Top Japanese collegiate team puts 8 under 29:00 in 1 race

Guess 2 Olympic golds and numerous other WC and OG medals in the last 15 years is irrelevant!

formerD1 wrote:

Guess 2 Olympic golds and numerous other WC and OG medals in the last 15 years is irrelevant!

Ethiopia and Great Britain won all of the 10K Olympic Golds in the past 15 years.

Oh, I forgot the Marathon, the event which the likes of Bikila, Geb, Ritz, Hall, et al, focused on, is not a relevant distance event!

formerD1 wrote:

Oh, I forgot the Marathon, the event which the likes of Bikila, Geb, Ritz, Hall, et al, focused on, is not a relevant distance event!

We're discussing the 10K. The post I made and you are responding to is about Japan's ability to produce very good 10K runners without producing any great 10K runners.

Fair enough.

My problem is with the post which was a racist rant about how Japan's culture prevents them from excelling internatiomally at everything except swimming. The OPs broad generalization was not limited to the 10k.

The 150mpw does explain the marathon success, and also explains why the lack the top end speed to compete in the 5 and 10K. I remember watching a documentary on the Japanese marathoners and how they would literally run at least 20 miles everyday as a team. Crazy stuff.

COJL wrote:

1993 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP MARATHON GOLD - USA

African imports don't count.

have to weigh in wrote:

reader of the forums 2.0 wrote:

The world championsip marathon isn't a major.

As a matter of fact it is, quite literaly:

https://www.worldmarathonmajors.com/about/how-it-works/

No it isn't.

The best go to Boston / London / Berlin / Chicago / NYC and often skip the world championship.

Why did you write "Lol" when you didn't laugh out loud?

Why did you write "Just lol" when you then went on to write a lengthy post?

No. "We" weren't.

I didn't list top 5 or top 10 finishes.

I didn't go there.

I listed top 4.

Too bad there isn't team scoring in the marathon.

The USA was the only country however to win a medal in both the men's race and the women's race.

What does Meb in 2004 have to do with the finishing places of the other 2 USA runners, or the Japanese runners he beat?

Further, as I wrote above, I listed top 4. Or, as you put it, "not top 5, not top 10," etc, finishes

Too bad there isn't team scoring in the marathon.

Correct.

You being puzzled by this outs yourself as a moron.

The data tells us otherwise.

You forgot a few

USA

1908 gold (men)

1908 bronze (men)

1912 bronze (men)

1924 bronze (men)

1972 gold (men)

1976 silver (men)

1984 gold (women)

2004 bronze (women)

2004 silver (men)

If you say so.

Don't be such an obvious bigot, fake reader of the forums.

Aww man, I came to this thread because formerD1 killed the other one. Time to start over : (

Chines, Japanese, all these people have free access to EPO, "turtle soup" and other banned substances. All asians

reader of the forums wrote:

Don't be such an obvious bigot, fake reader of the forums.

Typical Ventolin arguing with his own aliases.

reader of the forums 2.0 wrote:

No it isn't.

The best go to Boston / London / Berlin / Chicago / NYC and often skip the world championship.

Yes it is. The world marathon majors website defines it as such. You're wrong. Just admit it.

Ventolin hunter wrote:

reader of the forums wrote:

Don't be such an obvious bigot, fake reader of the forums.

Typical Ventolin arguing with his own aliases.

We've been through this.

Ventolin is a doctor who lives in the UK.

I am an American in my 20s who has never been outside the US.

You are a dumbfvck stalker.

Ventolin hunter wrote:

reader of the forums 2.0 wrote:

No it isn't.

The best go to Boston / London / Berlin / Chicago / NYC and often skip the world championship.

Yes it is.

No it isn't.

See above.

Ventolin hunter wrote:

The world marathon majors website defines it as such.

They could define some Joe's Podunk Marathon as a major and it wouldn't make it so.

Ventolin hunter wrote:

You're wrong. Just admit it.

No.

See above.

Let's keep it short and simple.

How many Gold medals has the US won in the Marathon in the past 20 years? Please answer that question and the STFU.

formerD1 wrote:

Let's keep it short and simple.

How many Gold medals has the US won in the Marathon in the past 20 years? Please answer that question and the STFU.

Changing the goal posts when the data doesn't suit your narrative.

Classic.

Since you seem unable of answering an easy and simple question, it is ZERO.

BTW, since you're too dense to possess basic reading comprehension skills, let me sum it up for you:

1) OP posts JPN 10K times

2) Idiot #1 makes racist rant about how JPN SUX at international stage

3) I respond with Gold medals

4) Idiot #2 responds about how Gold medals at the marathon on irrelevant/insignificant

Missing the fact that:

A) I was the one who initiated the discussion in the first place, thus it makes no sense at all for either you or anyone else to say that Gold medals are irrelevant or doesn't "suit my narrative", when I was the initiator of the narrative in the first instance

B) The point that Idiot #1 was making, that JPN sucks at everything except swimming, was factually countered by the TWO Gold medals at the marathon in the past 4 Olympic Games.

Frank Shorter was the last Gold medalist for the marathon and since US distance running has really been awful and surpassed. Unclear whether Japan is better but it is close.