boredman wrote:
HEY J wrote:Pre was clean Rupp is not
Who knows how big a science project/BALCO left over/ experiment GR really is?
Bottom line:
People outside of letsrun.com do not know who Rupp is. It's really only letsrunners who either dislike/distrust Rupp, or fawn all over him like tween-age girls on the Biebs.
People outside of running actually knew who Pre was, even stranger, many of those people cared about Pre and what he was accomplishing. How many American distance runner have such a legacy?
except thats completely untrue, just to test this I asked my dad (runs marathons but other than that doesn't care much about the sport) and then 10 people who have no idea about running at all.
Dad:
Pre: "no whose that?"(once I told him who he was he remembered him from the olympics)
Rupp: "Ya, hes the guy that got the silver in the 10k right"
10 other friends:
Pre: 1 (i honestly was surprised that they knew, and questioned the further to make sure that they weren't lying)
Rupp: 7 (almost all knew him from his silver in London)
None: 3 didn't know either.
Now realizing as I write this is extremely age biased avg person age was 22 they wouldn't really know him at all or atleast they shouldn't. So I had my dad ask 10 of his friends about pre/rupp (Avg age was 51 for my dads friends)
Pre: 4 (not bad almost half knew him)
Rupp: 8 (double, I was surprised more knew him than in my friend group because I do talk about running quite often.)