The love and coverage Rudisha has gotten is nothing compared to Coe or Ovett.
The love and coverage Rudisha has gotten is nothing compared to Coe or Ovett.
formerD1 wrote:
The love and coverage Rudisha has gotten is nothing compared to Coe or Ovett.
Coverage of distance running in general was completely different then compared to now, it was much more mainstream.
runnerdnerd wrote:
formerD1 wrote:The love and coverage Rudisha has gotten is nothing compared to Coe or Ovett.
Coverage of distance running in general was completely different then compared to now, it was much more mainstream.
Yes, let's stay in this century please.
And what kind of argument were you trying ot make before anyway? You sound like you're trying to say that Kenyans are "more African" (or more black?) than Ethiopians? Is that really what I'm hearing? I know Ethiopians have slightly lighter skin, but Haile G, Dibaba, Bekele are not white. They are East African distance runners.
I'm saying that the mass media treats Kenyan distance runners as kind of the "other" in the "us against them" sense.
For better or worse, Western media coverage is clearly biased towards the success of non-African athletes. If you're simply black, but a citizen of one of the Western countries (including Jamaica), then they are treated as one of their own. Like I said, the Kenyans have somehow become the Soviet Union of athletics over the past decade.
http://www.iaaf.org/news/news/johnson-drowns-out-ethiopian-anthem-womens
"“Paula has shown us the way to beat the Africans,†Johnson said. “It is really important that people from the rest of the world believe that they can beat the Africans."
http://www.drmichaeljoyner.com/who-will-beat-the-kenyans/
"Their performances raise the general question of “who will beat the Kenyans?â€
http://www.runnersworld.com/running-times-info/ncaas-fear-of-foreign-athletes
"I’m no racist, but … the universities of Nairobi and Addis Ababa at Stillwater and Tucson just make me laugh"
LOL, do you really consider the articles you link to as examples of "mass media"? Mainstream media pays no attention whatsoever to Kenyan runners - Rudisha and Kiprop are possible exceptions.
Well if you want to go there, mainstream media stopped caring about running since basically the beginning of time, oh and the current doping crisis.
formerD1 wrote:
Well if you want to go there, mainstream media stopped caring about running since basically the beginning of time, oh and the current doping crisis.
Hey formerD1, why don't you lay off the political correctness d**k you are gargling once in a while. You people with this bizzare victim complex hard on just have to make everything insufferable anymore, my god I can barely stand it.
Please do the world a favor and climb back in your hole.
Sally Kipyego won 3 in a row. Doesn't she count?
Enh guess the freedm of speech portion of the Constitution was not taught at your school. Anyways this wasnt about freedom of speech or political correctness. I could careles about the Kenyans. But Im not blind to the fact that the West isnt exactly rooting for Kenyans to succeed, particularly on home soil. Just stating the facts as I see them.
formerD1 wrote:
But Im not blind to the fact that the West isnt exactly rooting for Kenyans to succeed, particularly on home soil.
Is there a reason we should be? I'm not rooting for the French, Spanish, Swedish, Finnish, Mexican, Russian, Chinese or Martians to succeed (against Americans) either. Nothing to do with being Kenyan. I root for Rudisha over a lot of "western" 800 guys that aren't from the US.
Of course not. Women never count.
Team sport wrote:
cross country is a team sport.
No, it's not.
There are three main reasons King's accomplishment was relegated to "point 4" at the bottom of the page.
#1 He is Kenyan
#2 He runs for Oregon
#3 Oregon has Nike connections
Kenyan, Oregon, Nike = Three Strikes at Let's Run.
formerD1 wrote:
Enh guess the freedm of speech portion of the Constitution was not taught at your school.
Apparently it wasn't taught at yours either.
Lol what? If youre commenting on my spelling and punctuation I only read and post on letsrun.com on my iphone.
Pre-Prefontaine wrote:
There are three main reasons King's accomplishment was relegated to "point 4" at the bottom of the page.
#1 He is Kenyan
#2 He runs for Oregon
#3 Oregon has Nike connections
Kenyan, Oregon, Nike = Three Strikes at Let's Run.
You are so correct....but if we got this message board's wish and banned Kenya, Oregon and Nike from the sport we'd be playing smurf track and cross country....pee wee little league races....