Is it safe to say Chris Solinsky is the greatest white distance runner in human history?

Because he ran like 14:30... slow as shit

you guys are crazy wrote:

Emil Zatopek dominated his era of distance running unlike anyone else ever has.

The guy invented interval training...how is he not the undisputed greatest white distance runner of all time?

No way! Pre clearly is better!

employed wrote:

[quote]Alf Shrubb wrote:

Who’s the Muslim Newton, Leonardo, Aristotle, Shakespeare, Michelangelo, Beethoven - and a few thousand more I could name?

Muhammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī - founder of algebra, the name of which comes from "al-jabr"

Muhammad al-Hassar - invented the fraction bar

Abū al-Hasan ibn Alī al-Qalasādī - developed algebraic symbolism

Abu'l-Hasan al-Uqlidisi- decimal fractions

Jābir ibn Hayyān - isolated acetic and citric acid (quote)

Is that it?

Algebra, fractions and acetic acid?

Most of these lived before 1000AD - I pointed out Nobel prize winners since 1901.

Were we obliged to rely on Muslim creativity, inventions, discoveries, innovations, scholarship, literature, music, art and culture since the Enlightenment - we’d still be nomads, living in tents.

I don't think Chris is white. Remember General Patton called the communists "Those Damn Mongols !".

So now we have...

"Obama uses Hitler's race definitions to target Palestinians and Arabs for genocide in the Middle East, so why can't Jan Brewer and Joe Arpaio use the same definitions to exile the Mexicans back?"

"Jābir ibn Hayyān - isolated acetic and citric acid"

"Since the Nobel Prize was distributed annually in the form of prizes to those who during the preceding year have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind." in 1901: 187 have been awarded for advances in Physics, 157 for advances in Chemistry and 195 for advances in Medicine."

"The Black give you your name european. He rope you in the hills and cave."

All from a thread about Solinsky. Nice job!

How many of these people were true Arabs and how many of them were people from the conquered lands, who simply continued in the scientific tradition of the Roman civilization? An interesting question.

dumbdadumbdumb wrote:

...this is a stupidly vague question. obviously the work of a troll.

why doesn't the OP just tell us what he thinks? too afraid to form an opinion? rather wait for others to make racist comments so you don't have to?

Q: why doesn't the OP just tell us what he thinks? too afraid to form an opinion? rather wait for others to make racist comments so you don't have to?

A: this is a stupidly vague question. obviously the work of a troll.

Check Please.

WHO CARES ABOUT MEDALS?!?!?! IT'S ABOUT PRS!!! TIMES! NOT MEDALS! SOLINSKY RAN 12:55 AND 26:59, BEATING MOTTRAM AND ANY OTHER CAUCASIAN MAN IN HISTORY. PERIOD. So yes, he is the fastest white man ever.

Moorcroft wrote:

Dave Moorcroft needs to be in the discussion. 13:00 5K world record (no pacers) which held for 2 plus years. Also, a sub 3:50 miler, I believe. Dude had mad talent. Put him in today's field, with the advances in nutrition, drills, flexibility training, etc. and he's a sub 12:50 guy for sure.

Don;t forget space-age shoe laces, threadmills, anti-sweat jerseys, pilates, yoga, cliff bars, gels, mondo tracks, pollen reports, jenny Craig low calorie dinners, carb counting, mid-foot striking research, breathe-rites.

dagda16 wrote:

WHO CARES ABOUT MEDALS?!?!?! IT'S ABOUT PRS!!! TIMES! NOT MEDALS! SOLINSKY RAN 12:55 AND 26:59, BEATING MOTTRAM AND ANY OTHER CAUCASIAN MAN IN HISTORY. PERIOD. So yes, he is the fastest white man ever.

The thread title says greatest, not fastest.

Solinsky very well may be the greatest and fastest white runner in history not to have won a national championship title, but he is not the greatest white runner in history yet. If he can start with a national championship and progress to an international champsionship medal he's up for discussion as the greatest and that is all at least a year off.

Heck he might not even be the fastest this time next year.

Polish are mixed, not White.

Not even close - Ever heard of Zatopek, Viren or Nurmi? Even the overated Prefontaine is greater based on the Olympics - 4th is much better than Solinskey has done to date. Viren may be the great white man ever becasue of teh Double Double which no one has ever done. No one will ever do the Triple that Zatopek did in 1952!

The Oracle wrote:

Yes? No? Maybe? Does he need medals?

He needs medals and he needs to set world records when he wins his medals, ALA Viren,Nurmi,and Zatopek, to be considered the greatest.

As it has been stated numerous times in the past. It easy to run fast in time trial Europian races. But to run fast and set world records with the stress of the Olympics and World Championships that what makes a great runner.

Best example of a fast time trialer was Fernado Mamede of Portugal. He would smoke Lopes in Europian races, but Lopes would smoke Mamede in all championship races.

Solinsky is fast and I would love to see an American win a gold with a world record time.

But Ryan Hall has ran 2:06:17....

If you measure his times in historical/absolute terms, then Solinsky merits some discussion, but still isn't near the top of the list. If you measure his times in relative terms (i.e., vs. his competitors' best times) then he drops markedly lower. If you measure his ability to win/medal against his cohort, then he doesn't merit discussion at all.

TrackFan19 wrote:

Coach Owl Birdo wrote:

Just because he wasn't born here doesn't mean Mottram's not American... Just look at him! He looks American. And he's got that c o c k y American attitude. And a WASP name. That makes him more american than Solinsky!;)

This thread is stupid, like most threads about race on this message board. As always several people say stupid, racist, and ignorant comments.

WTF does American look like?

For the record to answer the question.....No, Solinsky is not the greatest anything in human history.

...uhhh..the symbol after my quote is a wink...get it?

Moenator wrote:

That distinction belongs to Brandon Moen.

This one made me chuckle,

I don't think in 2010 with what we know now about the human genome that we can safely categorize Solinski as being white.

It's not so much that he needs medals, its the fact that it is a joke to consider him a contender for a medal at this point. He got his ass handed to him by Merga all season long, a guy with has no chance of making an Ethiopian Olympic team and he is not the even the best 5000 meter in thec ountry of the USA, that distinction going to a semi-retired 37 year -old Kenyan.