European records don’t make sense anymore.

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    Jeff Wigand

    Member since 11/09/2011.

    4,318 posts. Last post 2 weeks ago.
    7 years ago 02/19/2017 8:52am EST
    re: luv2run

    luv2run wrote:

    pr100 wrote:

    Americans are (apart from a few native Americans) all immigrants. What's your point?

    The Native Americans are immigrants too albeit from about 12,000 years ago (or less).

    We all came out of Africa.

    As for the original question: He holds citizenship in GB which is still considered a European nation. As for Mo, he moved to GB at age 8. About the same age Meb came to the US I think.

    The key difference being that Mo Farah was born to a British citizen.

  • a darker shade of pale

    Anonymous Poster

    7 years ago 02/19/2017 1:13pm EST
    re: HRH

    HRH wrote:

    I see Mo Farah broke the European indoor 5000 record yesterday.

    As Farah is patently obviously an African, the classification European for record purposes has surely become invalid and meaningless.

    Agree just look at what happened in Sweden last night

  • A British man

    Anonymous Poster

    7 years ago 02/19/2017 1:19pm EST
    re: a darker shade of pale

    a darker shade of pale wrote:

    HRH wrote:

    I see Mo Farah broke the European indoor 5000 record yesterday.

    As Farah is patently obviously an African, the classification European for record purposes has surely become invalid and meaningless.

    Agree just look at what happened in Sweden last night

    Lol

  • And if you go chasing rabbits,

    Anonymous Poster

    7 years ago 02/19/2017 1:35pm EST
    re: A British man

    A British man wrote:

    a darker shade of pale wrote:

    Agree just look at what happened in Sweden last night

    Lol

    Tell 'em a hookah-smoking caterpillar has given you the call telling you that pale people won the sprints at the Swedish National U23 champs last night

  • ukathleticcoach

    Anonymous Poster

    7 years ago 02/19/2017 1:40pm EST
    re: HRH

    HRH wrote:

    I see Mo Farah broke the European indoor 5000 record yesterday.

    As Farah is patently obviously an African, the classification European for record purposes has surely become invalid and meaningless.

    All American records are either European or African then.

  • kemboy

    Anonymous Poster

    7 years ago 02/19/2017 2:26pm EST
    re: HRH

    5 out of 6 "American" guys in the 5k and 10k at the Olympics were Kenyan...

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