Rogers, O’Keefe and Henes all knew the rules and choose to skip Cross. It is hard to feel sorry for them now. Everyone knew the rules they choose to skip it. Blame your management team. The path was available don’t cry now.
Rogers, O’Keefe and Henes all knew the rules and choose to skip Cross. It is hard to feel sorry for them now. Everyone knew the rules they choose to skip it. Blame your management team. The path was available don’t cry now.
O'Keefe ran in US cross champs. And you need 3 cross events to get the cross country ranking.
I am not sure that the system was clear to everyone. Ritz had Monson run US cross champs thinking it would help her 10k ranking, but it didn’t because she didn't have 3 cross events and the cross ranking is separate.
As things stand, a man with a 28:30 pb and a woman with a 34:01 pb would be going to the 2023 Worlds thanks to their cross country rankings. And is US Army member Emmanuel Bor being punished for running World XC?
Rogers, O’Keefe and Henes all knew the rules and choose to skip Cross. It is hard to feel sorry for them now. Everyone knew the rules they choose to skip it. Blame your management team. The path was available don’t cry now.
They all tried to hit the qualifying time. Yes they could’ve run a bunch of XC races in Spain I guess. But they had a plan they just didn’t succeed.
Rogers, O’Keefe and Henes all knew the rules and choose to skip Cross. It is hard to feel sorry for them now. Everyone knew the rules they choose to skip it. Blame your management team. The path was available don’t cry now.
O'Keefe ran in US cross champs. And you need 3 cross events to get the cross country ranking.
I am not sure that the system was clear to everyone. Ritz had Monson run US cross champs thinking it would help her 10k ranking, but it didn’t because she didn't have 3 cross events and the cross ranking is separate.
Im most surprised emily infeld did not give the 10k a go, the event shes a bronze medallist in. She ran that austin cross meet and got second to monson and said in several interviews after that her next big race would be the ten, where she was a no show.
i figured perhaps injury kept her out of the ten but after a small PR in the 5k a couple weeks ago she seems fit and healthy, and i would think 30:40 was within her capabilities on a good day. The 10,000m, as ppl are saying, seems like it will be much less competitive at USA’s than the 5,000m which will be stacked with monson, cranny, norris, henes etc. wonder what the thought process was behind the decision
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It is a shame that being sure you have the 10k ranking under the new system is so hard, and confusing, that the #6 all time US runner may not run the event.
Lol. Sorry, but what if the runner just runs the event, and the calculation will be done by others?
I see this more as a silent protest against that ranking system.
I can understand why WA wanted to add some buzz to World XC so they added the XC races to the ranking system, but it is unbelievably biased towards European people when all the races take place in Spain.
It is a shame that being sure you have the 10k ranking under the new system is so hard, and confusing, that the #6 all time US runner may not run the event.
It's not at all confusing. WA wanted a field of 27. They reserved 8 spots for people who ran an XC season. Everyone else had to either reach the 30:40 standard or, if not enough people did so, then there would be places determined on rankings. The main problem (from WAs POV) is that the standard was still too easy. 20 athletes have met the standard even after you account for only 3 entrants per country. So the field size has currently increased to 28 and I expect it will grow further.
The US currently has 3 women qualified by the standard - Monson, Cranny, and Schweizer. This is all on the Road to Budapest website. It shouldn't be difficult for an athlete or their coach to look this up
100%. The countries of the people who qualified via XC - Spain, Spain, Burundi, Sweden, Italy, Brazil, Spain, Netherlands.
Complete joke - most of these would not have qualified by ranking points or standard alone.
I'm not against rewarding people who run XC, but the current system is heavily skewed towards people who can be in Europe over winter.
As an alternative, maybe they could give automatic qualifiers to each of the winners of the regional XC championships. It would incentivize athletes to take them seriously and spread the prizes a little further.
The qualification path was not a mystery. The athletes knew about this a while ago. Why not plan accordingly? Don't blame the system. Take some personal responsibility and do what you need to do to qualify. Just get on with it.
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