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Title: Ritz retires
Post by: Coyote Mas Loco on May 07, 2020, 04:24:48 PM

Even made Yahoo News:

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/dathan-ritzenhein-3-time-olympic-131655549.html

Title: Re: Ritz retires
Post by: kawasa on May 07, 2020, 06:22:11 PM

Man, I remember watching him as a kid.

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Title: Re: Ritz retires
Post by: Coyote Mas Loco on May 07, 2020, 07:34:14 PM

Quote from: kawasa on May 07, 2020, 06:22:11 PM

Man, I remember watching him as a kid.

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Yeah, I saw him run in college a couple of times, he looked like he was 15 but you could tell he would be very good.

Title: Re: Ritz retires
Post by: diablita on May 07, 2020, 07:45:57 PM

He had a really good run

Title: Re: Ritz retires
Post by: Coyote Mas Loco on May 08, 2020, 10:02:55 AM

Let's see off the top of my head -

Oft injured, but:
High school XC champion
World junior championship XC bronze medalist
NCAA XC champion
3 time Olympian - and I think placed top 10 in Olympics twice (10K and marathon)
World half marathon bronze medalist
5K - 12:56 (former American record)
10K - 27:12? (it was fast for sure)
Half Marathon PR of 60:00
Marathon PR 2:07

 

Title: Re: Ritz retires
Post by: nadra's babydaddy on May 08, 2020, 07:06:44 PM

kthxbai.  He was 2 years ahead of me and always a reminder of how off the chain my high school (and then college) years were.  Webb and his mile shenanigans, Ritz obliterating everyone at anything longer than a mile and podiuming at world juniors (behind some douchebag named Keninisa Bekele), Ryan Hall doing Ryan Hall things with the lord's blessing. 

My 'ritz in action' photo...

(https://scontent-den4-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/1929301_505721399838_6706_n.jpg?_nc_cat=108&_nc_sid=e007fa&_nc_ohc=tfwZNFNzvSwAX-WMO2X&_nc_ht=scontent-den4-1.xx&oh=ecc92a4cf91f919167839a6065a7f900&oe=5EDAF1B9)

It's disappointing he wasn't able to do more, yet also remarkable what did accomplish even with his injuries.