coach d wrote:
Lagat also as TEN Oly/WC medals, 5 for USA including 3 golds.
When somebody who is a runner (not Jesse Williams or Ashton Eaton) from Oregon who actually wins ANYTHING internationally maybe you can talk.
Right now, they all suck compared to Jenny.
Coach d, for years you've been talking on these boards about how Oregon athletes suck because they never win international medals, compared to athletes from places like California.
People pointed out that this is because most Oregon athletes are distance runners, and American distance runners have a much harder time winning international medals than sprinters or jumpers, and you acted like this didn't matter. It still proved (you said) nobody good ever came out of Oregon.
Now two Eugene-based athletes win WC medals, and you act like this proves your point, when in fact it just proves you have a lame personal grudge against athletes based in Oregon and especially in Eugene.
What are you going to say if Rupp or Centrowitz medals? Or next year, Wheating or Symmonds or Solinsky? Will you modify your measuring stick for success yet again, or will you find some other way of arguing that Oregon athletes are lagging behind the rest of American T&F?