Dan Brown should have given up his Marathon spot

I agree although we'll get trashed for it.

I guess I should be trash as well for agreeing with you two.

Go Nike allow your athletes to run all the events and keep the Hansons out, then we (USA) have a better team, or not!

Go Nike!

sco'les wrote:

I give the guy credit. He ran a great 5k a few weeks back and ran well in the Olympic 10. But he obviously wasn't serious about the Marathon if he was out doing those things. Briney deserved to go and would have represented.

No he didn't.

He should've done whatever he wanted to do. He was the one who qualifiied. You qualify, you choose.

I think the thing I have the most problem with is that Browne was clearly not sweating at all when he finished.

Quite simple really. Dan earned the spot, he makes the call, the computer coaches live with it.

Being lapped and running 28:12 when you PR is 27:42 would not be running well in the 10k. Why the 5k PR among all this preparations. Dan really needs to grow up and just focus on one event. 2003 - Pan Ams and Worlds, yes and the record keeps playing the hits!

Go Nike!

when you're dehydrated you stop sweating.

physio wrote:

when you're dehydrated you stop sweating.

Exactly if you stop sweating you're just about to get in real trouble!

you mean they actually gave bekele a medal for that pathetic, nowhere-near-his-p.r. performance? i'm apalled.

Couple things --

- Browne deserved to go more than Briney, b/c Browne beat Briney in head-to-head competition for the spot. This is an unkind truth but it's still truth. Easy to say Trent could have run better once Brown'es 2:27 is known -- I have never, ever heard anyone mention a phantom "could have run" time 16 minutes slower than one's PR.

- It is possible to run well at other distances, even as short as 5k, when preparing seriously and foremost for a marathon.

- As for "not sweating much," if, as it apprared, leg cramps slowed him immensely and he just couldn't run any faster on the limited muscle range of motion, you're not taxing the other muscles as much -- think of it as driving very slowly when a wheel gets kcocked out of alignment and is too wobbly to go fast. This has happened to me.

- But as ever, if you just want to s--t on Browne, you'll find a way.

I would have loved to have Trent running in Athens, however you guys are not being fair to Dan. The top 3 guys from the trials deserved the opportunity to represent our country in the marathon. They did a terrific job. Dan suffered through on a tough day but he earned the right to do the suffering. How quickly we all forget that just 4 years ago we only had one male athlete and one female athlete that were deserving of toeing the Olympic Marathon starting line. Now we have 6 on the starting line and others waiting in the wings. Meb said it best. American distance running is on its way back. We are certainly not there yet, but we have a lot more to be optimistic about than we did 4 years ago.

Joseph McVeigh wrote:

think of it as driving very slowly when a wheel gets kcocked out of alignment and is too wobbly to go fast. This has happened to me.

While driving or while running?

sco'les say:

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I give the guy credit. He ran a great 5k a few weeks back and ran well in the Olympic 10. But he obviously wasn't serious about the Marathon if he was out doing those things. Briney deserved to go and would have represented.<

Yes sir, you don't want to take the Olympic Marathon TOO Seriously. Running a 5k in preparation for the Olympic 10k, who ever heard of such a ridiculous idea!

I'm sure he was just lollygagging out there purposely taking a spot away from another SERIOUS athlete. And did you see him enter the stadium? I mean who ever gets leg cramps when they run a marathon?? Especially when they slow down so much at the end resting for a grand entrance on to the track where they can be passed by SERIOUS runners who are actually TRYING??

Lets all pray that Dan comes to his senses and run only the events that the sco'les CHOOSE for him, cause he know best.

Kevin Hanson wrote:

I would have loved to have Trent running in Athens, however you guys are not being fair to Dan. The top 3 guys from the trials deserved the opportunity to represent our country in the marathon. They did a terrific job. Dan suffered through on a tough day but he earned the right to do the suffering. How quickly we all forget that just 4 years ago we only had one male athlete and one female athlete that were deserving of toeing the Olympic Marathon starting line. Now we have 6 on the starting line and others waiting in the wings. Meb said it best. American distance running is on its way back. We are certainly not there yet, but we have a lot more to be optimistic about than we did 4 years ago.

Kevin Hanson=Class Act

Kevin,

Thank you for that wonderful post. I was just thinking

yesterday how wonderful the USA did this year, and

then thinking that I can't wait 4 years to see what

your group will do for us in 2008.

A fan of all the Hanson's group.

This is a stupid and specious thread. Armchair quarterbacking at its worst.

There've been a couple other US Oly marathoners in past years that should've given up spots to alternates due to injury but DBrown is far removed from that list. He suffered on the day as did too many others due to the conditions which can only be regarded as unsafe for athletic competition.

Perhaps a better subject would have been "Do you think Dan Brown should have given up his marathon spot?"

I think Browne is a great guy. He's a hard worker and certainly deserved to represent his country. He earned it. Obviously it's up to him. That's why he was there.

I started this thread to simply generate discussion.

Perhaps asking questions instead of publishing my opinions would go over better.

Should Dan Browne have given up his spot?

Do you think he really believed he could perform well in both events?

Anyone have any idea why NBC had no pre race interviews with Meb?

They kept airing clips of Browne and few of Culpepper. But I didn't see any of Meb.