond the rate of improvements of other highly-trained athletes it should raise the question of how was this naturally achievable. This is especially so today, when doping is in every sport.
There have always been noteworthy improvements in performance by highly-trained athletes. Ron Clarke took 36 seconds off the 10000m WR at age 28. What kind of drugs do you think he was on? What about Beamon's jump in MC? Drugs, again?
I want to give Robert some credit. He messed up bigly and is doing damage control in some other threads. By locking them. He has clarified the is trying to help Wiley. He has not yet provided us an update on his conversation with any agents in Europe.
I feel sort of bad for the brojos on this. They are in a tough situation with no easy way out. The genie is out of the bottle as it were. LRC really screwed the pooch with the first post on the main Huntington thread. Wiley should have been afforded the privacy of that interview (which was obviously intended by the redactions and the victim1 designation). I think the only way forward for LRC is to do a deep scrubbing of anything remotely relating Wiley with all of that, and then to keep on top of censoring. Unfortunately, that would actually be a "whitewashing" that Astro has been concerned about, but it would be the preferable path for LRC.
"In his first time-trial for a Mile he was 13th in 5:38—not good enough for even the B team. An 11:51 Two Miles finally gave him some encouragement. He dropped his time to 11:23 and then won a B competition. After this, Ryun was put in the A team and ran a 10:36. Coach Timmons was impressed and watched the young 15-year-old improve to become the school’s top cross-country".
After incredibly intensive training with Timmons, he he ran 4:08 at 16.
However the main point - which is crucial - is that when he ran 5.38 he had absolutely no background or training in the sport. He was never again to make anything like that kind of jump in performance. His progression as a runner is nothing like that of Wiley nor almost any other runner - and it is acknowledged he was a prodigy from his mid-teens - at 16. She wasn't.
That's exactly what I said, that he went from 5:38 to 4:08 in just a few months. So you're simply proving your denials were all wrong.
Also you're wrong that Ryun had no background in the sport. He ran a 58 second 440 in 8th grade, and felt that he had no talent because several others in his class ran 53 seconds for 440 yards.
Your conclusion that he never again made that type of leap is ridiculous. Would you expect him to go from 4:08 to 2:38 for the mile??? You're making me question your sanity. Besides that, going from 4:08 to 3:51 and 3:33 is indeed quite a big jump, so you're wrong on that too.
Wiley is also a prodigy, so you got that part wrong too.
I kind of miss good ol' Astro. You could always count on him to say the exact same thing over and over but in an endearing way that didn't recognize he was doing so. He was a lot like a ranting and raving dementia patient. Plus, I was really looking forward to seeing him scurry around after the Brussels DL. I'll miss that guy and all his internal demons.
Daily update - are you hoping people take your word and don't listen to the podcast or see the comment? Rojo didn't say or share anything worthy of your obsessive comments or threats of a lawyer getting involved. Your comments are gaslighting at its finest. Let's continue to deflect from the real story and the truth. It would be shameful and irresponsible for people to be silent and not warn agents and sponsors about the Huntington University situation and the connection to AW. It's preposterous to realize how many people really don't really care about Addy and her future. If you did, you would concentrate your energy on getting her away from the Johnsons and their circle that knows "if one goes down, they all go down." Maybe that's why you're fighting so hard.
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