Can't people just enjoy watching someone who is obviously works really hard. Is committed and willing to sacrifice to find ways to make significant improvements and eventually become a medalist and truly celebrate it. Vs finding ways to throw shade about someone they don't even know them! Its really sad.
Emily Mackay Deserves a THREAD!
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whut wrote:
don\'t forget Decker wrote:
Most versatile of the current crop. Remember, Mary Decker Slaney once held every American Record from the 800m to the 10000m ... simultaneously! That will never happen again.
Have to add Rowbury and Simpson into the "most versatile mid-d woman" list. Both were sub-2*, sub-4, sub-8:30, sub-15 women, in pre super-shoe era, with global medals.
*Note: I don't think Simpson never officially broke 2 in an open 800 race, but I'm 99% sure she broke 2 in the last 800 of either the 2016 Olympics or 2017 World Championships.
Agreed!
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Slo-Jo wrote:
runn wrote:
Gawd!!! Just from this thread you come off as an unlikeable, arrogant jerk.
I am okay with expressing an unpopular opinion. I was just being honest. You are the one who was unable to formulate a response without resorting to name calling.
She is for sure a solid track athlete. Absolutely. But she is not entertaining. Her interviews are tepid, and that makes her hard to remember. I listen to a lot of podcasts with interviews of t&f athletes. Hers are boring in my opinion. Finding someone or something boring and being honest about that does not make one a jerk. I am 100% sure there are plenty of people who would find me boring and I am okay with that.
So you're an unlikeable, arrogant jerk who refuses to admit he's wrong.
What a freaking loser.
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Mackay has shown incredible strength and speed in her last two races. At USA Indoor her closing 1500 was 4:03. She put away ESP in the last 100, which simply rarely happens. Her closing lap this last weekend to grab Silver at Worlds was a 58.6. Running down Hull. Something even Hiltz couldn’t do a night later (and Hull was on her 3rd race).
Combine that with her 1:57/14:45 range and I believe we are seeing the ingredients for an American Record this summer in both the 1500 and 3000.
Mackay, an afterthought just a few months ago, has stepped into the light as the real threat to the American 1500 record. And I can see it going down by a couple of seconds.
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Slo-Jo wrote:
I am a huge fan of women’s t&f, and she bores me. Her running form is the female equivalent of Eric Holt, and she exudes very little personality. I am glad for her to have gotten silver yesterday for team US, but I have been watching her run for years now and can’t think of a single notable detail about her.
The most notable detail about MacKay is her rapid progression.
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Okay your point about Nikki is actually very true. In the last few years anyways I’ve never seen anything other than a predictable sits and kicks.
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