Learn to Read wrote:
What don't you understand. You DO NOT have to be 20 years of age to compete in these road races.
When I run in road races, I rarely use my real name or age. I wasn't aware that road race entry forms can be used as proof of age or identity.
C. Manuel wrote:
When I run in road races, I rarely use my real name or age. I wasn't aware that road race entry forms can be used as proof of age or identity.
Why in the world would you lie about your age in a road race if you didn't have anything to hide??
Has Halie actually explained the reasoning behind saying he was 20 years old if he is in fact NOT 20 years old?
common sense 101 wrote:
Has Halie actually explained the reasoning behind saying he was 20 years old if he is in fact NOT 20 years old?
Hey douche bag did you read the article in the OP. Wow if you are not reading the thread don't post.
R.L. Scribner wrote:
C. Manuel wrote:When I run in road races, I rarely use my real name or age. I wasn't aware that road race entry forms can be used as proof of age or identity.
Why in the world would you lie about your age in a road race if you didn't have anything to hide??
so he can win the younger easier age group trophy .. duhh
In some countries they count their age differently. It is possible to be two years older than how we count.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Asian_age_reckoning
So maybe he was thinking this way when he filled out the forms :-)
C. Manuel wrote:
When I run in road races, I rarely use my real name or age. I wasn't aware that road race entry forms can be used as proof of age or identity.
You probably don't win $1,000.00 either.
Out of nowhere!!! wrote:
What's the problem?
They have verified his documents and are satisfied with the content of them... If he did earn some money, he needs to donate it to charity or else he won't be allowed to run in the NCAA.
The problem is you don't know what you are talking about. NCAA rules prevent Solomon from ever controlling the prize money, and he controls the prize money if he has the power to decide which charity should get it. With NCAA approval, Solomon may be able to return all his race earnings to the race directors who in turn will decide what to do with this returned money.
With all the publicity here, Solomon will need to get special approval from the NCAA to compete in college (just as Rupp did). He may get that approval but he will have to list all his prize money earnings. If he forgets a few monetary prizes and that later comes out, his NCAA running career is over.
That is considered fraud. As an ex road race director, if you get hurt and fill out falsely, my race insurance is denied the next year and lawsuits follow.
This is not hypothetical either. You lie on the race app and it affects my ability to turn a profit on a race, I sue you.
rr fan wrote:
That is considered fraud. As an ex road race director, if you get hurt and fill out falsely, my race insurance is denied the next year and lawsuits follow.
This is not hypothetical either. You lie on the race app and it affects my ability to turn a profit on a race, I sue you.
So sue me.
People like you screw it up forrates going up. Idiots like you thinking you're funny everyone else. One reason you see 5K road races now charging $35 to get in. It's because of insurance rates going through the roof. Idiots like you who think you're funny and cute by giving stupid ass names or bandits jumping into races. When a jerk that gives a false name and gets hurt and doesn't sign the waiver with the right name. Both the race director and the jerk gets sued.
If you had the guts to give your right name and where you live, I'd make sure the race directors in your area would ban you from races.
From then again - you don't have the balls.
OK, Mr. "Ex" road race director.
Signed,
Mickey Mouse
Anaheim, CA
obamacon wrote:
Bunch of racists. If his name was O'Toole, and he was an orphan from Ireland he wouldn't be getting this crap.
typical lib.
reality: if his name was O'Toole and was from Ireland as you suggest, he'd come from a civilized country where birth documents are accurate. It wouldn't be a problem at all.
C. Manuel - The guy is right. Lawsuits have killed many a race. Sign up correctly. The same road race 3 years ago went from $18 on race day to $40 this year. There must be something to it.
Finally, somebody has taken a hard look.
Or a soft look.
I knew there would be a logical explanation of all these.......guessed right!!!
and what is the logical explanation? that his sister doesn't know that her brother is 3 years younger? and that it took her and haile about one year to figure that part out? didn't they look at his passport or birth certificate or all the visa applications for his international travels?
Hey "huh??", read the article again (assuming you took the time to read it once). His sister wouldn't have been off by 3 years if he ran the Thai race in 2007 registered as 20 years old, and he's actually turning 19 in January of 2009 as records seem to indicate. She was off by 2 at the most and it's plausible that she made such an error if Solomon is the youngest of her 8 siblings, she's been in the U.S. away from her family for 13 years, and the calendars are different. Gutless, anonymous fabrications and exaggerations like yours are poisonous, especially when directed at a kid.
If he registers with a birth year of 1987 in the Austria race and age 20 in Thailand January 2007 in that makes his birthday January 1987. Now, his sister says his birthday is January 1990 (i.e. he turns 19 in 2009). Doesn't that make her off by 3 years? Or in other words: Is he now 21 or 18 years old?