The Olympic Games tends to be a little more of a coming together of all the nations, so it's different. I really can't imagine a bad reaction. If it was going to be bad [in Athens], it would have been bad in Paris [at the World Championships] with all that went on last year with France. The reception was fine. Just pretty much like all the others we've gotten in other places.
"Alan Culpepper" is an United States/American distance runner and two time United States Olympian (2000 & 2004). Along with competing on four World Championship teams, his accomplishments include finishing fourth in the Boston Marathon in 2005, winning the 2004 U.S. Olympic Trials Marathon and finishing 12th at the 2004 Summer Olympics/2004 Olympic Marathon (sport)/marathon in Athens. His 2:09:41 at the 2002 Chicago Marathon tied him with Alberto Salazar for the fastest ever debut marathon by an United States/American, and remains his fastest marathon. Culpepper has won three USA Cross Country Championships/U.S. Cross Country titles and three track titles (two at 10,000m and one at 5,000m). His personal bests include 3:55.1 for the Mile, 13:25 for 5k and 27:33 in the 10K.
More Alan Culpepper on Wikipedia.Every time we tried to get going there was some factor - weather, wind or turns. I think we all suffered somewhat from conditions.
Most countries around the world, they just don't think that way. They think, 'I'm just going to get in the race and I'm just there to race.'
I feel like the bad conditions and the tough course is to my advantage, just because a lot of people are going to be disheartened when it starts going poorly.
Our sport needs spectator friendly and all the help it can get on that side. That adds to the allure of the race. And just from the mental side it helps you stay focused better knowing you do these loops and you're not just off on the course out in the middle of nowhere.
Look, we have that problem solved, because there are only three of them in the Olympics. We got 187 of them out of the way for you.
In Athens, I was running in long sleeves and pants in the summertime to acclimate as much as I could. ... In Boston, there's never any area on the course ... where you can settle in and just get on a pace and zone out, whereas here you can do that. You can zone out for huge periods.
There was a moment there when we were getting concerned.
Yeah, it changes the dynamics of the race because he is such a big-time marathoner. And I definitely think it opens up a spot because someone of his caliber, even if he were coming in at 75 percent, would be a 2:10-type runner.
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