Is Nike protecting Galen Rupp?

You are wrong.

Neither of the two greatest marathoners of all time ever held the world record. Let that sink in.

Then why did they invite Shalane? Her teammate, Evan Jaegar, was on the Iaaf list of athletes who are most likely doping.

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Scorpion_runner wrote:

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Hayduke wrote:

you have it completely opposite. WRs on the road are absolute junk and meaningless. It likes comparing cross country times. All that matters in marathon is place, and the higher the place the better.

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No one talks about distance medals like they talk about Kimetto's WR or Paula's WR... same goes for Tedese's WR or the women's half marathon WR. Hell people talk about Galen's sub 13 5000m and sub 27 10000m speed more than they talk about him being a bronze and silver medalist.

So that is 100 percent bull and s h i t.

Speed will always matter more

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Subway Surfers Addiction wrote:

I'm pretty that the NOP raison d'être was to get Americans winning American major marathons again. Rupp does this.

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Scorpion_runner wrote:

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Hayduke wrote:

you have it completely opposite. WRs on the road are absolute junk and meaningless. It likes comparing cross country times. All that matters in marathon is place, and the higher the place the better.

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No one talks about distance medals like they talk about Kimetto's WR or Paula's WR... same goes for Tedese's WR or the women's half marathon WR. Hell people talk about Galen's sub 13 5000m and sub 27 10000m speed more than they talk about him being a bronze and silver medalist.

So that is 100 percent bull and s h i t.

Speed will always matter more

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Hayduke wrote:

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Scorpion_runner wrote:

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Hayduke wrote:

you have it completely opposite. WRs on the road are absolute junk and meaningless. It likes comparing cross country times. All that matters in marathon is place, and the higher the place the better.

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No one talks about distance medals like they talk about Kimetto's WR or Paula's WR... same goes for Tedese's WR or the women's half marathon WR. Hell people talk about Galen's sub 13 5000m and sub 27 10000m speed more than they talk about him being a bronze and silver medalist.

So that is 100 percent bull and s h i t.

Speed will always matter more

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20 years from now. only a handful of old school runners will remember names like solinsky and hall. everyone else will remember Rupp and Meb for their medals and major marathon victories.

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Scorpion_runner wrote:

Why not go for the WR? You never hear Africans say I'm going for the national record. It's always the WR that is the
focus.

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Squawk BOx wrote:

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Scorpion_runner wrote:

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Hayduke wrote:

you have it completely opposite. WRs on the road are absolute junk and meaningless. It likes comparing cross country times. All that matters in marathon is place, and the higher the place the better.

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No one talks about distance medals like they talk about Kimetto's WR or Paula's WR... same goes for Tedese's WR or the women's half marathon WR. Hell people talk about Galen's sub 13 5000m and sub 27 10000m speed more than they talk about him being a bronze and silver medalist.

So that is 100 percent bull and s h i t.

Speed will always matter more

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What people? You're smoking something dude, and it's bad stuff.

They'll remember his silver and bronze in the Olympic Games at London and Rio.

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People lost their minds when Meb won Boston. When Meb won New York. People were merely impressed when Hall ran 2:06 for a non-podium finish.

Maybe Salazar is protecting Rupp. Salazar knows better than any of us the cost of an all-out marathon, so maybe he wants Rupp to do it once, in a race that matters.

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real facts wrote:

People lost their minds when Meb won Boston. When Meb won New York. People were merely impressed when Hall ran 2:06 for a non-podium finish.

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Scorpion_runner wrote:

I support Galen, and he is the best that America has . There isn't another american male marathoner who is on his level.

He won a bronze at the Olympics in the marathon. He won Chicago, was the runner up in Boston, and he recently won Prague with a PB of 2:06. From a far, that's a quality beginning to a marathon career. However, with a closer look, is his path being dictated by the overlords at Nike to put Galen in a position to win?

Are they making sure that he will not be in a race with other runners who have serious 5k/10k speed, or pure blazing marathoners? Are they protecting him from the likes of Kipchoge, Farah, Karoki, Kamworor, Bekele , Kipsang, etc?

