Tefera's WR: Alberto Salazar likely feels like he did when Solinsky ran 26:59 to steal Rupp's thunder!!

wqqqqqqqq wrote:

Weird to say a 12:55/26:59 runner is a 'never-was', friend.

Familiarity breeds contempt. People spend enough time hanging out on LR and reading about elite runners that, over time, they confuse their 26:59 8k PR with Solinsky's 10k PR.

Oh Please wrote:

Solinsky SB 5000:

2004: 13:42

2005: 13:37

2006: 13:27

2007: 13:12

2008: 13:18

2009: 13:18

2010: 12:55 (with 2 @ 12:56 and one at 13:18).

So a guy who ran 13:18 bests two years in a row with a 13:12 PR that was 3 years old all of a sudden runs more than 20 seconds faster than that 3 times and other one that would have been a PR as well. Plus the 26:59.

Sure, nothing to see here folks!

And then DNFs his next big 10,000 (where Rupp was DNS). Dope test dodging, anyone?

And never sniffed 12:5x / 26:5x ever again.

hi,

i'm looking forward to seeing all the non salazar runners going for world and olympic medals. who are they and when? there is a very simple reason why many of the best runners in the world hope, and i mean hope , that they can train with NOP. Think farah 4 golds, Hasay (best american marathoner next to benoit), Hasan (probably multiple olympic medals and possible work records) , ditto Klasterhoflen, Rupp (2 olympic medals, best american distane runner by a big distance, levins(most canadian male distance records). all the other distance coaches together maybe have 2 in the steeple. what am i missing? non of those runners i mentioned above have every been caught with drugs in spite of all the gossip and innuendo . please wake up.

I hope Solinsky was clean, but look at him. He is the definition of what we think the Eastern Bloc was pumping out.

Salazar Derangement Syndrome > Trump Derangement Syndrome

With 200M to go (26:31) the guy announcing *(I forgot his name, he worked for FloTrack I think) says "Solinski is going to run 27:05"; when everyone watching knew he might break 27:00 or at least run much faster than 27:05. How can a competent announcer predict a 33.5-34.0 last 200M and call for a 27:05??? Solinski ran his last 200 in :28.

Blown coverage!

older runner wrote:

hi,

i'm looking forward to seeing all the non salazar runners going for world and olympic medals. who are they and when? there is a very simple reason why many of the best runners in the world hope, and i mean hope , that they can train with NOP. Think farah 4 golds, Hasay (best american marathoner next to benoit), Hasan (probably multiple olympic medals and possible work records) , ditto Klasterhoflen, Rupp (2 olympic medals, best american distane runner by a big distance, levins(most canadian male distance records). all the other distance coaches together maybe have 2 in the steeple. what am i missing? non of those runners i mentioned above have every been caught with drugs in spite of all the gossip and innuendo . please wake up.

Hasay is not the 2nd best American marathoner behind Benoit.

Levins ran his best while not with NOP.

Rupp is not the best American distance runner.

Koko will not be setting any “work” records.

Farah actually won a lot more than 4 golds.

Subway Surfers wrote:

Absolutely, I'm virtually an identical build to Solinsky so I'd love for him to be legit but let's get real. Everyone thinks I'm biased against the Africans but I call everyone out. Tegenkamp, Ritz, Moorcroft and Kennedy were all white guys that had unrepeatable seasons where they dropped 13-25 s over five kms. Just too good to be true.

My 5k PB drops were consistently falling at intervals of about 20 seconds. Then, I'd plateau there for a year or two before a training tweak or healthy block and then another big drop came. I think if you researched many runners and their PBs you would see similar breakthroughs and plateauing

Here's a fact: Most of Salazar's runners can't close.

Subway Surfers wrote:

Everyone thinks I'm biased against the Africans but I call everyone out. Tegenkamp, Ritz, Moorcroft and Kennedy were all white guys that had unrepeatable seasons where they dropped 13-25 s over five kms. Just too good to be true.

That statement doesn't apply for Tegenkamp.

Clearly Solinsky was more talented than Rupp. With the NOP treatment his PBs would be lower than Rupp's across the board.

And then, Rupp fanboys forget that running on that level is an entertainment business and marketing business. So link's 26:59 was so epic it will be remembered in 40 years. For Rupp all people will know is that the guy won a few medals and that he was highly likely to have doped since his teenage years. They won't even remember his face or have seen a video of one of his runs.

So... X wrote:

Clearly Solinsky was more talented than Rupp. With the NOP treatment his PBs would be lower than Rupp's across the board.

And then, Rupp fanboys forget that running on that level is an entertainment business and marketing business. So link's 26:59 was so epic it will be remembered in 40 years. For Rupp all people will know is that the guy won a few medals and that he was highly likely to have doped since his teenage years. They won't even remember his face or have seen a video of one of his runs.

Get real, fool. Nobody outside a small subset (Solinsky fanboys) of a small subset (NOP haters) of a small subset (running fans) remembers a meaningless race in which record that has since been demolished and is 40+ seconds slower than the world record was set.

You know Rupp is a true star when somone’s claim to fame is beating him “in that one race.” Solinksy’s only other claim to fame is getting pushed around by 95 lb Imane Merga.

Some really unfortunate posts on this thread. I have no problem rooting for Rupp these days, but what Sonlinsky did that day was inspiring. Between the surprise of it and the contagious race coverage (and the awesome youtube video at the time playing that instrumental song), it was an awesome moment for US distance running. And you're all pretending like it wasn't. Just enjoy things instead of trying to take them apart.

Solinsky was loaded.

Yes the commentator and the music totally ruin this.

Its egun wrote:

Solinsky was loaded.

Why do you think so?

So all the Salazar fanboys are going to come on here to ignore that Solinsky's 5k PR is better, accuse him of cheating, and then not talk about how Rupp and Farah won medals shortly after when we know Ritz admitted to forbidden l-carnitine IV doses while training with them? Good luck with that narrative.