Colorado's Injuries Recounted

yeah, suspicious...

I heard he tells the team to run 80miles and eat 1600kcals...possibly the reason for injuries???

hmmm wrote:

yeah, suspicious...

I heard he tells the team to run 80miles and eat 1600kcals...possibly the reason for injuries???

stop exaggerating and being ridculous.......1600 cal is LESS THAN recommended for a non active adult

He is not being ridiculous. It is the truth. I coach on a track club with a former Cu buff track coach who relayed to me that one girl who Wetmore said looked fat was subsisting on gatorade alone. Also knew a former member of the national championship women's team who also said that she was told to control her eating also.

The gatorade thing has to be total BS.

Yep - I know a couple guys on the CU team - and he does 'encourage' his atheletes, even the men, but especially the women, to restrict their caloric intake significantly. The 1600 calories is not off base.

Run 80 miles per week

At 5500+ft

Down very steep trails

And DON'T EAT FOOD ITS BAD FOR YOU

Does anyone know what Sara Slattery status is? It said that she possibly has two stress fractures and in another article I read it said she should be able to compete this cross country season. Just wondering, as I think she has tremendous talent. She had a great year in 2002/2003 and I hope she is planning to continue competing for 2008.

2 girls recovering from surgery and expected back by seasons end. 1 male runner out with an IT Band problem. Is this all you can come up with. A team of multiple foot locker finalist and high school all americans. 10 solid guys and 1 is out with an injury. You have to do better than that.

Looks like they have as many men out right now as Wisconsin did last year- why arent you bashing Wisconsin?

And they are still in the top 10 in both polls. Start complaining about the teams not ranked.

How many times do you assholes have to libel Colorado and Coach Wetmore? Are your lives really that empty? This thread is utter bullshit and represents everything wrong with this message board. CU runners eat just like any other fired up college runners.

Will Erika Odlaug ever make her "debut"?

It's not libel - it's the truth. I think calling fellow posters 'a**holes' would constitute libel, however. Lighten up.

bbb wrote:

It's not libel - it's the truth. I think calling fellow posters 'a**holes' would constitute libel, however. Lighten up.

Truth as a defense is not automatic, especially towards private citizens. When someone claims that Wetmore=Injuries, the burden of proof would be upon the claimant. Since the causal relationship (Wetmore=Injury) would be impossible to prove, then the claimant could be held liable for libel. Wetmore would have to prove damages, of course, so it would be a moot point.

Name calling and insults are protected speech, unless it could be interpreted as a truthful and damaging statement. Calling someone a pedophile moves from opinion/insult to statement of truth. Calling someone an a**hole is not libelous, especially since a**hole is generally recognized as an insult. If the person calling someone an a**hole meant to state that the someone were the actual opening of the anal canal, then that could be libelous, but since it were an obvious untruth, it would probably be protected speech under the umbrella of parody.

My point here, however, is that libel and slander are two statutes that are rarely tried in court, with the victim rarely winning in any cases, due to the broad interpretation of the First Amendment. To make reference of libel and slander on letsrun.com only shows that the some people have no idea what they are talking about.

blahblahblah wrote:

How many times do you assholes have to libel Colorado and Coach Wetmore? Are your lives really that empty? This thread is utter bullshit and represents everything wrong with this message board. CU runners eat just like any other fired up college runners.

How is it libel to quote something from this week's Colorado press release. Many people were wondering about the current health of the team and especially the nature of returning all-american Billy Nelson's injury.

Marius Vipaam wrote:

How is it libel to quote something from this week's Colorado press release. Many people were wondering about the current health of the team and especially the nature of returning all-american Billy Nelson's injury.

Why waste your time? Blahblahblah obviously inferred something from your original post that struck too close to home. Is it possible that Blahblahblah is an injured Buff?

just shut the freak up.

Ritz and the CU injury crew are the victims here not some anonymous poster.

WHAT is your point?!!!!

My point was very simple, moron, but since you never made it to the last paragraph, I'll make them more clear for you:

You claimed it was not libel because it was the truth. I pointed out that truth is not always a defense to libel, especially with private citizens. Additionally, I pointed out that the burden of proof was on the person who makes the claim, in this case you, because you are stating something as fact that you can neer prove.

You also claimed that calling someone an a**hole is libleous, but I pointed out that opinions and insults are protected speech.

Basically, my point was that you didn't know what the heck you were talking about when it came to libel and slander. Thank you for proving me correct.

The point is:

Wetmore = Bitch