hannsen wrote:
Sorry to be a cynical jerk but just I find this extremely hard to believe. It would be easier if there was just Jakob. Then you have one extreme outlier that maybe hit the genetic jackpot- although I also dont see any evidence that the parents have any athletic ability( could be wrong about that and that is obviously not a totally determining factor). There are 3 people from one family out of a nation of 5 million that doesnt even take track very seriously and they are basically better than all of Europe and Americas put together(population of approx 1.1 billion)? Its just hard to credit.
I know the power of belief is awesome and Im sure the dad is a genius but as hopefully most people know there isnt any secret training or workouts that can magically transform you or that havent been tried 1000 times already. Obviously you can match the training up to the athlete over time for better results but that still doesnt remotely explain this.
If you just go off of U.S. 1500 lists(and yes I know we supposedly waste tons of talent, the NCAA is a terrible system, were lazy/fat losers that dont train hard enough/smart enough/long enough etc etc etc but we also have 500,000 boys competing in high school track every year which is 1/10th the Norwegian population) you have
Lagat(not US born)
Maree(not US born)
Filip Ing
Jakob Ing
Centrowitz
Webb
Wheating
Manzano
Spivey
Henrik Ing
Holman
Scott
Krummenacker
Lomong
Jager
Ryun
Torrence
Lukezic
Lassiter
Others not in order
Rupp
Tegenkametc etc etc
I dont feel like listing all of them look it up if you like. Also there are 123 US people faster than the next fastest Norwegian shout out to Lars-Martin Kaupang.
I know a few of the others are not born in US and the point of listing the first two is that this one family has 2 brothers that are faster than anyone ever born in US and anyone in all of Europe in history outside of Cacho,Baala,Cram and Coe and there is another brother 5 meters behind those two.
Again I dont like posting crap about this(then why do it lol?) but its just tricky to believe I just mostly go by common sense- 3 brothers from a non running country faster than Steve Scott? 2 brothers who are also possibly/probably get even faster than Centro and Webb(and virtually everyone else)?
So now starting to restate a bit but these are not reasons imo that they are vastly superior:
Superior Training(their training is obv very very good but nothing that 1000s of people havent done before)
Superior Work Ethic(see above)
Superior Belief/Mental Ability/Pain tolerance(see above)
Family all working together toward one common goal etc( no different than any good team which there are hundreds of)
I dont even know if a drug or asthma medication can account for this? Genetic therapy? Also seems far-fetched lol- obv that will be coming(or be here) but not yet? and seems a little advanced for what they are.
Anyway enough nonsense blabber I have to go cut the grass hopefully they are 100 percent legitimate but it just seems very fishy to me.