How come no love for this article on Letsrun? It appears in January 2011 Runners World.
http://www.runnersworld.com/article/0,7120,s6-243-297--13771-0,00.html
LRC seems more interested in what Menjo is doing or how fast Japanese high schoolers are running.
What's up?
Bill Huntington wrote:
How come no love for this article on Letsrun? It appears in January 2011 Runners World.
http://www.runnersworld.com/article/0,7120,s6-243-297--13771-0,00.htmlLRC seems more interested in what Menjo is doing or how fast Japanese high schoolers are running.
What's up?
That might be because Menjo is running faster than the people in that article and that Japanese high schoolers are running faster than our high schoolers...
To be honest, Footlocker is cool but I care more about Ebuya, Kidane Tadese and Sergio Sanchez racing each other in a 10K Cross race in Europe moreso than I care about who wins Footlocker.
OK, that's fine, but 1) American high school athletes rarely run 10k on the track and 2) No Japanese has ever done anything in a WC or Olympic track race at ANY distance.
The point of the article is that American distance running is light years ahead of where it was in 2000.
[quote]Bill Huntington wrote:
No Japanese has ever done anything in a WC or Olympic track race at ANY distance.
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lies. Kinue Hitomi won a silver in the 1928 Olympic w800m. 2:17.6
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athletics_at_the_1928_Summer_Olympics_%E2%80%93_Women%27s_800_metres
god I love wikipedia
Bill Huntington wrote:
2) No Japanese has ever done anything in a WC or Olympic track race at ANY distance.
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Guess Mizuki Noguchi isn't real then...
What track race did she medal in? Marathon isn't on the track.
At last summer's world junior meet, Parker Stinson of Texas beat both Japanese runners in the 10,000. The best they could do in the 5,000 was 7th. So I don't expect an onslaught of Japanese to be beating Ritz, Rupp, Solinksy, Teg, Lagat, etc. at a major meet anytime soon.