This is news to me. I had no clue that he had Canadian parents.
I don’t like it. He will never become a Canadian which sshoukd he the criteria even though hard to measure.
Traitor wrote:
I don’t like it. He will never become a Canadian which sshoukd he the criteria even though hard to measure.
Agree, just another Alexi Pappas, not good enough to run for his home country so wants to exploit a loophole and knock an actual Canadian off their team. Should be required to renounce his US citizenship, and move to Canada.
Fake as Canadian bacon wrote:
Traitor wrote:
I don’t like it. He will never become a Canadian which sshoukd he the criteria even though hard to measure.
Agree, just another Alexi Pappas, not good enough to run for his home country so wants to exploit a loophole and knock an actual Canadian off their team. Should be required to renounce his US citizenship, and move to Canada.
Canadians disagree with you on this.
Aisha Praught doesn’t even know where Jamaica is. She is now fast enough to run for US. Haney will change his mind if he runs 3:35.
I have no issue with people changing the nation that they represent, but it is a little bit irritating when they have no intention of ever spending any of their life in that country but represent it anyways.
So if Blake represents Canada, but lives and trains in the US for the next 6-8 years, and gets a job, gets married, has kids, and lives most of his life in the United States, but represents canada, im not a fan of that.
I mean it is obviously his desicion but I find it uncool if you have no intention of living in that country.
Exactly. It is like transferring college teams but still attending classes at the original school instead of the new school.
yeah but he'll still have to run the trials to make teams. Pappas just had to get the time qualifier if I remember right... These circumstances aren't comparable, although he'll definitely have an advantage to make it to worlds and olympics.
FelonDJT wrote:
Fake as Canadian bacon wrote:
Agree, just another Alexi Pappas, not good enough to run for his home country so wants to exploit a loophole and knock an actual Canadian off their team. Should be required to renounce his US citizenship, and move to Canada.
Canadians disagree with you on this.
No they don't.
Remember when he was the most hyped high schooler in the country and then ran 4:10 at Pre
FrenchDawg wrote:
Remember when he was the most hyped high schooler in the country and then ran 4:10 at Pre
I remember him being from California and that his dad wouldn't let him run downhills in workouts or some nonsense like that. Representing Canadia all of a sudden is weird.
Nick Willis mostly lives in the U.S, Jake and Zane live in Kenya/Ethiopia. They were born in NZ, but still.
It's not as bad to move and still participate for your native country. I would be okay with somebody moving to the US while still competing for Mexico, Kenya, Canada, etc. But when someone was born here and has lived here forever, that scenario doesn't make sense.
Fake as Canadian bacon wrote:
Agree, just another Alexi Pappas, not good enough to run for his home country so wants to exploit a loophole and knock an actual Canadian off their team. Should be required to renounce his US citizenship, and move to Canada.
All of this assumes he could actually make a Canadian national team, which he will probably never do.
Canada is deep in the 5000 right now.
He doesn't have to "become a Canadian", he is a Canadian. He was automatically a Canadian citizen at birth.
Renounce his US citizenship simply because he wants to run for another country that his is a LEGAL citizen of? Believe or not you can be a citizen to more than one country.
Fake as Canadian bacon wrote:
Traitor wrote:
I don’t like it. He will never become a Canadian which sshoukd he the criteria even though hard to measure.
Agree, just another Alexi Pappas, not good enough to run for his home country so wants to exploit a loophole and knock an actual Canadian off their team. Should be required to renounce his US citizenship, and move to Canada.
Sucks, doesn’t it? Kenyans (mainly) have been doing it here in the US for too long now. But there will be folks on this board that get all excited when a Kenyan in a US uniform wins a medal in a major championship. Go USA! Yeah, sure.
Not even close. Kenyans move here and become citizens. Haney will go to Canada once per year to race. It would be more acceptable to most if he was really becoming a citizen.
Not quite equal wrote:
Not even close. Kenyans move here and become citizens. Haney will go to Canada once per year to race. It would be more acceptable to most if he was really becoming a citizen.
If he was born to Canadian parents in the US, he is automatically a dual citizen of both countries. Unless he renounced his Canadian citizenship.
Americans stink wrote:
Aisha Praught doesn’t even know where Jamaica is. She is now fast enough to run for US. Haney will change his mind if he runs 3:35.
He would have to run 3:35 to run for Canada anyway. Since the standard is 3:36.00. Wouldn’t you want to run the standard before you go watching? Just my thinking.