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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jon Entine
> Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2001 10:04 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: t-and-f: Follow the money was- Flat earth Creationism
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> Individual Kenyans get the appearance fees because they have
> proven in prior
> races that they are likely to do very well. Americans do not get them
> because they are not nearly as competitive. Race directors would love
> nothing more than to promote American runners -- just a few years
> ago, there
> was a move afoot to ban Kenyan runners because it was supposedly hurting
> sponsorships, etc. You make it sound like race directors are
> anti-American,
> when the reality is much the opposite.
That's untrue Jon. When comparing equals to equals the NYC and Boston
Marathons have a long history of ignoring the local talent (Americans) for
the outsiders.
malmo
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> On 5/1/01 5:42 PM, "t-and-f-digest"
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> > Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 18:20:00
> > From: "alan tobin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Subject: Re: t-and-f: Follow the money was- Flat earth Creationism
> >
> > Hmmmm...I never thought of that. That's a very interesting
> point. The big
> > marathons pay big appearance fees to a fleet of Joe-Kenyans so
> a fleet of
> > Joe-Kenyans sweep the medal stand. Meanwhile an equally talented
> > Joe-American gets no appearance fee and fights just for a free
> entry into
> > the race. So, The Man pays big bucks to get Kenyans into his race, any
> > Kenyans as long as they are skinny and dark, because we have been led to
> > believe that Kenyans produce very fast races and that when
> groups of Kenyans
> > race a record is bound to fall. So, The Man gets these
> greyhounds to run so
> > that his race may be the race that a record is set. Now, flocks of
> > GallowJoggers see The Man's race as a chance to run in the same
> race as a
> > world record holder or in the same race as a world record is
> set. All this
> > means more money for The Man. Interesting.
> >
> > So, in the late 80s when the Americans started the "less is
> more" brigade
> > the race directors see a fall in performance of home grown
> stars and rise in
> > performance of little African fellows. Would more people run
> Chicago if they
> > knew there was a good chance of a record being set? How much of
> a draw is it
> > to run in a race in which someone sets a record? Seems to me like the
> > fastest marathons are also the ones with the most amount of runners.
> >
> > Alan
>
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