David Torrence Stands by His Bernard Lagat Comments

Don't come on here with logic.

Oh boy.

Are you metric miler?

Is Feel the Bern your real name?

You can't tell when someone is kidding?

Obviously I was kidding when I told Bernard that I was "correct" about adding the 5K. The next year when we talked, the year after the race I posted where he beat Kenenisa, Bernard was joking with me when he said I was "correct".

Bernard obviously makes his own decisions with Coach Li. I am pretty much 100% sure that I have 0% influence in any decisions made by Bernard.

You should also be 100% sure.

The first time I talked to Bernard I walked up to him and said…"Hey. You do not have a 1500m PR of 3:26.34 by any chance…do you?"

Bernard smiled and said "As a matter of fact…I do."

It thought that telling Bernard right away that I knew his 1500m PR would be a good way to break the ice... and get Bernard to talk to me.

I was correct.

I have 13 children and we're on welfare. They were talking about Letsrun.com cofounder wejo and how proud he must be to have a 200+ thread here. I corrected them immediately, it's Mr. wejo, children. That's how I'm educating America--right here in the family room.

wejo wrote:

I asked Torrence about his comments on Lagat at the Olympic Trials and he stood by them and said a lot of athletes had thanked him for saying them. Torrence also said since he runs for Peru now, he sees things differently than a lot of Americans. Interview here:

https://youtu.be/lmKFJymq7uc

Am I late to the party? I saw Torrence stuff. Who thanked him? I know some people and I find this hard to believe. Haven't asked around yet but I will and come back. The Peru things bonkers. it should be a drinking game, peru!

Viva Peru!

Where are David's inner circle members?

Is the inner circle actually Danny Mercado, Nick Arciniaga, and D.T.?

Please try to find out if Peruvian Coca David will be carrying the Peruvian Flag at the Olympics opening ceremony.

I will snort when David walks by in his Peruvian outfit.

Surrrious wrote:

OLD SMTC SOB wrote:

Personally, I give everyone the benefit of the doubt unless I am shown hard data that indicates otherwise..........not conjecture, innuendo or opinions not based on established data. After all, opinions are like a$$h0les........everyone has one and most (except for mine), stink :)

You must be new here...

Nope, very old here

David Torrence should be ashamed. Sometimes we let our emotions get the better of us. Life has its ups and downs, we've been struggling, we someone who always seems to come out on top, and we're pissed. We're transported to that time we were 17. _______ Lagat, that cheater. Of course, Lagat's times and his talent were beyond anyone's grasp.

Lagat is not an anomaly. He's Kenyan and crazy talented. His older sister set his heart ablaze. Sisters can do that, especially the younger ones. We're almost all parents in the end. And some day, grandparents if we're blessed to procreate little clones of our better selves.

Torrence should be ashamed. People pass David. You have a list of names on your wall. What you said about Bernard Lagat is lower than death, my friend. LOWER.

David Torrence should not stand. David Torrence should be on his knees asking for forgiveness. He got lost in his emotions. He needs to apologize and show a little class. Esther Way is a street in my neighborhood. It is the right street to travel down.

You, my friend, are batshlt crazy.

Why do all the threads here always end up like this?

Discus:

Letsrun for psychological help wrote:

yeah... wrote:

You, my friend, are batshlt crazy.

Why do all the threads here always end up like this?

Discus:

Threads end up like this for one main reason: The brojos are never going to put a stop to it, because that would mean decreasing the revenue they earn from this site.

Whether rational people like it or not, the fact is that asinine and racist horseshlt keeps people clicking and posting. And for every click, the brojos get more cash.

They could require all posters to register, but that marginal loss of anonymity would result in trolls reducing their posts, which would reduce clicks, which would reduce brojo cash.

They could make the default forum be only running related, and put all non-running posts in a separate forum that you had to click to see. But this would reduce the attention that the trolls receive (which is really why the trolls do what they do), which would mean the trolls wouldn't post anymore, which would reduce clicks, which would reduce brojo cash.

I don't blame the Brothers Johnson. They're just after the cold hard cash. Nothing wrong with that. It just means we have to endure the worst of humanity every time we want to discuss running.

I am used to that by now. The most egregious debacles involve:

1) lots of deletions

2) very bad spelling

3) Brits

4) Canadians

alwaysdoingthemath wrote:

I don't blame the Brothers Johnson. They're just after the cold hard cash. Nothing wrong with that. It just means we have to endure the worst of humanity every time we want to discuss running.

Wejo is the OP and he knew where this would go. Are you not entertained?

Now that CNN, the state of New York, Donald Trump, and Obama want to know the opinion of rojo on the theoretical conundrum of what cool sprinter Usain Bolt could run an uncool mile in if he ever did decide to run a mile…even though his coach said Usain has never run a mile…since he is paid millions of dollars per year to just run 9.58 seconds to around 20 seconds.

Rojo says that Usain Bolt can't run a sub-5:00 minute mile.

Please read all about it on the front page.

Please discuss it.

Please click it.