Come on, who really cares.
He is in the sport to compete, earn money, win medals.
I don't think he's looking for a fan favorite award.
Come on, who really cares.
He is in the sport to compete, earn money, win medals.
I don't think he's looking for a fan favorite award.
Rupp has the right to do whatever he wants with his free time.
I completely understand him not wanting to stay around in Atlanta to cheer on a bunch of runners.
But not showing up to the awards ceremony that was held just a few hours after the race...To celebrate his win with the other qualifiers? Classless.
“Has to get to his family, doesn’t have social media, doesn’t care what anyone thinks” etc are all terrible excuses to cover bad behavior. Eliud has twitter and a family and doesn’t care what letrun thinks. LeBron James has twitter and a family and doesn’t care what anyone thinks. They win, they show up to awards, parades, and they show a modicum of respect to the fans. It’s not too much to ask to stick around for a few hours.
Elite marathon runners as a whole are nearly completely unlikeable. One bad performance and they disappear for 6 months. No interviews no recap, just gone. There were TONS of them yesterday. Slinking away back to their hotel rooms after DNFing and taking early flights home.
This was by far the best Olympic trials ever, best crowds, the ATL Track club set a nearly impossible to beat standard for how a trials event should be run. Fantastic job to them.
99% of the hobby joggers probably can't name one elite marathoner. What a joke, good for rupp. The winner of a race does not become the property of the meet director to be paraded around as promo.
imarussianasset wrote:
99% of the hobby joggers probably can't name one elite marathoner. What a joke, good for rupp. The winner of a race does not become the property of the meet director to be paraded around as promo.
^^^ Only smart comment in this thread IMO.
of course, a guy named "bikeriders" wants to trash marathoners
Go back to Lancey boy
Maybe Rupp was the one who took the picture.
RPLong wrote:
imarussianasset wrote:
99% of the hobby joggers probably can't name one elite marathoner. What a joke, good for rupp. The winner of a race does not become the property of the meet director to be paraded around as promo.
^^^ Only smart comment in this thread IMO.
Nike runners are contractually required to do some PR work.
Wisdom wrote:
Galen probably went to church.
This exactly. He is a devout Catholic. He probably wanted to be with his family and be at church. The man does not do social media and he puts his family above his instagram account (which he does not have). He also seems to be to be an introvert. I imagine all the press wears his out more than a 20 x 400 @ 60 workout.
hobby joggers go home devastated wrote:
if you get offended that the winner of the olympic marathon trials is not there in the morning to kick off the for-fun marathon you need to spend less time being upset at galen and more time working on running faster
This. Galen is a good dude. Everyone chill.
JamesD2 wrote:
Are you sure it's for profit? I thought it was also put on by the ATC, which is a nonprofit. Maybe the ATC relies on income from it to cover losses from other events (like flights & hotel rooms for 700+ OTQers), but I don't think any owners are making money off of it. Might be wrong, of course.
So Galen being there in the morning will help increase revenue ?
baller in the house wrote:
I love it. He don’t give a f if you like it. He don’t care about your opinion. He don’t care about a “look”.
Yeah his 'look' is pretty much tarnished at this point. The man simply does not care what you think so there's that to ponder.
Hotel Security wrote:
theclaws wrote:
What is all this wife and kids talk? The guy has run two races away from home in the last year. And this is his job. Spending another day with your new Olympic teammates and giving back to the running community a little bit wouldn't be all that hard. He's going to be at home running on a treadmill between now and Tokyo.
And to those who have said he doesn't have to, that's totally true. He doesn't. But it is one of the really big reasons why I don't like him. He is totally the opposite of Meb and Des and so many of the other great runner's we've had in recent years. I know some of you will point out he's faster than them, too. But that doesn't give you a pass to skip out on awards and making an appearance to your fans at least sometimes.
This is the stupidest post of the day . Meb is a liar , and Des likes to bad mouth people behind there backs . The people marathon is for profit . They could have paid Rupp to stay .
Shhhh......Letsrunners don't want to hear the truth about their "blue collar heroes" Meb and Des.
bikeriders321 wrote:
Rupp has the right to do whatever he wants with his free time.
I completely understand him not wanting to stay around in Atlanta to cheer on a bunch of runners.
But not showing up to the awards ceremony that was held just a few hours after the race...To celebrate his win with the other qualifiers? Classless.
“Has to get to his family, doesn’t have social media, doesn’t care what anyone thinks” etc are all terrible excuses to cover bad behavior. Eliud has twitter and a family and doesn’t care what letrun thinks. LeBron James has twitter and a family and doesn’t care what anyone thinks. They win, they show up to awards, parades, and they show a modicum of respect to the fans. It’s not too much to ask to stick around for a few hours.
Elite marathon runners as a whole are nearly completely unlikeable. One bad performance and they disappear for 6 months. No interviews no recap, just gone. There were TONS of them yesterday. Slinking away back to their hotel rooms after DNFing and taking early flights home.
This was by far the best Olympic trials ever, best crowds, the ATL Track club set a nearly impossible to beat standard for how a trials event should be run. Fantastic job to them.
Guess what? He doesn't care about your stupid opinions. Nobody cares about your stupid opinions.
TWO OLYMPIC MEDALS. You mad bro?? All Rupp haters are soft.
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Not a good look. Just when I thought I might start to like him.
Basically what I would expect from a classless doper, who has stolen from clean athletes ALL of his athletic career. This guy disgusts me.
Knows Uncle Phil when he sees Uncle Phil wrote:
Not a good look. Just when I thought I might start to like him.
Basically what I would expect from a classless doper, who has stolen from clean athletes ALL of his athletic career. This guy disgusts me.
LOL..... Rupp haters, getting ready to hit the LRC boards after getting offended by irrelevant news.
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Family was with Rupp in Atlanta.
This means nothing, he/they still could have had other family needs/plans.
native wrote:
bikeriders321 wrote:
Rupp has the right to do whatever he wants with his free time.
I completely understand him not wanting to stay around in Atlanta to cheer on a bunch of runners.
But not showing up to the awards ceremony that was held just a few hours after the race...To celebrate his win with the other qualifiers? Classless.
“Has to get to his family, doesn’t have social media, doesn’t care what anyone thinks” etc are all terrible excuses to cover bad behavior. Eliud has twitter and a family and doesn’t care what letrun thinks. LeBron James has twitter and a family and doesn’t care what anyone thinks. They win, they show up to awards, parades, and they show a modicum of respect to the fans. It’s not too much to ask to stick around for a few hours.
Elite marathon runners as a whole are nearly completely unlikeable. One bad performance and they disappear for 6 months. No interviews no recap, just gone. There were TONS of them yesterday. Slinking away back to their hotel rooms after DNFing and taking early flights home.
This was by far the best Olympic trials ever, best crowds, the ATL Track club set a nearly impossible to beat standard for how a trials event should be run. Fantastic job to them.
Guess what? He doesn't care about your stupid opinions. Nobody cares about your stupid opinions.
+One. None of these snowflake critics, nor do we, know what other demands on his time there were.
SOFT wrote:
TWO OLYMPIC MEDALS. You mad bro?? All Rupp haters are soft.
There are synchcronized swimmers with 2 medals. Does that mean anything?
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