feel bad for Parker Valby she ran a brave race but she led the race for too long and the other gals fed off her pace end result is she missed the team. Bad mistake. She should have laid off the pace let someone else lead for a bit, it is a mistake that cost here the Olympics. Feel bad for her. There may never be a next time for her, life happens. So sad for her.
We have a winner, folks! The stupidest take of 2024.
Valby made a fan out of me with that one - what an amazingly gutsy run to get the standard. The best part was when she got passed she kept fighting - she's absolutely nails. Will be a great champion.
Valby made a fan out of me with that one - what an amazingly gutsy run to get the standard. The best part was when she got passed she kept fighting - she's absolutely nails. Will be a great champion.
Valby made a fan out of me with that one - what an amazingly gutsy run to get the standard. The best part was when she got passed she kept fighting - she's absolutely nails. Will be a great champion.
“Defending olympic champion who clearly doesn’t have enough racing experience, have you considered that if you raced more you wouldn’t have been tripped? 🤓🤓☝️”
I don't think anyone here is saying she doesn't have enough racing experience (I certainly am not). I think what people are saying is that there is difference between having experience and being in good racing form - and that Mu/Kersee were hanging their laurels on the former a bit too much. Getting tripped isn't always something you can do anything about but Mu was in the middle of a dense pack and, with her stride, that's not where you want to be. I think it's fair to say that with a few more races under her belt this season she might have had the wherewithal / instincts to avoid that sort of positioning.
It's clearly the rules' fault. The 800 field needs to be cut in half and everyone deserves to run in a dedicated lane the whole time to provide each runner their own safe space.
Valby made a fan out of me with that one - what an amazingly gutsy run to get the standard. The best part was when she got passed she kept fighting - she's absolutely nails. Will be a great champion.
She got walked the last 400 after naively thinking she could run the legs out of the top pros like they were college kids. It was a nice consolation to get the standard though.
Valby made a fan out of me with that one - what an amazingly gutsy run to get the standard. The best part was when she got passed she kept fighting - she's absolutely nails. Will be a great champion.
What was so gutsy? She was running 15:00 pace for the first 4000 meters and only ran 3 seconds faster over the last 1000. No elite runner is going to get burned by that. If Monson was in the race you would've seen her leading with a 14:30 pace.
Valby made a fan out of me with that one - what an amazingly gutsy run to get the standard. The best part was when she got passed she kept fighting - she's absolutely nails. Will be a great champion.
She got walked the last 400 after naively thinking she could run the legs out of the top pros like they were college kids. It was a nice consolation to get the standard though.
She ran the legs out of all but 3 women. A +15 min time would've meant 5th place or worse for her. Don't play dumbfk.
Everybody who knows anything knew this was exactly how this race would play out.
And I'm sure she knew it, too, but understood this was her best bet anyway --even though she was probably doomed to finish 4th.
She ran brilliantly. And it puts a cap on an absolutely brilliant year.
Man, I really disagree. At some point she has to learn how to race from somewhere that isn’t the front or the most she’ll ever do is hope to make a world final / be the female Stewy McSweyn.
Running it any other way tonight would've been stupid --and would very possibly have cost her 4th place.
Obviously, if she hopes to succeed at the top level, she'll have to find some better closing speed. For where she is now, she ran it perfectly --and showed tremendous guts and heart.
Man, I really disagree. At some point she has to learn how to race from somewhere that isn’t the front or the most she’ll ever do is hope to make a world final / be the female Stewy McSweyn.
She's not a kicker. She can get much faster in the 5k but her best hopes at the global level is in the 10k and beyond on the roads. I simply don't see an ability to turn those legs over quickly.
Totally agree, but a hard final 2K or 3K is a lot easier than leading the whole dang thing.
Jakob isn’t a kicker, but also shouldn’t lead 1200 meters. Gotta find the spot where to dial it up — for Valby domestically that may be like 2K, or 3K to still give her enough time to burn off everyone that can’t hang but not so much to leave her with nothing in the final 800.
Who’s the girl in the 800 team that interviews like a contestant in a miss universe pageant? I fking love her. Seems so genuine
LOVE the US team - all the women seem very personable, likeable, intelligent and genuinely thrilled. I also loved Akins' response to Johnson: "No - I wasn't thinking any of that, I just had to run", or something to that effect. Love the honesty, and the perfect answer to those ridiculous questions asking athletes to meta-analyse their last 100m twenty seconds after a race...
Yeah, both of them seemed genuinely shocked, and pretty lost for words. Which is always kind of cool.
(Whitaker was actually slightly more composed, even though she's the kid.)
Valby made a fan out of me with that one - what an amazingly gutsy run to get the standard. The best part was when she got passed she kept fighting - she's absolutely nails. Will be a great champion.
What was so gutsy? She was running 15:00 pace for the first 4000 meters and only ran 3 seconds faster over the last 1000. No elite runner is going to get burned by that. If Monson was in the race you would've seen her leading with a 14:30 pace.
are you sure? I thought she was running 14:50 pace for 4000 meters. Which was PR pace for her of course, which takes guts.
anyway, as a collegian she went and took it out against the pros in the national championship, made the race fast, took it out at meet record pace, got a PR, got an olympic standard, and might still go to paris.
Best part was when she got passed she didn't fold up - she kept fighting. That's what will make her a champion.
and yeah, as Trollminator wrote, she ran the legs off all but 3 of the best americans at 5000. And if she hadn't made the race fast she would probabaly have been outkicked by more than three people. And now she has a chance at Paris.
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I think you see the limit of the so much cross training. No gear change and no kick. If she really wants to be a great pro she will have to figure out how to up her running
So is the limit to cranny/ESP/Karissa's training that they can't lead a 14:40 race even against a college girl. The kenyans won't have much to be worried about. Ethiopians will still have bad tactics lol. We need Monson back she could have broken them in this kind of race.
God, what a dumb comment. Obviously, they had absolutely no reason to try and lead it in this race.
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