Mo Farah, Bernard Lagat, Mo Morhit, Alistair Cragg. I am sick of African-born runners switching nationalities just to have an easier go at records. If Alistair Cragg wanted a NR he should have stuck with the country of his birth and sacked up to run 59:20. Instead he goes the easy route and flips to Ireland and runs a pansy 60:49. No respect, no respect.
8/10
I laughed.
His mother is Irish.. I wouldn't call that 'imported'
In fact I'd call that being FAR more entitled to being Irish than Mo Farah is to British citizenship and definitely more than Lagat to American.
Leave the guy alone. He has far more balls than you do.
you are a total tard wrote:
He has far more balls than you do.
Yeah, at least five or six.
If his mum was such a patriot why did she defect the country to go live is South Africa? Mo Farah is 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000x the Briton that Cragg is the Irishman, he grew up confronting Britian as a reality not merely a fairy tale that your mum whines on about.
Sparkling wine was invented in France, if I make a bottle from Napa Valley grapes and ship it to France, it is still imported, no one cares that its mum was from France.
Mo's father was born and lived in Britain.
What about Meb.
He changed his nationality before he started running though.
it appears you're arguing under the premise that it is a white country.
what if they were born in the country they ran in? would you feel better about it?
What about Salazaar?
salazar is an elitist who was very talented in his own right but his entire vibe is very remote and secretive.
I mean why does his "project" need to be run as if its a top secret military operation?
the whole thing is downright creepy if you ask me.
He's also Cuban.
you are a total tard wrote:
His mother is Irish.. I wouldn't call that 'imported'
In fact I'd call that being FAR more entitled to being Irish than Mo Farah is to British citizenship and definitely more than Lagat to American.
Leave the guy alone. He has far more balls than you do.
Mo Farah has lived in Great Britain since he was 8. Bernard Lagat has lived in the USA for well more than a decade. I'm not sure how they could be considered less entitled to represent their countries than someone who has never lived in the country they represent. (Note, I'm knocking your comparison, not Cragg.)
Farah is one of the worst. Before he was a teenage he was already destroying his country of birth, condemning it to decades of poverty and violence. He did this just so that he would have a pre-text to move to the UK where he would have a chance of to get picked for teams. Criminal mastermind!
maybe because local athletes can't make a competitive race you need to import someone to help show you the direction as for you, you obviously could'nt do it yourself and have a chip on your shoulder about real talent.
Shit analogy
is this really going over that many people's heads?
serious? wrote:
is this really going over that many people's heads?
I was wondering the same thing. The answer I'm coming up with is pretty depressing.
jagerbomberjacket,
You are a RACIST BITCH! Go run under 60.49 or go to HELL! MF!
1. It is not an Irish record because it was run on a point-to-point course - similarly you cannot run a World record in the Great North Run either for the same reason.
2. Cragg's mother is not Irish; nor are any of his grandparents; there was some cockandbull story about one of his great grandparents leaving Cork to work in the diamond mines of South Africa.
The truth is that his father acquired an Irish passport at a time (apartheid) when everyone in South Africa who wanted to leave the country had a second passport of another nation. Really Barack Obama probably has more claim to being Irish.
Malcolm McCausland wrote:
1. It is not an Irish record because it was run on a point-to-point course - similarly you cannot run a World record in the Great North Run either for the same reason.
2. Cragg's mother is not Irish; nor are any of his grandparents; there was some cockandbull story about one of his great grandparents leaving Cork to work in the diamond mines of South Africa.
The truth is that his father acquired an Irish passport at a time (apartheid) when everyone in South Africa who wanted to leave the country had a second passport of another nation. Really Barack Obama probably has more claim to being Irish.
1. Its reported as an Irish record on the Irish federations official website:
http://www.athleticsireland.ie/content/?p=18195Maybe it doesn't sound but surely they of all people wouldn't have reported it as such if it wasn't
2. The passport comes from his mothers side not fathers(fathers family are Scottish settlers. He is also eligible for Britsih citizenship). Both of his maternal grandparents' families were Irish immigrants. People forget that in apartheid era SA the origins of your family was of the utmost importance. Its unlikely than even though they were born there that either grandparents was ever considered to be a SA citizen and thus the family would most likely have considered themselves Irish.
Also Cragg wouldn't have been able to claim citizenship from his great grandparents alone . Beause its so far back his mother would have to have been an Irish citizen at the time of his birth to make him eligible for it