As runners Kenyans are incredibly talented. They don't know about Rupp or care. There are many Kenyans who can run faster than Rupp. There are many Kenyans who will never get the opportunity to race at a world championship level that are faster than Rupp. The three athlete per country rule limits the best runners from competing at World Champs and Olympic Games.
What do Kenyans think about Rupp?
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Beautiful Day wrote:
Trolling? No.
It's funny how Boston is fast for those guys running 04 times, but slow when Rupp runs it.
Nice try, Beautiful Day. Ever heard of "wind"? -
Incredibly talented wrote:
As runners Kenyans are incredibly talented. They don't know about Rupp or care. There are many Kenyans who can run faster than Rupp. There are many Kenyans who will never get the opportunity to race at a world championship level that are faster than Rupp. The three athlete per country rule limits the best runners from competing at World Champs and Olympic Games.
Only in the marathon, there had never been more than 4 Kenyans better than rupp at 5&10k, he also beat 2/3 of their marathon team last year.... -
Samuel DeChamplain wrote:
Mkenya Daima wrote:
Star wrote:
The Kenyans are well aware of Rupp.
He has a faster 10,000m PR than all active Kenyans along with a Silver meal in that event.
He finished third in the Olympic marathon beating two prominent Kenyans.
And he is really, really white and stands out when running with the leaders.
They're aware of him.
lol. Keep dreaming. Illusions of grandeur. Rupp needs to borrow a leaf from Jager and just freaking show up when it matters! When was the last time Rupp raced a serious DL and placed in the top 3? Yeah, yeah, he has moved up to the marathon. Whoops, not much visibility there since only two Americans have posted times in the top 100 in the marathon: Ryan Hall (number 59) and Khalid Kannouchi (number 100).
I would like to see Rupp rise to global dominance but man, I don't see it happening. Either you Americans adopt the Kenyans we've donated to you and build them up or get one of your locals doing well in your college XC circuits (I cannot think of any strong USA runner at that level since the last time I checked there was Chez, Tiernan, and Knight) and build that talent!
when's the last time you checked? there's plenty of talented American guys coming up including one who beat Knight over 5k this summer
rupp was in medal contention in every race he ran on the track for years(2012-2016), has two Olympic medals and was more consistent than anyone from Kenya over that time
P.S. since you haven't checked in years two guys to look up are Grant Fisher and Drew Hunter btw
Drew Hunter and Grant Fisher. I will keep them in mind. As for Rupp, man, he is done. What is his marathon PB again? And in what percentile is that amongst the top, let's say, 200 elites in the marathon? -
Are we talking a real marathon without pacers (Olympics, NYC, Boston) where one is looking to win or for position,or one of those fake, ultra flat marathons with hordes of pacers like Berlin and Amsterdam where the goal is to reach certain times? Because in the real marathons, Rupp is in the top 5.
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Some are suggesting that a lot of the Kenyans don't even know of Rupp. That has to be a smokescreen. I would think that Rupp's association with Mo would've been enough to know his name. Never mind what he has accomplished on the world stage.
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The last American born marathoner to make the world notice was Ryan Hall. He was the real deal.
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Journey wrote:
The last American born marathoner to make the world notice was Ryan Hall. He was the real deal.
You really believe an Olympic medal and a WMM top finish does not gain you notice. -
TrackCoach wrote:
Journey wrote:
The last American born marathoner to make the world notice was Ryan Hall. He was the real deal.
You really believe an Olympic medal and a WMM top finish does not gain you notice.
There are some people on here that just hate Rupp and will never admit how good he is. Let's pretend that Rupp hadn't moved to the marathon yet and someone like Chris Derrick had done what Rupp has done so far. 1st in trials, 3rd in Olympics, 2nd in Boston. I doubt anyone on here would be bagging Derrick and calling him slow or unable to compete with Kenyans. But because it's Rupp, he gets torn to shreds. -
cause derrick is clean and ruppy poop was getting androgel rub downs with happy endings as a 16 year old. talk about white privilege, what a spoiled brat rich kid is.
how many americans let alone kids from around the world get to be pampered by nike as a freshman in high school, alter g treadmills, physicians and docs, and a professional sleaze ball coach who has been androgelling him, injecting him with the sauce and micro and macro dosing him with all sorts of grey area to straight up unethical methods.
then went pro then went college. this kinda sh*t would get a basketball player or football player in trouble and the college. but ruppy poop and OU? nah no big deal. im sure rupps parents being RICH and PRIVILEGED were able to get a lawyer and figure a way to make all that stuff get written off in some sort of rich white person tax loop hole. didnt he get signature shoes while in hs? im sure that is illegal to do stuff like that says the NCAA. but hey its ruppy poop so its all good.
to sit here and swallow his gravy and say he is the greatest and not consider all that he has been supplied since HS by the all mighty corrupt as F*CK nike is annoying.
