Lasse Viren interview (with fresh pic) from yesterday - Runs only once in a year nowadays

Do Olympic champs tend to get lifetime sponsorship? Viren still rocking the ASICS.

Lopes also always seems to slap a Nike hat on for interviews at events.

lifetime sponsor? wrote:

Do Olympic champs tend to get lifetime sponsorship? Viren still rocking the ASICS.

Lopes also always seems to slap a Nike hat on for interviews at events.

I believe that Lasse has some kind of deal with Asics, still.

and it seems to be a good thing for Asics as Mr. Viren has on a fashionable jacket with the Asics logo.

Petticoat Junction wrote:

and it seems to be a good thing for Asics as Mr. Viren has on a fashionable jacket with the Asics logo.

Yes, it seems.

lifetime sponsor? wrote:

Do Olympic champs tend to get lifetime sponsorship? Viren still rocking the ASICS.

Lopes also always seems to slap a Nike hat on for interviews at events.

A handful of runners who've had notable careers end up with what appear to be lifetime sponsorships even if they weren't Olympic champions. Steve Jones still has a Reebok sponsorship and Lee Troop still had a deal with Asics at least as of three years ago. Allison Roe still had something going with Asics a few years ago. I'm pretty sure Joan Benoit still has a deal with Nike but you're back to the Olympic champ thing.

Even if Mr.Virén was using blood transfusions, it was not against the rules at the time. I cannot believe how everyone else would be so stupid to not using this technique, whether or not Lasse used it. It was legal. But I don't know.

Note that Virén was a phenomenal talent, running 13:55 off of ~1200miles in a year (average of 100miles per month) in -69, when turned into his twenties, also performing a 8:05 3k that summer. I don't keep it a suspicious that with that talent, he `only´ could do a 13:16 5k (in -72), after 7881k (4926miles) in 11 months (716k / 450miles per month), not to mention the years in between.

In between olympics, 1973 his training was far away from what it was before Munich (no training at altitude, lower volume). He got a bronze medal at EC 5k (13:24) in 1974 despite of an injury that was operated in January 1975. It was a 50-50 chance could he continue running at the top level. He built slowly his training in 1975 and the focus was naturally already in Montreal. It was later studied bu soviets that he ran ~50m less distance than Emiel Puttemans in Munich 10k. But the most brilliant run from him was the Montreal 5k, keeping the faster miler-types behind him, forcing them to bounce around to keep a good position in the last 1100m, with the slowly increasing pace. Quax still had all the chances to win, but was too far away and then used a lot of energy in the last curve:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzXfmaiMYnY

U.N.O. wrote:

Even if Mr.Virén was using blood transfusions,

Therefore, anyone faster than Viren's times was using blood transfusions???

Neither blood transfusions nor any other kind of doping aids performance, not in the least. Big pharma wants you to think so, but they're only interested in selling more drugs.

Get head out of toilet wrote:

U.N.O. wrote:

Even if Mr.Virén was using blood transfusions,

Therefore, anyone faster than Viren's times was using blood transfusions???

Neither blood transfusions nor any other kind of doping aids performance, not in the least. Big pharma wants you to think so, but they're only interested in selling more drugs.

Ok JR

HRE wrote:

lifetime sponsor? wrote:

Do Olympic champs tend to get lifetime sponsorship? Viren still rocking the ASICS.

Lopes also always seems to slap a Nike hat on for interviews at events.

A handful of runners who've had notable careers end up with what appear to be lifetime sponsorships even if they weren't Olympic champions. Steve Jones still has a Reebok sponsorship and Lee Troop still had a deal with Asics at least as of three years ago. Allison Roe still had something going with Asics a few years ago. I'm pretty sure Joan Benoit still has a deal with Nike but you're back to the Olympic champ thing.

Allison Roe is still good looking though (I think it is something of a tie up with her charity events for breast cancer).

What about Boris Becker still rocking the Puma endorsements years later?

HRE wrote:

lifetime sponsor? wrote:

Do Olympic champs tend to get lifetime sponsorship? Viren still rocking the ASICS.

Lopes also always seems to slap a Nike hat on for interviews at events.

A handful of runners who've had notable careers end up with what appear to be lifetime sponsorships even if they weren't Olympic champions. Steve Jones still has a Reebok sponsorship and Lee Troop still had a deal with Asics at least as of three years ago. Allison Roe still had something going with Asics a few years ago. I'm pretty sure Joan Benoit still has a deal with Nike but you're back to the Olympic champ thing.

Just for you HRE⤴(somebody just told me about it)

Yeah, Dick's on Facebook with me and I've seen this. It's great. And Becker still managed to go bankrupt even with the Puma deal. I know that Shorter had something going on with New Balance until recently even though I don't think he ever wore them in his prime.

HRE wrote:

Yeah, Dick's on Facebook with me and I've seen this. It's great. And Becker still managed to go bankrupt even with the Puma deal. I know that Shorter had something going on with New Balance until recently even though I don't think he ever wore them in his prime.

Rosa Mota is wearing Asics also recently. A hero of Portugal.

IAAF. wrote:

Get head out of toilet wrote:

Therefore, anyone faster than Viren's times was using blood transfusions???

Neither blood transfusions nor any other kind of doping aids performance, not in the least. Big pharma wants you to think so, but they're only interested in selling more drugs.

Ok JR

You mean JO.. You got your crazies mixed up. One believes medicine does not work, the other PEDs.

Video said something about "becoming the first father and son to run under 4 minutes" for the mile. First father and son from New Zealand, maybe.

If Theo Quax enrolls at Oregon, then Quax will be a Duck! Hahahahahahaha! I bet nobody ever made a joke about that, ever! (sarcasm alert)

Viren used to say his secret was reindeer milk. Lost in translation from Finnish, he was really saying "erythropoeitin."

Doped to the gills.

CapnPerv wrote:

Viren used to say his secret was reindeer milk. Lost in translation from Finnish, he was really saying "erythropoeitin."

Doped to the gills.

Drugs work but they can't make you time travel.

from the 90s wrote:

CapnPerv wrote:

Viren used to say his secret was reindeer milk. Lost in translation from Finnish, he was really saying "erythropoeitin."

Doped to the gills.

Drugs work but they can't make you time travel.

Please don't allow common sense to enter into the argument.

Jon Morange wrote:

One believes medicine does not work, the other PEDs.

Medicines and so called PEDs are all drugs.

SlowFatMaster wrote:

Video said something about "becoming the first father and son to run under 4 minutes" for the mile. First father and son from New Zealand, maybe.

If Theo Quax enrolls at Oregon, then Quax will be a Duck! Hahahahahahaha! I bet nobody ever made a joke about that, ever! (sarcasm alert)

Very funny 😂😂 my brain took 6 seconds to get it, that would be classic.

When I heard the reporter say that I instantly thought of Kip and Martin Keino.