Galen Rupp truely among distinguished company

Shalane Flanagan medaled in an Olympic 10000 in 2008.

Those other Olympic 10,000's were actual RACES and Rupp would not have medaled in them.

He is a cheater, though, just like those guys.

if rupp was cheating salazar would have found out and have nothing to do with rupp.

salazars hierarchy of whats important.

1. God

2. family

3. morals, ethics, fair play etc.

4. coaching

success in running/ coaching would be meaningless without #3

You would be surprised how people can twist morals, ethics and especially 'fair play' into allowing themselves or their athletes to blood dope.

Stop ragging on the Finns; they didn't cheat.

Trollist wrote:

Stop ragging on the Finns; they didn't cheat.

I'm changing my statement.

Stop ragging on the Finns about the use of blood transfusions; it wasn't cheating then.

This is a dumb superlative. Running success has nothing to do with skin color. Let's congratulate Rupp for his real and significant accomplishments.

Trollist wrote:

I'm changing my statement.

Stop ragging on the Finns about the use of blood transfusions; it wasn't cheating then.

It wasn't something to brag about either. Hence why people didn't admit they did it when questioned.

The same person has made every post here. Why is this allowed.

The recent crop of Americans are better than the Italians, Germans, Finns, Spanish have ever been. Proving that, just like Lance Armstrong proved, clean Americans are better than all those European cheaters.

douglas burke wrote:

if rupp was cheating salazar would have found out and have nothing to do with rupp.

salazars hierarchy of whats important.

1. God

2. family

3. morals, ethics, fair play etc.

4. coaching

success in running/ coaching would be meaningless without #3

As I've been saying here for 5 years --yep.

TLW wrote:

You would be surprised how people can twist morals, ethics and especially 'fair play' into allowing themselves or their athletes to blood dope.

Irrelevant. THAT is not Salazar. You know nothing about the man to imply that.

someone had to do it wrote:

Trollist wrote:

I'm changing my statement.

Stop ragging on the Finns about the use of blood transfusions; it wasn't cheating then.

It wasn't something to brag about either. Hence why people didn't admit they did it when questioned.

Exactly and all the dodgy quotes when they were confronted.

Viren cheated, you can just smell it in his interviews, and he even lied to Kenny Moore...and then he sank into oblivion.

Boy are you clever.

Tariku Bekele never ran a fast 10000 then he suddenly beat his brother ... He must be on drugs, no other explanation.

The OP made every response but this one. Why is this allowed.

A Duck wrote:

someone had to do it wrote:

It wasn't something to brag about either. Hence why people didn't admit they did it when questioned.

Exactly and all the dodgy quotes when they were confronted.

Viren cheated, you can just smell it in his interviews, and he even lied to Kenny Moore...and then he sank into oblivion.

I'm not saying they didn't cheat; that is why I changed my statement. I'm saying the use of blood transfusions, while sketchy, was not cheating in the 70s and early 80s. The Finns could have been using steroids and/or banned stimulants which would have been cheating.

"truly"

Regardless of race he is still among distinguished company by being an Olympic silver medalist.