how many athletes have said peace to salazar? each one of them has a foul taste in their mouth, yet ruppy poop has been with this guy since before he had hair on his balls. you think rupp is 100% clean? im telling you, sure he has talent but not as much as everyone on here says he does. if gatlin has residual strength from PEDs and keeps running good, imagine what doing the sauce and PEDs since 15yrs old till now can do for a runner!
right now he is 28low 10k, and that puts him at 2:08-10 on all the marathon prediction calculators i have found on them google. so to think that off the sauce he is a 28low guy...but if he had never had al sal and nike and the sauce to begin with say like 99% of all other high schoolers in the US, i dont think he would have broken 29 flat. sorry thats the truth.
hall had more talent, ritz had more talent, goucher, virgin. pre....rupp has been a science experiment since day one, without all that sauce and technology and nike protection and help he wouldnt be who he is today.
then toss in the fact he is a huge douche and his personality blows hard, i will not like him. just like the ballerness poster from the dyestat days, i route for the guys who did good on being bada$$, not because they were super rich and had the nike connection, alter g, andgrogel, sauce, and certified pampering. even if ruppy poops magically runs a 2:06 i still wont like him.
you hate aden and accuse so many of juicing, yet so many people on here are naive about rupp. the dude has been under salazars "guidance" since the very beginning. this is similar to how the russians did it, find a kid with ability at a young age and groom them in the state run doping program. salazar needed a kid who had promise, was a pushover and would never rat him out, someone week and impressionable. so for 15yrs or so he has been getting pumped full of the best nike can do, and as we saw with lance, nike can do a lot!
everyone seems to forget that even with all that sauce he coudnt break 4 in the mile, and closed 5ks in 59 seconds, then BOOOOOM 3:50 indoors and closing in 52 and running 26:44s, crazy how this all happened when Mo came to town. -
Smoove wrote:
He basically sat on Meb's shoulder the whole time and refused to take the lead at any point, despite Meb basically saying to him during the race that he wanted Galen to stop riding right on top of him. They had pulled ahead of most of the field and I think Meb's perspective was, why not work together some to put these guys away altogether. Instead, Rupp just sat back and executed his race plan. I can get why Rupp took that approach - this is an each man for himself sport - but it still seems like a douche move.
What a load of crap. Go watch the 2012 Olympic Trials. Meb followed the exact same strategy sitting behind Hall and Abdi until mile 22 and then making his move. That almost the exact same place Rupp broke away, the difference being in 2012 Hall was able to cover the move and in 2016 Meb couldn't. There was nothing douchey about the way he ran the race. If anything Meb was douchey to complain. -
mindweak wrote:
cause derrick is clean and ruppy poop was getting androgel rub downs with happy endings as a 16 year old. talk about white privilege, what a spoiled brat rich kid is.
how many americans let alone kids from around the world get to be pampered by nike as a freshman in high school, alter g treadmills, physicians and docs, and a professional sleaze ball coach who has been androgelling him, injecting him with the sauce and micro and macro dosing him with all sorts of grey area to straight up unethical methods.
then went pro then went college. this kinda sh*t would get a basketball player or football player in trouble and the college. but ruppy poop and OU? nah no big deal. im sure rupps parents being RICH and PRIVILEGED were able to get a lawyer and figure a way to make all that stuff get written off in some sort of rich white person tax loop hole. didnt he get signature shoes while in hs? im sure that is illegal to do stuff like that says the NCAA. but hey its ruppy poop so its all good.
to sit here and swallow his gravy and say he is the greatest and not consider all that he has been supplied since HS by the all mighty corrupt as F*CK nike is annoying.
how many athletes have said peace to salazar? each one of them has a foul taste in their mouth, yet ruppy poop has been with this guy since before he had hair on his balls. you think rupp is 100% clean? im telling you, sure he has talent but not as much as everyone on here says he does. if gatlin has residual strength from PEDs and keeps running good, imagine what doing the sauce and PEDs since 15yrs old till now can do for a runner!
right now he is 28low 10k, and that puts him at 2:08-10 on all the marathon prediction calculators i have found on them google. so to think that off the sauce he is a 28low guy...but if he had never had al sal and nike and the sauce to begin with say like 99% of all other high schoolers in the US, i dont think he would have broken 29 flat. sorry thats the truth.
hall had more talent, ritz had more talent, goucher, virgin. pre....rupp has been a science experiment since day one, without all that sauce and technology and nike protection and help he wouldnt be who he is today.
then toss in the fact he is a huge douche and his personality blows hard, i will not like him. just like the ballerness poster from the dyestat days, i route for the guys who did good on being bada$$, not because they were super rich and had the nike connection, alter g, andgrogel, sauce, and certified pampering. even if ruppy poops magically runs a 2:06 i still wont like him.
you hate aden and accuse so many of juicing, yet so many people on here are naive about rupp. the dude has been under salazars "guidance" since the very beginning. this is similar to how the russians did it, find a kid with ability at a young age and groom them in the state run doping program. salazar needed a kid who had promise, was a pushover and would never rat him out, someone week and impressionable. so for 15yrs or so he has been getting pumped full of the best nike can do, and as we saw with lance, nike can do a lot!
everyone seems to forget that even with all that sauce he coudnt break 4 in the mile, and closed 5ks in 59 seconds, then BOOOOOM 3:50 indoors and closing in 52 and running 26:44s, crazy how this all happened when Mo came to town.
