Wild 1500 in NZ: 15-yr old Sam Ruthe ties 3:31 man Sam Tanner in DEAD HEAT at Kiwi nationals

Armstronglivs wrote:

Andy Capp wrote:

Based on whatever I'm seeing that seems unbelievable at the time but I certainly don't find it at all unbelievable that a 15 year old kid can be as physically mature or more than a 17 year old.

Not any 17 year old but one of the very best in history. So what will you think when a 14 year old runs the same time - or even a 13 year old?

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Andy Capp wrote:

Armstronglivs wrote:

Not any 17 year old but one of the very best in history. So what will you think when a 14 year old runs the same time - or even a 13 year old?

Who knows? Ask me when it happens.

Jaggr wrote:

Or, here's an idea, how about you present irrefutable proof (beyond stating that you interviewed Snell once) that it is doping before casting defamatory aspersions?

Jagg wrote:

This whole thread is so boring & circular now.

Just Armstrong with his repetitive baseless reckons.

It just boils down to another archetypal salty boomer who can't accept kids in this day-&-age doing things that his era couldn't, an era all boomers think should be preserved in amber as the pinnacle of human civilisation past, present *& future*.

iF rYuN (wHo I mEt oNcE oR wHaTeVer) & sNeLL (wHo I spOkE tO oNcE) coULdN'T dO iT, tHeN iT's imPoSSiBLe fOr tHiS kiD.

Akin to an ancient Greek pooh-poohing Ryun & Snells times because they never saw anything like it at the OG Olympia.

45678 wrote:

Armstronglivs wrote:

EPO hadn't been invented.

Yikes...

Armstronglivs wrote:

Jagg wrote:

This whole thread is so boring & circular now.

Just Armstrong with his repetitive baseless reckons.

It just boils down to another archetypal salty boomer who can't accept kids in this day-&-age doing things that his era couldn't, an era all boomers think should be preserved in amber as the pinnacle of human civilisation past, present *& future*.

iF rYuN (wHo I mEt oNcE oR wHaTeVer) & sNeLL (wHo I spOkE tO oNcE) coULdN'T dO iT, tHeN iT's imPoSSiBLe fOr tHiS kiD.

Akin to an ancient Greek pooh-poohing Ryun & Snells times because they never saw anything like it at the OG Olympia.

No, it isn't akin to that. The ancient Greeks didn't have access to what is a commonplace today.

Jaggr wrote:

Armstronglivs wrote:

No, it isn't akin to that. The ancient Greeks didn't have access to what is a commonplace today.

Yeah, Einstein, just like Ryun & Snell didn't have access to what is commonplace today.

Armstronglivs wrote:

Jaggr wrote:

Yeah, Einstein, just like Ryun & Snell didn't have access to what is commonplace today.

That was also my point. But thanks for acknowledging today's runners are running on rocket fuel.

CuriousGeorgeFan wrote:

Armstronglivs wrote:

That was also my point. But thanks for acknowledging today's runners are running on rocket fuel.

And I guess you will questioning his 3:58 mile now.

Work Commute Track Club wrote:

He’s running on the gift of Olympian / elite genetics from his mother and father. together with sensible world class coaching, and training with professional athletes in his home town.

Armstronglivs wrote:

Work Commute Track Club wrote:

He’s running on the gift of Olympian / elite genetics from his mother and father. together with sensible world class coaching, and training with professional athletes in his home town.

So how does that make him any different from so many other young talents around the world?

yhh wrote:

Armstronglivs wrote:

So how does that make him any different from so many other young talents around the world?

Tell me the name of an athlete who had parents and grandparents competing at the highest level.