Runner's goals: Win Olympic 400, 800 and 1500

[Marlow]

Posting our skepticism here is one thing, but interviewing him for the purpose of our amusment is a little much, don't you think? :cry:

So embarrassing some guy by pointing out his inflated resume is out of bounds but you, just to feed some of your own personal inner needs, telling some guy to stop screwing around on his wife or else is fine. OK . . .

OK, putting you down on the list of people who don't want to know if their significant other is cheating on them . . . OK, done.
I know you won't get this, but in one case I am helping a friend EXACTLY the way I want him to help me if I have failed my wife, and in the other case, I'm not humiliating a man, just exactly as I don't want to be humiliated for my silly dreams.

[marknhj]

He absolutely deserves to be called out. "Silly dreams" are one thing, lying on your track resume in order to solicit sponsorship is another. It's fraud...

[Pego]

He absolutely deserves to be called out. "Silly dreams" are one thing, lying on your track resume in order to solicit sponsorship is another. It's fraud...

Yep. The guy is a fraud on top of being a joke.

[Marlow]

He absolutely deserves to be called out. "Silly dreams" are one thing, lying on your track resume in order to solicit sponsorship is another. It's fraud...

Yeah, I gotta agree with that. (Caveat emptor tells us they should not have taken him at face value, though - bad on them for being gullible.)

[dukehjsteve]

Good work Ken. Done the right way, by playing it "straight" with him. Then he's got the shovel, he digs the grave.

[dukehjsteve]

My interview with Chris Mitchell-Horton is here:
http://masterstrack.com/blog/006091.html
Enjoy! :twisted:
K E N

this time he deserves a little more scrutiny.

Why? There's nothing enjoyable about ridiculing a man to his face. Posting our skepticism here is one thing, but interviewing him for the purpose of our amusment is a little much, don't you think? :cry:

You are not off-base very often, Marlow, but you sure are this time. Ken interviewed him straight up. Ken, like most of us, and this should include you, don't like liars, particularly ones that are raising money for themselves under false pretenses. Either that or he is mentally not all there... and the latter is all Ken overtly said about him in writing.

[tlb747]

Yep. The guy is a fraud on top of being a joke.

Well, I had dreams of winning in the Summer Olympics, then I realized you have to work really hard to accomplished that goal. Maybe we can a game out of this and put our marks and performances to promote ourselves for fifteen seconds of fame, or shame. It can be called the "Trackandfieldnews Olympics" using the same events as the oringinal person did. Gold, silver, and bronze medals (or let them know that they did a god job) to the individuals with the highest scores from the following events [scoring from the decathlon format (although there are eight events listd below) or other]. I do not know how the points system works in the decathlon, but I will start. Deadline of the possible games? You decide.

100 meters: 10.82 (1997) Points: ?
200 meters: 20.92 (1999) Points: ?
400 meters: 45.61 (2001) Points: ?
800 meters: 1:55.45 (1997) Points: ?
5000 meters: 19:45 (2007) Points: ?
10000 meters: NM (However, 50:32 in a 11K; 2005) Points: 0
Half-marathon: NM (Too scared to run that distance) Points: 0
Marathon: Same as above Points: 0

Total Score: # Points

[Marlow]

You are not off-base very often, Marlow, but you sure are this time. Ken interviewed him straight up.

I definitely respect your opinion, but it was most definitely not 'straight up'. The intent was for him to give us answers that we could ridicule even more. The guy has some issues, and I get squeamish when we pick on the Matt Marriotts of the world.

[tandfman]

I'm with Steve on this one. The guy has apparently defrauded, or attempted to defraud, ignorant individuals who might have thought that they were helping to support legitimate Olympic aspirations. Whether he's an out-and-out con artist or is just a loon, when he seeks the financial support of others, he becomes fair game for public scrutiny.

[marknhj]

I definitely respect your opinion, but it was most definitely not 'straight up'. The intent was for him to give us answers that we could ridicule even more. The guy has some issues, and I get squeamish when we pick on the Matt Marriotts of the world.

Ken's questions were completely "straight up" and all legitimate. The point that you appear to be missing is that this guy has proactively positioned himself in public as someone who is shooting for an incredible Olympic Dream and is soliciting sponsorship support for that dream. How can you possibly believe that he shouldn't be questioned about such a blatant fraud and the lies on his athletic resume? I actually thought Ken went easy on the guy. Frankly, who the hell cares if it makes you feel squeamish or not?

[runsaul]

I agree that he's open to public punking!
I mean a guy who puts up an actual website of himself deserves to get laughed at and questioned if he cant back up his lies. I wish he was interviewed by Joel Grover from Channel 4 news. This guy exposes fraud all the time.
Maybe he can do the same here.
HA!

[steve]

He absolutely deserves to be called out. "Silly dreams" are one thing, lying on your track resume in order to solicit sponsorship is another. It's fraud...

Yeah, I gotta agree with that. (Caveat emptor tells us they should not have taken him at face value, though - bad on them for being gullible.)

So, if you agree, what are you waiting for........go tell his wife!! :lol:

[lonewolf]

I vote for Ken on this one.

[Marlow]

I definitely respect your opinion, but it was most definitely not 'straight up'. The intent was for him to give us answers that we could ridicule even more. The guy has some issues, and I get squeamish when we pick on the Matt Marriotts of the world.

Ken's questions were completely "straight up" and all legitimate. The point that you appear to be missing is that this guy has proactively positioned himself in public as someone who is shooting for an incredible Olympic Dream and is soliciting sponsorship support for that dream. How can you possibly believe that he shouldn't be questioned about such a blatant fraud and the lies on his athletic resume? I actually thought Ken went easy on the guy. Frankly, who the hell cares if it makes you feel squeamish or not?

I care if it makes me squeamish, you limey b*stard! :twisted:
But . . . that said, I guess I do agree that a fraud is a fraud is a fraud, so I retract my objections. :?

[3]

The sponsors appear to be tied into the website, not actual athletic sponsors. Even so, they likely have no idea to what they are being associated.