CHRIS SOLINSKY OUT OF WORLDS.

Watch an interview about Lance, all the athletes talk about how they had to be 'chosen' to dope with Lance, you needed to get a 'white lunch bag' if that's what I remember. anyways, I dunno if he is doping or not, the circumstances are highly suspicious.

I mean if it were me, and I had a 'tweek' or whatever it is, I would just not run and cross train until the WC. i feel like everyone has a story of a high school or national champion that did the same thing. I dunno, this just teaches you that appreances are not everything, you go the big burly guy getting pushed around by little runners and dropping out of races, THEN juxtaposed you have the scrawny nerdy guy entering as many races as he can to get ready for the WC

Wow I thought you guys only hated Rupp well thanks for proving me wrong your all a holes to everyone ...boo USA boo

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. 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.

Solinsky is actually pretty durable up until now (if he is even hurt)

CamD wrote:

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

Sorry. Weldon is on his way to Korea and I've been out of town all weekend and all of the employees have been unavailable so the site has barely been touched in the last 24 hours.

I was wondering if I should ban Sprint Geezer.

I have decided to not do it, but Sprint Geezer, you've made your point. We get it. Please stop saying the same thing over and over.

Also I gotta get weldon to see what happened to the cussing block as it doesn't seem to be working very well. Our apologies for that.

Barely been touched?

Not true, check with the employees.

Without my 2 threads that were deleted, and at least one post by somebody else on this thread, you most certainly have not gotten my point.

Although I suspect you are well aware of the deletions and will delete this message, too, without posting those that were deleted.

Actually JOe I sit in a bar and watch my fantasy football guys

Galen Rupp rules!!! GO DUCKS!!

wejo/rojo, you guys are a joke. I've read every post that Sprint Geezer has put up in this thread (minus the ones that were deleted) and I haven't seen any substantive reason to ban him from the site. The fact that you would actually consider banning someone from the site from stating an opinion *just because other people don't like it* should be embarrassing to you personally.

Anything he has written in this thread is a far cry from the racist, homophobic, misogynistic screeds that get posted here by the dozen every day. If you want to moderate the messageboard, then fvcking do it, and stop wasting your time on these little witch hunts. You did this to someone a few years ago over a similar matter of opinion, and that person you banned is now a well-known running journalist that you pull quotes of the day from and link to regularly. Absolutely hypocritical.

Solinsky went from having Steve Jones caliber toughness to Pre Radio (all talk, no substance) in one season. Sprint Geezer is putting out there what hundreds of American distance fans truly think. You should be building a bigger soapbox for him to stand on, not taking it away. And for you Solinsky supporters, instead of trying to silence or ignore the contrary opinion, back your own position up.

And stop deleting opinion threads. It's unnecessary and weak.

Not making the same point, but instead providing another different example:

Perdita Felicien, a 100m hurdler, possibly the event most reliant upon good hamstrings:

"The weeks of training and racing after nationals were right on track, but unfortunately three weeks ago I picked up a hamstring niggle. Ugh, the timing stunk and really bummed me out. The setback meant I had to stop sprinting and hurdling.

I pulled out of meets to stay on the cautious side, as my leg was responding rapidly to treatment but not at a pace fast enough for me. As each day passed I felt more anxious and like the sand was falling through the hour glass much too quickly.

When I realized my situation, I decided that three weeks wouldn't compromise my attitude about Korea or my year of hard work. It's not the way you ever want to show up to a major games, but fierce competitors don't back down when things are tough, uncomfortable or unfamiliar.

Ten years of championship pedigree doesn't go away in three weeks, nor does the desire and delight of representing the Maple Leaf."

Her words, not mine.

Yet another woman with more balls--more COURAGE--than Christopher what's-his-name.

Perdita Felicien, indoor and outdoor WORLD CHAMPION.

Chris...who?

A niggle is a bit different to a strain.

Certainly sounds like you are making the same point. You are being way over the top, SG. We understand what you think. Saying it, again, is not going to be any more convincing. No distance runner, who has ever had a hamstring strain is going to line up for the toughest 5k or 10k race of his life.

