RUPP is ON THE LEVEL!

Ritz didn't beat Webb's AR at Pre.

Rupp deserves lots of credit. But it's hard to be happy, when we don't look nearly as ready for world's, as originally thought.

Ritz isn\'t going to Osaka, the team probably isn't going to be as good as it has been in recent years, so he's not going.

ttc wrote:

Rupp deserves lots of credit. But it's hard to be happy, when we don't look nearly as ready for world's, as originally thought.

why did we look good?

and why don't we look good now?

did ritz even qualify for worlds?

2 Mile count as a qualifier?

ttc wrote:

Rupp deserves lots of credit. But it's hard to be happy, when we don't look nearly as ready for world's, as originally thought.

I guess you mean without Hall on pace. But no reason to think that Abdi, Rupp and Ritz shouldn't do very well. Abdi just won by a large margin, Rupp & Ritz have had some giant PR's and good races so far this year. You can't look at tonights times.

because "on the level" means running at least 27.30 consistently. this was a dissapointing race for all of us. it was supposed to be a championship race. on the world scale, 28.13 is not a championship winning time.

on the world level, on a hot and humid night, T. Bekele runs 13.04 when all the US can muster is 13.54.

this is why Africans laugh...little chicken hearted Americans

brahsuf wrote:

did ritz even qualify for worlds?

Yes, his 10k last year (where he got beat by Webb) was below the A-standard of 27:49, so yes, Ritz did qualify.

Chez Mittens wrote:

because "on the level" means running at least 27.30 consistently. this was a dissapointing race for all of us. it was supposed to be a championship race. on the world scale, 28.13 is not a championship winning time.

on the world level, on a hot and humid night, T. Bekele runs 13.04 when all the US can muster is 13.54.

this is why Africans laugh...little chicken hearted Americans

I really shouldn't take some of these idiotic comments that seriously, but I just can't help myself.

No one ran 27:30 and you think this is somehow indicative of poor form or small balls or chicken heartedness? All it means is that it was a championship race.

"on the world scale, 28.13 is not a championship winning time." Here are the top finishers from the Kenyan national championships less than a week ago:

10,000m:

1. Joseph Birech, Prisons, 28:09.4

2. Edward Muge, South Rift, 28:10.0

3. Sammy Kitwara, Police, 28:11.6

i hope jossi's post just shut all of you stupid people up.

I'm just glad the three best runners qualified for worlds.

The conditions were tough and Ritz usually doesn't do well in tough conditions so for him to hang in there and qualify has to be considered a success. We'll see how they all do at worlds. Is it supposed to be hot in Osaka?

Rupp is pretty damn good for somebody that looks like he is 16 years old.

Jossi and endurance guy, u can both shut up. First off the Kenyan nationals isnt even their qualifying meet for Worlds. It qualifies them for the All Africa meet, that is it. Second notice that the top 3 are all within 2 seconds of one another. If you posted the full 10k results you would see people at least werent getting dropped hard of such a slow pace like the US athletes did today. Grow a brain.

Hey Brains, aka you, don't you know that Birech, Muge and Kitwara are 2nd tier? Those three are not "on the level". Check their PRs you winner of the real idiotic post competition that you started.

We had our very best in our championship event and I walked away dissapointed as hell that this is all we could pull off. Josh McDougal stepping off the track? Is that WWJD? If you put the world level in a 10k race they don't run 28.13, they run sub 27 at Hengelo.

Actually I'm pretty sure that most of our boys in our 10k have better PRs than the Kenyan boys who ran in their championships.

Technically should it not be WJWD, in this situation?

and...owners of stupidity that you are, Joseph Birech, winner of the recent Kenyan Nats 10k is a DII runner at UofDistrict Columbia.

wait for it...

you're using him to demonstrate 'on the level'. a 28 minute 10k from some DII Kenyan?

wow...and you called my post idiotic. go figure.

past world championship results:

Official Results - 10,000 Metres - Men - Final

Last Updated: 01:57:59 CET 21/10/2006

Wednesday, August 08, 2001 - 21:30

Pos Bib Athlete Country Mark

1 675 Kamathi Charles KEN 27:53.25

2 340 Mezgebu Assefa ETH 27:53.97

3 336 Gebrselassie Haile ETH 27:54.41

4 333 Admassu Yibeltal ETH 27:55.24 (PB)

