Why does Lagat get a free pass on here?

I hope you are a troll...

You obviously haven't seen the 30 different threads bashing Legat for not being American...

Legat most defiantly doesn't get a free pass on this board...nor does any other elite runner out there.

If you get bashed on letsrun that means you have reached some kind of fame in America.

Swofford11 wrote:

Legat most defiantly doesn't get a free pass on this board...nor does any other elite runner out there.

Well if he's going to be defiant about it then maybe he should be bashed.

Equality check on aisle run wrote:

Alan Webb so much as dangles a participle and you guys are on him like Regina on EPO. Lagat looked like he almost wasn't going to invite the other medalists atop the podium with him (for the 1500 awards ceremony). I shudder to think if that had been Alan. Lagat is glabrous as the national bird of his adopted country, but does anyone call HIM baldy? No. Webb gets a little growth going up there and everybody has a field day. So let's hair [sic] it. What gives?

It surely couldn't be that you all are just more familiar with Webb, having watched him develop as a high-schooler. I mean, they're both the same, right? Both equally American. So why the preferential treatment of Lagat?

For one, Lagat isn't a spoiled little white kid who throws a tantrum after defeat.

Swofford11 wrote:

doesn't get a free pass on this board...nor does any other elite runner out there.

Actually, Teg does. Even though it was acknowledged by many that he should've positioned closer to the front, he was still given rousing approval in those same posts and has since being a pro. Even when he had his DNF last season. Usually the development curve portion of an athlete is their "honeymoon". But once they're at their peak or plateau, then the bashing begins. Unless Teg wins a medal at the Olympics, then he'll be slammed on here by the end of next summer.

Yo Chicano, why do you hate white people so much?

Can you imaaaaaaaagine if Webb had tested positive on an A-sample (like someone else did *cough, Lagat, cough*)? Guess everyone would've just swept that one under his oft-ragged rug, eh?

"Lagat" (for your edification).

ttc wrote: Unless Teg wins a medal at the Olympics, then he'll be slammed on here by the end of next summer.

Words spoken by the worst athlete-basher on the board.

ttc, you, sir, are an idiot. Good day!

riddle me this wrote:

Yo Chicano, why do you hate white people so much?

Because he´s a racist little dick with feelings of inferiority.

Eliot Spitzer wrote:

ttc wrote: Unless Teg wins a medal at the Olympics, then he'll be slammed on here by the end of next summer.

Words spoken by the worst athlete-basher on the board.

I'm not the one who bashes Webb, AJ or Brad Hudson. I'm going off of you guys and the reaction to Webb not winning a medal, where he was called a crybaby and a nutcase. You guys, not me.

So you could come up with only three names in the sport that you haven't bashed? Bravo.

Admit it wrote:

Can you imaaaaaaaagine if Webb had tested positive on an A-sample (like someone else did *cough, Lagat, cough*)? Guess everyone would've just swept that one under his oft-ragged rug, eh?

Webb would've never recovered from something like that. Not the way Lagat has. Alas, they're both equally American so what I can't imagine is why Lagat is such a hero. Guess winning twogolds doesn't hurt.

He didn't take a white girl for his wife.

Nobody gets a free pass on here.

Nobody.

u r n denial wrote:

So you could come up with only three names in the sport that you haven't bashed? Bravo.

Now, you're the one just looking to bash. Reread my post and understand, without me tutoring you through it.

u r n denial wrote:

So you could come up with only three names in the sport that you haven't bashed? Bravo.

ttc wrote:

Now, you're the one just looking to bash. Reread my post and understand, without me tutoring you through it.

I knew it wouldn't take much to get you to show your true bashing colors. Everyone here knows that you bash people in the sport, you even go out of your way and initiate threads with that intent. Just drop the defensiveness already, accept your true nature.

[/quot] If you get bashed on letsrun that means you have reached some kind of fame in America.[/quot]

Does this mean that the430miler is a celebrity?

Philly Phan wrote:

[/quot] If you get bashed on letsrun that means you have reached some kind of fame in America.[/quot]

Does this mean that the430miler is a celebrity?

Yes, I believe it does.