What are you thoughts on this?

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Scorpion hates Rupp wrote:

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Scorpion_runner wrote:

I support Galen, and he is the best that America has . There isn't another american male marathoner who is on his level.

He won a bronze at the Olympics in the marathon. He won Chicago, was the runner up in Boston, and he recently won Prague with a PB of 2:06. From a far, that's a quality beginning to a marathon career. However, with a closer look, is his path being dictated by the overlords at Nike to put Galen in a position to win?

Are they making sure that he will not be in a race with other runners who have serious 5k/10k speed, or pure blazing marathoners? Are they protecting him from the likes of Kipchoge, Farah, Karoki, Kamworor, Bekele , Kipsang, etc?

What are you thoughts on this?

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He won bronze at the Olympics. There's your answer, you Rupp hater.

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Scorpion_runner wrote:

I support Galen, and he is the best that America has . There isn't another american male marathoner who is on his level.

He won a bronze at the Olympics in the marathon. He won Chicago, was the runner up in Boston, and he recently won Prague with a PB of 2:06. From a far, that's a quality beginning to a marathon career. However, with a closer look, is his path being dictated by the overlords at Nike to put Galen in a position to win?

Are they making sure that he will not be in a race with other runners who have serious 5k/10k speed, or pure blazing marathoners? Are they protecting him from the likes of Kipchoge, Farah, Karoki, Kamworor, Bekele , Kipsang, etc?

What are you thoughts on this?

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Approximately what percentage of the non-sense that you post on here do you truly believe? Just ballpark. Are you just really good at playing a stupid sort of devil's advocate man? Seriously wondering. If the latter... wow.

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Scorpion_runner wrote:

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real facts wrote:

People lost their minds when Meb won Boston. When Meb won New York. People were merely impressed when Hall ran 2:06 for a non-podium finish.

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Of course they lost their minds when Meb won boston, which proves my point even more to why Rupp is not liked and will never ever be celebrated like Meb and Hall. Rupp will never have that legacy.

Sorry, charlie, it is more than just that. ...

https://www.outsideonline.com/2309626/galen-rupp-hard-love

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Scorpion_runner wrote:

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Scorpion hates Rupp wrote:

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Scorpion_runner wrote:

I support Galen, and he is the best that America has . There isn't another american male marathoner who is on his level.

He won a bronze at the Olympics in the marathon. He won Chicago, was the runner up in Boston, and he recently won Prague with a PB of 2:06. From a far, that's a quality beginning to a marathon career. However, with a closer look, is his path being dictated by the overlords at Nike to put Galen in a position to win?

Are they making sure that he will not be in a race with other runners who have serious 5k/10k speed, or pure blazing marathoners? Are they protecting him from the likes of Kipchoge, Farah, Karoki, Kamworor, Bekele , Kipsang, etc?

What are you thoughts on this?

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He won bronze at the Olympics. There's your answer, you Rupp hater.

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Here is a guy who is associated with dopers, and and is associated with an organization that is considered dirty, and is coached by a coach who is known for administering peds to athletes ( see mary slaney).

On the other hand, there was this all american kid who at the age of 17 was putting in100 miles a week, ran 2:08 in a marathon at the age of 24, broke the north american half marathon record at the age of 24, ran 2:06 at the age of 25, had the fastest american marathon debut .......just doing unheard of things for a 20 something year old marathoner, but the other runner is going to have the greater legacy?

come on guys, you better than this.

At the end of the day I don't care about doping, because all of it is entertainment. And Rupp is the best that we have right now, so I will cheer him on........ but he is not on the same level as the great Ryan Hall, and he will never, ever have Ryan Hall's legacy.

Sorry guys.

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nike protectes athletes since 80s ,nike west until now ,mafia,i will advice fellow runners that we do sport 4 our health no t destroy it like these athletes doped died in ther early age like bikele girl friend,diego garcia spain,stefan franke germany etc,,,,