Come on guys, If someone is going to push your scrawny asses around, at least have some Balls and fight back, don't just lay down and quit.
Come on guys, If someone is going to push your scrawny asses around, at least have some Balls and fight back, don't just lay down and quit.
You've never won a race.
I once got purposely pushed at an all comers meet, I pushed the guy down hard onto the infield, stopped racing myself and stood over the guy and dared him to get up. He started to get up and I kicked him in the ribs as hard as could and that was the end of that. The moral of the story is elite runners and a bunch of punks, mediocre runners are not.
When do you get out of jail?
I was also running in an all comers meet some years back and was up with the leaders when this high school kid kept running up in front of me, cutting in and slowing down. Each time I would just go around him. The third time he cut in, I almost tripped. Finally I told him "don't do that again."
We were on the third lap at about 1100 meters when he cut sharpy clipping me. I reached out and literally threw him into the infield. He came right back at me and I pushed him onto the grass.
His coach came over and grabbed him and I jumped back on the track and finished the race. I ran in the 4:50's instead of a sub 4:40 which I was quite capable of running.
After the race the coach came over to me and apologized. He told me that his runner was a bit immature and that he owed me an apology too. I told him to let it go but that if the kid ever did it again I would beat the holy crap out of him.
Later on I felt silly even having said that. The kid was much taller than me but was a skinny high schooler while I was in my mid 30's. My friends told me it was a very entertaining race to watch. A bit like the Chariot Race in Ben Hur.
I have reviewed Solinsky's incident a few times more. He really should have either moved up a yard or two to give Merga no chance to cut in on him. Or just conceded it.
What Merga did I thought could be illegal. But apparently it isn't so deal with it.
Its so easy to talk about how tough you are when you're not in the situation.
Yeah maybe an elbow in retaliation would be acceptable, but you're suggesting Solinsky should just have a major meltdown, snap, and kick two or three Africans' asses at a Diamond League meet and get crucified as a psychopath on Letsrun for two months. If Webb was chastised for blowing his top verbally, multiply that by ten. Solinsky's career might then be over as the big meets may not even admit him to their field.
Sure you would fight back. You reminded me of a joke I heard.
Two men are driving through Alabama when they get pulled over by a highway patrolman. The cop walks up and taps on the window with his nightstick. The driver rolls down the window and ‘Whack!’ the cop smacks him in the head with the stick.
The driver asks, “What the hell was that for?”
The cop answers, “You’re in Alabama, son. When we pull you over, you better have your license ready when we get to your car.”
The driver says, “I’m sorry, Officer, I’m not from around here.” The cop runs a check on the guy’s license, and he’s clean. He gives the guy his license back, walks around to the passenger side, and taps on the window. The passenger rolls down the window and, ‘Whack!’ the cop smacks him on the head with the nightstick.
The passenger asks, “What’d you do that for?”
The cop says, “Just making your wish come true.”
The passenger asks, “Making what wish come true?”
The cop says, “Two miles down the road you were gonna say to your buddy, ‘I wish that a-hole would’ve tried that shit with me!’”
Solinsky is significantly larger than any other runner of his caliber or better. He definantly had the advantage and one hit and any of those guys are down.