Rupp Interview after 10k - LetsRun asked him about Verne Gambetta and 'innovation vs. cheating'

Can anyone confirm this? I thought it sounded like rojo. That question was completely inappropriate.

get ugly wrote:

http://www.flotrack.org/coverage/251568-Prefontaine-Classic-2014/video/746430-Galen-Rupp-new-American-10K-Record-holder#.U4pLg5RdUmU

Who asked the question at the end about the deadspin article?

Salazar The Creep stands there behind him...

I'm a skeptic about pro athletics and drugs, but dude, it's a face mask for allergies. Relax.

scandanavia wrote:

I'm a skeptic about pro athletics and drugs, but dude, it's a face mask for allergies. Relax.

Are you really sure that is why the face mask is used?

RU you sure about that? wrote:

scandanavia wrote:

I'm a skeptic about pro athletics and drugs, but dude, it's a face mask for allergies. Relax.

Are you really sure that is why the face mask is used?

Haha that'd be funny if Nike designed the face mask to convert oxygen into epo or something

You must have flunked chemistry.

NotAustin18 wrote:

Haha that'd be funny if Nike designed the face mask to convert oxygen into epo or something

Interesting concept, Xenon gas might be candidate for something in a face mask. You don't need much to get a benefit it seems.

NotAustin18 wrote:

Haha that'd be funny if Nike designed the face mask to convert oxygen into epo or something

OH MY GOD LOL

Rupp is a badass! dont understand the hate toward this guy

scandanavia wrote:

I'm a skeptic about pro athletics and drugs, but dude, it's a face mask for allergies. Relax.

Seriously. If it's hot outside, I try to stay cool before my race. If it's cold outside, I do what I can to stay warm. If I struggled with allergies, I'd try to deal with that environmental factor as well.

If using an air purifier is cheating, I guess I'm cheating when I hang out in my hotel room with the AC on on a hot day. If a mask is cheating, wearing warmups on a cool day is also cheating. Everyone tries to deal with environmental factors as well as they can. If you don't, you aren't being fair or sportsmanlike; you're being a moron.

Who asked the question at the end about the deadspin article?

Editor's note: LetsRun.com's Robert Johnson asked the question which occurs at the 6 minute mark below. LetsRun.com's version of the interview is embedded below.

The question was more or less harmless. The article on the whole said very little about the NOP. Deadspin/Jon Gugala/Sarah Barker seem to be on the anti-Alberto war path, and it's getting a little old. To think that anyone could comment with any credibility on someone they once worked with for months nearly ten years ago is laughable.

Probably just pushing him to clarify. When someone asks you a question about something you haven't read, it's easy to give an answer that could be misconstrued if you don't make it explicitly clear that you haven't read the article (or inane ramblings) in question and that you're only responding to the excerpt you've been presented with. Seems to me that the guy is pushing Rupp to clarify rather than telling him how to answer.

It's an agent's job to manage communications, so not really fair to hold it against him for coaching a client through a question that is intended to be provocative. And really not fair to hold it against Rupp.

I like the question, too.

The question was not only inappropriate, it was dishonest. Listen to Rojo's question...after reading Gambetta's interview. Rojo dishonestly implied that Gambetta had said that the mask was "cheating". Now, shame on Rojo, he doubles up by making it a big deal that someone prompted Rupp's reply. Watch the interview--no delay in Rupp's response, which by the way was a great response to a stupid and more importantly "dishonest" question. What kind of person would be proud of a dishonest question? Look into the mirror, Rojo.

get ugly wrote:

Can anyone confirm this? I thought it sounded like rojo. That question was completely inappropriate.

I was the one that asked the question. I was very proud of the question, thought it was handled professionally and answered very professionally by Rupp.

I was doing my job, he was doing his.

A couple of fellow journalists actually came up to me to congratulate me on asking the question. To be honest, if we aren't going to ask questions like that, there is no reason to come to the meets, as it's quicker, easier and way less expensive to cover them via tv.

My only problem with interview is something I was told yesterday by another journalist. He claimed that as I was asking the question to Rupp that he thought he heard Ricky Simms, Rupp's agent who was standing to Rupp's side, quietly say to Rupp something along the lines of, "You didn't see it, you didn't see it."

If you listen to flotrack's version of the interview

, you can hear Simms saying something to Rupp so I have little reason to doubt the account of this journalist, who was standing very close to Simms, is true.

So that brings into question whether Rupp actually hadn't seen it or if that was just how they wanted to handle it. Logically, for me, I think that's simply the way they wanted to handle it. How would Simms would know whether or not if Rupp had read something on the Internet?

Laughing Gas wrote:

The question was not only inappropriate, it was dishonest. Listen to Rojo's question...after reading Gambetta's interview. Rojo dishonestly implied that Gambetta had said that the mask was "cheating". Now, shame on Rojo, he doubles up by making it a big deal that someone prompted Rupp's reply. Watch the interview--no delay in Rupp's response, which by the way was a great response to a stupid and more importantly "dishonest" question. What kind of person would be proud of a dishonest question? Look into the mirror, Rojo.

The question wasn't dishonest. Gambetta thinks many thinks that others call innovation is cheating. I was asking Rupp for a response to the Gambetta remarks on innovation versus cheating, Rupp understood that and answered appropriately.

Clarification. wrote:

Seems to me that the guy is pushing Rupp to clarify rather than telling him how to answer.

I think he's being a little dishonest. Not a big deal as it's his job to handle Rupp and get him endorsements but how would anyone know if someone else had or hadn't read something?

Here is what is amazing about the question: IT WAS ASKED. An high profile runner was asked to comment regarding performance enhancement. Nice job.