agip wrote:
agip wrote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASVUj89hyg0just to finish the point.
Rupp runs without passion. He is a machine. He never front runs, he doesn't seem to take any chances. He is a supreme power-metering tool.
Which is why he is so good. But it's hard to cheer for him because of it.
Fans like athletes who play from the heart. Pre is the obvious model - he never won a medal but is remembered and loved because he ran with his heart and took chances.
The whole 'rupp certified' thing is exactly the problem. How do you go all in for a guy who isn't all-in himself?
Put another way, if he weren't massively gifted I don't think he'd be a runner. He'd play soccer or something. Elites who run only because they are good are hard to bond with.
You can tell all this from watching some interviews? A lot of guys, including Mo Fatah and Haile Gebrselassie, don't push the pace. What the hell is a power-metering tool?