How can she be an unlikely person to win two national championships? That would be a 300 pounder. She also won an Olympic medal. You are in the twilight zone..
Please re-read. I specifically said she was an unlikely HS champ to be win the college championship too. Because at the time, she hadn't won an olympic medal yet and had gone through and overcome significant mental health issues/injuries to get to that point.
Not a single one of the sites cited here is run by a relevant official governing body that demonstrates a "professional sports injury protocol". They are all news companies or some randos website and as such they provide unofficial information with zero guarantee that any of this information is valid, accurate or relevant.
In summary, a good attempt at substantiating a rumour, but D- for accuracy.
Here is the NFLs official policy that requires athletes to report injuries (it details criteria such as missing practice or limited participation in practice) and of course mentions fines, suspensions, and loss of draft picks for failure to do so.
NBA teams must report information concerning player injuries, illnesses and rest for all NBA games. By 5 p.m. local time on the day before a game (other than the second day of a back-to-back), teams must designate a participa...
These are PROFESSIONAL sports. There are real outcomes and consequences to people being hurt. That is why they are required to be reported.
With track and field at current it doesn't matter who shows up, no one apparently cares the defending bronze medalist may not be there. Who knows! We will find out saturday!
The answer is pretty simple- there is 300k$ on the line saturday.
You want to be a professional and make money from running? then USATF requires you post your training publically for the month prior to the race and you are eligible for the prize money.
Look how much discussion and buzz Mantz's training produced- its good for the sport. It gives something for the fans to follow.
Don't want to post your training? That is fine you are welcome to be an amateur, not eligible for any prize money.
Not sure how you can argue against this as a fan. We would all love to follow these athletes up to the race. Great conversation and allows us to actually pick favorites. And of course, there is always the option not to.
The answer to whether the defending olympic bronze medalist and fan favorite is even gonna show up to the olympic trials or not on saturday? And if they are going to be in contention or not?
Not a single one of the sites cited here is run by a relevant official governing body that demonstrates a "professional sports injury protocol". They are all news companies or some randos website and as such they provide unofficial information with zero guarantee that any of this information is valid, accurate or relevant.
In summary, a good attempt at substantiating a rumour, but D- for accuracy.
Here is the NFLs official policy that requires athletes to report injuries (it details criteria such as missing practice or limited participation in practice) and of course mentions fines, suspensions, and loss of draft picks for failure to do so.
Or here is the official injury report provided by the NBA, again because the league requires injuries are reported.
These are PROFESSIONAL sports. There are real outcomes and consequences to people being hurt. That is why they are required to be reported.
With track and field at current it doesn't matter who shows up, no one apparently cares the defending bronze medalist may not be there. Who knows! We will find out saturday!
You might pretend the NBA is better, but I didn’t know until game day that Steph wasn’t going to be at the Bucks game I went to. Though I figured it out on my own because he played the night before (no injury).
I bet we know by Friday night whether Molly is starting.
Here is the NFLs official policy that requires athletes to report injuries (it details criteria such as missing practice or limited participation in practice) and of course mentions fines, suspensions, and loss of draft picks for failure to do so.
Or here is the official injury report provided by the NBA, again because the league requires injuries are reported.
These are PROFESSIONAL sports. There are real outcomes and consequences to people being hurt. That is why they are required to be reported.
With track and field at current it doesn't matter who shows up, no one apparently cares the defending bronze medalist may not be there. Who knows! We will find out saturday!
You might pretend the NBA is better, but I didn’t know until game day that Steph wasn’t going to be at the Bucks game I went to. Though I figured it out on my own because he played the night before (no injury).
I bet we know by Friday night whether Molly is starting.
Sure if Molly races Friday and get hurts during the race it is okay if we don't know until the last minute.
But in this case it was allegedly a surgery a month ago, that no one knows excpet a message board thread. That isn't how real sports are.
I am sure the Brojournalist will get on the bottom of this.
Jonathan Gault is supposed to speak to her coach today. I'll make sure he asks about this.
So, from Rojo's article, it sounds like this conversation never happened:
"I’d be much less surprised by Seidel pulling out of the Trials between now and Saturday than by her making the team. We’ve put calls in to Seidel’s coach Jon Green and agent Stephen Haas, and she is tentatively scheduled to appear at the pre-race press conference in Orlando on Friday, so hopefully we’ll have an update on her status soon."
Still, this whole thread seems based on an anonymous text by an anonymous poster, the absence of strava data, and some KT tape on her knee. Is anything more substantive out there on this topic?
Runners, tennis players and golfers are independent contractors. They have no obligation to disclose anything to anyone.
NBA, NFL and MLB athletes are team employees. They are obligated to disclose injuries to their teams, and their teams are obligated to disclose to the league. It’s apples and oranges.
The answer is pretty simple- there is 300k$ on the line saturday.
You want to be a professional and make money from running? then USATF requires you post your training publically for the month prior to the race and you are eligible for the prize money.
Look how much discussion and buzz Mantz's training produced- its good for the sport. It gives something for the fans to follow.
Don't want to post your training? That is fine you are welcome to be an amateur, not eligible for any prize money.
Not sure how you can argue against this as a fan. We would all love to follow these athletes up to the race. Great conversation and allows us to actually pick favorites. And of course, there is always the option not to.
I don't think anyone should have to disclose their training leading up to a race. Part of your edge is you knowing what you can and can't do, and your opponents having to guess.
Runners, tennis players and golfers are independent contractors. They have no obligation to disclose anything to anyone.
NBA, NFL and MLB athletes are team employees. They are obligated to disclose injuries to their teams, and their teams are obligated to disclose to the league. It’s apples and oranges.
And that is, in large part, because there is a lot of betting on games in those team sports and disclosure levels the field for bettors by eliminating inside information.
I still don't understand. Many of us followed her through high school. To say that the national champ was unlikely to win in college makes no sense.
It's the Footlocker curse on the women's side. Few can remain at the same level or better with the physical changes of late teen years. If they regain their speed, it's more likely to happen in their mid-to-late 20s.
I think it is a bit silly to praise her for her "openness" if she has been hiding a surgery for a month the week before a big race.
I like Molly, I want her to succeed, she has proven she can be world class and get american medals. However some of her behavior is not professional and is bad for the sport.
I remember her post about slowly returning back to weight-bearing activity from a stress reaction and then completing a trail race later that week. I think that’s what you are talking about. That was strange.
I know nothing about pro contracts, but the idea of an appearance “fee” (should actually be a bonus) just for starting the OT sounds kind of odd. Some athletes who qualified for the OTs decided to withdraw because of poorly-timed injuries. Does that mean they don’t have these bonuses in their contracts? Otherwise you’d see them lining up, limping a few miles then dropping just to get that bonus. I guess maybe some athletes don’t have that bonus, but you’d think there should be some continuity between contracts when it comes to this stuff.
If the rumor is true, I would tend to believe Molly is racing with the full intention of vying for the team. Maybe she isn’t 100%, and maybe she will have to drop part of the way through, but the mindset now is to give it a shot. Why not? I just don’t think this is for a bonus check.