CHRIS SOLINSKY OUT OF WORLDS.

Competition and integrity, courage and dedication, honor and valor, are not about nuance and complexity.

It's very simple. Solinsky is not just A loser, but THE BIGGEST loser.

And it's got to do with lots more than just possibly being a once-in-a-lifetime chance, in case you haven't noticed. It certainly wasn't that way for JJK or others, and they STILL started.

You know why? Because they are WINNERS.

Unlike Solinsky, who is a LOSER.

Chris who?

Go Vlasic.

Sir Lance-alot wrote:

Sprint Geezer wrote:

"A few days ago I lasted only 24 attempts in practice and decided to pull out of the World Championships, .

Whether or not she changed her mind, you consider the ABOVE the mentality of a "warrior" ?!?! Hilarious.

The High Jump is a skill/talent sport, there are very little "warrior" qualities involved in it.

Chris Solinsky has suffered more pain, agony, and gone more often into the depths of gut-check nausea during a single week of hard training than Blanca the Preener has felt in her entire lifetime.

I think it's unfair to call her a preener. I think she tries to pump the crowd up to get herself pumped up. Maybe she's a little showy but she has been really good for a long time. She lost the gold in Bejing even though she jumped 2meters 5cm. The field events could use more like her - talented, ballsy, and a good entertainer.

a diamond leaugue race gets 500 hits on youtube no one cares if you win

you got to line up and do your best every time

Ritz has company.

Looks like the real iron man is Rupp!

Who woulda thunk it!

You are totally wrong about everything in your post.

It's childish a-holes like you who take the important things out of sport and competition, because you're too immature to understand.

You're such a moron, and I hope that someday you realize that.

When did YOU win Olympic gold? WC gold? Why do YOU line up, when you have no hope of winning the big prize?

Why line up? Because the essential point is not to win, but to compete. You think those guys who line up against Bolt in a 200 have a shot at winning?

When you're young, and you move up divisions and first compete in open, YOU GET YOUR A$$ KICKED. WHEN YOU LINE UP AGAINST WR-HOLDERS AS A SCRAWNY 18-YEAR-OLD KID, YOU KNOW YOU WILL NOT WIN, BUT YOU START THE RACE. IF YOU DIDN'T YOU WOULD BE AN A-HOLE TO EVERYONE, INCLUDING THE WR-HOLDER.

Why do all the runners here who have no chance of winning a big marathon enter anyway? To compete. To try their best. Because there ARE toughness awards, in case you haven't noticed.

And you haven't. But maybe someday you will.

Pro Solinsky Arguments:

-Don't be so quick to hold it against him that he doesn't race more often. This strategy has gotten him to sub-13 in the 5k and sub-27 in the 10k. Pre never did that. In fact, no other American has EVER done it. As the American record holder, I don't presume to tell him or Schumacher how to train better.

-The guy went for it this year. Give him credit. He ran fast and his hamstring gave. Would have you have rather he aimed for a B+ season to begin with and kept his hamstring healthy? He started the year with fast a fast 1500. He was obviously trying to get as much speed as possible early this year in preparation for the 5k this year and then maybe the 5k or 10k next year. All that fast running hurt his hamstring. Kudos to him for trying to do what he though it would take to win.

-Why should he line up if he knows he isn't going to do well? He caused issues at USATF by not announcing his intentions early. Well this time he manned up ("hardest decision of [his] life") and DNSed in time that somebody else could step in. He did it the right way.

-His hamstring has been bothering him all year. What was he going to do, just keep running through on it all year? In terms of next year and avoiding really, really bad injury, it's probably best that he just stop so he can hit the reset button sooner. Those workouts won't have gone to waste for his cumulative fitness; we just won't get to see what might have been a nice performance.

Anti Solinsky Arguments:

-Multiple dropouts this year.

-Not the first time this year he's messed up the USA's ability to choose their team because of a DNS.

-Everyone is suspicious if they drop out this year due to the drug testing.

So while there are certainly some negative things, I think the guy deserves a lot more credit overall for his accomplishments.

So let me get this straight, he'll start the unimportant Pre Classic 10k with a hurt hamstring, but won't start the world championships? Its the climax of the season and still 12 days out . . . Makes no sense.

When athletes like Chris make these decisions, how much influence does the coach have?

"Why should he line up if he knows he isn't going to do well?"

Bullcrap.

Why did MJ start Game 5 against Utah?

"He remembers waking up in the middle of the night, sweating profusely, shaking, and feeling as if he was going to die. "I was scared; I didn't know what was happening to me," Michael Jordan would say.

At first, he thought it was a nightmare. Then he realized it was real, that he was seriously ill. "I felt partially paralyzed," he would later say.

When he lifted himself up from his bed in his Utah hotel room, his head began spinning. He'd never been so nauseated before. He feared that somehow, some way, someone had slipped some kind of drug in something he ate.

It was the middle of the night in Salt Lake City, an off day between Games 4 and 5. The series was tied, 2-2, following Utah's second consecutive win, but how in the world could Jordan play in this condition in Game 5?

