Honestly this is just dumb BUT I think there should be a blocking period when swapping allegiance where you cannot race. It feels artificial when people just take on nationalities to have more chances at making teams. Don't think its what happened with Korir but many of those recent swaps of allegiance are just odd. And we all feel it yet its not allowed to be talked about.
So yeah with Rotich changing Nationality in Fall of 2023 a few months back how is anyone expecting everyone to cheer for her if she has not even been American for a little bit. Like yeah.
It goes both ways, there are lots of US born athletes who for whatever reason are able to compete at the Olympics for other countries. About half of the last softball team for Mexico at the Olympics were born in the US, same for their women's soccer team.
Yeah that’s a bummer. Really was rooting for either her or Keira to do it this time. Their last real chance for sure. Although I guess Meb won’t the trials in 2:09 low in 2012 when he was 40+ or whatever and Abdi did it in 2021 (but neither of them are Abdi level or Meb level).
So yeah with Rotich changing Nationality in Fall of 2023 a few months back how is anyone expecting everyone to cheer for her if she has not even been American for a little bit. Like yeah.
She chose to be American. You were just born here.
CJ Albertson missed the team by only 10 seconds. The guy always runs 2:10 when it matters, and 2:11 when it doesn't. Too bad 2:10 just wasn't quite good enough today.
He literally just gave an interview with perfectly fine English, and the United States doesn't even have an official language.
Lenny Korir is the man. Imagine wanting to give yourself a better life to the point you serve in your new country's military proudly and still getting dogged by people. Proud of all 3 of our men who will represent the US in Paris.