Pot McKettleton Esq. III wrote:
rojo wrote:I also think people tend to make a big deal of this only when it's a large number of African runners - meaning that you might be racist. Where is the outrage that 80% of Iona and Providence's top 5 is foreign? There is none. Is that because most of those foreigners are white?
Pretty much.
The same thing that keeps Lagat's AR from this summer and numerous WC accolades (from this past year and year's past) from receiving the coveted "black front page" honor is what gets people up in arms when they see scholarship money from schools Americans don't really want to go to anyways go to predominantly black foreigners. Latent racism
that is ridiculous. People don't make a big deal out of Lagat running 12:54 5K because he is born Kenyan, and 13872634 kenyans can run 12:54 in the 5K, or have at some point. It isn't anything special to see a kenyan-born runner run sub 13. It happens ALL the time. Literally hundreds of kenyans either have done it or can do it. What is there to get excited about?
4 american born runners in the history of the world have gone sub 13 in the 5K. Sorry if it upsets you that we prefer to see such an event that is much, much more rare. Would I rather lagat run sub 13 than another Kenyan? yes. But at the end of the day, it just isn't that special to see another east african run sub 13.
you won't admit it, but you would MUCH rather see rupp or solinsky run sub 12:54 for a new 5k AR than watch an east african time trial a sub 12:54 for the 100th time.