Top 10 brother sprinters

Brutal wrote:

Why talk about little pale runners (x-Kenyans) when we can talk about who puts butts in the seats. What Gabe Jennings and Alan Webb....hahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

kcm wrote:

I hate to quote brutal (if it was indeed he who said this), but if you have 2 stadia next to each other and hold events 100-800 + the jumps in stadium A and hold the 1500-10k in stadium B, you will then see how many people your "noone" is. At the NCAA Championships last week, it was comical how on the first two nights of competition, 60-80% of the crowd began their exodus after the penultimate event. The final events each of those nights? The 5K heats and the 10K!

News Flash wrote:

Yeah, you're right. There aren't several hundred road races held every single weekend in this country. Noone ever fights over the 50,000 spots available for the Peachtree Road Race every year. 500,000 spectators don't line the streets of the NYC Marathon every year.

From the USATF website: "In 1999, there were an estimated 7.1 million finishers from a total of more than 12,000 U.S. running events. Just fifteen years ago the world of organized U.S. road racing was much smaller with less than 3 million participants and only 1361 certified courses." According to American Sports Data, there were 34,962,000 runners in the US in 1998.

U.S. Marathon Growth

YEAR Estimated # of Finishers

1976 25,000

1980 120,000

1990 260,000

1995 347,000

1996 396,000 (Boston's 100th)

1997 396,000

1998 419,000

1999 435,000

2000 451,000

You're right, there is no way distance running can survive without sprinters. Without sprinters, there would not be a NYC Marathon or Boston Marathon in the first place. Your post shows your stupidity and ignorance!

News Flash wrote:

Brutal wrote:

Why talk about little pale runners (x-Kenyans) when we can talk about who puts butts in the seats. What Gabe Jennings and Alan Webb....hahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Had to search for this in an earlier thread, but I think its quite appropriate for your statement

kcm wrote:

I hate to quote brutal (if it was indeed he who said this), but if you have 2 stadia next to each other and hold events 100-800 + the jumps in stadium A and hold the 1500-10k in stadium B, you will then see how many people your "noone" is. At the NCAA Championships last week, it was comical how on the first two nights of competition, 60-80% of the crowd began their exodus after the penultimate event. The final events each of those nights? The 5K heats and the 10K!

News Flash wrote:

Yeah, you're right. There aren't several hundred road races held every single weekend in this country. Noone ever fights over the 50,000 spots available for the Peachtree Road Race every year. 500,000 spectators don't line the streets of the NYC Marathon every year.

From the USATF website: "In 1999, there were an estimated 7.1 million finishers from a total of more than 12,000 U.S. running events. Just fifteen years ago the world of organized U.S. road racing was much smaller with less than 3 million participants and only 1361 certified courses." According to American Sports Data, there were 34,962,000 runners in the US in 1998.

U.S. Marathon Growth

YEAR Estimated # of Finishers

1976 25,000

1980 120,000

1990 260,000

1995 347,000

1996 396,000 (Boston's 100th)

1997 396,000

1998 419,000

1999 435,000

2000 451,000

You're right, there is no way distance running can survive without sprinters. Without sprinters, there would not be a NYC Marathon or Boston Marathon in the first place. Your post shows your stupidity and ignorance!

Brutal wrote:

Roadracing and track meets are two totally different things idiot....geesh!

I guarantee you drop the sprinta/hurdles and relays from any track meet and it will suffer big time. Go ahead drop the 5 and 10 and few would care....trust me!

Not a rookie at this slick.....ok!

Brutal wrote:

When ya considered obly 11% of the population in American is black and about 95% of all it's world class sprinters, hurdlers, long jumpers, def backs, wide receivers and running backs ya have to ask "why?"

More Facts wrote:

And when they commit 80% of the violent crimes, you have to ask, "Why?"

News Flash wrote:

Brutal wrote:

Roadracing and track meets are two totally different things idiot....geesh!

I guarantee you drop the sprinta/hurdles and relays from any track meet and it will suffer big time. Go ahead drop the 5 and 10 and few would care....trust me!

Not a rookie at this slick.....ok!

Excuses, excuses. When you're wrong you just resort to name calling and uneducated things like "Not a rookie at this slick.....ok!" You just don't get it - the GREAT majority of people on this site do not care at all about the sprinters. Heck, I have more respect for someone who Gallowalks a 5K than I do a sprinter. Sprinters are pu$$ies in most of our eyes because they just avoid pain, the biggest difference between being an endurance athlete and a sprinter. ENDURANCE, as in enduring pain and suffering. Oh, I know what you'll say, the pain in the last 10 meters of the 200 is just as bad as the last mile of a marathon. What a joke. The evolution of runners goes: sprinters, Gallowalkers, race walkers, distance runners. And as far as dropping the distance races, you would lose a ton of people from any meet and you know it's true, just as dropping the sprints would lose a lot of people.

Besides that, people don't like you because you are racist. Let's see, here's something you wrote:

Brutal wrote:

When ya considered obly 11% of the population in American is black and about 95% of all it's world class sprinters, hurdlers, long jumpers, def backs, wide receivers and running backs ya have to ask "why?"

And here was the response, and Oh! how I wish I could claim credit for this, but regretfully I can't:

More Facts wrote:

And when they commit 80% of the violent crimes, you have to ask, "Why?"

You throw out a racist statement concerning the stereotype that only blacks can be sprinters or basketball players and you get the stereotype that blacks are criminals thrown in your face. I also noticed that you never responded to that statement ... maybe I should bump the thread to the front so that you can reply.