Mo Farah is awarded knighthood by the queen, meanwhile in America, Rupp is accused of doping/hated, HOW?

Oh how I love when people not from britain strip nationality from others. so letsrun.

Here are the Brojos fishing again. What a shame. The Brojos are always looking for a story to keep the message boards going and keep their business coming in, even if that story is based on false accusations and nothing that they can support with one bit of substantial evidence. I'm a businessman myself but I would not stoop to such unethical reporting standards. I'm surprised they have not been sued by now, perhaps they have? One recent post had one of the owners ranking in order who he thought was clean and who was dirty? What? How childish is that? Come on folks. Again, it's all a part of their business, an unethical one at that. But realize, this site is ruining our sport.

Zlatan wrote:

The Russians: Selected from young age and trained in sporting gulags by professional coaches and provided with an elite doping program

The Brits: Complain about lack of funding but do their best. Would never consider doping. Just honest hard work!

The medal table: Amateur Brits dominate professional Russians

1) I would be extremely surprised the little Britties dope any less than the Russians

2) Brits athletics medals (since 1896): 203 total

USSR/Russia athletics medals (since only 1952!!): 254 total

3) GTFO!!

The British are extremely jingoistic, - they are very patriotic to their own and hostile to others. This breeds much hypocrisy in their attitudes to perceived fairness, doping probability etc.

Mo Farah wins consistently and speaks with a London accent so he is "theirs" -However if he ran for Ethiopia ( I say that as Somalia doesn't have organised structures for international athletes to roam the globe) He would be accused of doping in the same way Almaz Ayana is.

Basically if an athlete does well in a British vest they break out the champagne, but if the same athlete performed the same way for an East African country and didn't speak English and therefore was not relatable, then they would be portraided as a cheat.

I laughed out loud when Liz Mccolgan open praised Mo for his 10000m win at the world champs and then the next night blasted Ayana as a drugs cheat when she won. - never minding that associative evidence is far more supportive of Farah being suspicious than Ayana.

Mccolgan nicely summarises the xenophobic attitude of Brits to athletics starts.

USA! USA! USA!

On the other hand, GB came in 2nd overall in Rio 2016, only beaten by the US.

3rd in London 2012, beaten by the US and China. That was apparently that year with the Russian state-sponsored doping. And Russia? Came in 4th, behind GB, despite being a lot larger than GB, and allegedly more doped.

In 2008, the order was China - USA - Russia - GB. Wait. Wasn't that before they started this doping conspiracy? But then they beat GB, and doped up they did not? While GB was always clean as per usual?

Probably all a coincidence. Nothing to see here.

casual obsever wrote:

On the other hand, GB came in 2nd overall in Rio 2016, only beaten by the US.

3rd in London 2012, beaten by the US and China. That was apparently that year with the Russian state-sponsored doping. And Russia? Came in 4th, behind GB, despite being a lot larger than GB, and allegedly more doped.

In 2008, the order was China - USA - Russia - GB. Wait. Wasn't that before they started this doping conspiracy? But then they beat GB, and doped up they did not? While GB was always clean as per usual?

Probably all a coincidence. Nothing to see here.

No.

Russia population 145 million, under 30 population 30 million

GB population 70 million, under 30 population 25 million

Russian black/african former colonial pooulation Zero

GB black/ african former colonial population 10 million

Russia GDP about half that of GB. British athletics given millions in lottery funding with ruthless medal targetting. Russia critical lack of funding. There is no gulags or even hothousing junior academies. Putin genuinely has 90% support in Russia. He's not an evil Soviet style dictator. Russians have more freedoms than British. You dont get police knocking on your door for bad tweets or saying that letting middleaged transgenders into kids toilets is wrong. Old men arent being hounded for patting young women on the bum 50 years ago.

Average January daytime temperature London 7 c

Average January daytime temperature St Petersburg - 10c

Try getting your 60 miles a week in when theres 5 inches of snow on the ground December to April.

Lydiard did talk extensively about training in snow, saying that he thought Finland had optimal levels that you could train well on it, whereas in other places to the south it was thinner and hard like ice. Whereas in other places it was too thick and soft like powder, eg up above your knees but then you sink into it (this is probably parts of Russia).

Your under 30 population figure is key.

Coevett wrote:

There is no gulags or even hothousing junior academies. Putin genuinely has 90% support in Russia. He's not an evil Soviet style dictator. Russians have more freedoms than British. You dont get police knocking on your door for bad tweets or saying that letting middleaged transgenders into kids toilets is wrong. Old men arent being hounded for patting young women on the bum 50 years ago.

Nice. Let's move there, right?

bbrit wrote:

Oh how I love when people not from britain strip nationality from others. so letsrun.

You know who else is “not from Britain”? That would be Mo.

Mo is just as much "not from Britain" as Prince Phillip. In fact, Mo is far more "British" than Phil the greek. A fact many in the UK fail to notice!

Why the love for Mo in the UK and not for Rupp in the US? Simple. If Rupp had won as many golds as Mo, he'd be loved in the US and appear on the chat shows etc.

Bottom line is Rupp is inferior to Mo, and whilst he's "good", he's not "great". At least not yet. There's still time.

rojo wrote:

Galen indifferent wrote:

I think a lot of dislike for Galen may also go back to when he was a professional runner for like a year and then got to run at Oregon or whatever he did. Good for him, college eligibility/ametuerism is stupid, but he's had his own set of rules and I can see how people who don't get special treatment might not like that.

Anyone have any info on that? Please email us. I've heard a lot of rumors on that front over the years. Wonder if people might be willing to talk now.

do yourself a favor and don't even talk about rupp, you only expose yourself as a tabloid writer every time

Coevett wrote:He's not an evil Soviet style dictator. Russians have more freedoms than British. You dont get police knocking on your door for bad tweets or saying that letting middleaged transgenders into kids toilets is wrong. Old men arent being hounded for patting young women on the bum 50 years ago.

You just get assassinated or jailed for criticizing Putin or running against him and his picked candidates. Some freedom.

Gotta bee wrote:

rojo wrote:

Anyone have any info on that? Please email us. I've heard a lot of rumors on that front over the years. Wonder if people might be willing to talk now.

do yourself a favor and don't even talk about rupp, you only expose yourself as a tabloid writer every time

+1000

Rojo stop fishing for a tabloid. On Rupp none the less - GIVE IT UP..............

It is because the brojos have been committing character assassination against Galen since about the time he was in high school. Meanwhile, anyone who is a big time winner no matter how obviously dirty (e.g Bolt) is innocent until proven guilty.

I'm far more suspicious of Mo than I am of Galen.

Also, I think regular Americans who follow enough track to know who a few of the stars like Rupp are but who are not letsrun junkies think very highly of Rupp. It is only here that Rupp is hated.

Coevett wrote:

[quote]casual obsever wrote:

Try getting your 60 miles a week in when theres 5 inches of snow on the ground December to April.

What...Putin doesn't want to build any indoor track facilities. ?