wejo wrote:
I just called Jon Gault with the statement above and he said maybe this decade.To prove me wrong, you must post a better rags to riches story.Dreams do become reality.Meb winning Boston was pretty cool but he was already was an Olympic silver medalist.
Of course you mean a figurative (running) rags to riches story, not a literal one. Yes, Kipchoge was fatherless and penniless and Hassan was a refuge, but Kipchoge sprang fully formed as a teenage world champion, so his is not a “running” rags to riches story. Seidel’s story is likely equivalent to d’Amato’s. Molly may not have been quite as far out of it to start, and it depends on whether you value an Olympic bronze more or less than an AR. As an old timer, I always held Bill Rodgers as the greatest rag to riches running story. Solid but unspectacular HS runner, D3 athlete of no reknown, out of running and 25 pounds overweight and smoking 2 packs of Winston’s per day to the American distance running hero for my generation.