Molly Seidel: "Who’s the GOAT?’ Who fucking cares? Who’s got the story that’s going to get people excited?”

Sadly, for once I agree with Molly Seidel. About bringing people to the sport, however T&F has proven we don't really have a personality with global attention.

Jakob has tried, Josh Kerr has tried, Keely Hodgkinson has semi-tried, Molly has tried. But they all still come off pretty formal and barely gain any traction with the media.

Performance still does matter with personality. I mean who the heck wants someone with Kobe Bryant-Level confidence but takes an L every time they race?

Usain Bolt was the closest T&F ever came to with having GOAT performances + Cocky Personality. But even then, very down to earth guy. This just isn't a sport where people can have debates over who's better, the number on the clock sorta determines that.

rojo, the F word. Please do not use profanity :o

I don't agree with her about who fuccking cares about who the GOAT is. That's the point of track and field - who is the fastest, who throws the furthest, who jumps the furthest/highest. GOAT is debatable due to medals vs times amongst other factors.

To me that's more interesting than a 'story' especially as loads of the stories are really crap/uninteresting.

I agree with Molly. The context for her quote matters. She was talking about engaging broader audiences, not just her fellow Olympic medalists, or the couple dozen “true fans” of the sport.

What an idiotic loser quote. Being the GOAT (or in contention) IS a story. And an exciting one.

Molly can work on advancing her "story" while running 10 minutes behind the winners of her races. (Which is like being about 10 seconds in an 800m, for the record.)

Shh. Don't tell her that being white and born in the US is the only reason her "story" gets more interest than a dozen or more East African 2:23 women.

(Molly's globally irrelevant PB is ranked 54th in the world this year, so it's easy to see why she puts "story" over performance.)

She's over five years older than him, dunce.

Give him two Olympic games.

Sad Boys Track club.

Molly likes to drop f bombs and gd bombs a lot cus she's a very immature person. also her boyfriend is a pentagram tattooed satanist who posts porn pics on his instagram. if you don't believe me, look up his instagram for yourself!

Great point, and so true. Pretty much every top female runner struggles with mental health and eating disorders. But Molly acts like she's the only one, and people only care cus she's white and looks innocent and therefore is memorable. If she was a black Ethiopian who told the same story, and had a name no average white american could pronounce, no one would care at all. but Molly gets a big head cus people followed her on instagram cus of that one article about her "ocd" that came out a few years ago. like dude so many people struggle with that; ain't just a you thing.

Molly isn't mentally ill....she just is an attention wh@re.

agreed. while she's onto something with that claim, at the end of the day, Molly is literally only saying that cus she knows she isn't that fast, and the only way she can stay relevant is if people talk about her mental health struggles. she basically has learned how to monetize her insanity and instability. which is kind of brilliant. only it's not like it was her plan to do that; she just learned the game that others taught her to do

You can’t make people like something they don’t like. The 50k race walker that smashes a world record gets nothing…..being the GOAT, regardless of their story.

Everyone wanting attention should pick their sport wisely before embarking if notoriety is what they are looking for. If you are looking at a sport without a fan base, you better be the best and some sort of story like Lance’s if you are looking to move the needle. The great thing about this sport, I don’t think the Kenyans care about anything except running fast.

You have a very good point. Molly acts the way she does because she has white privilege. I have never once seen one of the East African women runners complaining about mansplaining or go "incel...something, something...".

What Molly doesn't think about is that the same friendly man wouldn't even speak to an Ethiopian who was seated next to him on a plane. She is enormously privileged, which ironically makes her blind to how well the world treats her as a thin white woman.

She's somehow upset that a guy used an article on her training to talk about running to a random women (which she was to him). A normal person would be flattered that he used her as a good example!

I'm very accomplished as a chef, but obscure to most people (which is fine and good). What if someone on a plane said to me, 'Oh, you like cooking? I just read some great tips in an article I can show you' ... and the article was about me? I would be really pumped and tell them 'That's me! I'm flattered!'