Athing Mu may skip 2023 World Championships and focus on 2024

DJ took time off in 2014 to deal with "personal issues". Stories went around that he failed a couple of drug tests and had been doing cocaine and smoking weed. Those are considered "drugs of abuse" by the PGA and not PEDs. Tiger Woods was all drugged up when he crashed his SUV after Elin blew up at him when it came out that he was smashing not just his driver, but every floosy who ever showed up to a PGA event in a short skirt. That was probably another hush hush suspension.

Funny thing is that in golf, Xanax is allowed with a TUE. Everyone is taking Xanax, especially the guys who are trying to get through Q school and grinding out qualifiers.

If Mu does not run Budapest it will make it difficult to pass Mutola in some of their All Time Ranking Categories.

To be ranked in the top 10 by Track and field News 18 Years Consectively. Mu need 19 to pass Mutola

To Be Randed #1 by Track and Field News 6 Consecutive Years Mu Needs 7 to pass Mutola

To Be Ranked #1 in 9 Years Mu needs 10 to pass Mutola

Mutola has 145 Points, Mu needs at least 146

With the First 2 the Consecurive Records Mu will need to start over next year.

Mu is young enough and Good Enough to pass Mutola in all these Categories, but basically skipping years makes it a lot harder

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Well you would take Jakob against the field? So how boring is that when you are able to predict the winner? Now if Jakob didn’t win that would be interesting.

It would be classic if Mary Moura were to be busted in the next couple of weeks.

Note The Track and Field News Rankings are from 2020, I am not sure when they will update it, but Mu has 20 Points and 2 Consecutive #1's NOW

Or Max Burgin or Jakob? This would make you happy? You want clean sport right?

I feel like someone is afraid to remind these track stars that 99.9 % of the US has no idea who they are. What kind of pressure does Tom Brady or Pat Mahomes have? A million times more and 99% of the people know who you are. You can't even leave home. She is virtually anonymous. I just think the pressure is so self infected. Coaches need to give them perspective. These athletes get to end of career and ruminate about how they put unnecessary pressure on themselves. They need the great American track stars emeritus to counsel these kids.

Kratochvílová "world record" is safe in hell.

She didn't dominate last year getting almost beat by Keely and even Ajee. She didn't even run 4x400m relays. I hope she is not getting the Simone Biles/Naomi Osaka syndrome.

The only time all the best gather is at world cross, which Jacob will never run again given he nearly passed out the last time he did. Big talk from running's Lance Armstrong.

These unsubstantiated rumors have been around for decades. They sound like urban myths more than possible fact but Exxum Speight revealed how the sausages were made in the late 80's and the late IAAF president was on the record for squashing positives of "the biggest stars in track and field" also we had a congressional hearing where Area 54 was revealed to have documented alien life forms...

You obviously don't know much about Athing Mu. She has NO interest in running professionally for 19 years.

And she has NO interest in what a bunch of old white guys who run a magazine that has a few thousand subscribers think about her career. She is going to do things her own way whether they like it or not.

For the second time in a decade, track has an athlete dominating the W800 who seems more interested in creating drama than the event itself. Compare to the beautiful legacy of the M800 and.Coe, Kipketer and Rudisha. Pretty sad state of affairs.

You need to understand a couple things. (1) For the average person, to see someone extremely blessed with talent and not use that talent is almost an ungodly act. (2) Qualifying to represent your nation on the global stage is a high honor; it is not just about yourself, it's about your country, family, friends and fans. (3) Mrs. Mu is an adult and a professional athlete, unfortunately at this level you just can't choose to take a sabbatical. - With all of that said, I suspect Mu is dealing with anxiety and is questioning whether she can win gold...that is the result of not competing.

Good news is he won't win the 1500 so it'll be exciting

I'm very confident Mu doesn't care at all about this and there is no way she will compete as long as Mutola did.

Which makes it more absurd, not less, to skip the ONLY major championship of the year, instead of one of the four majors.

If you point is that track athletes don't care about fans and sponsors because there are fewer fans and less money, that validates the comment that track is not taken seriously as a pro sport.

But my point is not whether someone skips an event. It is about how that is announced to the public. Tennis players skip majors for various reasons, but their coaches won't tell the media "maybe she will play, or maybe she will take vacation." That's totally unprofessional, and makes mockery of their sport.

I don't know if her contract has a reduction clause, but I think it has a bonus clause for World Championship medals. So she is leaving a lot of money on the table by not running in Budapest. That's assuming she will be in top three if she competes.

Swimmers get $12,000 for the first place prize. But that's only one man and one woman for the entire meet, not first place in each race.

The season winner gets $100,000. But this is also for the top swimmer overall, and not in each event.

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