Jordan called the Bulls' medical personnel, which came rushing to his room. They determined that he was suffering from food poisoning or an intestinal stomach virus. "There's no way you'll be able to play Game 5," Jordan was told.

Jordan remains in bed for the next 24 hours, missing the Bulls' morning practices the day before and the day of Game 5. He had lost several pounds. He was dehydrated. Then, at 3 p.m., just three hours before tip-off, Jordan rose from his hotel bed and dragged himself to the Delta Center."

"Jackson was almost at a loss for words, but finally told the media, "Because of the circumstances, with this being a critical game in the Finals, I'd have to say this is the greatest game I've seen Michael play. Just standing up was nauseating for him and caused him dizzy spells. This was a heroic effort, one to add to the collection of efforts that make up his legend."

After MJ's epic performance, Pippen would say, "He's the greatest, and everyone saw why tonight.""

Because you NEVER know what is going to happen if you DO start, especially not 2 weeks out. You do it because you NEED to, because you have desire, honor, integrity, will, and so on. Unless you're Chris Solinsky.

MJ showed up, and was a winner.

CS is not showing up, and is a loser.

Go Vlasic!

Oh, just in case the earlier poster missed it (because he seems thick in the head), Jordan was just given a toughness award by both Phil Jackson and Scottie Pippen--and by everybody else since, who know of the story.

Agreed. I love Solinsky's drive and commitment. But being a successful athlete also involves some plain common sense. A baseball player thinks nothing of going on the DL for a 15 days or a month in early summer to take care of any nagging injuries so that he is ready for a playoff run in September and October. CS's injury could very well just be bad luck. But we know he had hamstring issues going back at least to early in the season. He had a strong USATF meet by just about any standard, leading the charge for a good 5 laps to break the entire field but Lagat. That tells me he was training a lot with the hamstring problem. He could have shut things down for awhile early in the season to deal with the hamstring, then come back to USATF and still qualfied but (god forbid) finish third behind Rupp, then be healthy for Worlds and probably turn in a better performance than he did in 2009.

Americans Suck wrote:

So let me get this straight, he'll start the unimportant Pre Classic 10k with a hurt hamstring, but won't start the world championships? Its the climax of the season and still 12 days out . . . Makes no sense.

When athletes like Chris make these decisions, how much influence does the coach have?

You know what? That is a great example of toughness right there. One of "the hardest decisions in my life". Really Chris??? C'mon dude. You are a puss with a cherry on top. What a chump move. I'd love to support some of these athletes yet, when they lack mental toughness who the hell can turn their head to such a wash-up effort? I wish AB the best in his spot, yet I hope he improves enough to keep his chump ass off the team next year. Athletes in other countries don't have all these emotional problems. I don't know what going on nowadays.

And as my final post on Chris who?, who now won't even start a race let alone finish one, that f-ing loser, I offer another person who WILL finish a race, and who won't take NO for an answer, and who competes to win:

Heather Dorniden.

Another girl with more balls than that LOSER Solinsky.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqnqLrakxY8

Out.

Not a big deal. Now if it was an Olympic year it would be. Too bad Knight and Salazar leaned on Jerry to have Chris run the 10k at Pre, only to have Rupp drop out, what a joke. That's actually when he pulled it first and had to drop out.

I love the guys calling Solinsky a loser and soft. I think it would be great if Letsrun verified users and made them post their actual pr's, verified as well. I can only imagine how many name callers on this board can't break 17min. for a 5k:-).

Sprint Geezer,

Good Lord. You are coming across as completely unhinged. The frequency, repetitiveness, and maniacal, rage-infused tone of your posts suggests a bizarre and dangerous obsession with Chris Solinsky. It really is weird. Is his family in danger? Should he be talking to the police about you?

OK OK OK SPRINTER GEEZER DO NOT WORRY ONE BIT!!!

Chris will undoubtedly run 1 maybe 2 races next year b/c of ShoeMocker's 'strategy'

he's just being a track nut/fan

this the toilet wall not sunday school

Sprint Geezer is correct although I didn't read his post .... to long for me

SOLINSKY is a choke loser suzy flavor

Sprint Geezer,

You're posts are stupid in so many ways that it makes no sense to even list out your various idiot points.

Chris is hurt, and doing the right thing.

He's not a doper. Nike would not and could not allow any doping to go on with guys that are train daily at their campus.

Looks like our hope is on Galen now

Hey chauncey, your post got me laughing.

Maybe it's 'roid rage from my spiked bottle of creatine 20 years ago!

Definitive proof, if it was in fact spiked, that the effects of PED use last a long, long time !

But seriously, it's not about Solinsky--he's just a symbol, a metaphor, for an ill that goes far beyond the world of T&F. To the extent that contemporary American society has problems, those problems are based upon individual failure of character.

So many people don't examine things enough.

I've got this to say to all the young kids out there:

Real champions are not great because they win, they win because they are great.