So far the Al Sal Project has been a success

Why do you think I started two threads that take the exact opposite positions (e.g., see So far the Al Sal Project has been a failure)? I wanted both sides to be able to share.

or maybe you're just trying to troll

12:56....

SUCCESS

You can say that again. 12:56:27 Dayum!

12:56! American Record! Suck it nerds!

Having Rupp and Ritz training together in the next several years is going to be very good for American running success.

wow a 20 second pr. pretty good time for a 4 minute miler. now if we can just get tegenkamp to run a 20 second pr since its so easy we will be set.

Rupp who?

And it'll be good for WEBB too!

Time for the doping accusations

or a red flag.....

or a red flag.....

HUUUUGE BASE = TRACK SUCCESS NEXT YEAR

PROOF #1: A-WEBB

PROOF #2: D-RITZ

What the heck? wrote:

No actually I think that's all racist losers like you care about. If you were a true fan of track you would care about what all the great runners were doing all over the world not just people who happened to be descended from Europeans (lets face it you don't give a damn how the Japanese runners did at worlds do you?) How have those non Africans been doing under the great AL Sal? Oh Rupp got 8th at worlds amazing! My point was maybe if they trained like the east Africans by using the same coaches they might run like them, kind of a simple concept huh? Remember when Bob Kennedy trained with the Kenyans and ran 12:58 i.e. faster than Lagat (the east African) has ever run.

how does it feel to have your post mean nothing at all now?

i heard in berlin last week that peter tegen would be replacing alsal soon since 0 medals were won in beijing and berlin.

3 months is too soon to tell definitively. Check back a year or two from now for a truer picture.

let srun wrote:

Time for the doping accusations

Mary slaney and now Androgel Testoboost and De Stray-Gunderson.

Just wait until we get his thyroid problem diagnosed!

gobekele wrote:

This is why so many dislike oregon/al sal/rupp. 1 medal in the last 3 championship events. While thats good thats certainly nothing to go on and on about. You guys make al sal seem like coach of the year. He's not! How about the guy who's coaching bekele, lagat or kiprop. How about some respect for those guys.

Seriously? Lagat was a 3:29 guy right out of college. Kiprop sh#t the bed at WC's if you remember that he was lolligaging to a romp of the Prefontaine mile. Bekele? Are you kidding me? That guy could run under 13:00 in trainers, that doesn't mean his coach is great, but maybe he is. Bekele has ALWAYS been great. For all we know Bekele might be faster if Salazar was his coach.

Lagat actually is not all that decorated for a 3:26 runner, might wonder how a runner that fast hasn't run faster than Ritz for 5K and hasn't beaten Kennedy's 3K mark despite being nearly 10 seconds faster at 1500 and only a second behind BK at 5K.