Ryan Foreman wrote:
Very little chance that Rupp runs marathon for reasons already stated.
But also, consider what we know of Salazar and Rupp. They commit to a goal, and a plan to achieve that goal, years in advance. If Rupp was going to run the Olympic marathon we would have known about it 2 years ago. Furthermore, this is the last Olympics Rupp will have the opportunity to run on the track and seriously compete. He is not going to pass that opportunity of lifetime up just to run the marathon. He will be able to run the marathon at a high level for much of the next 8-10 years after the 16' Olympics.
That makes sense but last Trials Rupp was entered. I personally don't think he had any intention of running it, but that is pure speculation. However, that is the case, then his group has a tendency of sort of floating this out there at the very least for publicity.