Athing MU....effortless win

ertrte wrote:

trundlebutt wrote:

When is the last time the US had an athlete like this? She is an absolute freak of nature. I can't remember the last time I felt so hyped for an American in the Olympics.

She reminds me of Jim Ryun based on the long legs and stallion of a stride.

Mu jogged her 1:58 today, and she jogged her 1:56 at the trials. She’s never been pushed in an 800 and she said so much at her post race interview. I expect her final 800 to be the run of the games. She’ll front run, going out in 58.xx and be just in front at 400, then she’ll close in 56.xx and utterly destroy the rest of the field. I think she’ll be just under 1:55 and nobody else will be within 2-3 seconds of her by the end. With 200 m to go she will be all alone in the camera frame.

Caught my eye, too. Isn't she what, 19 y.o.?

I had to laugh watching that race. This is the athlete who is the subject of the following immortal thread: "Mu races like a high-schooler"

seattle prattle wrote:

Caught my eye, too. Isn't she what, 19 y.o.?

Yes, 19 years old and at least 5ft 10in tall. Her stride is long and effortless, she just eats up track. Goule probably has to run 25% more strides to cover the distance. She won’t break the WR or OR tomorrow, but she will have both records before she retires.

Excuse me, Tuesday for the final….

portsea57 wrote:

HappyJack wrote:

Something doesn't sound quite right with your first sentence.

Care to rephrase?

I understand what's being said. 1 ) She's going to dominate the event like David, and possibly lead gun to tape and get the gold medal on Monday ) 2,. She will set a world record at the 2024 Games.

I understood also. But the best way to phrase it would have been "She has the potential to be the female version of David Rudisha." It's sounds much more respectful to her gender.

There are more than a few ding-a-lings on here that look down their noses at women, athletes or not. There's no need for that. People do us and yourselves a favor and reread your post before submitting. And don't PWD. Post While Drinking, just in case you're already getting hammered.

HappyJack wrote:

portsea57 wrote:

I understand what's being said. 1 ) She's going to dominate the event like David, and possibly lead gun to tape and get the gold medal on Monday ) 2,. She will set a world record at the 2024 Games.

I understood also. But the best way to phrase it would have been "She has the potential to be the female version of David Rudisha." It's sounds much more respectful to her gender.

There are more than a few ding-a-lings on here that look down their noses at women, athletes or not. There's no need for that. People do us and yourselves a favor and reread your post before submitting. And don't PWD. Post While Drinking, just in case you're already getting hammered.

Give us a bloody break, and shove you're pc nonsense up your a***!

This is weird but I really want to offer praise to NBC for their coverage. I guess it depends on your cable package, but I've been able to watch entire races with no interruptions - even the Men's 10,000! No personal stories about somebody who is competing in memory of their dead goldfish or anything! I've been watching with this page that was posted by LetsRun. My only challenge is to avoid postings on Facebook, etc., that are spoilers.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1XhTlHbJwoVWSWZlzT8DZZC8_BLNHorEc08kyOr6Fcng/htmlview?pru=AAABexcLJsY*sZCrHCmg3-kEFJZngkwBrQ#gid=0

Mu really looks like she has another gear - or two. As far as positioning, I think the most important thing is that she doesn't get tripped. If you can front run and have the quality to get away with it - go for it. The other women looked trashed out. Just the fact that she never looks stressed has to make you wonder what would happen if she floored it.

Wise Old Man wrote:

Excuse me, Tuesday for the final….

Well, they should be really be well and truly rested by then AND, I think it makes a fast hard run even more likely.

HappyJack wrote:

portsea57 wrote:

Give us a bloody break, and shove you're pc nonsense up your a***!

So you lead me to understand that you're already in your "cups" and you want me to break something on you and make it bloody, is that correct?

Normally I try avoiding fighting but since you called me an a*** I'll gladly accommodate you and make you as bloody and broken as you wish to be.

Let me know where and when we should meet. Can't wait to get to know your face.

Go away you fool! One minute you're looking for trouble with your stupid PC nonsense,, and now you are threatening violence. Go back under that rock where you belong!

We're runners not fighters.

Wise Old Man wrote:

Mu jogged her 1:58 today, and she jogged her 1:56 at the trials. She’s never been pushed in an 800 and she said so much at her post race interview. I expect her final 800 to be the run of the games. She’ll front run, going out in 58.xx and be just in front at 400, then she’ll close in 56.xx and utterly destroy the rest of the field. I think she’ll be just under 1:55 and nobody else will be within 2-3 seconds of her by the end. With 200 m to go she will be all alone in the camera frame.

Exactly. Not even Almanza will be close. How many other women 800 runners can run sub-50?

She won't be close because she won't even be on the start line. She didn't qualify.

Go go go AtHING MU get that gold medal GO GO GO

HappyJack wrote:

portsea57 wrote:

I understand what's being said. 1 ) She's going to dominate the event like David, and possibly lead gun to tape and get the gold medal on Monday ) 2,. She will set a world record at the 2024 Games.

I understood also. But the best way to phrase it would have been "She has the potential to be the female version of David Rudisha." It's sounds much more respectful to her gender.

There are more than a few ding-a-lings on here that look down their noses at women, athletes or not. There's no need for that. People do us and yourselves a favor and reread your post before submitting. And don't PWD. Post While Drinking, just in case you're already getting hammered.

It doesn't even make sense though. There was nothing offensive about it. In fact I think 'female version of David Radisher' sounds worse. Yes people look down at women on here sometimes but I don't think this was an example of it at all.

PlayerONE wrote:

She won't be close because she won't even be on the start line. She didn't qualify.

Big stage, so Almanza is gone.

1) Mu: 154.8

Then….

2 Goule: 156.5

3) Reekie: 157.1

4) Rogers: 157.8

5) Hodgkinson: 158.5

runnerdave wrote:

This is weird but I really want to offer praise to NBC for their coverage. I guess it depends on your cable package, but I've been able to watch entire races with no interruptions - even the Men's 10,000! No personal stories about somebody who is competing in memory of their dead goldfish or anything!

I guess it also depends on where you live. I have a pretty good cable package but the men's 10,000 was not available to me on live TV, probably because it went at 4:30 am local time on the west coast. I did wake up early enough to live stream the last two laps on nbcolympics.com, which was nice.