Are you kidding me!?! Why is it that you try to take away from Rupps accomplishment??? HE HAD THE BEST RACE. Sambu had an excellent race as well but how dare you
Are you kidding me!?! Why is it that you try to take away from Rupps accomplishment??? HE HAD THE BEST RACE. Sambu had an excellent race as well but how dare you
Toasted wrote:
Are you kidding me!?! Why is it that you try to take away from Rupps accomplishment??? HE HAD THE BEST RACE. Sambu had an excellent race as well but how dare you
Your Rupp-Goggles are on ridiculously tight.
Im just trying to defend the guy who none of you having any respect for because of petty suspicions and trying to be some hipster fags by refusing to cheer for the obviously most dominant US distance runner
Toasted wrote:
Im just trying to defend the guy who none of you having any respect for because of petty suspicions and trying to be some hipster fags by refusing to cheer for the obviously most dominant US distance runner
Rupp had an amazing race and ran the AR. He looked like he had more. That is awesome. Everyone noticed it.
Not everyone noticed that a pacer ran a 30+ second PR after taking it out fast enough for Galen Rupp to run the AR. He deserves mad respect.
As far as what constitutes the "best race," it depends what you mean by "best." Sambu probably ran the biggest PR out of anyone in the field, and way faster than almost anyone would have expected. In that way, he had the best race. Rupp ran about what most people knew he could run, a 4 second PR. But it's also the fastest any American has ever run in history. Again. So he didn't really surpass our expectations of him, but he won with an absurdly fast time. In that way, he had the best race.
now shake hands and go on with your lives
I agree, they both ran extremely well, i just cant stand to see people purposefully down grading rupps record breaking performance and shinig the light on someone else just because they decided not to like rupp anymore because no one else likes him
Snivel v3 wrote:
How crazy would this be wrote:He's "not afraid to do the work" he was paid to do?
Did he get paid to drop off and let Rupp win?
Ryan Hall was using sign language on the sideline telling him to not go for the lead.
Snivel v3 wrote:
Thanks Xenonscreams. His 5k PR is 13:31. 10k PR is 26:54. Can you U.S. fanboys take you Rupp-googles off for a second and do the 5k-10k maths?
Wrong...his 5k PR is 13:13 indoors from Millrose in 2012. Still though, in terms of what people expected, Sambu had the best and a huge breakthrough race. He's definitely got potential to make the world team or olympic team in the 10k in years to come. Always been a fan of Sambu.
If Sambu wasn't Rupp's windbreaker the results would likely have been switched.
I am glad someone caught that his 5000m PR is 13:13i...
it matters wrote:
if sambu runs behind rupp, and rupp sets the pace, the finishing times would be switched between them.
This. Exactly.
Hats off to both of them really, and that entire group in the top 4.
Sambu did the work that he was supposed to do and hung on for a big PR. He deserves a lot of credit. The race was obviously set up for Rupp to run a fast time and he did just that. He executed it perfectly and set the American record.
The mile was more exciting because it ended up being more of a race, but the 10K was good too.
This thread proves that many of you just pick and choose the facts that will fit your consistent narratives. The consistent narrative is that Rupp is worse than x.
So, when Rupp takes the lead in his first American record attempt and paces Solinsky to 9k, before getting destroyed by about 11 seconds, Solinsky rightly gets the press. But when Sambu takes the lead and holds it for the same or a bit longer and then gets destroyed by 10 seconds by Rupp in the last 900m, Sambu gets the laurels from the likes of you. Sambu ran a brave race and dropped a lot of time, so kudos to him. Rupp was obviously the strongest runner in the race by far and as he is Salazar-cautious, he did not go all out. Interesting how Tanui all of a sudden, a Kenyan medalist, is now a third tier Kenyan.
Snivel v3 wrote:
Thanks Xenonscreams. His 5k PR is 13:31. 10k PR is 26:54. Can you U.S. fanboys take you Rupp-googles off for a second and do the 5k-10k maths?
Scroll to the bottom of the page. 13:13 PR. Dumb@sses.
is it not obvious to everyone that sambu was the official pacer for the latter stages of the race? if you watch it, he clearly moved out to lane two when he was cooked so as not to get in the way of the true race but still just wanted to gut it out for a PR. i love rupp and he ran a hell of a race to an awesome AR. sambu also put on an incredible performance and that was awesome to watch as well.
it matters wrote:
if sambu runs behind rupp, and rupp sets the pace, the finishing times would be switched between them.
No it doesn't matter that much. Rupp would still have won, handily. Probably by more like 8-10 seconds though.
When Bekele broke the WR he ran the entire last 6k I believe by himself. It really doesn't matter that much.
The Rocket. wrote:
When Bekele broke the WR he ran the entire last 6k I believe by himself. It really doesn't matter that much.
And when was the last time Rupp ran 6km alone and got a PR?
Answer: Never.
Question: When is the last time Rupp lead a race for several laps, before the last few laps of the race?
Nike 4ever wrote:
If Sambu wasn't Rupp's windbreaker the results would likely have been switched.
If Sambu wasn't pacing, you'd probably be posting in a thread with the malcontents whining about Rupp sitting in the group only winding it up and out kicking the field over the last couple laps of a slow tactical race.
That said, it was a brilliant effort by Sambu.
Citizen Runner wrote:
If Sambu wasn't pacing...
...an AR would not have been set.