I think Moraa is going to win anyhow and if she does you're going to see Mu-excuses on here like you've never seen before.
Why would you have such specific desire for her behaviour on a hyperthetical outcome ? Again, the fabrication of a narrative. A new one. What in the present do you feel so threatened and terrified by that you seek to do such a thing as manipulate reality ?
Because it's Letsrun...any time an American gets beat they make excuses on here. Everyone knows this.
Not really, because Mu is clearly more interested in a different career than athletics and hasn't been shy in saying so. So her public profile and the personality she projects are vital in securing her financial future.
Clearly, being focused on the work at hand is not a show of arrogance. This is a kid who is a nice kid who is super friendly to everyone she meets let’s not demonize her
She could be walking a runway in Paris, but instead she has to run in a WC and deal with thousands of fans who only care about her running. It's a superficial and cruel world.
Yes! We need to tell all women they need to smile more. No looking tough or determined - that's too intimidating to our fragile male egos. Smile and look demure, happy and sexy!
1) She doesn't look tough or determined. SAFP looks tough and determined. Mu looks miserable
2) This of course is all relative to what we have seen before - I'll give you a good example. Ajee Wilson always had a relatively melancholic demeanour on the track her entire career - nothing wrong with that, that's clearly who she is. Athing Mu in Tokyo/Eugene looked happy and enthusiastic - a stark contrast to now. Therefore it's not unreasonable at all (yet for some of you idiots it apparently is) to suggest she looks like she'd rather be anywhere but on a 400m track in Budapest, Hungary.
If you have a fragile male ego then I suggest you go see a therapist - you do come across like an anemic little stroker of a person.
Situation is very different from when she first emerged on the world scene.
At this she is in a no-win situation. She has no chance, certainly in the short/mid-term at a steroid fueled world-record, all she can do is win again over essentially the same opposite as she's beaten before, which is what is expected of her.
So, if winning is just doing what everybody has decided she is supposed to, there isn't a lot of upside in the situation. On the other hand, should she not win - and she's racing a girl that nearly beat her last year, and a girl that has beaten that girl - she is almost universally regarded (and perhaps in her own mind too) as a failure.
I have to say I don't see a lot of fun in that situation, and it's no great surprise that she looks unhappy/stressed/miserable. Part of the reason the great Herb Elliott quit at 22 was the pressure of maintaining his undefeated 1500m/mile record. Pressure also got to Jim Ryun who quit on the track between Mexico and Munich (for which he made a comeback).
As I've said on another thread, I myself have been a competitive runner for 50 years, and there has hardly been a championship (area in England when I was younger and National/World Senior Games in US) event where I haven't felt sick before the start, and wishing I hadn't come to the event and didn't have to run. It then comes down to whether the process and other intrinsic (personal satisfaction) and extrinsic (medals, prize money, acclaim) are enough to offset the stress.
Kersey has been around for a very long time and perhaps he tells it like it is - if you don't dope, forget about WRs and gold medals. As an athlete, it must really suck to be confronted with this reality. Why would you want to stay in the sport if you know you need to dope and will have to live with anxiety about getting caught.
Athing mu isn’t. The problem. Talk about the mediocre US distance runners on high shoe contracts who just don’t measure up on the world stage but get huge 6 figure salaries Simply put they jog races in the US get heralded as world beaters and cannnot handle world class paces. Athing Mu. Is world class. On and off the track. Don’t come at her !!!!
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.... And when I was twelve years old My daddy took me to the circus The greatest show on Earth There were clowns and elephants, dancing bears And a beautiful lady in pink Tights flew high above our heads … And as I sat there watching I had the feeling that something was missing I don't know what, but When it was over I said to myself Is that all there is to the circus? … Is that all there is Is that all there is? If that's all there is my friends Then let's keep dancing Let's break out the booze and have a ball If that's all there is
.... And when I was twelve years old My daddy took me to the circus The greatest show on Earth There were clowns and elephants, dancing bears And a beautiful lady in pink Tights flew high above our heads … And as I sat there watching I had the feeling that something was missing I don't know what, but When it was over I said to myself Is that all there is to the circus? … Is that all there is Is that all there is? If that's all there is my friends Then let's keep dancing Let's break out the booze and have a ball If that's all there is
Perfect. But what a depressing song, ugh. Like I said in another thread, I got a really bad vibe last night just watching her line up before the race. Let's see whether she gives NBC an interview after the final.
If she were a man you'd be calling her "passionate"
She's the sworn enemy of basement-dwelling loser incel distance runners -- a successful black woman.
She can't win. She's either arrogant or disrespectful or doesn't love her country enough or doesn't love the sport enough or whatever. It's so dumb. It's just a bunch of nobody losers who are sitting there saying "Gee, if I were an elite athlete, I'd be so happy!" even though their career topped out as the 7th man for some D3 school in Indiana.
News flash for you tools: she doesn't owe you anything. Ever.
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If she were a man you'd be calling her "passionate"
She's the sworn enemy of basement-dwelling loser incel distance runners -- a successful black woman.
She can't win. She's either arrogant or disrespectful or doesn't love her country enough or doesn't love the sport enough or whatever. It's so dumb. It's just a bunch of nobody losers who are sitting there saying "Gee, if I were an elite athlete, I'd be so happy!" even though their career topped out as the 7th man for some D3 school in Indiana.
News flash for you tools: she doesn't owe you anything. Ever.
No one says she does. She simply invites negative opinions through how she presents herself.
If she were a man you'd be calling her "passionate"
She's the sworn enemy of basement-dwelling loser incel distance runners -- a successful black woman.
She can't win. She's either arrogant or disrespectful or doesn't love her country enough or doesn't love the sport enough or whatever. It's so dumb. It's just a bunch of nobody losers who are sitting there saying "Gee, if I were an elite athlete, I'd be so happy!" even though their career topped out as the 7th man for some D3 school in Indiana.
News flash for you tools: she doesn't owe you anything. Ever.
Yeah and the majority of these "Mu defense posts" just reek of classic "self-righteous white-guilt, let-me-pander-my-own narrative" American extremism. "Let me defend someone who is really being attacked and feel good about myself".
The vast majority of posts on this topic purely make the observation that compared to the previous times we have seen Mu on the track, her demeanour is noticeably different, which it is.
All these other extremist horsesh-t narratives about God and country are just stuff idiots like you came up with in your mind to pick fights and make yourself feel good about "standing up for a black woman" in the face of "white male resentment".