Top UK pros claim Lauir Muir was allowed to enter 800 at UK champs after deadline, Muir wins race

Classy individuals like Laura Muir always get criticized.

my fave lassie wrote:

Classy individuals like Laura Muir always get criticized.

I misread that and thought you said cheesy.

dummies out in full force today wrote:

vivalarepublica wrote:

be ready to race any competition and be prepared to beat them.

Even if they break the rules?

Here's a scenario your pea-brain may understand.

Let's say you are running a championship race, and you need to be in the stadium call area 45 minutes before start time. Maybe that's not ideal for your warm up (some of those call areas are tiny), so you warm up a bit early, or have to rush to go through things when they let you out on the track. Meanwhile, some other guy is warming up on the competition track while you are crammed in the call area with 10 other athletes. Fair?

What-the-phuk-EVER!!

One thing really matters: who won the race?

5th place??

Slower than 1,121 other women in 2018?

Slow is slow, fast is fast.

Muir = fast

Sharp = doesn't even matter, she's so slow.

I'm no fan of Muir, but I would be embarrassed to support Sharp and her WHINE-FEST.

Especially on such antics as when someone registered or how, cause that is a feckless, cowardly, and unsportswomanlike conduct, cowering from fast competition.

Seriously? Certainly UK Athletics can come up with more depth than this.

Has it been said yet?

....She's not the Sharpest tool in the shed.

I'll admit the "anyone's preparation.." bit was too broad as obviously there are exceptions, but what do you mean by "prepare for"? Of course when you have the luxury of being so far ahead of your compatriots like Jager (and such Lynsey Sharp does not) , then the preceding weeks to USATF will of course be different to those for worlds/Olympics. But for the preceding days which is what's being discussed here, then no, I don't imagine those to be much different at all. What to your mind would her training since Tuesday have involved in both scenarios (race with Muir & race without)??

And easy on the totally unnecessary "people like you" comments there, champ. You have no idea at all who I am or what level I competed at, you might just be surprised

Whats the Problem?

You show up and race whoever shows up...

dummies out in full force today wrote:

Sharp could very reasonably hope to kick to a top-3 position and get selected in worlds.

Worlds? I thought this was for a place at the European championships in Berlin.

How could I be so stupid?

Yeah Sharpe is always complaining about things. Previously she complained about guys in the women's 800. Seriously? I see nothing wrong with men in women's events.

So, Lyndsey, if Laura Muir had entered a couple of days ago, you could have changed your training so radically, you’d have won?

You’re a whiny loser, who wanted to win and then got pissed when a better runner entered. And then you made up some BS about how you had specially prepared for a race without Muir.

Really embarrassing

dummies out in full force today wrote:

vivalarepublica wrote:

be ready to race any competition and be prepared to beat them.

Even if they break the rules?

Here's a scenario your pea-brain may understand.

Let's say you are running a championship race, and you need to be in the stadium call area 45 minutes before start time. Maybe that's not ideal for your warm up (some of those call areas are tiny), so you warm up a bit early, or have to rush to go through things when they let you out on the track. Meanwhile, some other guy is warming up on the competition track while you are crammed in the call area with 10 other athletes. Fair?

My pea brain knows that a hyphen should not be included in that usage of pea brain, unless pea brain is used as adjective rather than a noun. For example, you are a pea-brained idiot that has terrible grammar.

Is a superpea-brain the same as a super-peabrain?

No one said they would have won if Muir hadn't cheated.

UK idiots. wrote:

No one said they would have won if Muir hadn't cheated.

Sharp surely wouldn’t have, that’s for sure.

Somehow it is taken as given that UK Athletics is lying about Muir entering inside the deadline and that they knowingly entered false information in their Excel spreadsheets, and that Sharpe is the one being both honest and correct about everything that happened and the timing of it.. sure.

So if the reality is that Muir entered before the deadline and if she were to provide the email as evidence? It would be immediately discounted as a forgery by the LR sleuths, because it would not fit their fantasies.

ex-runner wrote:

nodoublenodboule wrote:

Have you never heard of Semenya? Muir is good, but not 1:54 good imho.

I forgot that South Africa is in Europe. Thanks for reminding me.

Typical small minded, bigoted opinion right here - trying to be smart, no doubt, but what if Semanya chooses to identify as Turkish in time for the European Championships? Are you going to take issue at that? No doubt.

Living in the past...

ex-runner intersexed wrote:

Yeah Sharpe is always complaining about things. Previously she complained about guys in the women's 800. Seriously? I see nothing wrong with men in women's events.

That's if Track and Field only had open competition with no gender categories. In fact, they probably should have open competition only as the governing bodies cannot decide what a man or woman is anymore ...

UK idiots. wrote:

No one said they would have won if Muir hadn't cheated.

PrZ wrote:

Sharp surely wouldn’t have, that’s for sure.

Sharpe had nothing to do with it.

It's a common tactic amongst cheaters to try and blame someone else.

Wow. You really are thick. Did you see Sharp saying Muir shouldn't have asked for entry? No. She was speaking of the organizers.

Oh, so because they break their own rules routinely, nobody should care, including the affected athletes? That is an asinine suggestion.

And you don't see a problem with this? Again, wow.

Stopcecil! wrote:

So the best person won. They are simply fighting about deadlines in an attempt to undo her win. That's all this amounts to.

Huh??

Who is trying to "undo" the results?

Nobody.

The statement from Sharp (and others) is that BA didn't follow their own rules. And should.

Can you read?

how about this rule.

if you are a top runner in the country and something happens to the paperwork, we can make room for you.

how about this rule.

screw microscopic violations of the rules and focus on fairness, and shall the best man or woman win.