profile on lingren was 7 minutes long....

Who is lingren?

When is the 10k a middle distance event?

Anyone else lose their respect for that guy? What he's doing to his family is rediculous, and they've sat there with arms wide open for far too long.

Paraphrasing:

"I tried to call but....(awkward silences and stuttering) I was blocked and so....(more awkward stuttering) I just stopped trying."

Convincing. How awful.

I liked his one quote "I am a giant coward toolbag who happened to run well when I was younger. Look at me" His running accomplishments are awesome, his personal ones are not.

Gerry Lindgren , great runner , loser at life . He should be in jail right now for abandoning his family .

I have already e-mailed espn voicing my disgust at the story they did on Lindgren. I don't see any other reason they had than trying to publicly disgrace or humiliate him.

I guess some shallow narrow minded people like that kind of stuff . I personally do not.

Mr. Cripple , you are an idiot !

The guy obviously has problems, so maybe you bitches should just shut the f*** up.

i agree with you 100%

Why would you do this? Did you send a letter to Runners World when they did a cover story on him, including the same facts about his family a few years back?

ESPN barely talks about anyone or anything in the running community as is, but go ahead and email ESPN your negative views. Maybe they'll never mention the sport again.

Reefer Madness wrote:

Why would you do this? Did you send a letter to Runners World when they did a cover story on him, including the same facts about his family a few years back?

ESPN barely talks about anyone or anything in the running community as is, but go ahead and email ESPN your negative views. Maybe they'll never mention the sport again.

let him do it.

he's an idiot.

Reefer Madness wrote:

ESPN barely talks about anyone or anything in the running community as is, but go ahead and email ESPN your negative views. Maybe they'll never mention the sport again.

If that's how they operate, let's hope they don't. Those ESPN producers must be some pretty sick sadists to pillory an old man who may need help. What the hell did they expect to accomplish with that story. Is that what passes for "human interest" now?

If that's the only kind of track coverage they're interested in, I hope they stay the hell away and stick to letting their bullnecks yell at each other about the ball-and-stick sports. Their drive-by Euro meet coverage just pissed me off anyway (Rawson was great, though).

(And if you're reading this, Gerry, don't let this garbage get to you. For whatever reason, the cowards seem to be piling on you now, but they have very short attention spans. By the way, I read the Seattle Times feature on you a few weeks ago. Did that reporter tell you beforehand that your old HS classmate would be there for the interview?)

aa wrote:

profile on lingren was 7 minutes long....long my ass

Wejo didn't say it would be long. He said it would be "lengthy." He thinks using words like that makes him sound like a journalist.

Gerry Lindgren is a f***tard

tell them how outraged you are they would hire this dirt bag.I love to see him suffer.Mentally,physically to pay back to his family what he did.

Hey Gerry if yer reading this......blow me.

And all you zit faced losers that stand up for this guy............wait untill you have a family,which is a scary thought in itself,and think what it would be like to leave your children forever.

This guy desereves to end up living in a cardboard box behind Wallmart sleeping in a puddle of his own drool.

b0B

As messed up as this guy is, do you all really think his family would be better off WITH him? He's a nutcase - he did them a service by hightailing out of there.

medium-sized white guy wrote:

As messed up as this guy is, do you all really think his family would be better off WITH him? He's a nutcase - he did them a service by hightailing out of there.

Bingo! You nailed it! Give Lindgren credit for knowing that his family would be better off without him. He sure was a damn good runner in his prime!

I am TRUELY SORRY you all had to see that piece on ESPN. There have been similar stories in Runner's World, Sports Ilistrated, The Seattle Times, Honolulu Star Bulletin, and a host of other publications. The first one was done by a now-defunct running magazine in 1979. A reporter visited my ex right after our split and she took out her hostility on the reporter. The article came out in that publication and I did nothing about it for so long (never knew about it) that it became 'common domain" and any other publications can print the same thing without liability. Now I am stuck with it. I have no recourse.

It is the nail that sticks out that gets hammered down. Every time some sports writer comes to me saying they want to write a SPORTS story, I have to worry that they are instead looking for a rag mag item to sell magazines, or in this case your patronage. Sports Illistrated came to me saying they wanted to clear this up, promised me they would print the truth, that I would see the article before publication and have final say in its publication. They wrote a fine article about track and I approved. Their article came out and it was a near word for word reprint of the original article. I ask WHY and was told, "It sells magazines." ESPN did the same thing.

This is my fault. If I would publicly air MY side of the story, wave my dirty laundry for a sports to see, belittle my ex, allow ESPN to judge my moral character, then maybe I could walk away from this. I refuse to do that. Sports used to be sports, not rag mag journalism.

I am truely sorry though that I cause YOU to become angry because of something I have done. I wrote my book (www.gerrylindgren.com) and lived my life devoted to helping make running better/ life better. Instead I have created hate and for that I am truely sorry. GERRY