Colleen Quigley Updatee

suopercalig wrote:

thrfer wrote:

Have you seen Emily Sisson? Shes gorgeous and petty much in the same tier than Quigley. And considering she has not attitude and no #sponsored feed I prefer her by a lot.

this is absurd.

no one would ever pay Sisson to model non-running items.

not in a million years.

I don't think you all understand how modeling works.

it's like track. Anyone can run. Some of us can run 20 minutes for 5k , or 17 for 5k, maybe 16,15 minutes even.

But only a few hundred of us can run c.13 minutes.

the level of good looks it takes to be a pro model like quigley...is equivalent to a 13:15 5k, or thereabouts.

Quigley's looks are that rare. and that far above the other women of track and field.

I think Quigley looks great but isn’t she too muscular to model non-running?

steeplefan438 wrote:

suopercalig wrote:

this is absurd.

no one would ever pay Sisson to model non-running items.

not in a million years.

I don't think you all understand how modeling works.

it's like track. Anyone can run. Some of us can run 20 minutes for 5k , or 17 for 5k, maybe 16,15 minutes even.

But only a few hundred of us can run c.13 minutes.

the level of good looks it takes to be a pro model like quigley...is equivalent to a 13:15 5k, or thereabouts.

Quigley's looks are that rare. and that far above the other women of track and field.

I think Quigley looks great but isn’t she too muscular to model non-running?

well now maybe. but

she was literally a professional fashion model. maybe people aren't aware of that.

sure, she might have to change her body if she wanted to do it again.

Sooo..

Maybe she and her long-time, long-distance boyfriend over 10 years broke up?

She needs a time-out from the break up and then she’ll be back.

Retirement is very unlikely!

Update:

She just posted her big revelation in her newsletter. Its a lot of bla bla, but if I understand correctly she scratched from the trials due to some sort of performance anxiety. It seems like it was more a mental issue rather than a physical.

suopercalig wrote:

thrfer wrote:

Have you seen Emily Sisson? Shes gorgeous and petty much in the same tier than Quigley. And considering she has not attitude and no #sponsored feed I prefer her by a lot.

this is absurd.

no one would ever pay Sisson to model non-running items.

not in a million years.

I don't think you all understand how modeling works.

it's like track. Anyone can run. Some of us can run 20 minutes for 5k , or 17 for 5k, maybe 16,15 minutes even.

But only a few hundred of us can run c.13 minutes.

the level of good looks it takes to be a pro model like quigley...is equivalent to a 13:15 5k, or thereabouts.

Quigley's looks are that rare. and that far above the other women of track and field.

Each to their own, personally I see fairer faces walking down the street every day

FemalePhD wrote:

Update:

She just posted her big revelation in her newsletter. Its a lot of bla bla, but if I understand correctly she scratched from the trials due to some sort of performance anxiety. It seems like it was more a mental issue rather than a physical.

Yeah I kind of got this sense too. It does seem like she had a lot of little injuries that may have added up to something bigger, and she wasn't healing properly. She didn't feel good enough going in to have a good race.

I honestly think (assuming Colleen still wants to be competitive) that she should switch to the 1500. She keeps getting injured and the steeple seems like a brutal event for the injury prone. Colleen has proven she can compete with the best in the 1500 so maybe she should switch her focus to another event at this stage in her career.

When she said in a podcast that it wasnt going to be hard for her to make the team, I knew that line would come back to haunt her & make missing the team that much more embarrassing & hard to deal

She is too old and too big for the fashion runway but could still get some nice modelling gigs.

suopercalig wrote:

thrfer wrote:

Have you seen Emily Sisson? Shes gorgeous and petty much in the same tier than Quigley. And considering she has not attitude and no #sponsored feed I prefer her by a lot.

this is absurd.

no one would ever pay Sisson to model non-running items.

not in a million years.

I don't think you all understand how modeling works.

it's like track. Anyone can run. Some of us can run 20 minutes for 5k , or 17 for 5k, maybe 16,15 minutes even.

