Talk:Bill Rodgers (runner)

Personal Bests
While this is not a matter of cosmic importance, Bill Rodgers must certainly have been capable of far better than a 4:18.8 mile if he could run a 13:43 5000 m. time -- perhaps a 4:06 mile or even better (comparing him with, e.g. Gunder Haegg and Murray Halberg). I can believe that he never ran a competitive mile on the track after he became an accomplished distance runner and that this PB mile time refers to an early stage of his running career. 137.82.188.68 02:51, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

US-born Winner
What is the point of making this distinction? Is Bill part Cherokee or something? How many generations of ancestry does it take to qualify an individual as an unequivocal member of the United States? The dude from Eritrea came here when he was 12. Isn't that young enough to be fully indoctrinated? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.192.46.122 (talk) 18:22, 30 December 2010 (UTC)

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