Fiona O'Keefe pod

That's an incel right there ^

Any random loser guy who has "hate" for a woman - Yup. That's an incel.

This is a humorous post you guys

Someone looking so thin and unhealthy, dropping out after 2 miles, was horrible optics for everyone involved. If I was her sponsor, I would have gladly paid her not to run.

On the Citius podcast, she told Chris Chavez that the pain only started 7 days before the Olympic marathon, on her last moderately long run. She rested and got treatment for several days. An MRI in Paris was negative -- no findings -- so she decided with her team she should start the race. It was only after returning home to North Carolina that a second MRI revealed a femoral stress fracture. She was within her rights, and in my opinion within an ethical framework, to start the race and hope the pain went away. It did not.

She doesn’t owe anyone anything. She earned the right to show up as an OLYMPIAN and try to compete finish or not. If anyone else wanted “her spot” they should’ve run faster at trials.

She wasn’t there to compete and all she did was put her health problems on display for everyone to see. It would have been far better not to run and her doing so instead, triggered countless pages on LR about having an eating disorder and who was to blame.

I have no problem with her not giving up her spot and I felt the same way about Engels and Nuguse.

Listened to it while fishing and was afraid I was going to fall asleep listening to her talk. My god, can these companies provide even ONE public relations training? Talking to professional runners feels like talking to an alien

Which, shocking to some I know, is unlikely to be the impetus for making this decision.

It is pretty sad what a terrible job the brojos do. There's really no excuse, they've been doing it forever yet take no initiative to improve.

I thought the most interesting part was how unwilling she was to even give a vague hint about the kind of appearance fees she, and other Americans can get from US-based marathons. She didn't have to give numbers, but would it have hurt to just say that (e.g) New York offered 5x whatever Berlin or Valencia would pay her? Runners are so cagey about what they earn compared to other sports

I actually thought they did a good job of asking open-ended questions. Fiona must not have felt like talking that day. Very little substance, very little insight. The Brojos ask very "Letsrun" questions: every pro should know that any question, especially the ones fluff sites (Citius etal) won't ask, are on the table.

I guess I understand her not discussing the Olympics debate. I think everyone wanted to hear her perspective, but whatever. Brojos did a good job of segueing from that smoothly/without making it awkward.

Seriously, McC didn’t have to be all look at me, I’m in Paris on social media. She probably isn’t embarrassed about it but I would be.

Well, our distance stars aren’t necessarily known for behind dynamic personalities. I prefer laid back folks like Fiona, however.

Hey Jam-it-in - You prefer athletes who are accepted and asked to perform for their country to be dishonest about their health and not put their best foot forward for their country? Even after the governing body took the steps to fly their alternate to the race?

Says a lot about you and I would prefer if you jammed a sock in your mouth so your ethics are not perpetuated further. Imagine if LeBron James hobbled on the court for an hour so a healthy player couldn't play after Steve Kerr tried to put the other player in the game.

Waiting Jam it in

A grown man who spends a lot of his free time on a chat board tearing down young female athletes and professional female athletes and is not married and has no kids and has a heart full of anger and hate and gets banned 83 times but keeps returning out of social desperation and low self esteem....is an incel. Using all caps "TMADDDHASFNE" is also attention-seeking. Sad

Maybe she didn't *need* to under the current rules, but if that is the case the rules should be changed.

Lies and slander directed at me will not go on without a vigorous defense!!!

1000% ^