5 320 Roncero Fabián ESP 27:56.07

6 318 Ríos José ESP 27:56.58

7 681 Kosgei Paul Malakwen KEN 27:57.56

8 680 Korir John Cheruiyot KEN 27:58.06

9 337 Jifar Habte ETH 28:02.71

10 832 Maase Kamiel NED 28:05.41

11 764 Gharib Jaouad MAR 28:05.45

12 307 Martínez José Manuel ESP 28:06.33

13 182 Schiebler Jeff CAN 28:07.06

14 600 Mazza Marco ITA 28:08.00

15 658 Takaoka Toshinari JPN 28:13.99

16 765 Goumri Abderrahim MAR 28:14.06

17 798 Vega Teodoro MEX 28:14.77

18 1155 Culpepper Alan USA 28:18.44

19 1138 Abdirahman Abdihakem USA 28:34.38

20 20 N'Tyamba João ANG 28:38.31

21 758 Berioui Saïd MAR 28:38.80

22 649 Mishiro Naoki JPN 28:42.68

23 1177 Keflezighi Mebrahtom USA 28:44.48

24 12 Kohil Kamal ALG 28:52.47

25 866 Henwood John NZL 29:01.62

Official Results - 10,000 Metres - Men - Final

Last Updated: 14:49:14 CET 22/10/2006

Tuesday, August 24, 1999 - 21:30

Pos Bib Athlete Country Mark

1 418 Gebrselassie Haile ETH 27:57.27

2 878 Tergat Paul KEN 27:58.56

3 423 Mezgebu Assefa ETH 27:59.15

4 424 Tolla Girma ETH 28:02.08

5 1175 Pinto António POR 28:03.42

6 419 Jifar Habte ETH 28:08.82

7 874 Maiyo Benjamin KEN 28:14.98

8 1058 Maase Kamiel NED 28:15.58

9 861 Chelule David KEN 28:17.77

10 982 Skah Khalid MAR 28:25.10

11 1219 Ramaala Hendrick RSA 28:25.57

12 852 Takaoka Toshinari JPN 28:30.73

13 22 N'Tyamba João ANG 28:31.09 (NR)

14 380 Molina Enrique ESP 28:37.19

15 981 Sghyr Ismaïl MAR 28:41.49

16 963 Berioui Saïd MAR 28:46.77

17 464 Ezzher Mohamed FRA 28:47.01

18 851 Takao Kenji JPN 28:49.95

19 377 Martínez José Manuel ESP 28:55.87

20 829 Irifune Satoshi JPN 29:04.09

21 1468 Hauser Bradley USA 29:18.21

22 1482 Julian Peter USA 29:20.31

23 1222 Skosana Enoch RSA 29:30.51

24 1003 Salvador Alejandro MEX 29:36.58

25 401 Toledo Bruno ESP 29:39.28

26 211 Kaley Sean CAN 29:52.35

27 10 Moussaoui Samir ALG 30:20.24

Results - 10,000 Metres - Men - Final

Last Updated: 15:31:51 CET 23/10/2006

Sunday, August 22, 1993 - 17:00

Pos Bib Athlete Country Mark

1 Gebrselassie Haile ETH 27:46.02

2 Tanui Moses KEN 27:46.54

3 Chelimo Richard KEN 28:06.02

4 Franke Stéphane GER 28:10.69

5 Nizigama Aloÿs BDI 28:13.43

6 Panetta Francesco ITA 28:27.05

7 Williams Todd USA 28:30.49

8 Silio Antonio Fabián ARG 28:36.88

9 Silva Gérman MEX 28:39.47

10 Sigei William KEN 28:54.39

11 Serrano Antonio ESP 29:04.10

12 Antibo Salvatore ITA 29:10.83

13 Akonay Boay TAN 29:15.13

14 Quintanilla Armando MEX 29:32.34

15 Fukushima Tadashi JPN 29:46.70

16 Adán José Carlos ESP 30:04.34

17 Nelson Dan USA 30:41.72

1 Cova Alberto ITA 28:01.04

2 Schildhauer Werner GDR 28:01.18

3 Kunze Hansjörg GDR 28:01.26

4 Vainio Martti FIN 28:01.37

5 Shahanga Gidamis TAN 28:01.93

6 Lopes Carlos POR 28:06.78

7 Rose Nick GBR 28:07.53

8 Herle Christoph FRG 28:09.05

9 Kedir Mohamed ETH 28:09.92

10 Debele Bekele ETH 28:11.13

11 Prieto António ESP 28:11.57

12 Jones Steve GBR 28:15.03

13 Nenow Mark USA 28:17.28

14 Mamede Fernando POR 28:18.39

15 McChesney Bill USA 28:34.46

16 Gomez José MEX 28:42.61

17 Salazar Alberto USA 28:48.42

fdfsdfas wrote:

All of you shut up.

anyone else pissed that Rupp faded around 6k, and then just watied to outkick Ritz, who actually went for the win. What a VAGINA.

um...no. Rupp made Ritz his bitch. Plain and simple. And Rupp gets paid 250k less than Superman Ritz. MADE HIM HIS LITTLE BITCH.