RE: Why doesn't Manzano run for Mexico????

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10 years ago 03/26/2014 11:02am EDT

Uh, well I would agree with you that he is an "odd little dude," but not because he runs for America, but because he has weird pre-race rituals.

I guess to answer your question and assume you aren't trolling: Leo runs for America because this is the country he wants to run for and he is an American citizen? I'm not sure why this is even a question, really.

A cynic might say that he runs for America because he gets more sponsorship money that way than if he ran for Mexico.

At any rate, the answer is certainly one of those two, I suspect the first.

10 years ago 03/26/2014 11:40am EDT

re: notaracist

Then why did he hold a Mexican flag when he won silver? The country that run for is the one you support. His lack of patriotism is disheartening. It's ok to have pride in where your family is from, but holding the Mexican flag at the Olympics was an insult to USA.

10 years ago 03/26/2014 11:42am EDT

re: notaracist

notaracist wrote:
A cynic might say that he runs for America because he gets more sponsorship money that way than if he ran for Mexico.

I would agree with you, but at this point moving to a Mexican sponsorship may be lucrative. How long has he been without?

10 years ago 03/26/2014 11:45am EDT

re: uh huh

uh huh wrote:
Then why did he hold a Mexican flag when he won silver? The country that run for is the one you support. His lack of patriotism is disheartening. It's ok to have pride in where your family is from, but holding the Mexican flag at the Olympics was an insult to USA.

Someone handed it to him. You wanted him to throw it on the ground and walk on it?

Leo isn't the first American citizen to hold the flag of his birth-country at an important event, btw.

http://www.eritrea-chat.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/meb-Keflezighi-with-both-flags-400x250.jpg

Sure there are many other examples if you want to look.

10 years ago 03/26/2014 11:46am EDT

re: Not a racist

...and similarly, does it bother you when someone disrespects our flag like this?

http://godfatherpolitics.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Meb-Keflezighi.jpg

10 years ago 03/26/2014 12:03pm EDT

re: Not a racist

Flags belong on flagpoles.

Towels/space blankets etc. belong on athletes backs .

10 years ago 03/26/2014 1:45pm EDT

Leo is a US citizen who went to US schools and started running in the US and still trains mostly in the US. He has lived all but 3 years of his life in the US. He could run for Mexico and take a much easier route to the Olympics but chose to run for the US.

If he wants to hold the Mexican flag after a race as well, that's not a big deal. Unless you believe all countries must hate each other.

10 years ago 03/26/2014 1:49pm EDT

wow that is so original. Are you a scientist?

10 years ago 03/26/2014 2:00pm EDT

re: uh huh

uh huh wrote:
It's ok to have pride in where your family is from, but holding the Mexican flag at the Olympics was an insult to USA.

It was an insult to backwoods people everywhere.

10 years ago 03/26/2014 2:14pm EDT

And I don't understand why when people transfers schools, they don't run for the school that they used to attend.

Weird.

When I was in college we had some guys transfer in form other schools and then have the gall to wear our uniform in races instead of their former school.

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