the competitor supreme wrote:
I'd love to see Hall rock the OLY games, but sadly I think his mental decline is really evident in this and other recent media pieces.
Coincidentally God just loves having him do what he likes to do (not strain, not much real quality on the track, convenient rest-day for his church going). Hmmm....
1. I don't understand the animosity non-religious people have for people who are religious. For the record, I talked to Hall for 35 minutes and I don't think the word God came up a single time. If some reporter on the NY Times wants to really shock there readers with the eccentric Hall, well then they can go that route if they like.
I think people get too caught up in these other media pieces. I hadn't talked to Hall in a while and really enjoyed talking to him and found him to be like he always has been - a great interview.
By the way, we interviewed him way back at the start of letsrun when he was in HS:
http://www.letsrun.com/highschool/hall.html2. To clarify, when I asked Hall if the London fans would adopt him as one of their own, I doubt I actually used the term 'white face' with Hall, but so what if I did?
His skin color is likely somewhat relevant to the average Londoner watching the race on the curb whether you like to admit it or not.
A world-wide phenomenon in sports is that people like the under-dog. An easy way to determine who is an under-dog in the marathon is to find people not born in Africa.
Isn't deciding to cheer someone on based on simply where they were born just as arbitrary as the color of their skin? You certainly can't control where you were born or what color your skin is.