Is Athletics Australia Corrupt and is Nic Bideau the leader?

The post doesn’t explain how her team mates alluded to her tough preparation and issues leading into the race. They wouldn’t have said that if the injury/s were manageable.

Is she seriously doubling down? Does anyone believe this? Are we all being too cynical?

My take. Lies, lies and more lies. Lies to cover lies. Lisa Weightman should have run the Paris Olympic marathon. She knows it. AA knows it. David Culbert knows it. The entire Australian running community knows it.

She knows that she did the wrong thing. That is the stress she is facing now. She would rather run one KM than give up her place to someone she obviously dislikes. She should have stepped aside like Robbo did. She didn't and now she has to live with that.

Certainly a new definition of a 'stressie'

If she was running 150+ kms a week in the lead up I'm on board with this. If it was more like 30-50 plus cross training then this may well feel like what happened, but it's got to be the preparation.

But yes, what Gen said yesterday doesn't align with this.

This post is the biggest load of BS i've ever seen. Everyone knew she was injured leading in. Be better, Sinead.

I think tough prep could have been in regards to the public speculation about her being injured? And just quickly, mental stress can 100% manifest physically. It’s a spectrum and why we get butterflies or an upset stomach when we’re nervous or why some people lose the ability to walk, talk or have pseudo seizures or strokes in situations where they’re under extreme stress.
I hope Sinead is ok and I hope both she and Lisa continue to enjoy running after all of this.

Absolutely. The online trolling and constant negativity must have been a huge burden to carry. I feel for Sinead and for Fiona O'Keeffe and Ollie Hoare. They're amazing athletes and as a fan of the sport I feel really sad that they're being subjected to so much vitriol from random people who have no idea about what they're going through.

Does sinead have bad blood with Lisa after the appeal? Cause it seems bizarre not to have given her the spot.
Sinead has a good job, she isn’t that desperate for the cash and there’s no glory in what she did. No excuse for her starting injured.

Yea but I feel like Sinead brought a lot of this on herself. She went on a podcast straight after the announcement and talked a bunch of trash and lies about the selection process and talked trash about people on letsrun. Get a grip champ

This.

The pushback is of course "well if they don't like the negative talk about themselves, they shouldn't be online", which neatly allows these gutless people to abdicate any responsibility for the effect of their words.

Does this also apply to Gen, Jess and Sinead talking on a public podcast?

Ollie Hoare ran a lot better than those other 2 though.

He at least proved he belonged at the olympics, even though I was thinking making the final would be realistic for him. He won that mile in london 2 weeks before the olympics in 3:49, so he had recent form.

Sinead dropped out within the first mile, that would be like dropping out before 57 metres of a 1500.

And O'Keefe couldn't even run at the pace of the other competitors at all, she was considerably behind in less than a minute.

Aths Australia is good but Nic isn't some of the decision for track athletes for Olympics was bad. Stewart Mcsweyn should of focused on the long distance events he doesn't have a kick like the other elites. Cameron Myers should have been selected , all the 1500m races would of suited him perfectly for his style of racing. Ok yes you can say the other Aussie had bad races like Ollie but he is still a good runner with consistent form. Stewart should focus on long distance races as that is what is training is best suited to. Also WTF is Nic's training doing. From numerous articles I've read MTC does no speed work so how the frick are runners supposed to compete in the 1500m if they don't do any high end speed work.

Yes it is true that Nic is the puppet master as he made all the selection last Olympic cycle for track. Field is a bit easier to choose. We don't have as many Aussies hitting the qualifying mark. Gen Gregson shouldn't of been selected for marathon.

But yeah bit of a yap basically Aths Australia good, Nic isn't.

My favorite part is when Sinhead joked about DNFing the Olympic marathon on her meme page. Obviously doesn't mean much to her, should have let Weightman go.

If you take one thing away from this forum, let it be that Sinead doesn’t actually run that page.

Glad you asked.

Maybe we'll find out if they get to do a sign-off pod tomorrow (obviously hard to do with three families who are traveling internationally). I'm across some of the listener questions, so it should be a good one.

Now, now. Why brings facts onto a forum that is legit still arguing about climate change, Trump's positive features, any improvement in athletic performance being possibly due to effort. Check yourself, 4859!

Maybe I'm hopelessly naïve but I don't see why people on this forum and elsewhere online find it constructive for the sport to spend their time trolling athletes until they crack. And no, I don't think that an athlete who gives an opinion on a podcast or has an online presence deserves to be at the receiving end of anonymous abuse.

If there is one takeaway from this it's that Brett Robertson is a class act

Let's be clear he wouldn't have withdrawn if Buchanan wasn't represented by Nic. Not a chance. Nic wouldnt have allowed it. pretty much understood by the running community in Australia.