Many Australians are absolutely classless and show it regularly. This is one of the cases. As for the actual running, Adams will beat Robinson in the marathon. There will be the usual excuses. The Australian women will maybe get one in the top 20. At least 1 will dnf. If Athletics Australa was serious all funding should go to the field events and walks based on results.
It' a long thread and maybe I missed if someone else called it out but... jacksprat, you basically nailed this prediction (though Adams beat Robinson by default since the latter didn't make it to Paris).
The irony of all this is it looks like Athletics Australia made the right pick with Stenson over Weightman, but botched it big time in picking Diver over Weightman, or at least having some sort of check on health requirement.
The irony of all this is it looks like Athletics Australia made the right pick with Stenson over Weightman, but botched it big time in picking Diver over Weightman, or at least having some sort of check on health requirement.
For me, the fail was never that Jess was picked over Weightman. It was that whether you went on time or 'best for the course' that Lisa was easily in the top 3.
And then of course after this fail is the series of s%%$y events that followed-- bad tweets, bad podcast, hidden injuries, DNF, weird explanations, more tweets....
And over it all this insinuation that we, the fans- those who pay to go to Aths events, watch the streams, buy the Nike gear...all the things that keep athletes funded- are trolls for talking about how gross this has all been.
He comes across exactly how you imagine he would, particularly a few mins in.
Thanks for posting this.
So he's basically saying everyone was injured to a degree, nothing to see here. It's clear as mud as to whether Sinead was 'fit and ready' or 'a bit injured, not running that much '.
Still, it was Sinead's call. And if this triggers anything then maybe there should be an expectation that you're fit enough to run it well? IF there's a qualified sub.
Nic had 5 athletes that he coaches in the marathon: Sinead Diver, Brett Robinson, Gen Gregson, Camille French (née Buscomb) and Charlotte Purdue.
Of those 5, 2 didn't start due to injury, and 1 probably shouldn't have. Camille was 60th in 2:37, Gen was 24th in 2:29.
So maybe Nic needs to take a better look in the mirror and recognise that maybe this more of a reflection of his own poor coaching, rather than a global phenomenon.
So he's basically saying everyone was injured to a degree, nothing to see here. It's clear as mud as to whether Sinead was 'fit and ready' or 'a bit injured, not running that much '.
Still, it was Sinead's call. And if this triggers anything then maybe there should be an expectation that you're fit enough to run it well? IF there's a qualified sub.
Nic had 5 athletes that he coaches in the marathon: Sinead Diver, Brett Robinson, Gen Gregson, Camille French (née Buscomb) and Charlotte Purdue.
Of those 5, 2 didn't start due to injury, and 1 probably shouldn't have. Camille was 60th in 2:37, Gen was 24th in 2:29.
So maybe Nic needs to take a better look in the mirror and recognise that maybe this more of a reflection of his own poor coaching, rather than a global phenomenon.
For a comparison check out the videos with Ed Eyestone. Looks like a good guy who cares for his runners. Gets people to the line healthy. As for AA - time for the broom to go through it. Get rid the entrenched (and corrupt) culture. Start from scratch.
You just need one of the more well known MTC athletes to leave, get better results elsewhere and a domino effect will follow. Why nobody ever leaves MTC is beyond me; financially it must be too good - and I guess it’s a free pass into whatever races/games you want regardless of how injured you are in the lead up.
Does this Nic guy have amnesia or what? Claiming Jessica Hull's silver as the best track result since Freeman and that sprinters have been trash for 25 years whilst middle distance is doing so well... Didn't Sally Pearson win gold?
Nic had 5 athletes that he coaches in the marathon: Sinead Diver, Brett Robinson, Gen Gregson, Camille French (née Buscomb) and Charlotte Purdue.
Of those 5, 2 didn't start due to injury, and 1 probably shouldn't have. Camille was 60th in 2:37, Gen was 24th in 2:29.
So maybe Nic needs to take a better look in the mirror and recognise that maybe this more of a reflection of his own poor coaching, rather than a global phenomenon.
Absolutely this!! A once every 4 event and his entire squad bomb.
Hahaha this. Despite the way he sounds, Nic's not dumb. Everything he says is for a reason. It's all calculated. I'm sure if you break down all of his answers throughout the interview, he was having a subtle crack at people.
And over it all this insinuation that we, the fans- those who pay to go to Aths events, watch the streams, buy the Nike gear...all the things that keep athletes funded- are trolls for talking about how gross this has all been.
100%. Just to clarify, I'm not saying that we should be allowed to be give the athletes a spray. But we are stakeholders of AA through our support, financially and time spent volunteering etc. AA is meant to be putting forward the best team to represent us, and it's clearly gone drastically wrong - for similar reasons to teams before. And if I suggest that I don't like how the event went, I'm a troll? And then add in that people around Sinead apparently cracked the s**** at Brady and the IRP guys for answering a question about whether Sinead should show fitness...
Again, not saying I should be allowed to go into Sinead's (or Olli Hoare for example) DMs and say mean things. But I can certainly question why she was on the startline and why someone didn't intervene. People can't do things like "bad tweets, bad podcast, hidden injuries, DNF, weird explanations, more tweets...." and then expect that we won't mention any of this again!
Nic had 5 athletes that he coaches in the marathon: Sinead Diver, Brett Robinson, Gen Gregson, Camille French (née Buscomb) and Charlotte Purdue.
Of those 5, 2 didn't start due to injury, and 1 probably shouldn't have. Camille was 60th in 2:37, Gen was 24th in 2:29.
So maybe Nic needs to take a better look in the mirror and recognise that maybe this more of a reflection of his own poor coaching, rather than a global phenomenon.
I mean, you could make the counter-argument that he was a good enough coach to have 5 athletes qualify for the Olympic marathon, but I get your point.
I've always thought his weekly marathon block structure was poorly designed.
From what I've heard (and seen) the marathoners do their biggest marathon specific workout on a Friday (e.g. 4 x 5k @ MP), then do a fairly hard long run on the Sunday (usually 35k+ often with quality thrown in), then back up again on a Tuesday for 8 x 1k repeats at around 10k race pace.
I guess it works well when the athletes stay in one piece, but that's seemingly hard to do.
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