But only a few hundred of us can run c.13 minutes.

the level of good looks it takes to be a pro model like quigley...is equivalent to a 13:15 5k, or thereabouts.

Quigley's looks are that rare. and that far above the other women of track and field.

Sorry but no, if she wasn't that good of a runner, she would never succeed in modeling.

Her boyfriend wasn't a runner. Maybe that's why.

So basically all of these miracle supplements she promotes are junk? Who would have thought.

She really is a shameless self promoter which is fine but she isn’t even the real deal anymore. Her moment has passed.

sounds like she had that feeling before a race of wanting to be anywhere but the track, and begging for an alien invasion just so she wouldn't have to race.

we all get that but I guess this time it was more than she could handle.

burritogate wrote:

https://www.colleenquigley.org/2021-olympic-trials

I liked that. I hope it's all honest and true. It certainly doesn't seem implausible to me. I've known so many highly accomplished people, in various fields, who have seemed to others to be so strong, or happy, or effortless in their accomplishments, but who were actually just trying to hang on.

For me, the most encouraging part of this is that it doesn't appear to be anything related to doping charges. Although I'm not sure that this is possible under current rules, I recall that Javier Sotomayor suddenly retired in 2001, citing injuries, but he had in fact just tested positive for nandrolone, which would have led to a lifetime ban (he had previously received a ban for a positive cocaine test) if he had not announced his retirement. His positive nandrolone test did become public, but didn't attract the same attention that almost certainly would have attended a lifetime ban. (I, by the way, don't believe that Quigley would have intentionally doped, and I remain somewhat on the fence about Houlihan, whom I don't know much about.)

Starno wrote:

suopercalig wrote:

this is absurd.

no one would ever pay Sisson to model non-running items.

not in a million years.

I don't think you all understand how modeling works.

it's like track. Anyone can run. Some of us can run 20 minutes for 5k , or 17 for 5k, maybe 16,15 minutes even.

But only a few hundred of us can run c.13 minutes.

the level of good looks it takes to be a pro model like quigley...is equivalent to a 13:15 5k, or thereabouts.

Quigley's looks are that rare. and that far above the other women of track and field.

Sorry but no, if she wasn't that good of a runner, she would never succeed in modeling.

she DID SUCCEED IN MODELING. before she was a runner!!!!!

She was a professional actual money for showing up fashion model!!!!

kjbacieub wrote:

I honestly think (assuming Colleen still wants to be competitive) that she should switch to the 1500. She keeps getting injured and the steeple seems like a brutal event for the injury prone. Colleen has proven she can compete with the best in the 1500 so maybe she should switch her focus to another event at this stage in her career.

I've wondered about that, too. The steeplechase has typically been an easier route to the top for those who could handle its stresses and had reasonably good (or even just adequate) technique, but Quigley seems to have the basic speed, tactical sense, and finishing kick to compete successfully in the 1500, at least at the level required to make a U.S. team these days, while the competition in the women's steeple, at both the national and international levels, seems to have gotten relatively tougher in recent years.

suopercalig wrote:

Starno wrote:

Sorry but no, if she wasn't that good of a runner, she would never succeed in modeling.

she DID SUCCEED IN MODELING. before she was a runner!!!!!

She was a professional actual money for showing up fashion model!!!!

Yes, she was modeling by the age of 13, and was an international model with the Wilhelmina agency for some years thereafter, so it's silly to suggest that she needed success in running to be a viable professional model.

One problem with women's fashion modeling, print or runway, is that it typically is a very short career, where you're being repeatedly rejected as too "mature" when you're in your mid-twenties, and trying to return to it at almost 30 years old would be extremely difficult for almost anyone. But modeling athletic wear, with a very legitimate background as a world-class athlete, is a very different matter.

I hate commenting like this but Quigley in person is amazing. It's personality plus smile. She will be completely fine either way.

Sisson > Quigley