Never a Rupp fan when he was younger
I have no idea how people can rip on him now, he is really frigging good, 3:50, 7:30 indoors 2nd at Olympics and 4th here?
What the heck do folks want?
Never a Rupp fan when he was younger
I have no idea how people can rip on him now, he is really frigging good, 3:50, 7:30 indoors 2nd at Olympics and 4th here?
What the heck do folks want?
This guys is right. RCS has no response. RCS is a good troll but his outstanding performance this thread is a fluke.
Owning Rupptards wrote:
Run Run Rudolph wrote:The only races that matter are the Olympics and world record runs. These "world championships" are a waste of time.
BS. Then why do the best athletes compete at world champs idiot. All of it matters. World Champs, Olympics, and World Records. What? Just because Ruppie didn't medal, it doesn't matter?
Go out into the public and tell someone that you just won a medal at the track and field world championships. They will probably say that's nice to your face and who gives a crap behind your back.
In contrast tell them you just won an Olympic medal. This will invoke women wanting you while men will wanting to be you!
Run Run Rudolph wrote:
Owning Rupptards wrote:BS. Then why do the best athletes compete at world champs idiot. All of it matters. World Champs, Olympics, and World Records. What? Just because Ruppie didn't medal, it doesn't matter?
Go out into the public and tell someone that you just won a medal at the track and field world championships. They will probably say that's nice to your face and who gives a crap behind your back.
In contrast tell them you just won an Olympic medal. This will invoke women wanting you while men will wanting to be you!
LOL @ tards. I can ALSO say that I have done all THREE of them and get all the putang in the world. Why pick just one of them when you can have all three? You = Owned.
After today's OBLITERATION I think even the fanboys will come around to the fluke side.
Amazing runner =/= medal threat.
Time to move to the marathon. He'll have much better chances there.
rupp-certified saladbar wrote:
After today's OBLITERATION I think even the fanboys will come around to the fluke side.
Amazing runner =/= medal threat.
Time to move to the marathon. He'll have much better chances there.
Nope.
rupp-certified saladbar wrote:
After today's OBLITERATION I think even the fanboys will come around to the fluke side.
Amazing runner =/= medal threat.
Time to move to the marathon. He'll have much better chances there.
Please find an unsafe place to run.
rupp-certified saladbar wrote:
After today's OBLITERATION I think even the fanboys will come around to the fluke side.
Amazing runner =/= medal threat.
Time to move to the marathon. He'll have much better chances there.
His medal chances in any Olympic marathon will be very poor - that's where the main East African talent is. It is possible he could get himself a WC Marathon medal in, say, 2017 if a bunch of the top guys don't run.
Rupp's best medal opportunity remains the 10000m, and I expect that to remain his focus through Rio. After Rio we'll see him on the roads, and if all goes well it would be great for him go sub 60 / sub 2:06, but it's a long way from that level to truly competing with the best in the world. Guess it's possible he could turn out to be a 58:xx / 2:04:xx guy, but that would surprise me.
Interesting points, but look at Olympic marathon winners and medalists. It's hardly all 2:04 guys or even all sub-2:09 guys.
Savvy racing and exacting race-specific preparation have put guys like Meb, Baldini, Da Silva and Wainana on the podium, among many others who weren't ranked top 10 (or even top 50?) in the world.
Salazar is amazing with the sort of condition-specific prep and attention to detail that could give Ritz or Rupp the race of their lives in Rio, while the Kenyans and Ethiopians will be dropping like flies as they so often do in hot championship races.
This is Rupp's best medal shot in 2016.
rupp-certified saladbar wrote:
Interesting points, but look at Olympic marathon winners and medalists. It's hardly all 2:04 guys or even all sub-2:09 guys.
Savvy racing and exacting race-specific preparation have put guys like Meb, Baldini, Da Silva and Wainana on the podium, among many others who weren't ranked top 10 (or even top 50?) in the world.
Salazar is amazing with the sort of condition-specific prep and attention to detail that could give Ritz or Rupp the race of their lives in Rio, while the Kenyans and Ethiopians will be dropping like flies as they so often do in hot championship races.
This is Rupp's best medal shot in 2016.
It may be true that Rupp's best medal shot in 2016 is in the marathon.
However, it is completely absurd to call his silver a fluke. If anything, a 4th place this year confirms its legitimacy (not that any medal needs to be legitimized beyond the race itself).
rupp-certified saladbar wrote:
There are no more track medals in Rupp's future. Time to hang up the spikes.
Hopefully the future will see some marathon paydays and maybe a win in a fixed field like Boston.
LOL. Yep, no future for Rupp in the 10.
Congrats, Galen, on a Diamond League victory and a new American record.
think again wrote:
rupp-certified saladbar wrote:There are no more track medals in Rupp's future. Time to hang up the spikes.
Hopefully the future will see some marathon paydays and maybe a win in a fixed field like Boston.
LOL. Yep, no future for Rupp in the 10.
Congrats, Galen, on a Diamond League victory and a new American record.
+1. LRC's favorite American distance guy now has the fastest 10000m PR of anyone currently contesting the event.
think again wrote:
rupp-certified saladbar wrote:There are no more track medals in Rupp's future. Time to hang up the spikes.
Hopefully the future will see some marathon paydays and maybe a win in a fixed field like Boston.
LOL. Yep, no future for Rupp in the 10.
Congrats, Galen, on a Diamond League victory and a new American record.
Not a DL win. The 10,000 was not a DL race (the 5 was though).
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