CHRIS SOLINSKY OUT OF WORLDS.

Hey. I get the point you're trying to make about heart, but to say that any athlete who dropps out of a race due to an injury is not a "true competitor" is seriously ridiculous. I ran with a "true competitor" like that in high school, and the guy never got better because whenever coach wasn't monitoring him he was running his body into the ground. It is possible to be competitive and reasonable. The guys that you're talking about are some of the least competetive because they have too much "heart" to ever fully recover from their injuries.

I wouldn't be surprised if it was just a ploy

[quote]gitcheyaya wrote:

Chris Solinsky may be out of worlds. He might of run very few races this year. He may have a terrible hamstring tear.

Might OF run? Wow.

heart yes it is bureaucratic, a true competitor would decide for himself to compete and it should hve been the teams decision to hold him back, this is why we have head coaches they are the ones who judge what is best for the team

i remember my friend derek in 1992, it was toughness, toughness wins races, toughness is love, it was love in barcelona, love of family, love of running, love of the Olympics, love of life

please chris do not yet decide for you

If the brojos are reading this, please delete any post sprint geezer ever makes again.

What race was it that Chris Solinsky was pushed off the track?

Who are you again?

Chris is a punk and Mr. Geezer had the balls to write what alot of people were thinking.

I CALL DRUGS!

Chris will return when he's ahead of the new drug curve...

I will raise you Steve Hooker in Berlin. Balls, guts and performance under extreme pressure.

I understand drug suspicions--that's the state of the sport. I get that.

But Solinsky has three teammates who apparently have no concerns about testing at the WCs, and all of them share the same coach and train out of the same complex.

Three teammates are competing. One has dropped out with an injury he's been dealing with at least since early June. This doesn't seem the least bit suspicious to me. And I'm hardly naive about drug use in track and field.

I'll start the applause for SG's trolling masterpiece.

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JMH wrote:

Actually, the Olympic Spirit is summed up by it's motto "Citius, Altius, Fortius" which translates to Faster, Higher, Stronger. So perhaps CS doesn't feel like his hamstring will allow him to perform Faster, Higher, Stronger, so he's actually being quite respectful to the Olympic Spirit. Or maybe you'd like another Eddie the Eagle make a mockery of an event by finishing well beyond the standard set in the race?

Still not sure why you're trying to make the Olympic Spirit relevant to the discussion since it's the World Championships, and those are more about $$ than anything else.

Eddie the Eel

Trotsky wrote:

I understand drug suspicions--that's the state of the sport. I get that.

But Solinsky has three teammates who apparently have no concerns about testing at the WCs, and all of them share the same coach and train out of the same complex.

Three teammates are competing. One has dropped out with an injury he's been dealing with at least since early June. This doesn't seem the least bit suspicious to me. And I'm hardly naive about drug use in track and field.

So by that same logic, if one Moroccan distance guy competes than they all are clean because they all train together in the national compound with the same coaches. It wouldn't make sense for one to be doping and the others to be competing at world's without any fear.

Bollocks!! wrote:

Just on twitter.

ChrisSolinsky Chris Solinsky

Yesterday I had to make the hardest decision of my career. I strained my hamstring again during a speed session.

ChrisSolinsky Chris Solinsky

I tried everything to get it ready to be able to compete at worlds, but it was not responding fast enough.

ChrisSolinsky Chris Solinsky

@abumbalough will be taking my place on the 5k team. I am now focusing on getting my leg healthy and getting ready for next year.

Let me make sure I know what's going on...Since he is a white American he IS injured. But if he were black or not American he is a doper right?

Ritz and Solinsky are built like a swift Japanese Zero fighter planes from ww2. They are fast and agile but very durable. They could trip over a caterpillar and be out for months. Ritz has taken getting injured to a new art form. At least Broe and Torres weren't always hurt. They were much slower, but they both have Olympic and WC finals on their resume. If the US had the depth of Kenya, Solinsky's injury would not be a big deal.

Webb is so far out of the game now, that making either an Olympic or WC seems like a long shot. Imagine saying that about a runner who ran 3:46 in 2007.

This is just getting ridiculous.

Second question........

Does anyone in the maintain sports press care about Solinsky injury? I know the public certainly does not.

We are now entering football season, where America isolates itself from the rest of the world and forgets that other sports exist. Maybe Solinsky can now join other Americans every Sunday and sit on the couch and watch football.

gitcheyaya wrote:

A faster team we have never sent.

Hi Yoda.

JOe9090 wrote:

Ritz and Solinsky are built like a swift Japanese Zero fighter planes from ww2. They are fast and agile but very durable. They could trip over a caterpillar and be out for months.

I think you meant "... but NOT very durable", right?

They are both much mentally tougher than that wet-noodle Webb, but they do get injured a lot. At this point in their career, the common "overtraining" excuse is bullshit. Kinda like saying, "I don't want to race you - wouldn't want to make you look bad."

Usually injuries are a sign of being out of shape. Nick Symmonds doesn't get injured, for example.