Breaking: Unheralded American Ethan Shuley runs 2:07:13 at Osaka Marathon!

The family has money, so it is possible that they subsidize their son’s attempt to live the dream. If so, good for them.

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You got me to laugh there!

Intelligence still matters here. There is no evidence that Ethan is Japanese at all. His mother, his father and his siblings do not appear to have Japanese ethnicity. So you get your underwear bundled up over PEDs and ethnicity, which is your prerogative, but maybe curb your arrogance when you are off base about his ethnicity and I don’t know about the doping issue, and neither do you.

if you're dirty you would never chose to live in Japan, Japan is VERY strict on what comes into the country.

Yeah I think he is clean, but of course our opinions don’t matter much.

If you google for a whole 20 seconds, you find see photos to determine neither of his parents are Japanese.

I never said his parents were Japanese, nor that he has Japanese ancestry.

I have to say, this video is fantastic.

He might have the wiggliest form since my friend the late Pat Peterson who held the American marathon Record, but he is getting it done.

Watching the video, it strikes me that all top marathoners should go back and do a voice over of their race.

Great exposure for their sponsor, and makes them approachable and likable and (now more importantly) followable.

Great job!

You see how enraged about race these people get? All me and you did was say he looked kind of Japanese, not even remotely suggesting that we know for sure and look at the response we get. I called it.

My underwear is actually completely non-bundled and I am feeling fine, thank you very much. All I suggested was that his trajectory and improvement looked somewhat suspicious and I agreed with another poster that he looks kind of Japanese. You appear to really take opinions which you do not agree with personally. You are confusing arrogance with someone just using the message board thread to state his opinion in an open forum discussion while stating things which you apparently disagree with.

That's how mormons look sometimes.... reminds me of FAS although that is not the case of course.

He seems like a really dangerous person

No. What happened here is you value your opinion far out of proportion to its worth. You said that people are brainwashed who did not agree that Ethan looks “freaking half Japanese,” and I simply pointed out that he is not half Japanese and you are agitated because your ridiculous opinions are being scrutinized instead of being paid homage to. Then you want people to agree with you that Ethan is doping, when you have no clue, but you somehow think that this is irrelevant.

I think people tend to put too much emphasis on short distance performances. Runners with (relatively speaking) underwhelming 10.000m PR's can run very fast marathons.

My compatriot Koen Naert (a 5'11" Caucasian guy) has run 28.36 for 10k and boosts a marathon PR of 2.06.56. The same holds true for most Japanese runners.

Goethe I did not realize how mentally ill you are. I should have treated you better. But I can see from post #22 how ill you are.

https://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=14058099&page=1

Maybe Goethe is trying to say he is Malcolm Gladwell. Although I don’t believe Malcolm would come across as such a clown unless he is deliberately trolling.

That is where me and you differ. I don’t want people to agree with anything. I want them to form their opinions. I’m not trying to convince anyone that Ethan is doped to the gills, because I’ve already admitted I don’t know. I was stating an opinion based on the story and circumstances. I’m sorry that my writing is too advanced for your current understanding.

Your writing is not “advanced.” You have been on your soapbox saying that you think Ethan is doping and looks half Japanese. So you have now been permitted to state this. If you are not wanting others to agree, why did you point out being downvoted as if it mattered? And why do you repeat yourself? Your trolling is actually not bad, as I am starting to think that is your role.