rojo wrote:
Do you want us to go back to the days of the 1920s when the press just looked the other ways when sports figures and politicians had affairs, late night esacapades, etc.
Is this a serious post? People deserve privacy. You being a "journalist" doesn't make it ok to expose peoples' private lives.
Fentrekker wrote:
Curiousity wrote:I'm being facetious here, but why, as a Brit, would you use a term like "person of color" (using the American spelling) which is virtually unheard of in the UK?
And why would you follow up with an analogy about a sportsman no Brit would have heard of, in a sport nobody knows anything about?
Because I earned my B.A, M.A. and Ph.D. in the Unites States. They have airplanes that go across the Atlantic.
Or more likely He's full of it. Like Mo is.
There is this wrote:
Weldon did cop to taking a drug that was prohibited so the accusations are actually true. Of course, truth doesn't really matter on this site.
What drug did he admit to taking? Please enlighten me.
Fentrekker wrote:
Curiousity wrote:I'm being facetious here, but why, as a Brit, would you use a term like "person of color" (using the American spelling) which is virtually unheard of in the UK?
And why would you follow up with an analogy about a sportsman no Brit would have heard of, in a sport nobody knows anything about?
Because I earned my B.A, M.A. and Ph.D. in the Unites States. They have airplanes that go across the Atlantic.
Lots of people cross the Atlantic to live or work. I've never come across any who completely abandoned their native version of English
rojo wrote:
Did I start the twitter war? Did I orchestrate the verbal altercation? Did I write the articles in the British press?
No, No and No.
I'm simply highlighting what people want to read as any newpspaper editor. Got to the Independent and what is #1 in their athletics site...
What exactly is my agenda?
I would say my agenda is to cover the world of running and give running fans interesting stuff to read.
We aren't a 'tabloid'. Far from it. We have a paid staff that wrote 6,600+ words recapping the Diamond League action yesterday. 6,600 words. Please tell me who else in the world came close to that.
It's not my fault that more than 3 x as many people are currently reading the this thread than our women's recap (more people are reading the men's recap than this thread). Thtat's just what people are interested in.
"Don't blame me. I'm just giving people what they want."
I sure hope you are being ironic, because that is pretty much the textbook definition of tabloid journalism.
What's next? "How can I be biased? Some of my best friends have thyroid problems"? "I like those NOPsters, I just wouldn't want my brother to marry one"? "
You are right. LRC does a lot of great stuff that nobody else does. But you do it with an stunning lack of self-awareness.
It's not impossible that someone who studied in the USA would drop a "u," but I don't think Fentrekker sounds like he knows anything about life in London. I never heard of anyone finding the USA less racist than London. If he had said he was from a little village somewhere that would be different.
Andy Vernon is a nobody racist... Farah doesn't have to forgive him if he doesn't want to. Vernon didn't have to go crying to the media about it either.
In what way does coaching a collegiate xc and track program from mediocrity to national powerhouse make one a "jealous never-was"? You strike me as a run-of-the-mill internet fool who hurls unsubstantiated insults at more successful people from the safety of a keyboard. Anything goes to boost the faltering self-esteem I suppose.
Let's be real. The f-bomb was warranted and awesome. Hell, in the gun-loving US of A, the personal attacks on citizenship Mo endured would be met with much more than relatively harmless profanity.
To those saying a gold medalist shouldn't curse or should set a higher standard of moral behavior: why does Mo have to be a role model? His job is to win races. Turns out he's super good at that.
Just curious have you ever been the victim of racial prejudice? Have ever even been a racial minority or a minority with regards to anything out of your control?
the chosen wrote:
The public face of Mo is a smiling nice family man, but behind things he seems like a real douche
Should be discipined wrote:
Very unsportsmanlike conduct.
Farah should be discplined.
jjjjjj wrote:I'd have done the same thing. Vernon attacked him pointlessly and deserved the snub.
Don't let your lady like sensibilities on the sidelines of an NFL game, lol.
Are running fans really such p*ssies?
Sir Charles Barkley wrote:
Let's be real. The f-bomb was warranted and awesome. Hell, in the gun-loving US of A, the personal attacks on citizenship Mo endured would be met with much more than relatively harmless profanity.
To those saying a gold medalist shouldn't curse or should set a higher standard of moral behavior: why does Mo have to be a role model? His job is to win races. Turns out he's super good at that.
I can tell by your post you have yet to hit puberty. This whole BS about the attacks on citizenship is dumb
Farah strikes me as a sociopath. He has angry outburts for no reason. Goes overboard in his responses. Takes any criticism as a challenge to his manhood. Lies. Then tries to sooth over the lies. Then lies again.
He will say or do anything for personal game.
Public hero number 1 wrote:
Vernon is loved by the British running public and Mo is increasingly disliked. That says a lot to me.
I'm not talking about the general public who get their information from thr mass media, but those within running circles. People who know them, know of them, have interacted with them, know people who have interacted with them.
If you turned up to any road or track race in the UK and just took a general consensus of the opinion on both runners it would be hugley posiitve about Vernon and at best a mixed bag about Mo.
Mo accusing Andy of racism in the public domain without any evidence whatsoever was a very low blow.
It is testiment to the power of Mo and the mainstream media that people on this board believe it to be true and make their judgements of Andy based on that.
It is testiment to Andy's personality and great character that the overwhelming majority of the British running community think he is a great guy and support him 100%
I'm Brit who might be described as somebody who moves within said running circles. There is some truth in this. There are a lot of angry skinny white club running guys here who don't like Mo, and worship Vernon. It's a bit weird to be honest.
Brojos, I love your content, but your message boards are literally poison. The YouTube comments of running. Shame, because this is pretty much my one-stop-shop.
rojo wrote:
I'm simply highlighting what people want to read as any newpspaper editor. Got to the Independent and what is #1 in their athletics site:
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/general/athletics/It's Farah's spat with Vernon.
At the Guardian and Telegraph sites, the spats is also higher up than the race.
I'm not sure what you are getting at.
The problem with that, is that we come here because your site is better than those newspapers for coverage of distance running, track and field and the Diamond League. The Independent, Guardian and Telegraph's site will have had more hits from a story about a celebrity telling somebody to 'f### off', than they would have had they had focused on the sport that took place.
Perhaps Farah want to bury the hatchet later. If someone else slags you off its not up to them when you are going to bury the hatchet
Vernon seems to make a habit of crying about people telling him to feck off
Vernon has a habit of denigrating his team mates after they do well.
Mo just let him know how it is,good on him.
Good move by Mo. Vernon could have had testosterone cream on his hand that could lead to a positive test for Farah. Obviously a sabotage attempt, duh
LetsRun.com wrote:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/athletics/mo-farah/11730242/Mo-Farah-allegedly-tells-team-mate-Andy-Vernon-to-f-off-as-spat-between-two-reignites.html
J.R. wrote:
I just now saw the 6 photos of Farah winning the race yesterday, and they are freaking hilarious!!!!! reminiscent of Coe after the '84 1500, but in spades.
http://www.letsrun.com/news/2015/07/2015-lausanne-mens-recap-mo-farah-dominates-nijel-amos-143-27-takes-down-david-rudisha/
"...but in spades"?
But we both know that you are aware of this - and that it was on the prohibited list from 1983-2004
