Americans who can\'t break 2:08 wrote:
Welp, they're the ones with citizenship who can get within Stinger missile range of the podium on the world stage. You advocate to apply xenophobic standards arbitrarily to this one event and we're down to just Rupp and Mantz being eligible for international teams at this point, better hope they don't get injured. So why aren't our native-born WASPs developing to a respectable level at the marathon distance, overall?
Not enough “camps” in the mountains of east Africa to thicken up the blood.