Wax on wax off wrote:
questioner of things wrote:Earth to Galen Rupp:
If you want it to be quick, take the fvcking lead when the pace drops.
Then he surely won't win.
And you think he was going to win trying to play tactics against these DL specialists, while being heavily outnumbered?
Rupp and Alberto are fooling nobody. When he was running for the AR's this spring, was it about winning the races, or getting the records? They made that decision at the beginning of the year, that this year WAS about chasing records, regardless of the PC, apologetic back-tracking mumbo-jumbo they have been spewing since laying eggs in Oslo and Paris.
Make no mistake, they chose Paris clear back at the beginning of the year TO GET A FAST TIME, even at the sacrifice of running the 5000m USATF Champions. They knew and decided when goal setting at the beginning of the year that, now, this year, was the year to get that 5000m record.
Now to be PC correct, of course they are not going to go out in interviews and repeatedly tell people that they want that AR, particularly giving them an 'out' if he comes up short.
Meanwhile, the real Prefontaine of the track, Emma Coburn, is showing how it's done.
That's the way I see it, and I'm sticking to it.