Lol at the sudden love for Chelimo

I was screaming for our idistance troops . I have immense respect for these men who learn our language obey our laws and go through the system as it stands. I never cared if chelimo or lagat were former Kenyans . I cheered for their love of our country and their incredible dedication I like most were filled with pride tan the efforts of our us distance runners today and this whole olympics were a showcase of our new found dedication

Go to bed David

How can you not be happy for him? He chose to come here and ran a great race! Very happy for him.

Yes indeed! You could tell he was hurting pretty bad with 2 to go but found that gear to blow by the Ethiopians.

Flop flop flop wrote:

Admit it, you guys were losing your marbles when the Kenyans beat the Americans in the OT trials. Now you guys are going "Chelimo, Chelimo!"

Not me puss.

$10 says you're one of the bitter af Kenyan posters.

U S A 😂🏅🇺🇸

Maybe we should get Bolt, Rudisha, and Farah to join the army world class athlete program and quit wasting time with native athletes. Chelimo seems like a good guy, but no way he is going to carry a rifle in us army. Again, not blaming Chelimo, but using tax payer dollars to subsidize foreign athletes makes a mockery of the concept of competing for your country.

Elon Musk is an immigrant. Sergey Brin is an immigrant. Arianna Huffington is an immigrant. The greatness of America is that we attract the best in the world to become American.

It's not subsidizing foreign athletes, it's being the society best equipped and most willing to nurture talent from around the world so America can be a country of the most talented dreamers and achievers in the world.

If they run poorly for a long enough stretch before their committment is up, they get put into regular duties.

Also if a "real" war occurs, they suspend the athletics program and the athletes go to their normal duties.

So it isn't zero risk for them. But it is low risk, especially since the jobs they train for on the side are not front line combat, but logistics and such.

You are damn right. Look at all the responses in this thread and compare it to the responses in the trials thread. Fake as hell :')

You guys are a bunch of ****ing losers. Chelimo is THE MAN, and ran a gutsy race that everyone should be proud of.

Stop being so negative, and enjoy the moment.

Star wrote:

Imagine if Ben True made the team, finished second, got DQed and the got reinstated for Silver.

This place would be nuts.

Ben True is white. He would never have been reinstated had the Chelimo incident happened to him. You don't understand what you're watching. You probably think all East Africans are clean.

I don't care for outsourcing, so I don't care for Chelimo.

I can see it now, 30 years from now, a tribute movie/documentary of one of our own winning the silver in the 5000M ..... Not!

Did he have the right to represent the US, definitely. Do I care at all he got silver? Nope.

Never had really heard from him until the trials. Not a fan of the Army and my tax dollars running what amounts to a foreign recruitment program.

Now if he is still running in 2020, I will be more interested as I'll know him better etc.

This guy is either an incredible troll or an insalely dangerous nutjob.