Please consider signing petition asking Louis Luchini to Remove Himself from Olympic consideration

Bolota wont get the A standard anyway, what do you guys know, Luchini's peak for the trails might failed and will come in the next couple of weeks instead, you have to consider that and give him more chances.

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I won't be signing this. I agree in a lot of ways, but it makes me uneasy being part of a mob of Internet users pressuring someone to make a decision that is theirs and theirs only to make. He's open to advice, but given the LetsRun history of chants and jeers this might be the last place I go to get it.

someone will probably smack me--but if Bolota went out and got the A standard and Luchini was still stuck with the B and a non top 3 spot at the trials, wouldn't Bolota go? Or does a list which Luchini will be on get submitted after the trials if enough people have the standard, leaving Bolota out?

I would rather spend my time doing something constructive.

Like going to take my morning bowel movement.

byebye.

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rojo, that is about as classless as it gets. would you step aside if you'd trained for years to chase the olympic dream? would you discard the belief in yourself because some online group believes someone else is more deserving? answer these questions honestly and lose the rightousness that your article oozes.

Well, your reasoning is a bit misguided from the start of your column.

rojo wrote:

Whether one is a "B" qualifier or not should be irrelevant. Read more about the online petition I've started here, but after all the A qualifiers are named, then the order of finish should be honored. Why would someone think that a B qualifier has a better chance of hitting the Olympic A standard than someone who beat them fair and square in the biggest competition of the year? They shouldn't.

The USATF is not nominating a B over a higher placing non-standard bearer because they think they have a better chance of hitting the A, they are doing it because the B has achieved the standard required to be sent. If all of the nominated A athletes are unable to compete for some reason (injury) having a B on the list means they can be named to the team and we send someone in the event. If a non-standard bearer was nominated and didn't achieve a standard by August 9th and the A's are unable to compete, we then send no one.

So, the USATF is simply trying to ensure we send the most athletes in the event. It is not their job to speculate who can achieve the A or B in the last few weeks. The athletes had 18+ months to do that. It is USATF's job to ensure we send as many athletes as possible in the event.

Rojo, you should be ashamed of yourself.

Professor Griff wrote:

Rojo, you should be ashamed of yourself.

I second that!

Michael Bautista, how ignorant of you to only sign the petition to promote your website. You too, should be ashamed of yourself.

It's not as if either one of them has an even outside chance of medaling anyway.

I'm surprised about this petition and don't support it.

Shouldn't Asmerom get his A std. first, before you jump in with your petition?

He'd then have some real legs to stand on with his arguement.

I think it shows little class putting an online petition on the site, especially when one individual is the target. Louis Luchini did what he had to do to get nominated, finishing high enough AND getting the B standard. Schmke, above is right in what he says, it is to make sure someone gets to the Olympics. The people ahead IF they had got the B standard in the last two years would have been picked instead.

This is the Johnson's site but I see it as very wrong that they should try and make another hard working athlete feel bad as they chase their Olympic dream in line with the rules set out. First step was to get the Olympic B standard, second was top finish ahead of other B standard athletes, finally, now he has the RIGHT under the rules to chase the time. The trials are just the trials, just one step on the road. Why should an athletes that has not got the standard, even though they knew what they had to do, get selected over someone that played by the rules.

If Luchini gets the time or not, he has done nothing wrong, he still has the right to continue his Olympic dream. People on a website don't have the right for personal attacks on an individual, to bully him off the team, especailly when he played by the rules and did nothing wrong.

The petition is silly.

The rules are not proper, but everyone knows them well enough.

I prefer signing it, I put the comment for fun

Michael Bautista (and anyone else who signed it), give us your insight into why you signed it then. You never offer any. All you do is reply to messages with no more than a few words just to promote your website. I think we would all love to hear your analysis on why you signed it. Perhaps if you spent a little less time on the internet, you would be a half-decent runner yourself.

This whole petition is a joke and as you can see by the many responses so far, it should be directed at the USATF and not Luchini.

I love the website, but I hate the petition, for all of the reasons above.

Good luck Luchini!!

If Louis had any intention of giving up his spot he certainly won't now. Rojo, please take down that petition crap down right now before you embarrass yourself any more.

This petition is as vile and bad an idea as I've yet seen on here. I half suspect it's some kind of sick sarcastic joke. The tone of the writing even suggests that.

The 5000 result has created the worst case scenario.

As of the final, not one person is guaranteed a spot on the Olympics and each is responsible for his situation.

Broe had 18 months to get an A or B standard and failed.

Riley- knowing going in that the US may only be able to take one, he could have secured a spot by winning the Trials.

Asmeron- didn't win, never got an A, never got a B.

Torres- No A, and no top 3

Luchini- No A, and finished behind everyone that had any standard.

You feel the worst for Riley since normally getting an A and finishing top 3 should be automatic. But if the Olympics only lets you take one you gotta pick the Champion (provided he gets the B in time).

Now I won't sign the petition Because Asmeron had plenty of time to get the A or B. His window closed. And Luchini is a person not an organization. If he wants to give up his spot that's his deal.