If Desireé Davila had hundreds of thousands of dollars showered on her

I believe she will be now. Wasn't it 2:30 to get the guaranteed $100,000 contract with Brooks?

Typical liberal response, throw money at something and automatically it will improve. Davila has had what she needs with the Hansons. She doesn't need "hundreds of thousands of dollars" to run better. She needs to keep doing what she's been doing, which is training hard and smart in an appropriately supportive atmosphere.

Davila has a lot of resources at her disposal. She might not have Nike money behind her, but the Hansons group have a lot of resources supporting them. Davila is a great talent, who's taken her time developing and is starting to reap the rewards. She ran a great race today and should be credited for that.

I'm not conservative. I voted further to the left that you probably did in the last presidential election. Your response refutes nothing I've said here.

Hansons recipe for an Olympic Marathoner:

Step 1: sneak into the trials as a 'B' qualifier

Step 2: Have a great buildup to the trials, but blow up slightly and finish outside the top 5 but inside the top 20

Step 3: Run WC's, finish top 15

Step 4: Return to next cycle of trials and make the team

Optional step 5 (if you don't have a talent ceiling due to relatively high bodyweight): contend for Olympic top 10, WC medal, world marathon major top 5, etc.

Based on what they did with Sell it will be pretty cool to see what they do with Davilla.

How bout this possibility: Davila has more marathon potential than Goucher. One thing that sickens me about the american running fans is that they not only want their stars to do well but they insists that their stars be cookie-cutter cornfed barbies and kens. We have no interest in Kadevis doing well, we want Symmonds to do well. We don't want German to do well, we want Jager to do well. That's not what America is all about. Are american distance fans so insecure that they can only root for runners that look like themselves? As if that's gonna eliviate their self-image problems. Well it's not.

You're presuming to speak for a lot of folks for whom you do not speak. I for one want Khadevis to do well and German, too.

I am also a fan of Davila and thought she was in fact ready to break 2:30. But there was nothing up to this point to suggest she had MORE marathon potential than a woman who had run 2:25, who had been in contention in Boston through 26 miles, and who had a 10,000-meter bronze medal from the Worlds and USA titles on the track.

Let's try and be at least vaguely accurate here.

Kara is better-looking than Desiree Davila. This matters because the money we're talking about here isn't prize money (which is based on performance), but marketing money (based on ability to help a company sell its product).

Nick Symmonds is already performing better than KD, but even a few years back, when KD was still slightly better, Symmonds was younger, better-looking, and had more upside. So, yeah, he had more marketing potential for a sponsor.

Your German vs. Evan Jager example is just completely wrong. German has much more buzz, is better-looking, and probably has more actual running potential (though there's an argument to be made for Jager). Jager seems like a good kid, he's obviously talented, but he just looks like a doofus. At this point, German is worth much more money to a sponsor than Jager.

I'd say they're both very good looking (minus the earrings) :]

Fernandez is a sexy latino like Ricky Martin and Jager looks like a hot surfer.

I'm done here

Imust give props given to USAs current crop of female distance runners,BUT we must realize a lot of work needs to be done to get American woman running truely world class times. KG was 25th or so on the 2008 list about 2,000 metres off the list leading 2:19 and only one other American broke 2:30.

Putting DDs time into prospective...

Patti Lyons Catalano Dillon(LetsRunposter name: patti) ran a nonwinning 2:27:52 on the hillier BostonAA course 2 years before Davila was born.

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How good would she be?

1 214 Xue Bai CHN 2:25:15 (SB)

2 573 Yoshimi Ozaki JPN 2:25:25 (SB)

3 336 Aselefech Mergia ETH 2:25:32

4 233 Chunxiu Zhou CHN 2:25:39 (SB)

5 234 Xiaolin Zhu CHN 2:26:08 (SB)

6 733 Marisa Barros POR 2:26:50

7 565 Yuri Kano JPN 2:26:57 (SB)

8 833 Nailiya Yulamanova RUS 2:27:08

9 780 Alevtina Biktimirova RUS 2:27:39 (SB)

10 993 Kara Goucher USA 2:27:48 (SB)

11 980 Desireé Davila USA 2:27:53 (PB)

12 601 Julia Mumbi Muraga KEN 2:28:59 (SB)

13 225 Weiwei Sun CHN 2:29:39 (SB)

14 553 Yoshiko Fujinaga JPN 2:29:53

15 835 Svetlana Zakharova RUS 2:29:55

reduce PRs at a rate of 3 mimutes and 30secods per $100,000

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C.C.C.P. wrote:

Typical liberal response, throw money at something and automatically it will improve. Davila has had what she needs with the Hansons. She doesn't need "hundreds of thousands of dollars" to run better. She needs to keep doing what she's been doing, which is training hard and smart in an appropriately supportive atmosphere.

Hey Im a conservative... and I LOVE MONEY.. and its mine all mine.. So piss off

I've seen where Catherine Ndereba has lived and trained for most of her career here in the US.

Success at that level ain't about the money.

RE: If Desireé Davila had hundreds of thousands of dollars showered on her........

That would be really really sexy. And she's way better looking than Kara!