I must correct you. Irish ran his 2:24 @ Yale against Starr and the Staten Island kid who got 3rd in 2:26. Don't know if it was banked in '83.
Also, Wejo, you felt the need to piss in the kid's cornflakes, why? Do you do this to all the kids who break records? How about when your Cornell guys ran fast? Did you make sure they knew it wasn't as fast as they would like to believe? I tell athletes to stay away from stumbling blocks like you and find the stepping stones.
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I must correct you. Irish ran his 2:24 @ Yale against Starr and the Staten Island kid who got 3rd in 2:26. Don't know if it was banked in '83.
Also, Wejo, you felt the need to piss in the kid's cornflakes, why? Do you do this to all the kids who break records? How about when your Cornell guys ran fast? Did you make sure they knew it wasn't as fast as they would like to believe? I tell athletes to stay away from stumbling blocks like you and find the stepping stones.
I can't tell who you're trying to correct, but both Wejo and I indicated he ran on a 200m flat track. Yes, I know it was neck and neck with Stahr. The track was not banked in '83.
Nobody is trying to take anything away from him, 2:23 is amazing no matter what, even if some other kid was running 2:20 in HS right now.
I wish people would scale back these attacks, it really takes away from conversation. I was simply taking the chance to talk up Irish as I think having the 600 and 1k national records along with a 8:16 3k is absolutely wild. That 8:16 could be close to sub 8 on a banked 200.
Nvm, you were probably correcting my comment that it was at Dartmouth, which was obviously wrong. Nonetheless, Yale was unbanked in '83 I'm pretty sure.