A Duck wrote:
What's not funny is that he is not sponsored.
That sucks.
I wonder if his age and inconsistency fed into that.
I doubt that the Mexican flag had anything to do with it.
More likely factoring in age and future performance, budget, and number of up and coming runners desired to sign...
Of course we'll never know.
It seems pretty obvious to me that Manzano and his agent believe that a silver medal @ London is worth more than Nike does. His contract came up, and he asked for too much money, just like Meb did.