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American-Jamaican Aisha Praught-Leer wins 3000m steeplechase at Commonwealth Games!
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If Houlihan takes to the steeple she'll win US Nationals next year.
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Shouldn't Will Leer get some credit also? It's too bad he didn't have parents from Peru, Greece, or Latvia so he could have had the opportunity to go the Olympics.
You're born where you're, and do your best not to be forlorn.
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Wanna know wrote:
Anyone have nay links to CG races? Search comes up with zilch. It's like it isn't even happening.
All T&F sessions are streamed and are on demand via ESPN3! -
what happened to lacaze?
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The Angel of Death wrote:
Wanna know wrote:
Anyone have nay links to CG races? Search comes up with zilch. It's like it isn't even happening.
All T&F sessions are streamed and are on demand via ESPN3!
Great...if you have ESPN3. Otherwise, SOL -
Wanna know wrote:
The Angel of Death wrote:
Wanna know wrote:
Anyone have nay links to CG races? Search comes up with zilch. It's like it isn't even happening.
All T&F sessions are streamed and are on demand via ESPN3!
Great...if you have ESPN3. Otherwise, SOL
You can get a free 7-day trial of Sling and use that as your provider to watch it on espn.com. -
Wanna know wrote:
Anyone have nay links to CG races? Search comes up with zilch. It's like it isn't even happening.
Do you get ESPN? You can watch every session in its entirety taped or live on WatchESPN. -
LetsRun.com wrote:
Do you get ESPN? You can watch every session in its entirety taped or live on WatchESPN.
I don't even have a TV.
Cool how steeplechase is turning around from being a dumping ground to becoming the premier event. -
Farci wrote:
What a farce. Cant make the us team, just switch nations.
I felt the same way about Big Wave Dave. Then he died and I can't say that sh!t anymore. -
FYI.....Emma left Wetmore
Didn’t dump him, just needed a change after so many years. -
Pappy wrote:
Aisha is very deserving of the championship. She is a very nice person and deserves everything she gets. She is a very good example of what can happen if someone can continue to train at a high level. I wonder how dominant Kenya would really be if most Americans did not leave the sport by 22 years of age.
As for the Commonwealth games, Why should Americans really care? Granted the Commonwealth games are one of the biggest track meets but America is not there. Aisha is as American as apple pie, she just happens to run for Jamaica because of her heritage. She just brought relevance to the Commonwealth games for some.
Most Americans leave the sport at 22 simply because they're not good enough, sorry. The ones that are: - The Gatlins, Merritts and Rupps stay. -
Wrong-o wrote:
FYI.....Emma left Wetmore
Didn’t dump him, just needed a change after so many years.
Actually Heather had the problem with Emma, so she left. -
LandofRunner wrote:
Wrong-o wrote:
FYI.....Emma left Wetmore
Didn’t dump him, just needed a change after so many years.
Actually Heather had the problem with Emma, so she left.
Who is Heather? -
El Keniano wrote:
Pappy wrote:
Aisha is very deserving of the championship. She is a very nice person and deserves everything she gets. She is a very good example of what can happen if someone can continue to train at a high level. I wonder how dominant Kenya would really be if most Americans did not leave the sport by 22 years of age.
As for the Commonwealth games, Why should Americans really care? Granted the Commonwealth games are one of the biggest track meets but America is not there. Aisha is as American as apple pie, she just happens to run for Jamaica because of her heritage. She just brought relevance to the Commonwealth games for some.
Most Americans leave the sport at 22 simply because they're not good enough, sorry. The ones that are: - The Gatlins, Merritts and Rupps stay.
Not really. Most Americans leave because they have to go to work. Working 40+ hours a week and training is very hard to do. I'm not sure on the Gatlins and Meritts but when did Rupp have to work for a living? He hasn't.
Good enough is not it. Most the Americans going to college are not even close to their potential. Most just over train and over race for 4 years in college.
