Bad Wigins wrote:
There are probably thousands of skinny people around the world who would be great if their country had a Geoffrey Mutai to discover them. They might as well try to beat Brazil at soccer. There's nobody there to say hey you, you'd be a great runner, here's how to train.
Yes, Mutai is a genius talent scout, that's why East Africans are better distance runners, only he and a few select other E. Africans have this magical gift of spotting a talented runner.
C'mon....get real. Mutai spotted a guy who looked good. Gave him a chance to train with him. Turns out the guy was super talented. This DOES happen all over the world, but the REAL difference is: the guys other people spot as talents, while indeed talented, are not EAST AFRICAN talented.
So you think Mutai could go to the USA and go to various HS's, watch HS runners and soccer teams and other skinny guys, have them do some jogging, and he'd be spotting Kimetto's everywhere he looked, and that if these guys that he hand-picked then trained with his group for a couple years, they'd all be running 2:02's???
You're dreaming, or hallucinating.
No what else the west needs that the East Africans have: those great coaches that they have, you know the ones that came...FROM THE WEST. Yeah, we need to find some of them. Lucky East Africans...