9/30/2007 11:32:45 AM

fuck foreigners

9/30/2007 11:34:00 AM

^

All records set by non americans are worthless.

9/30/2007 11:35:58 AM

haha fool, an american hasnt even come close to having the marathon record

9/30/2007 11:39:20 AM

therefore the record, and also the sport, is worthless.

Some british chick has the women's record



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9/30/2007 11:41:15 AM

gross....

i'll take my cheeseburger thank you

9/30/2007 11:45:28 AM

Looking forward to New York. Wonder how he'll do on the hilly course w/ no pacemakers.

9/30/2007 12:18:08 PM

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"haha fool, an american hasnt even come close to having the marathon record"

Last set by an American-born runner: 2:14:28 Buddy Edelen (U.S.) London 6/15/1963
Last set by an American runner: Khalid Khannouchi (U.S.) London 4/14/2002

9/30/2007 12:35:21 PM

i bet he cheated.. he probably took a taxi .. or steroids.

9/30/2007 12:55:20 PM

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"gross.... i'll take my cheeseburger thank you"

That's actually one of the best Paula Radcliffe pictures I've ever seen. Normally she's butt-ugly.

9/30/2007 1:23:21 PM

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"Less than 10 minutes after breaking the world marathon record on Sunday, Ethiopia's Haile Gebrselassie was handed a cell phone -- it was Paul Tergat calling from Kenya to offer his congratulations. "I'm sorry," Gebrselassie told his great rival and long-time friend after winning the Berlin marathon in two hours, four minutes and 26 seconds, shattering by 29 seconds Tergat's record set on the same course in 2003. Tergat would have none of it, telling Gebrselassie he was delighted for him. "I am sorry -- this record belonged to Paul Tergat," Gebrselassie told a news conference when asked about the phone call. "Paul is my friend." Gebrselassie tried to tell Tergat he thought he had better weather conditions this year compared to 2003, when it was sunnier and warmer, although there was less wind. But Tergat responded that records were meant to be broken. "I really wanted to do this record but I was a little bit worried about it, worried about attacking my friend's record," said Gebrselassie, 34, who fell 61 seconds short a year ago in Berlin in his first attempt to break Tergat's mark of 2:04.55. "I think Paul understands that. I talked to him and said 'Hi, Paul, I'm sorry.' I said 'You can come here and try to get it back again next year'.""

Ha. He felt guilty about breaking the record.

9/30/2007 2:07:44 PM

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"shattering by 29 seconds"

9/30/2007 2:09:14 PM

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"Khalid Khannouchi (U.S.)"

riiiight

9/30/2007 2:15:58 PM

^It's true.

^^That's over a second per mile. It's a far greater reduction in pace than when Asafa Powell "shattered" the 100 meter record by 0.03 seconds.

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9/30/2007 2:40:24 PM

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"riiiight"

i guess he wasn't white enough, for you?

or maybe you forgot what America stands for.

maybe if his name was henry smith.

9/30/2007 3:11:16 PM

Here are some other American runners:





[Edited on September 30, 2007 at 5:00 PM. Reason : ]

9/30/2007 4:59:42 PM

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"That's actually one of the best Paula Radcliffe pictures I've ever seen. Normally she's butt-ugly."

I googled and saw some bad ones... but I'd still hit it.

9/30/2007 5:05:51 PM

That looks airbrushed. I guess there is an expected difference in appearance between being made up for a photoshoot and finishing a physically grueling marathon.

9/30/2007 5:22:09 PM

Khannouchi was natively Moroccan and naturalized to US citizenry 6-7 years ago.
I believe Meb Keflezighi was born African and came over for college.



I <3 Geb.

9/30/2007 6:27:30 PM

Yeah, that's why I denoted American and American-born, because some make a distinction.

9/30/2007 7:09:12 PM

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10/4/2007 10:51:15 PM

i certainly meant american born


i mean any Kenyan can come over here and pass the damn tests and add some american flavor to the record books


just like these asshole egyptians and shit throwing hammer and discus comin round here, i dont consider them american collegiates they are damn foreigners

10/4/2007 10:59:19 PM

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"Last set by an American-born runner: 2:14:28 Buddy Edelen (U.S.) London 6/15/1963"

What do you say to that, Craw?

10/6/2007 12:50:21 PM