Kenyans have it pretty easy when it comes to training. A lot of them come from farming backgrounds. It is easy to fit training schedules into a farming life style. It is also easy to leave the family farm to train for extended periods of time. Most Americans do not have that luxury when it comes to their hobby. Yes, running is a hobby in America. It may be a way of life in Kenya because it is more profitable than waiting for dung to dry. -
Heather Burroughs, Wetmore's wife and top assistant coach. She has something against Sara Vaughn, too.
What's been overlooked as most impressive in all this is that Praught Leer won in UA spikes.
Who cares if she's Jamaican now and competing against fellow Americans at major meets? If Americans don't want her beating them then they should train better to keep in front of her through the finish. The whole nationalistic flavor of major championships is more or less arbitrary and certainly archaic and the silly province of small minds, anyway. I won't blame anyone for gaming an outdated system for sport. -
alanson wrote:
Farci wrote:
What a farce. Cant make the us team, just switch nations.
Made both the Olympic and WC Final as Jamaican - wouldn't have been there at all as an American. What would you have done?
Exactly. I think it was a fair move, and I think everyone (even she) realized the reality of her career as a US steeplechaser.
With that said, she has improved drastically since switching (who would have thought), and probably could make the US team now.
Also, I'm still mad at her for marrying Will. I wanted to marry her. -
Niwot wrote:
Who cares if she's Jamaican now and competing against fellow Americans at major meets? If Americans don't want her beating them then they should train better to keep in front of her through the finish.
How many times has Aisha beaten an American in an International championship? -
El Keniano wrote:
Pappy wrote:
Aisha is very deserving of the championship. She is a very nice person and deserves everything she gets. She is a very good example of what can happen if someone can continue to train at a high level. I wonder how dominant Kenya would really be if most Americans did not leave the sport by 22 years of age.
As for the Commonwealth games, Why should Americans really care? Granted the Commonwealth games are one of the biggest track meets but America is not there. Aisha is as American as apple pie, she just happens to run for Jamaica because of her heritage. She just brought relevance to the Commonwealth games for some.
Most Americans leave the sport at 22 simply because they're not good enough, sorry. The ones that are: - The Gatlins, Merritts and Rupps stay.
Not being good enough at 22 years old, is not the same as not being good enough.
America has lost many possible world champions due to being run out of the sport before they fully matured.
And one of the great examples is the USA Soccer Team. The best U 9 team in the world. At that age they screen for size and speed and young players quit discouraged. -
oboeviolin wrote:
El Keniano wrote:
Pappy wrote:
Aisha is very deserving of the championship. She is a very nice person and deserves everything she gets. She is a very good example of what can happen if someone can continue to train at a high level. I wonder how dominant Kenya would really be if most Americans did not leave the sport by 22 years of age.
As for the Commonwealth games, Why should Americans really care? Granted the Commonwealth games are one of the biggest track meets but America is not there. Aisha is as American as apple pie, she just happens to run for Jamaica because of her heritage. She just brought relevance to the Commonwealth games for some.
Most Americans leave the sport at 22 simply because they're not good enough, sorry. The ones that are: - The Gatlins, Merritts and Rupps stay.
Not being good enough at 22 years old, is not the same as not being good enough.
America has lost many possible world champions due to being run out of the sport before they fully matured.
And one of the great examples is the USA Soccer Team. The best U 9 team in the world. At that age they screen for size and speed and young players quit discouraged.
All countries lose athletes for various reasons. Kenya loses a lot of athletes because a higher proportion don't go to high school and therefore stop organized sports as early as age 14. This is because the cost of going to high school is prohibitive for many.
There is a lot of latent talent that is not being developed in many countries across the world. Uganda for example has only recently started to revive its track program. Botswana is another one that only recently started. South Africa have recently gotten organized and in short order they have world class sprinters, hurdlers and jumpers. I bet there is latent talent in places like Tanzania and Namibia and even Somalia that is going to waste. Mo Farah is not the only Somalian who can run.
As for your example of soccer, I have to laugh at the idea that the US has the best U9 team in the world. At that age its impossible to even tell how good the kid will be.
