Rupp...Certified by VFL9

Every track fan has an open choice of who to root for or against. You aren't wed into supporting any guy or group of guys, and you aren't forced into overlooking the faults of whoever you support because he's your "guy".
This is because are no teams in track, and of course no natural rivalries like Yankees-Red Sox, Dodgers-Giants or even Bears-Packers. We don't exactly get to see the Bay Area Track Club take on the Oregon Track Club in a raucous arena with partisanship split based on regional ties.

In the place of this lack of local regionalism is a general support for every runner competing for your country. The Olympics and World Championships draw on this and bolster this concept by having athletes be both representatives of their countries (wearing their nation's colors) and subject to the selection processes of them too.

Age is Just a Number...for Kenyan Juniors

It's natural when you hear about the athletic feats of an 18 year old or a 19 year old to begin to daydream and consider the enormous potential of someone so young running so fast or throwing and jumping so far. After all, we associate athletes that young with incomplete development in terms of their physical makeup, their training load, and even their mentality. So, when you hear about a new junior record at a certain distance, the natural first reaction is not to think about the actual performance as it relates to the best of athletes of all ages. Instead, we tend to look at whom the athletes were more accomplished than at their age, and how much better they may become with greater maturity and seasoning.