Nice article in Runner's World about Molly Seidel ahead of CHI

I thought it was interesting that the article started out saying Molly was passing a joint around . Isn’t that what Shacarri Richardson got kicked off the Olympic team for ?

Does Molly have talent? Yes

Should anyone be comparing her to taking a minute off Kastor's times via super-shoes and adderall? No

But her competitors thank her for putting smoke into her lungs since alveoli don't regenerate.

I wish her well but come on now, pick better heroes, it's not hard.

Now Molly I know fully supports Richardson and thought it was ridiculous that she got kicked off the team for that.

But Molly should have also taken that moment to acknowledge the incredible amount of privilege she has had in her life. I think that is really missing from this article. An acknowledgment of how lucky she has been and all the support she has gotten.

The only mention of support (other than fam/friends) is Puma. Please, hold the corporate applause. Molly paid for her entire contract with that bronze. Them sticking by her is a P/L calculation, not loyalty. If she fails to make the olympic team this year and fails to run fast in another marathon, Puma will drop her faster than a puma can run.

Molly has such an interesting story, incredible natural talent and conflicting personal challenges. This read closer to a puff piece than a true examination of her as a person. 10 years from now, we will read about another athlete who has faced challenges and braved being honest and they will cite Molly as an example of an athlete who played the corporate game. Just as this article cites Shalane etc. Circle of life.

What happened with her TUE and registering under fake names.

What... are we not in the circle of trust?

She dropped the addies per the article. If you are in the circle of trust you know.

Fake name is a joke. Again a circle of trust thing.

Oh yeah she told me about the m*crodosing, good to know. Thanks friend.

4 years at Notre Dame and the best career opportunites she could find was barista, baby sitter and Instacart delivery driver ?

I thought athletes at Notre Dame were required to study.

That's what happens when you smoke weed....

I'm imagining you as the guy mansplaining to Molly on the airplane about how her training needs to change. This is peak LR.

I've never won an Olympic medal, so I'd better start.

That comment doesn't make sense. Just because someone studies and gets a degree doesn't mean that person will necessarily move directly into the corporate world in a career job. And moving directly into a corporate job likely would have conflicted with trying professional running.

LOL, that story was made up for Instagram views dude, come on already.

It was clearly a joke bud

Wasn't that story made up?

Imagine creating situations that literally never happened just to garner attention lmao.

Wondering which drug you're talking about. Please elaborate

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Time & time again Jamb innnnnnn show what an obtuse loser that it is. This comment from it is not a surprise.

Losers lose and doer do.

Not sure with all her problems she maybe better off reducing her use of social media.....

How did Molly not get kicked off her team but Sha'Carri did? Or was it a matter of being in the right place, right time?
I support Molly otherwise--she had privilege but she also worked hard. 2:22 in Chicago is amazing!

Edit, disregard the last post--I saw that weed is allowed outside of competition.

Good point on social media toxicity:

She used to enjoy social media when it was just her friends. Before she gained 50,000 followers in a single day after the trials, and some 70,000 on Strava. Before the pandemic, before the Olympics. Keeping up with content became a toxic chore. “You feel like you’re just feeding this beast and it’s never going to stop,” she says. She’s taken to deleting the app off her phone, reloading it only to fulfill contractual agreements and post for her sponsors, then deleting it again.