Please seek help. Immediately. -
snow blow wrote:
mindweak wrote:
cause derrick is clean and ruppy poop was getting androgel rub downs with happy endings as a 16 year old. talk about white privilege, what a spoiled brat rich kid is.
how many americans let alone kids from around the world get to be pampered by nike as a freshman in high school, alter g treadmills, physicians and docs, and a professional sleaze ball coach who has been androgelling him, injecting him with the sauce and micro and macro dosing him with all sorts of grey area to straight up unethical methods.
then went pro then went college. this kinda sh*t would get a basketball player or football player in trouble and the college. but ruppy poop and OU? nah no big deal. im sure rupps parents being RICH and PRIVILEGED were able to get a lawyer and figure a way to make all that stuff get written off in some sort of rich white person tax loop hole. didnt he get signature shoes while in hs? im sure that is illegal to do stuff like that says the NCAA. but hey its ruppy poop so its all good.
to sit here and swallow his gravy and say he is the greatest and not consider all that he has been supplied since HS by the all mighty corrupt as F*CK nike is annoying.
how many athletes have said peace to salazar? each one of them has a foul taste in their mouth, yet ruppy poop has been with this guy since before he had hair on his balls. you think rupp is 100% clean? im telling you, sure he has talent but not as much as everyone on here says he does. if gatlin has residual strength from PEDs and keeps running good, imagine what doing the sauce and PEDs since 15yrs old till now can do for a runner!
right now he is 28low 10k, and that puts him at 2:08-10 on all the marathon prediction calculators i have found on them google. so to think that off the sauce he is a 28low guy...but if he had never had al sal and nike and the sauce to begin with say like 99% of all other high schoolers in the US, i dont think he would have broken 29 flat. sorry thats the truth.
hall had more talent, ritz had more talent, goucher, virgin. pre....rupp has been a science experiment since day one, without all that sauce and technology and nike protection and help he wouldnt be who he is today.
then toss in the fact he is a huge douche and his personality blows hard, i will not like him. just like the ballerness poster from the dyestat days, i route for the guys who did good on being bada$$, not because they were super rich and had the nike connection, alter g, andgrogel, sauce, and certified pampering. even if ruppy poops magically runs a 2:06 i still wont like him.
you hate aden and accuse so many of juicing, yet so many people on here are naive about rupp. the dude has been under salazars "guidance" since the very beginning. this is similar to how the russians did it, find a kid with ability at a young age and groom them in the state run doping program. salazar needed a kid who had promise, was a pushover and would never rat him out, someone week and impressionable. so for 15yrs or so he has been getting pumped full of the best nike can do, and as we saw with lance, nike can do a lot!
everyone seems to forget that even with all that sauce he coudnt break 4 in the mile, and closed 5ks in 59 seconds, then BOOOOOM 3:50 indoors and closing in 52 and running 26:44s, crazy how this all happened when Mo came to town.
Please seek help. Immediately.
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So what's the point of this thread? Isn't the subject line a good hint? Sure Rupp has an impressive list of accomplishments, and has taken a few East African scalps, but the original question was, do Kenyans consider him enough of a threat to merit mentioning his name in the "Daily Nation"? Do they know him, and just not respect him, or do they ignore him at their own peril?
I guess you have to ask a Kenyan -- and it seems like a couple have answered this already.
Regarding Rupp's talent as an American, I think he has a good chance of beating Hall's record-legal 2:06:xx times, but to think he can mix it up with 2:03 and 2:04 runners is wishful fan talk.
I think if they both try, Rupp has more potential at the marathon then his NOP training partner, Farah.
That doesn't mean Rupp can't win a few races, and medals against faster runners -- Meb showed us that a 2:09 runner can still win hardware, and take some scalps.
TrackCoach wrote:
An article about Kimetto in Kenya's Daily nation talks about the upcoming Chicago Marathon and doesn't even mention Rupp as one of the top athletes. It mentions Stephen Sambu who has a 2:13 marathon PR and Zersenay Tadese who has a marathon PR of 2:10 and is several years past his prime.
Is this a purposeful omission or just an oversight?
