So happy for Salpeter. She came to Israel as a nanny having never been a runner. She started running to stay in shape, met her future husband/coach, and began training more. Represented Israel in 2016 Olympics but was extremely overweight (for an Olympic Marathoner) and wasn’t running more than 50 mpw, mostly just easy jogging. In 2017 she upped her game and had impressive results, but could never replicate it in championship marathons. Went for medals in Doha & Tokyo but had to drop out. You could tell she was really fighting throughout the race and her medal was richly deserved!
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Bravo to the ladies, great results and something to be proud of at a WC level. As stated above - if American men had just all stacked top-10, lrc mb losers would be ecstatic [but somehow still critical that our 2:10TT guys "didn't beat" 2:03 berlin guys].
Grant's 4th was mega legit. Hall's 5th today was mega legit. World class doesn't mean you automatically win, world class means you are there on the day that it counts, in competition and you don't fade/fail out.
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Flamenco Sketches wrote:
Male Jamaican sprinters don't think about throwball. Had Bolt grown up in the U.S. he'd have been a throwball player.
Oops, wrong thread.
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sub sub elite local hobby jogger wrote:
Idahodiggerxc wrote:
USA with the cross country team W
I don't think any other country will have 3 women finish.
Yup, and Keira wasn‘t even full-on marathon training. She was on our reserve list until a few weeks ago.
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GOODBUTNOT wrote:
GOOD but not right? why are we so excited to not medal. alittle cringe
To be 5th (or 8th) best in the world at something, is pretty, pretty, damn good.
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Great job, USA ladies!
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VaporBoi wrote:
High hopes wrote:
The rolling crowd cycling alongside the runners is brilliant. They should try to incorporate that into other marathons. A great way to see more of the race rather than just standing at one point
Brilliant for the spectators but probably annoying AF for the athletes
If pro athletes are annoyed by a crowd then this sport deserves to die. Those cyclists were on the other side of the road, entirely separated from the race
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The Richmond area is very proud of their Running Mom !
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Bizarre day. This Ultra where people stop to crap then continue battling for the win, and later on the race where they jump into water.
It's like the workday collided with America Ninja Warrior.
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MURICA wrote:
FAST!!! wrote:
No kidding ... LRC would lose its mind if 3 American men made it into the top 8
I def think Keira would have challenged for a medal if trained more than 2 weeks.
Good job to everyone. That was a fun race to watch.
Exactly. The selection criteria for our team cost her. If she had been named to the team earlier, with time to train, who knows? Really disappointed for her. Maybe next year they’ll get it right.
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Hmmmsj wrote:
So happy for Salpeter. She came to Israel as a nanny having never been a runner. She started running to stay in shape, met her future husband/coach, and began training more. Represented Israel in 2016 Olympics but was extremely overweight (for an Olympic Marathoner) and wasn’t running more than 50 mpw, mostly just easy jogging. In 2017 she upped her game and had impressive results, but could never replicate it in championship marathons. Went for medals in Doha & Tokyo but had to drop out. You could tell she was really fighting throughout the race and her medal was richly deserved!
She had her period in Tokyo, and gutted through the race until cramps took her out. Happy she got her medal today!
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Idahodiggerxc wrote:
USA with the cross country team W
Is this a thing in the marathon? Has it ever been a thing? I feel like I remember some kind of "team scoring" along these lines being done in some non-XC world level event, but I can't recall.
If implemented, would this be a good thing? Would it change any country's strategy for picking their team? (e.g., Maybe you leave the mercurial mega-talent with the best time but a penchant for dropping out at home and take the solid veteran who always finishes pretty well but out of the individual medals?)
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