Strains/tears can take a very long time to heal and can generate scar tissue in a muscle that is kinda important for running. Even tough guys can develop career ending injuries from doing something stupid. Actually they often do (Adam Goucher, anyone?).

If he was 38 and this was his last chance ever, yeah I bet he would be on the line ready to rip his hamstring to shreds, but at his age, he'd be a fool to line up right now.

I'm NOT saying it again--Felicien is saying it.

Solinsky says that "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

Exactly.

You have to fall to rise.

To fall, you must START THE RACE.

By not starting, he is ensuring that he will not fall.

In ensuring that he will not fall, he fails to achieve glory, something about which he seems concerned.

Straining a ham in practice 2 weeks before the race is not falling, it is training.

To be able to fall, you must have risen--risen to the occasion of a race, something that Solinsky refuses to do.

What a self-serving load of you-know-what.

What has he demonstrated this year about "rising every time he falls"? Like Monaco?

Right.

ALLEGED "strain".

A low-grade strain IS a niggle.

A "niggle" is more than enough to kill a hurdler. That's why Felicien had to take time off.

Solinsky has 2 whole weeks, all the facilities and staff and assistance anybody could ever hope for--and he doesn't run hurdles, or sprint.

Right.

Go Felicien!

Really? You let SG bash others but can't allow a little sarcasm back in his face? Difficult to understand. I would be interested in your reasoning. Solinsky deserves to have others stand up for him.

Also, if you're going to delete anything, delete the Jack Layton thread. Many people are saddened by his passing, and it has no reason to be discussed on a running website.

Look, I understand that this isn't the Olympics.

But it IS the World Championships, arguably the world's best track meet.

It is not unimportant, it is HUGE.

You go, unless someone in authority tells you you're not going--and I mean national authority, NOT commercial authority like your "agent".

Unless you have otherwise EARNED the right to make the decision based on how much you have contributed to the sport nationally.

An athlete like Bryan Clay, indoor and outdoor World Champion, and Olympic Champion, has earned that right.

An athlete like Jeremy Wariner, Olympic Champion and multiple World Champion, has earned that right.

Solinsky has NOT earned that right. He has "earned" absolutely nothing save for some ridicule for getting knocked off the track by Merga, and some derision for not getting back on the track, and some suspicion for dropping out of World's.

For me, this really IS the strangest thread ever.

The interesting this is trying to divine the intentions of the moderators, which is unclear but I think I got it.

I'll go now, it's probably dead.

rojo wrote:

CamD wrote:

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

Sorry. Weldon is on his way to Korea and I've been out of town all weekend and all of the employees have been unavailable so the site has barely been touched in the last 24 hours.

I was wondering if I should ban Sprint Geezer.

I have decided to not do it, but Sprint Geezer, you've made your point. We get it. Please stop saying the same thing over and over.

Also I gotta get weldon to see what happened to the cussing block as it doesn't seem to be working very well. Our apologies for that.

Power trip much?

K.Win.Everything.Ever.Bekele wrote:

rojo wrote:

Sorry. Weldon is on his way to Korea and I've been out of town all weekend and all of the employees have been unavailable so the site has barely been touched in the last 24 hours.

I was wondering if I should ban Sprint Geezer.

I have decided to not do it, but Sprint Geezer, you've made your point. We get it. Please stop saying the same thing over and over.

Also I gotta get weldon to see what happened to the cussing block as it doesn't seem to be working very well. Our apologies for that.

Power trip much?

It's their site, and we are their guests. They can power trip as much as they want. That said, I hope brojos don't delete this thread or ban Sprint Geezer. We've seen much worse here.

Fascinating thread nonetheless. Sprint Geezer is either one of the all-time greatest trolls (will need to do a search to follow the full body of work) or is incredibly obsessive about Chris Solinsky. This certainly has been a disappointing season for Solinsky, so (in spite of having a great career) perhaps a whimper from Twitter is fitting. In other words, Sprint Geezer sort of has a point considering the DNFs and now this.

But Sprint Geezer, omg, do you have to yell so much? Some of us work in quiet places. And calling CS 'garbage' and a 'loser?' Now isn't that a bit over the top, when you're discussing the 10000 M American record holder? A disappointing season, maybe leave it at that.