Rupp 1500

Ready...to watch Bekele split that for the final 1500m in Beijing?

Sorry, to tie back in with the original topic, i ran 1500 in high school.

muricans wrote:

Ready...to watch Bekele split that for the final 1500m in Beijing?

hahahahahah, lol its funny because its true.

Bekele split about 3:48 closing at Paris. The last 1600 was in 4:04.

The thread I believe is about Rupp. If only those who are going to beat Bekele show up in Beijing, it'll be a pretty lonely starting line.

Rupp looked fine today. He got dragged through in 1:56-7, which is probably his fastest 800 of the year so far. I predict he will be tough to beat in Eugene.

Abdi is definitely the guy to beat right now.

seriously though Rupp has ran a few mile and 1500 races and he seems to be right around that 4:02.xx mark.

what's his top 400 speed? 52?

Why is he injured one week and running 3:43 1500's the next? What's up with these sporadic injuries, disappearance acts, etc., etc.? Pretty odd to me...

Hwy 6 wrote:

Why is he injured one week and running 3:43 1500's the next? What's up with these sporadic injuries, disappearance acts, etc., etc.? Pretty odd to me...

Must be some kind of a "cycle" that he's on.

CANADA has another miler...

Hwy 6 wrote:

Why is he injured one week and running 3:43 1500's the next? What's up with these sporadic injuries, disappearance acts, etc., etc.? Pretty odd to me...

It's called feeling better....Have you ever done any kind of sports before? It's not like he had a stress fracture. Certain things can come and go in days with a bit of rest and work on them.

Mrr82:

If you're having a bad day and simply not feeling well, it's not an injury that requires crutches, bandages/sleeves, and withdrawing from races; it's called a bad day. Your analogy would support Paul Pierce's antics in the final: carried off the court by teammates, rolled to the locker room in a wheelchair, then suddenly reappearing 5 min. later shooting 3-pointers like free throws and winning the Final's MVP award. Maybe Rupp will go on to win the trials' 10k? IDK.

It's because I am an athlete and have run on the high school, collegiate (division I), and have raced post-collegiately (definitely not on an international level like most Letsrun posters) that I ask the obvious question. Another poster alluded to this, but it does seem to mirror a cycle that PED users are asked to follow. Do you seem to recall how many times Regina Jacobs and Mary Slaney were "injured" only to come back weeks later and PR? That kind of behavior literally drove Suzy Hamilton-Favor insane and it makes me wonder!

Bek and Geb have done the same thing. Why aren't you suspicious of them? Kipketer was famous for that, including his infamous "malaria" in which he didn't have symptoms of malaria but he did have symptoms of a blood boosting foul-up. Oh, wait. You won't be suspicious of them because you have been trained. Trained to believe anything a third worlder says or does. Because they are all good, all honest. They would never even take an aspirin.

Would you make such a claim in a court of law? I suspect circumstantial evidence would be thrown out. It is my belief that pointing fingers is a greater ill on our sport than the drug use that generates the impetus to point. Unless you know, than you don't.

Hope this clears things up on the "injury".

To answer the first question, yes I am often suspicious of Geb and Bek, as noted in many past posts. The fact that they are on another (if not two levels) above Rupp doesn't excuse them. Why are they tested in separate rooms from other athletes at international competitions, why do they avoid some meets in particularly hot,humid climates (some PED's allegedly cause significant health problems/distress in hot, humid, and/or polluted climates) or DNF (Note: Bekele's DNF in Mombassa) and their need to have doctors as coaches, etc. etc. I'm sure a doctor on the boards could support/deny this claim. If, in fact, the allegations about PED's medical implications are not true, why is Geb (the World Record Holder at the marathon) so adamant/afraid of running the marathon in Beijing? Like I said before, something is just not right and it makes me wonder.

To respond to the second guy/gal's statement: I don't have a strategic plan of taking Rupp to court. I'm expressing my reservations on a message board with no proof or legal facts...again...only suspicions of something not adding up.

Name one. Bekele has run in Athens, Osaka and Mombasa. Geb isn't going to be at Beijing, it seems, but he WANTED to do the 10k. He has previously run in hot weather in Atlanta and Seville.

Some drugs cause you to DNF. Sometimes not being very good in the heat causes you to DNF. Bekele, like the other Ethiopians, didn't train much in the heat. As a result, he wilted.

He doesn't want to run it because he doesn't think he'll do very well. He wants to run the 10k. They still test in the 10k, I think.

He wasn't even wearing a leg wrap of any kind, and that was on there for years. (Still had a Breath Right, though.)

hahahahahahahahahahaha

"ethiopians don't trrain much in the heat"

POD