Quigley 4:32.9 at Sir Walter

First of all surprised she went to the line.

I saw the pre meet athletes panel and when she was introduced you realize she has not accomplished a whole lot. Yes she was on an Olympic team but that was 9 years ago. Since then very little. Her new team sounds interesting and she should really focus on being the person in charge of that from the administration stand point. Let's be honest she will never be truly elite again, most younger fans have no idea who she is and the sport has moved beyond her capacity to make teams again.

But good for her showing up and doing the pre meet stuff and race and staying around the day after for those events too

Fair point. I agree. I feel like we see this in so many track athletes - just refusing to hang it up when everything points to it’s time to retire.

I don't understand why she didn't give triathlon a go. It's much less competitive than elite running and she seems to like riding bikes

Carlos Lopes won the Olympic marathon at 37.

Why aren't you sh!++ing on Allie Wilson?

Also, the aforementioned Shelby Houlihan just won the nationals at 32.

There really is no need to kick her while she is down. She is fading into the background and if you didn’t post about her most of us wouldn’t have thought about her, which is how I prefer it.

Quigley won a US indoor mile title in 2019, made two world finals in the steeplechase, and almost certainly would have made a second olympic team in the steeple but for the covid panic.

It's ridiculous to say that someone who made a US olympic team "has not accomplished a whole lot".

Maybe they don’t retire because they don’t understand the criteria as well as you do. Have you considered starting a thread or doing a podcast to share your knowledge and help the former Olympians make better career decisions?

Injured for one.

Yea I couldn't agree more. Everyone is a failure unless you won the olympics or have a WR. I would cut off one toe to be on an Olympic team.

So many White Knights on this thread now...

I have to say, I was (unfortunately) standing right next to a bunch of middle school girls and they were absolutely obsessed with Colleen, screaming her name, waiting for selfies after the race. She is almost certainly past her prime, but the next generation does know who she is.

i ran that as a 9th grade kid

The circumstances are slightly different, wouldn't you say? ;)

She’s accomplished much more than most of us here have in terms of athletics.
Like this person said, and has admitted she doesn’t completely stop exercising when injured bc she’s a bit disordered. So she destroyed her own athletics career in that manner.
But she’s set herself nicely for a post-athletics career whenever she’s really done.
Not a fan of hers and if you’re not I’m not sure continuously posting about her helps … even tho I just responded lol.

It’s a 180 on this site- when you want to trash a woman runner for - idk for what exactly- then being realistic and respectful of an Olympian who is still living the life most of us could only dream is considered the thread-derailing troll behavior. The mean-spirited posts are the norm. Those darn white knights are messing up our good time!

Exactly. Why does anyone care if she retires or keeps running? If I got paid to run I would do it as long as I kept enjoying it.

Hell, people have been calling Hocker a failure since the month after he won Olympic gold.