AL GORE RAN HIGH SCHOOL TRACK - can an LR sleuth find his times?

ElectoralVoter wrote:

Gore finished first, ahead of his main rival, George W. Bush of Exeter but the Jury of Appeals declared Bush the winner since he led on the biggest hills.

Actually, that's incorrect.

The match race between the two former prep schoolers, sons of famous politicians had been hyped up for years. They competed in 50 different races of various prestige. In aggregate, Bush trounced Gore 30 to 20 in the 50 competitions were held but some thought Gore won as he won more many of the most prestigious competitions and had a faster average time than Bush, who didn't help himself by basically not even trying in the famous California and New York races. Gore didn't help himself by losing his home state of Tennessee where his daddy had been a racist senator.

Each race had been predescribed a certain amount of points as some had bonuses like in the TDF. Whoever, won the most points won. It all came down to the Florida race where at first Gore admitted he lost. He then changed his mind and said, "Oh wait. I think I won."

The photo showed Gore behind Bush at the finish line but Gore claimed that wasn't accurate.

Employee 2.0 wrote:

Fallacious.

Monica Lewinsky was Bill Clinton, not Al Gore. Get back on track.

sfgdfg wrote:

https://www.google.com/search?q=young+al+gore&espv=2&biw=1366&bih=631&site=webhp&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwik8_rVufHPAhUDNz4KHW_hDPMQ_AUIBigB#imgrc=ZOjdqOeN4-m8JM%3A

Varsity letters in track and field right there.

That was before he invented the internet so this will be a challenge.

Just for the record, check out Snopes.com on the myth that Al Gore claimed he invented the internet.

http://www.snopes.com/quotes/internet.asp

Lame Lame wrote:

He did a workout indicating sub 4:30 shape before he got a season ending injury.

The injury story is not entirely correct and appears to be the work of a cover up team. It is true that Al showed great promise as a runner and that he suffered through an embarrassingly premature ejection from the sport, before he could rise to a level required to participate in any meaningful track, or field, event. His elevation through the sport reversed course and started a downward spiral when he became infatuated with a teammate named chad, whose endowments were on display at shower time. Al's interests were diverted to finding times where he could watch the object of his affection, chad, hang out, so to speak. He decided to stop running as an active member of the team and become the equipment manager so he could spend time looking for opportunities to spy on the hanging chad. As it turned out, Chad rebuffed all his advances and his infatuation with the hanging chad ultimately cost him dearly in his later pursuits.

Al Gore was also on the basketball and football teams, serving as captain of the latter. So, he was a good, strong athlete and likely did well at the discus for that era.

You can't see his medals because he has them in a lockbox.

In retrospect, though it was obvious at the time, his debate performances against W. were so dominating that press criticism at the time seems ludicrous. W. seems like the bumbling fool that he proved himself to be as president. And W., not just Gore, was actually audibly sighing at times, not that it affects anything.

jjjjjj wrote:

In retrospect, though it was obvious at the time, his debate performances against W. were so dominating that press criticism at the time seems ludicrous. W. seems like the bumbling fool that he proved himself to be as president. And W., not just Gore, was actually audibly sighing at times, not that it affects anything.

I'm sensing a man crush.

One of the track coaches at St. Albans at the time Gore attended was Brooks Johnson.

ElectoralVoter wrote:

Gore finished first, ahead of his main rival, George W. Bush of Exeter but the Jury of Appeals declared Bush the winner since he led on the biggest hills.

But, Gore's coaches who filed the appeal had actually devised the course and had won championship after championship for decades on that course before filing a formal complaint trying to get their own course declared invalid, and were actually given dozens of illegal opportunities to rerun the heats long after the stadium was officially closed and all the fans and officials had gone home.

if you're for real!

no, just great regret at what George W. Bush did to our country and the Middle East.

If Gore was running today he would expect "weighted" times for running varsity. Like the GPA boost for AP classes athletes get time taken off for running varsity, the equivalent to AP.

Don't forget Obama. I know his actions are, for some reason, immune from media scrutiny, but it's not like he had no hand in the current state of our country and the Middle East. At least he also "re-set" our relationship with Russia.

jjjjjj wrote:

no, just great regret at what George W. Bush did to our country and the Middle East.

This probably went over a lot of peoples' heads, but it was really funny.

algore wrote:

You can't see his medals because he has them in a lockbox.