As you ponder that question, please read Jonathan Gault's feature on Fisher.
http://www.letsrun.com/news/2018/09/grown-different-grant-fisher-weve-ever-seen/
As you ponder that question, please read Jonathan Gault's feature on Fisher.
http://www.letsrun.com/news/2018/09/grown-different-grant-fisher-weve-ever-seen/
“Grant Fisher was born in Canada”
“Grant Fisher isn’t American”
“Grant Fisher wasn’t born in thr US”
“Ya but he went to high school here”
“He went through our system”
“He was raised here”
Go Grant go!
Grand Blanc and Michigan are cheering for you.
rojo wrote:
As you ponder that question, please read Jonathan Gault's feature on Fisher.
http://www.letsrun.com/news/2018/09/grown-different-grant-fisher-weve-ever-seen/
GRANT FISHER IS CANADIAN! He will be the first canadian to win since Sheila Reid in 2011 and Simon Bairu before that in 2004!
tabarnak de câlisse wrote:
rojo wrote:
As you ponder that question, please read Jonathan Gault's feature on Fisher.
http://www.letsrun.com/news/2018/09/grown-different-grant-fisher-weve-ever-seen/GRANT FISHER IS CANADIAN! He will be the first canadian to win since Sheila Reid in 2011 and Simon Bairu before that in 2004!
All true, plus imagine the outrage when he runs for Canada at the Olympics.
Yup you got it wrote:
tabarnak de câlisse wrote:
GRANT FISHER IS CANADIAN! He will be the first canadian to win since Sheila Reid in 2011 and Simon Bairu before that in 2004!
All true, plus imagine the outrage when he runs for Canada at the Olympics.
Well actually only part of that is true since Bairu won again in 2005. And then Justyn Knight won last year.
Also Fisher is an American citizen and ran for the US at World Youths in 2013 and World Juniors in 2014.
Alabama---Kigen
Jonathan Gault wrote:
Yup you got it wrote:
All true, plus imagine the outrage when he runs for Canada at the Olympics.
Well actually only part of that is true since Bairu won again in 2005. And then Justyn Knight won last year.
Also Fisher is an American citizen and ran for the US at World Youths in 2013 and World Juniors in 2014.
But every Kenyan American citizen is prefixed with Kenyan born.
Your average trolls will say wrote:
“Grant Fisher was born in Canada”
“Grant Fisher isn’t American”
“Grant Fisher wasn’t born in thr US”
“Ya but he went to high school here”
“He went through our system”
“He was raised here”
See what you started. You are the average troll.
I believe track and cross country enthusiasts that read LR embrace talented young American athletes like Grant Fisher. Cheer for and support this young man. He is a roll model for any athlete in any sport. He epitomizes the highest level of what a student athlete is all about.
The Canadians posting are typical Canadians who whine - it is in their nature.
Fisher is one of the best young prospects in American distance running and his journey has been fun to watch.
From the article, his coach feels he is progressing very well. That is great news. I like knowing Fisher hasn’t been over trained like so many high school and college runners. Obviously he has enormous talent to have accomplished what he has with his training load.
In the sport of XC at the NCAA level, Fisher has performed very well for his age. He isn’t a pure 10 km runner yet he has the range to mix it up with the long distance guys. Maybe this will be his year and the year an American wins since Rupp. There are two very good Americans returning and I wish them much success.
Rowney wrote:
Jonathan Gault wrote:
Well actually only part of that is true since Bairu won again in 2005. And then Justyn Knight won last year.
Also Fisher is an American citizen and ran for the US at World Youths in 2013 and World Juniors in 2014.
But every Kenyan American citizen is prefixed with Kenyan born.
He's right, the bias is ridiculous, but people bend things to fit their own agenda. Rono won the NCAA's, more than once.
Now it's, Kenyan born Alabama runner. The bias shouldn't be there but if it is, it's certainly not equal.
“A recent poll conducted on 600 Michigan residents shows that 58% of those surveyed prefer to call themselves Michiganders while only 12% favor Michiganian. The remaining 30% were fine with both, did not like either of the two, or simply did not care”
That makes Fisher a Michigander, a Michiganian, and a Yooper if he has spent time in the upper peninsula . Let’s debate that too ;).
I hope he wins NCAA XC and becomes the first Yooper to do so.
Yooper gone wild wrote:
“A recent poll conducted on 600 Michigan residents shows that 58% of those surveyed prefer to call themselves Michiganders while only 12% favor Michiganian. The remaining 30% were fine with both, did not like either of the two, or simply did not care”
That makes Fisher a Michigander, a Michiganian, and a Yooper if he has spent time in the upper peninsula . Let’s debate that too ;).
I hope he wins NCAA XC and becomes the first Yooper to do so.
debate what you want with yourself you nut job. people!!!!
That description of last year's NCAA xc race showed why it doesn't necessarily tell you what you think. Guys with team titles on the line often do not go all the way to the wall until the later stages, so you don't know, as with Fisher, whether they could have challenged for the title.
get a life dude wrote:
Yooper gone wild wrote:
“A recent poll conducted on 600 Michigan residents shows that 58% of those surveyed prefer to call themselves Michiganders while only 12% favor Michiganian. The remaining 30% were fine with both, did not like either of the two, or simply did not care”
That makes Fisher a Michigander, a Michiganian, and a Yooper if he has spent time in the upper peninsula . Let’s debate that too ;).
I hope he wins NCAA XC and becomes the first Yooper to do so.
debate what you want with yourself you nut job. people!!!!
It was a joke on those debating nationality. I won’t tell you to get a life but I will say this to you - lighten up dude.
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Some guy from NAU
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I think the real joke is everyone on here handing him the crown in September.
"I'm worried for the competition." That's one way to put impossible expectations on one of your runners.
Your average trolls will say wrote:
“Grant Fisher was born in Canada”
“Grant Fisher isn’t American”
“Grant Fisher wasn’t born in thr US”
“Ya but he went to high school here”
“He went through our system”
“He was raised here”
no, no; silly average troll. Grant Fisher is white with a white name so he is American even though he wasn't born here.
Jonathan Gault wrote:
Yup you got it wrote:
All true, plus imagine the outrage when he runs for Canada at the Olympics.
Well actually only part of that is true since Bairu won again in 2005. And then Justyn Knight won last year.
Also Fisher is an American citizen and ran for the US at World Youths in 2013 and World Juniors in 2014.
you only care because he's white. just ask if a white man can win instead of justifying saying he's from the US when he's obviously canadian. no east-african would get the same benefit. hell, people even get mad at kenyan-americans for being TOO patriotic.
Last I checked Canada is in America.