First of all I would like to congragulate Ryan Hall on a spectacular 1/2 marathon today, absolutely amazing.
What i really would like to know is, why does everyone on this message board hate Dathan Ritzenhein? Does everyone really have such an inferiority complex that they can't admit that someone is better than them? As far as I see it, Ritz, Hall and Webb are all amazing talents so why to we have to bash any of them. All of them get huge props when they run well, and then when they have a bad race, the same people are all over them. Case in point-yesterday ritz ran an amazing race at edinborough(sp?), but what does he get, a bunch of bashing saying that he was still almost a minute behind Bekele. When was the last time anyone from the U.S. was anywhere near the front of a major international cross race? I'm sorry but the people that post on here are pathetic, mark my words, as soon as ryan has one bad race, people will be all over him.