“We were certainly not happy with the situation. We are happy the Baptist Student Union is working with him, and really, there is nothing else to say.”
“We don't have a hard and fast rule. When we have something serious like this, we suspended him until we knew all of the information. You have to use good judgment and common sense.”
“The key is judging how fast you should go the first half of the race. All world records now and throughout history at 10,000 meters and above are won off of negative splits. That's where you run slower in the first half than you do in the second half. The real key for the elite runner is to know, 'What is a negative split for me?' and to run them relatively close to even splits so, 'I am in control.' Once you reach a certain level of fatigue, there is no recovering from it in a distance race.”
