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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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Journey wrote:
The last American born marathoner to make the world notice was Ryan Hall. He was the real deal.

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TrackCoach wrote:

Journey wrote:
The last American born marathoner to make the world notice was Ryan Hall. He was the real deal.

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You really believe an Olympic medal and a WMM top finish does not gain you notice.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Please seek help. Immediately.

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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?

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