Whenever it's time to step up and make the USA proud, he finds a way to bail out. Blisters, injures. Whatever. He whimps out every time.
Why is that? Me suspects it's because he's a Muslim and he thinks the USA has declared war on his own kind.
Why do you suspect?
Well, think about it this way... Now we can send 3 runners that we can be proud of from a very impressive list Meb, Brown, Culpepper, Shay, Dowling, and Hellybuck.
This qualifies as the stupid thread of the day!
Instead of talking a lot of none sense about my home boy, go out for a 20 miler at sub 5:00 min pace if you can.
Bunch of pussies
Didn't Joanie Banoit get thru an Olympics training with a hand-bike. I say get the man a hand-bike and tell him to get training!!!
The US still has P. Diddy. Who needs KK when you have P.Diddy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
P.Diddy is runners world man of the year.
mcenroe wrote:
This qualifies as the stupid thread of the day!
Amen!
JT wrote:
Didn't Joanie Banoit get thru an Olympics training with a hand-bike. I say get the man a hand-bike and tell him to get training!!!
That's EXACTLY what I was thinking... KK needs a coach who understands cross-training and can give him a reality check... Khalid, you will finish in the top 3 at B'ham with only 9 weeks of training... Hell, Khalid you could most likely do that with 5 weeks of training. So, let's set up a cross-training program which does not aggravate your foot and set up a reasonable buildup which will enable you to run 2:11 in Feb and place you in the top 3. He's needs a real COACH, dammit.
Aside from all of the junk that is being posted (if you want to write about the war or racism, please start another thread), I believe that KK could run the trials and would have a great shot to make the team. As Steve Scott has talked about, all those miles KK has put in over the years are "money in the bank". The cross training would probably keep him fit enough to get a good base in. Just gut it up for the race and make the top three. Then, you have six months to get fully prepared for the Olympics. If this was what I believed to be my last shot at the Olympics, nothing could keep me from the line on February 7.
I think KK's biggest problem has nothing to do with race or money. So many runners these days won't run unless they have the perfect conditions for success. The weather, the competition, their training. When KK set those world records, his training came along perfectly and he had prime conditions to run fast (London and Chicago are big PR courses, as we all know).
If a runner hits one little speedbump, then they just call it off. What would have happened if Viren had given up when he fell down in the 10K final in 1972? He would have given up a gold medal and world record. No one would have blamed him for not getting back in the race. What if Joan Benoit had said, "Well, I just had knee surgery 17 days ago, so I guess I just won't be able to run the Trials"? No one would have blamed her, but no one would remember her, either. On a lesser extent, Brian Diemer had a stress fracture in his back and had to spend six weeks in the pool before the Trials in 92. He could have just said, "I've already been to the Olympics twice and have a medal, so I guess I just won't do this." Instead, he ran his butt off in the water and won the trials. If he had decided not to run, no one would have blamed him, but his victory in the trials that year was one of the best stories to come out of New Orleans that year.
Fortune favors the bold. I hope that KK changes his mind and decides to line it up on February 7.
I remember that Steeple in 1992. What a fantastic race!
And what a story with Diemer winning it. I trained in Ann Arbor and remembered Diemer being hurt and finally starting track workouts pretty close to the Trials. He was hanging on, breathing extremely heavy, and stopping short of finishing all the intervals. I thought to myself, "this guy doesn't have a chance at the trials, I just hope he doesn't get embarrassed". I even told Coogan who was trying to decide between the 10,000 and the Steeple. "Don't even worry about Diemer he's not in shape."
Heroic and memorable stories are what sports are all about, and thats' why people like Benoit and Diemer will always be remembered and admired.
KK IS ONE OF THE MOST FRAUDULENT EPO ABUSERS AND DOES NOT WANT TO BE EXPOSED AS SUCH AT THE O.T....HE WILL FIND A RACE (NEW YORK) THAT WILL PROTECT HIS PHONY PERFORMANCES. SHAME ON NEW YORK AND ALLAN STEINFELD IF THEY PROTECT HIM
KK's injured. I-N-J-U-R-E-D. You really think he doesn't want to run in the big 'O'? Also, you're a f***er.
MOHAMMED EL. MUSTAFA,
Your caps lock is on or you are yelling at us, either way, you are a f*** face.