I know I'm breaking "rojo rule" but I've noticed as of late the Kip Litton thread has been popular. Why would it be popular years after the fact.
Can someone please tell me why it's been getting lots of hits. I have no desire to go wade through that thread.
So post a few posts here as to what is going on and then go back to the original thread. Many thanks.
Lipton Iced tea.
For the same reason why there are mean girls in the junior high lunch room.
I was wondering the same thing, but ultimately concluded there is nothing new there. It looks like a couple of people posted some things recently (which I believe were subsequently deleted by mods), which put it back on the front page. Once that thread is on the front page, everyone clicks on it, which puts it back on the popular list.
Because he ran Chicago.
HA! No, probably just general interest in marathon-related stories due to Chicago.
People are still cheating in road races, and RDs are continuing to bury their heads in the sand, or worse, acknowledge the problem without really giving a damn.
Until the problem for which Kip is the poster boy is eliminated, the thread about him will be popular.
It's because the Kip Litton story recently resurfaced to some major media outlets, and the syndicates and copycats have decided to beat the crap out of a dead horse. It's basically the same old crap, resurrected from what I've seen.
He hopped the fence recently at Berlin to narrowly beat out Wilson Kipsang, achieving having a "world record run" in the process.
There is a disconnect between the falseness that is accepted here on Lets Run and the New Yorker, and the actual fact that it was pretty much a hoax, which is known to be the case by most everyone where Kip lives. After the story broke there were runners and a number of other people who confirmed that Kip could not have possibly cheated.
"As of late" as in the last week? Month? Year?
Rojo- why don't you take 2 minutes to call Kip's wife & kids. They were at all of Kip's races and can confirm that it was not possible for Kip to have cheated at any races. Mark Singer failed to make this one simple call because, POOF his story would be gone! Don't be careless and unethical like Mr. Singer. Bring some truth to Let's Run.
My buddy, a non-runner who goes to Carroll College in Montana, said that his professor, a runner, talked about Kip Litton when he was going off on a tangent during a lecture. I'm not joking about that. I bet you that this professor posts on LetsRun.
rojo wrote:
I know I'm breaking "rojo rule" but I've noticed as of late the Kip Litton thread has been popular. Why would it be popular years after the fact.
Can someone please tell me why it's been getting lots of hits. I have no desire to go wade through that thread.
So post a few posts here as to what is going on and then go back to the original thread. Many thanks.
You couldn't go to the last page and see what was being posted, but can start a new thread and keep checking it to see what's posted? More Ivy logic?
People just want to be part of a 5000+ post thread.
easy as pi wrote:
Rojo- why don't you take 2 minutes to call Kip's wife & kids. They were at all of Kip's races and can confirm that it was not possible for Kip to have cheated at any races. Mark Singer failed to make this one simple call because, POOF his story would be gone! Don't be careless and unethical like Mr. Singer. Bring some truth to Let's Run.
Rojo - If you looked at the last page you would've seen trolls like this one bumping the thread. Do some IP checking and it will make even more sense.
Did runners world link to it? It seems (and this is surprising) that many of Kip's friends who know nothing about running actually believe that Kip is innocent and is the subject of a massive witchhunt. One of Kip's friends said he had been unable to defend Kip on the massive letsrun thread because he could not answer the letsrun running question required to reply to an old thread - you know, the one that is like "which of the following is not an American athlete?"
Could lawyers be sifting through the thread?
Being an avid runner or being a talented runner or being aware of who's who in professional running aren't necessarily related.
For those of Kip's friends or family that watched him run or dropped him at start lines, picked him up, provided fuel on the course or helped him retrieve discarded gear know very well that Kip had no access to cars, bikes or any other transportation, which made it virtually impossible to cheat, particularly in point to point courses.
It may be possible to fool a few people, but not thousands and certainly not his family and support crew. That kind of thinking is delusional. It is very telling that those who claim they want truth are suspiciously unwilling to contact the people who know the most, which are of course those who were actually at all these races with Kip.
too legit to spit wrote:
Being an avid runner or being a talented runner or being aware of who's who in professional running aren't necessarily related.
For those of Kip's friends or family that watched him run or dropped him at start lines, picked him up, provided fuel on the course or helped him retrieve discarded gear know very well that Kip had no access to cars, bikes or any other transportation, which made it virtually impossible to cheat, particularly in point to point courses.
It may be possible to fool a few people, but not thousands and certainly not his family and support crew. That kind of thinking is delusional. It is very telling that those who claim they want truth are suspiciously unwilling to contact the people who know the most, which are of course those who were actually at all these races with Kip.
Who was at west Wyoming marathon with kip?
Who is sure he ran 17:17 5k dressed in a snow suit and after 4 mins (difference between gun and chip times) at 2010 baa 5k?