We are training as hard as all athletes in other countries.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
As athletes, our job is to train and compete.
We've got teams and other countries have teams. Right now, we are going to their countries; we're finding the best athletes; we're bringing them to our team. We're training them, we're making them awesome, and sending them back to beat us. We've got to stop that.
American athletes, especially distance runners, are at a big disadvantage against the rest of the world. We're expected to live by all the rules, like not being able to coach, but still train and make our own living.
We train and work so hard in our sport, we would be nothing less than a warrior. Day in, day out, this is our life. It's everything. The Olympic dream.
When you train as hard as we do, bad things happen sometimes. It's just part of the sport.
We need foreign skills to stay competitive.
I've been training quite hard.
I think we can be competitive on and off the field and create a model where our athletes are scholars and learners, too.
People forget that track and field is one of the hardest sports because we compete against all the world. There are many sports when you are up against only 15 or 20 countries.
The Olympic games are already there and we don't have even half of what you need to train well.