I think they still go home pretty devastated and I am a fan of the athletes in the group. How did they have so many athletes expected to be at the Olympics but completely fail at their trials? How many of their athletes at the games were expected to be potential medal earners that couldn't even make the final? OAC is a perfect fit for taking a dozen eggs and throwing them at wall and hoping they don't break. The fact of the matter is the group is overtraining and it's very obvious. In a lot of their podcasts they mention doing a ton of volume but most of them cant seem to handle it and show obvious signs like various injuries and we've seen multiple mentions from athletes about going through mental health struggles in the past year which is often a symptom associated with overtraining.
The actual record:
Injured/Bad Showing: Klecker, Monson, Andrews
Good Shape But No Olympics: Hurta-Klecker (sub-4:20 mile recently)
Good Shape But No Final: Vissa (NR), McDonald (Narrow Miss)
Olympic Duds: Beamish (injury), Hoare (in his own head), Garcia-Romo (unclear)
Olympic A+: Nuguse
Olympic A-: Obiri (ran great but missed training, took her out of the final sprint)
now per FastWomen we learn that Obiri was injured obviously pretty badly coming off of Boston and cross trained a lot but did not return to ground running until the end of JUNE. so great performance by her all things considered but I am concerned that this entire group basically didn't make it the starting line bc they were injured, underperformed bc they were injured earlier last yr/ this year, or ran at the Olympics but later said they were injured.
now per FastWomen we learn that Obiri was injured obviously pretty badly coming off of Boston and cross trained a lot but did not return to ground running until the end of JUNE. so great performance by her all things considered but I am concerned that this entire group basically didn't make it the starting line bc they were injured, underperformed bc they were injured earlier last yr/ this year, or ran at the Olympics but later said they were injured.
What?? An OAC athlete injured? What are we up to now, 6-7 runners? Hey Ritz, you counting?
Mike Smith Elite - no idea how to quanity this - maybe 10? / 5 Olympians (Abdi, Woody, Luis, Nico, Nikki) / 0 medal
7 groups / 85+/- athletes / 17 olympians / 1 medal
I think OAC is doing PRETTY GOOD BUD. haters go home devestated
OAC is pretty good? Because of Nuguse? Where are the Nike runners? Fisher got two medals. And how many OAC athletes actually competed for the USA? Compared to all the big arrogant hoopla Ritz likes to spew they had a miserable showing