LetsRun.com note: Laura Muir has reversed course and in a series of tweets said she will not work with the strength and conditioning coach who is also the Nike Oregon Project strength and conditioning coach. Muir's tweets below:
https://twitter.com/lauramuiruns/status/982346934861090816
Original post:
Take a look at this! - I wonder if this means Genzebe Dibaba will now decide to no longer speak to Muir.
I just love the hypocrisy
Originally this thread was titled, "Laura Muir working with NOP"
Hill Run wrote:
Take a look at this! - I wonder if this means Genzebe Dibaba will now decide to no longer speak to Muir.
I just love the hypocrisy
https://t.co/9OkhCAOD24?amp=1
What hypocrisy?
She's a mole for British Athletics.
Additionally, she is only working with their strength and conditioning coach. Not even a big deal. The only one who's remotely shady is salazar, and even then there's barely any evidence.
"Young stressed that McHenry does not work exclusively with the training group run by Alberto Salazar,"
"there is no intention for Muir to become an official Nike Oregon Project athlete once she has completed her veterinary science degree next month."
Why is this a surprise, she never tells the truth about the Drug Cheat King of England, Mo Farah.
Subway Surfers Addiction wrote:
"Young stressed that McHenry does not work exclusively with the training group run by Alberto Salazar,"
"there is no intention for Muir to become an official Nike Oregon Project athlete once she has completed her veterinary science degree next month."
Whilst I have no personal doubts that there is anything shady afoot with Muir, her statements relating to Dibabas “associations” with coaches currently under investigation makes this decision at best naive, and at worst hypocritical.
Does McHenry have anything with the doping going on at NOP? No.
Does he work with doped athletes? Yes.
If you can't beat the dopers, join them. If you think McHenry is only going to provide "strength and conditioning" services to Muir then you probably also believe Dibaba is clean. In a way I don't blame Muir. She's highly ambitious but at 24 she's blocked from winning by Kipyegon (also 24) and Dibaba (27). If she runs clean then she'll be the 1500 version of Melissa Bishop who has to compete against three intersex athletes who have a natural advantage.
Les wrote:
If you can't beat the dopers, join them. If you think McHenry is only going to provide "strength and conditioning" services to Muir then you probably also believe Dibaba is clean. In a way I don't blame Muir. She's highly ambitious but at 24 she's blocked from winning by Kipyegon (also 24) and Dibaba (27). If she runs clean then she'll be the 1500 version of Melissa Bishop who has to compete against three intersex athletes who have a natural advantage.
Is this serious?
Les wrote:
If you can't beat the dopers, join them. If you think McHenry is only going to provide "strength and conditioning" services to Muir then you probably also believe Dibaba is clean. In a way I don't blame Muir. She's highly ambitious but at 24 she's blocked from winning by Kipyegon (also 24) and Dibaba (27). If she runs clean then she'll be the 1500 version of Melissa Bishop who has to compete against three intersex athletes who have a natural advantage.
Do you really think she may still be clean? Despite her 3:55? Despite being highly ambitious?
What would you then expect her to run dirty?
Dibaba in the off season trained in remote parts of Ethiopia where it was difficult for testers to reach. She could basically dope as much as she wanted and surprise, surprise, beat the best runners in the world by 5 seconds when she set her WR. Athletes in the UK and USA are not so fortunate as Dibaba so they can only do micro doses and gray area drugs so 7 second PRs like Dibaba set when she ran her WR are probably not in the cards, but 2-3 second improvement I can see happening.
Good move for Muir. Expect her to get a lot faster. What many don't realize is the reason Mo got so much better was due to McHenry's program, not gray area supplements from Salazar. The stepped up overall program helped him too, but trust me, the program that the NOP does with regards to strength training is not something everyone is doing or believes in. They are showing the world that it works. Centro=Gold Mo=Gold(s)! Rupp=Silver, Bronze
In conclusion, there are absolutely no good strength coaches in Great Britain.
Les wrote:
Dibaba in the off season trained in remote parts of Ethiopia where it was difficult for testers to reach. She could basically dope as much as she wanted and surprise, surprise, beat the best runners in the world by 5 seconds when she set her WR. Athletes in the UK and USA are not so fortunate as Dibaba so they can only do micro doses and gray area drugs so 7 second PRs like Dibaba set when she ran her WR are probably not in the cards, but 2-3 second improvement I can see happening.
Interesting - you think Dibaba ran 3:57 clean, and then improved to 3:50 because of poor testing, compared to Muir, who ran 3:55 clean, and could only improve to 3:52/3:53 because of better testing? And then, should she move to Ethiopia, run a 3:48?
casual obsever wrote:
Les wrote:
Dibaba in the off season trained in remote parts of Ethiopia where it was difficult for testers to reach. She could basically dope as much as she wanted and surprise, surprise, beat the best runners in the world by 5 seconds when she set her WR. Athletes in the UK and USA are not so fortunate as Dibaba so they can only do micro doses and gray area drugs so 7 second PRs like Dibaba set when she ran her WR are probably not in the cards, but 2-3 second improvement I can see happening.
Interesting - you think Dibaba ran 3:57 clean, and then improved to 3:50 because of poor testing, compared to Muir, who ran 3:55 clean, and could only improve to 3:52/3:53 because of better testing? And then, should she move to Ethiopia, run a 3:48?
3:55 deserves a sideways look for sure but 3:50 is an utter joke, an embarrassment to the sport. It shows that the IAAF and WADA have completely failed to govern the sport.
Actually women should be able to run 3;50.
Les wrote:
If you can't beat the dopers, join them. If you think McHenry is only going to provide "strength and conditioning" services to Muir then you probably also believe Dibaba is clean. In a way I don't blame Muir. She's highly ambitious but at 24 she's blocked from winning by Kipyegon (also 24) and Dibaba (27). If she runs clean then she'll be the 1500 version of Melissa Bishop who has to compete against three intersex athletes who have a natural advantage.
Kipyegon has taken this (and next?) year off to have a baby. Which leaves Dibaba and Muir to duke it out in what is becoming athletics' biggest feud since Ben Johnson and Carl Lewis. And yes, there's a whiff of hypocrisy in the air.
Subway Surfers Addiction wrote:
casual obsever wrote:
Interesting - you think Dibaba ran 3:57 clean, and then improved to 3:50 because of poor testing, compared to Muir, who ran 3:55 clean, and could only improve to 3:52/3:53 because of better testing? And then, should she move to Ethiopia, run a 3:48?
3:55 deserves a sideways look for sure but 3:50 is an utter joke, an embarrassment to the sport. It shows that the IAAF and WADA have completely failed to govern the sport.
Agreed...that 3:50 is absurd! Only the Chinese girls are anywhere near that time which was set in the "EPO-abuse" era where they could dope with impunity back then.
http://www.alltime-athletics.com/w_1500ok.htmBarrel of Laughs wrote:
Agreed...that 3:50 is absurd!
+1