The response to Athing’s fall on Letsrun vs social media

Nobody wants to see a racer go down, but at the end of the day the 3 ladies who managed to steer their way out of trouble and make it to the finish line first ARE our best team. It’s sad to discredit their hard work and the sacrifices they’ve made to be on the starting line. We need to support ALL our qualifiers whether they are new to the USA scene or returning medallists.

Exactly

Some Mu femboys are calling for one of their spots to just be assigned to her.

Social media addicts are mindless sheep who lack the brainpower to actually watch the race and notice that Mu caused her own fall and ruined the races of 2 serious contenders in Rogers and Hurta-Klecker.

Imagine the whole world seeing Slaney fall and every American believing it was Budd's fault.

It made front page of ESPN. Hopefully she goes on a 1996/1997 Komen type revenge tour

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Olympic champion Mu's appeal denied after fall

Track officials have denied an appeal by 800-meter Olympic champion Athing Mu, who got tangled in a pack of runners and fell at the U.S. trials Monday night, denying her a chance to defend her title.

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How are we 5 pages in and we've not brought up the fact that Mu under "mastermind" Kersee is a completely different Mu from the person at the Tokyo games.

I blame Kersee for screwing up Mu with his "mastermind" svengali approach. Shady, drug fueled past for that ass. No one can seem to get busted in this sport (cough, Adan, cough) but Kersee should have been "Salazar-ed" decades ago.

The coach's job is to get the athlete ready to run and run well. That's not just the physical side of things, its also the mental. Mu hasn't been happy for two years now, and had to practically beg her probably borderline abusive coach into letting her race after worlds last year. Its the only time she looked like she was having fun. On the physical side of things, Mu is so damn talented she could probably just repeat her workouts from 2019 and still be the best in the world. But a good coach would have worked on the mental side of things, and Kersee didn't. It looks like, to those on the outside, like he has done exactly opposite of what he needed to do.

Mu was a prodigy, and the growing dislike of her over the last two by some fans is directly tied to Kersee and his sh!tty approach. I could see Mu, after yesterday, walking away and never competing again at this point. she looks like someone who really, really doesn't want to be out on that track. so why would she bother?

Congratulations Kersee. Everything you did failed. You may have permanantly ruined an athlete. Your "limited access" "everything is hidden or a complete lie" "oh, maybe a SI article will be enough PR for us" approach failed. You failed. You failed your athlete.

Racing is racing. Poop happens. It's happened to all of us. Of course it sucks but you can't stop the world and re-do everything in your life that doesn't go your way. That's not how life works. Sports have finality and limits. That's why it's so stressful and so very few make it to the top levels.

Agree fully on this. Last Olympic trials, Athing was a bubbly and happy college girl who was taking the track world by storm. She had raced a ton and had earned her spot on the 800 and 4x 400 team because she proved race after race that she was the best. She got two gold medals for her troubles and it couldn't have happened to a nicer girl. I remember thinking how cool it was that Athing got included in that legendary 4x 4 with Allyson Felix, Dalilah Muhammad, and Sydney. Four individual gold medalists teaming up for the USA. Ever since the Kersee move, everything has changed and I have no idea why Kersee is so intent on messing with something that worked well for her before. Remembering that reminded me kind of why it's been so disappointing to see her lately but you're right to focus on Kersee rather than Athing. I have no idea what's going on behind the scenes but the timeline points all fingers back to Kersee, while Athing is the one suffering in the public eye.

I hated to see this happen. It seems as if she doesn't really want to run anymore, and I would not be surprised if she either doesn't race at all the remainder of the season or races just once at a season finale in which she is invited, like last year.

If she only showed up to race at the trials, what makes you think she'll be motivated to show up to some other meet in an Olympic year?

Typical chick, boyfriend breaks up with her in LA and loses her marbles.

She says she’s a model but is an LA 6.

Mu tripped Nia in the finals of the 2021 Olympic trials in the same manner in almost the same spot on the track. Mu does the same thing again and the results of the race are changed because of her inability to race without impeding others. She definitely needs a new coach that will allow her to race more!

A person must be really stupid after this deny, to still want to run for this hate country, not worth all effort and a medal.

who can she train with and still be in LA? since being there seems to be her top priority, rather than maximizing her very small window to be the best runner in the history of the world.

Not necessarily simple-minded, but just not running fans who know Mu's history and runners who have raced on a track and know the importance of spatial awareness when pushing for the inner lane. Also, the social media feeds are being pumped up with the media coverage, which is again coming from reporters who don't have personal race experience and who are not familiar with Mu's history. Arguably, we should be able to expect better from sports reporters, who maybe should have some race experience and historical knowledge, but what we'd like to see and what we get are two different things.

No. Sage caused her own downfall by trying to be a 800m runner when she clearly could be a 3:55-56 type 1500m runner. She should have made that switch 3 years ago.

Sure, she has 1:57 ability, which is why she should have taken that weapon, and moved to the 1500m permanently. Yes, that is a hot event for our women's team these days, but she only has :54 speed, which means she doesn't have that change of gears that is needed in the 800m.

Another reason is, and I can't believe I'm typing this, but she is too petite for that event. Combined with her high arm carry(instability) she can't handle the "rubb'in is rac'in" that goes on in that event. If she was built more like Allie, who actually has a slower PB, then maybe she could take a bump.

On the Uceny scale of 0 to 10 (10 for being idiotically trapped in the pack with 400 meters to go in an Olympic final), I give Mu a 7.

People are easily identified on other social media platforms so people hold back to what they really feel. Lets run in most cases you will hear how people really feel. Lets face it humanity is not kind if they are given the opportunity to be honest. People here don't hold back.