Ben True did exactly what I said he'd do

did you sprain your shoulder patting yourself on the back?

No sprain, Ben True,

Just ain't all that.

That's true.

Ben True to form wrote:

I know none of us want to read a know-it-all's post after a brutal 10k race, but I have to say, "I told you so"

I've been saying Ben True would not make the 10k Olympic team for 6 months. I said I thought the best he'd do is about 5th. I never waivered.

Ben True, for whatever reason, is believed by many runners to be this incredible racer. He's had a few good ones, but he isn't an Olympics quality athlete. He doesn't belong in the pre-race write up as a favorite. I don't know why everyone thinks that, but they do. It's not logical. Why do people think this?

Tonight showed it and then some.

I promise I will make no more posts about Ben True. I really like him as a runner, but I am an objective guy.

Have a great weekend.

Didn't he win a Diamond League 5K last summer?

Didn't he close a respectably paced 5K in 54?

I was just thinking how that one guy on that one forum said something about Ben True.. ... not.

Finished 6th in the 5k at worlds last year. The poster of this thread is a troll. He'll make the 5k team.

Wow, after six months, it turns out that you're,

that you're...

A dickhead

Did True push the second to last lap to avoid getting lapped by Rupp?

Ben True won't make the team.

He's a road racer who popped a confused field in a 5k on his best day.

And so it goes .

he may still make the team in the 5000m, but don't forget that he was injured enough in March to skip the half marathon in NYC.

Guys, lets be easy on the OP as I am sure he/she has beaten True (as a professional), won a DL meet and qualified for the trials...

Really, we're still talking about the weakest Diamond/Golden League 5000m race ever? Nobody good was in that race and it was slower than molasses.

Yeah right. How can you feel confident in him after tonight? I have an anonymous name but I stand by my post.

safdsafdsf wrote:

Finished 6th in the 5k at worlds last year. The poster of this thread is a troll. He'll make the 5k team.

Yeah right. How can you feel confident in him after tonight? I have an anonymous name but I stand by my post.

safdsafdsf wrote:

Finished 6th in the 5k at worlds last year. The poster of this thread is a troll. He'll make the 5k team.

please OP, make more Ben True predictions. You were right! I believed you all along. I'll be lost without your sage Ben True foreknowledge.

You mean the same Ben True who ranked, what, 6th IN THE WORLD at 5,000 last year? Yeah, that guy sucks. Why would anybody think he could make an Oly team at 10,000?

Ben True to form wrote:

I know none of us want to read a know-it-all's post after a brutal 10k race, but I have to say, "I told you so"

I've been saying Ben True would not make the 10k Olympic team for 6 months. I said I thought the best he'd do is about 5th. I never waivered.

Ben True, for whatever reason, is believed by many runners to be this incredible racer. He's had a few good ones, but he isn't an Olympics quality athlete. He doesn't belong in the pre-race write up as a favorite. I don't know why everyone thinks that, but they do. It's not logical. Why do people think this?

Tonight showed it and then some.

I promise I will make no more posts about Ben True. I really like him as a runner, but I am an objective guy.

Have a great weekend.

a broken clock is right twice a day.

It's a lot harder to predict who will actually make the team than who will not. Other than the obvious choice of Rupp, who only a total fool like Stick with eHarmony guaranteed would not make the team, the odds of any one runner not making the team in the 10000 was greater than them making it.

Considering that True made the US team in both 5 and 10K for last year's world championship team, anyone who "guarantees" he has no chance of making the Olympics this year is a fool. Yeah True could be shut out of the Rio team but no one who actually knows what they are talking about would say he has no shot.

Same thing as if a random message board poster would have said before the NBA season that Golden State had "no chance!" to win the title. That's just an ignorant opinion. The fact that Golden State did not actually win the title doesn't make the opinion any less uninformed.

Ben is a great athlete but he has a shit coach in T. Broe who was always/more often than not injured-as much michigan most Warhurst coached guys are. Main reason Alan Webb left. He should've found a way to stay with Mark Coogan.

He has a chance in the 5k if he's close; but Rupp is in there too, and will pace for his bros for sure jst to fk with the Schumacher boy toys after they did it to him indoors. Just watch.

Ben True has accomplished more in his life than you will ever, until you do something worthwhile you're not allowed to criticize outstanding people, troll.