Rupp says "See you later"

DC Runnerman wrote:

No IP addresses were given out. What do you think would happen to their website traffic if he did that?

I want to see which posts Salazar thinks are libelous. I suspect most of them would not even come close to qualifying in a court.

Asking for a friend....if the post came from the UK, maybe an easier target?

DC Runnerman wrote:

wejo wrote:

But what does that have to do with Salazar and Rupp and LetsRun.com? Of course at some point Alberto came on LetsRun.com or people associated with him did. His lawyer sent us a letter in 2012 asking for the IP addresses of 127 posters. I'll see if Robert is fine with me posting the letter. I wish I had posted it at the time because it's naturally going to influence our interactions even if I try and not let it.

Oh man, PLEASE PLEASE share us the names of the 127 posters they wanted IP addresses for. I would love to see which posts they find objectionable.

Explains a lot about the weird goings on I was experiencing via my ISP here in Australia at that time.

Amazing that they'd use lawyers to try and get IP's on objectionable LetsRun troll posts, more than amazing, it's friggin hilarious.

Reminds me a bit of the thread on the woman who used LetsRun trolls to help authenticate her PHD thesis, even provided their crazy handles in her references/bibliography, again friggin hilarious.

Al and his lawyers actions bit like the Streisand effect?

"The Streisand effect is the phenomenon whereby an attempt to hide, remove, or censor a piece of information has the unintended consequence of publicizing the information more widely, usually facilitated by the Internet. It is an example of psychological reactance, wherein once people are aware that some information is being kept from them, their motivation to access and spread it is increased."

More on the Streisand effect, LetsRun now has the Salazar Effect.

"It is named after American entertainer Barbra Streisand, whose 2003 attempt to suppress photographs of her residence in Malibu, California, inadvertently drew further public attention to it. Similar attempts have been made, for example, in cease-and-desist letters to suppress files, websites, and even numbers. Instead of being suppressed, the information receives extensive publicity and media extensions such as videos and spoof songs, often being widely mirrored on the Internet or distributed on file-sharing networks."

Someone from NOP told me in confidence the vomit issuing from Galen was not in fact vomit but indeed a ruptured psyanide capsul given him by Salazar in the event he was cornered by USADA agents without his lawyers present.

Specioussigns, Rupp says "See you later", in court with Al and the lawyers.

sky wrote:

quitting is losing wrote:

25,746 people finished Boston this year including 7 80+ year old men. Galen didn't.

How many of those 25,746 won a big marathon race just a few weeks later, in a very impressive time?

yea, but galen didn't finish. therefore he didn't earn the right to wear his boston jacket or even get a finishers medal to hang in his basement next to his treadmill.

noreaster wrote:

How many of those 25,746 won a big marathon race just a few weeks later, in a very impressive time?

He's lucky that none of those 25,746 runners went to Prague to compete.

noreaster wrote:

sky wrote:

How many of those 25,746 won a big marathon race just a few weeks later, in a very impressive time?

yea, but galen didn't finish. therefore he didn't earn the right to wear his boston jacket or even get a finishers medal to hang in his basement next to his treadmill.

It’s ok he still has one from his second place finish at Boston in 2017, it’s next to his two Olympic medals and the fun run 5 k ribbon from 1994

Nonsense `' wrote:

macdaddy wrote:

Rupp has lost to 3 people in his entire marathon career so I feel confident saying he's not a 'second group' kind of guy...

He's run 5 marathons, has only bettered 2:09 once and twice ran slower than 2:10.

Whether he'll ever run faster than 2:06:07 is entirely conjecture.

He's definitely not a top tier runner in top marathons.

Perhaps you meant that he's not even a second group type of guy.

Its wins that are important. Not times.

Though it doesn't seem to matter for you joggers

Anyone have an explanation for the discrepancy between the TV time for the race and the car time? At around 21 minutes into the video they appear to be about 10-20 off, with the broadcast time being ahead of the car.

Glitch?

Anybody notice Galen's vertical oscillation? If he fixed that

I betcha he'd shave some time off his PR.

Real Lyfe Nobodee wrote:

runn wrote:

He could be undefeated and 3 time Olympic medalist and his haters would call him a "second group" kind of guy.

It's called jealousy.

Actually, we trash Rupp because he's a dirty doper. It has nothing to do with jealousy.

This right here. An average at best runner that based all that he "achieved" on the dirty tactics of his dirty coach.

Nice reference to the Streisand effect, definitely fitting in this instance.

And for a coach and group of runners that claim to not care about Letsrun, they seem awfully concerned about what people write about here.