This isn't Gault's fault, or the fault of LR, or the fault of anyone other than Rupp, Salazar, and the NOP.
It's completely insane that a US athlete who is a multiple Olympic medal winner conducts himself in this manner. I can't actually think of any other sports personality who is as cryptic, and flaky, and just all-around weird as Rupp. If this incident stood alone, I wouldn't think this, but everything this guy does is just bizarre, especially when he's such a GREAT MARATHONER but is actually barely on the JV squad given how fast the rest of the world is running.
Please, someone, point at any other individual of this stature who behaves in this way. (And you can't have it both ways. If you say "it's just distance running, this is why we're a minor sport," then you admit that his medals aren't worth a whole lot.)