Emma Coburn pulls an Evan Jager - Wipes out on last water jump, denied a sub-9

nothing taco wrote:

Ray Cyst wrote:

She tripped on the barrier because she was spent, couldn't get her foot up high enough to push off. She was not going to run sub 9 and she wasn't even going to win. I like Emma, but that wasn't a great race.

Wow, tough assessment. I mean, if she made it over (which she probably would most of the time in a similar situation) she probably would have PR'd, possibly won an important race, but you make it sound like she's an abject failure.

She ran a good race until she got overly excited on the last lap. When she realized that Kiyeng has miscounted laps and was struggling, she sped up and used a lot of energy to catch her. Unfortunately, Kiyeng had a little bit left and Emma wasn't able to make the pass. You could see after that she was done. Her form completely fell apart and she never set up for the last water barrier properly and the result is what it is. Maybe had she not wasted all that energy after the bell she could have run sub 9, but the first 250 of the last lap did her in. She lost focus of her plan and will learn a lesson from it certainly.

+1. It looked to me like Emma smiled a bit as she approached the water jump. Like you said, she got a little too excited and got ahead of herself. What a flipping bummer. Hopefully she's ok and her confidence is still good.

She will get it after the Olympics

The olympics womens steeple will be a great race. I must ask, would Emma break 930 with the barriers at the men's height? I've got her at 932.

ImpaIa31 wrote:

Chef Gordon Ramzi wrote:

Emma = first clean finisher

Cry some mo tears.

No idea why you people always do this.

You always end up looking stupid.

don't want to discus, just want to watch the video

trollism wrote:

ImpaIa31 wrote:

Cry some mo tears.

No idea why you people always do this.

You always end up looking stupid.

You have looked stupid on this forum for years, darling.

300m to go, Coburn was right on.

She was gaining, but the leader started to jog,

Really awkward back straight,

If Coburn felt good, she would have blown right by, but she started to fade,

She is the best water jump athlete among the elites, was banking on that to get her past, but there just wasn’t any pop left in her legs, she could have swung wide and had a clear line but her legs were gone.

Tough result,

But she’s tough and will be on the podium in Tokyo.

Yusef Scummm wrote:

Didn’t she used to pull ON Evan?

Heyy Ohhh.

Emma has to be the biggest sore loser in the sport. Never apologized and now NBC just hides any comments trying to hold her responsible lol. Hate to say that I found great joy in chepkoech passing her as she fell.

I find it interesting that she is so anti-doping but then is all Courtney Frerichs and I are really friends!! So while no one said CF is also eating burritos, she blantantly supports a convicted doper.

Anyway, I guess blondes with long hair (no braids) stick together.

Karmic water jump? wrote:

Emma has to be the biggest sore loser in the sport. Never apologized and now NBC just hides any comments trying to hold her responsible lol. Hate to say that I found great joy in chepkoech passing her as she fell.

Lol why would you find joy in what is most likely a doper passing someone else? Would you also be happy seeing Houlihan dust Abby Dags in the last lap of a race? Probably not.

What a weird Steeplechase day.. first the Men's mess-up, shame on Monaco, but that Kenyan woman, she either miscounted or it was a tactic, but it was an insane race. It was telling that when Coburn fell she spent an extra second or two feeling sorry for herself and smacking the track like the drama queen she is... she simply fell apart. Exhausted.

nicedude wrote:

sucks but it happens. also i don't think she would've gotten sub-9 even if she hadn't fallen cause Kiyeng was at 9:03.

That's what I thought. I have no idea where the sub 9 is coming from.

Also, I think she fell because she was tiring badly. Even if she hadn't fallen, she probably didn't have a kick to even pass kiyeng let alone do a sub 9.

Just a man and his thoughts.

ShilohDoesntCare wrote:

[quote]Karmic water jump? wrote:

Emma has to be the biggest sore loser in the sport. Never apologized and now NBC just hides any comments trying to hold her responsible lol. Hate to say that I found great joy in chepkoech passing her as she fell.

What are you referring to? Never apologized for what?

She probably could have still come in second if she shot right back up. But she's human. I don't think she's that much of a drama queen, but I'm also not a misogynist.

She'll still medal in Tokyo running a smarter pace.

ShilohDoesntCare wrote:

Karmic water jump? wrote:

Emma has to be the biggest sore loser in the sport. Never apologized and now NBC just hides any comments trying to hold her responsible lol. Hate to say that I found great joy in chepkoech passing her as she fell.

Lol why would you find joy in what is most likely a doper passing someone else? Would you also be happy seeing Houlihan dust Abby Dags in the last lap of a race? Probably not.

So, Chepkoech is now a doper?

Wow!

The things people say.

CinqueMinute wrote:

What a weird Steeplechase day.. first the Men's mess-up, shame on Monaco, but that Kenyan woman, she either miscounted or it was a tactic, but it was an insane race. It was telling that when Coburn fell she spent an extra second or two feeling sorry for herself and smacking the track like the drama queen she is... she simply fell apart. Exhausted.

I am still confused.

Unlike the men's race, I wasn't sure whether Kiyeng miscounted the laps or it was just a strategy to pull away and just go.

Today was a weird steeplechase day.