I do think she was sick. I also think she still wouldn’t of beaten Valby. However, it would have a lot closer.
I actually think Valby would have been further away if Tuohy tried to get closer. Pulling away from the field the way Valby did and holding it truly put her on another tier in my opinion. that 14:40 5k is coming this season from Valby.
To all the trolls and just generally hateful people on here trashing her, calling her a quitter and saying she wasn’t sick or was making excuses, what if this was your daughter in this situation?
Your assumption is off. There are some people in the world who have no family, no pride, and no life. They live their days by being internet warriors, mocking people who are 100 times better than themselves. If they have any bones, they should come over to Raleigh and talk to Henes and Tuohy in person.
I do think she was sick. I also think she still wouldn’t of beaten Valby. However, it would have a lot closer.
I actually think Valby would have been further away if Tuohy tried to get closer. Pulling away from the field the way Valby did and holding it truly put her on another tier in my opinion. that 14:40 5k is coming this season from Valby.
IDK. Definitely not saying Tuohy would have won. It was Valby's day.
But, Valby had a huge positive 3k split. She made all her gains in the first half and slowed down a lot. 9:14/9:39. Lemngole and Markezich closed the last 2k way faster. Lemnegole 6:22, Valby 6:31. Would it have changed if someone was hot on her heels? Maybe?
I do think she was sick. I also think she still wouldn’t of beaten Valby. However, it would have a lot closer.
I actually think Valby would have been further away if Tuohy tried to get closer. Pulling away from the field the way Valby did and holding it truly put her on another tier in my opinion. that 14:40 5k is coming this season from Valby.
Is it responsible to send a sick runner to a press conference, or even have them be around the team?
I’m not buying the weak excuse that Tuohy was sick. Before the race, the coach said Tuohy is in the best shape of her life. Now she’s sick?? BS. Every time Tuohy loses there are lame excuses. So sick of it.
Be sick of it. Sit back and criticize athletes from afar. Athletes have the same kind of days as anyone else. Some days you're on and other days you feel like sh*t for no reason. And yes, sometimes illness pops up and you just do the best you can. Fortunately, you can just sit in your room with some chicken soup. Others put their asses on the line at the highest level because that is what winners do.
Crying this much and being this devasted from that result, and shrugging away from interviews this time and last track season, shows there is a big psychological/emotional problem underlying everything. She needs to learn how to lose gracefully without it devastating her like this, or it will continue to be a problem and negatively impact performances in the future. I really hope she is getting some help with this and this problem is not swept under the rug. It is not normal to be this hard on yourself to feel so entitled that you always have to win, always have to be the best and to have this kind of mentality just because she didn't win. To be a good professional athlete, you have to keep a cool head and not completely crumble emotionally when you don't have a good race, there is a self-love plus mental toughness aspect plus emotional stability that needs to be there in high level sports otherwise you can become extremely unhealthy and let pressure get to you too much in championship races. I hope the people in her life and around her stop enabling this kind of thinking and this kind of reaction, and honestly tell her that she needs to work on it and get some kind of help for it. I do believe she might have been feeling sick, and I believe that a lot of it was psychological/stress related. I feel for her, and she needs help with this, this behavior is not normal and should not be excused.
Sam bush also said Tuohy was sick in an interview.
We are also sick .... suck of Tuohy and her supporters always making excuses for her. In the spring when she brings up the rear of the 1500, we will be told after the race how she was on her death bed the entire week leading up to the final. Give it a rest. No one else is always making excuses.
Jakob Ingebrigtsen tends to make quite a few excuses as well, doesn't he?
So how do you explain last year? The pressure was on and she ran an epic race. Among others. Did she suddenly lose the ability to handle pressure like losing her magical mojo? LOL. She takes that team title super seriously, and she won three of them in a row. If her reacting emotionally to a miracle win bothers you, too bad.
It looks like it is becomig a pattern, and the problem started when she started losing. It looks like she does not take losing well, she needs to learn how to handle it better, or it will continue to haunt her into her post-collegiate career. Believe it or not, this is a compassionate/caring statement of a fan.
So how do you explain last year? The pressure was on and she ran an epic race. Among others. Did she suddenly lose the ability to handle pressure like losing her magical mojo? LOL.
I am not saying that she lost because of the pressure, but I do take issue with your argument. There have been countless examples in sports of an athlete thriving under pressure…until they couldn’t. Example: Simone Biles.
She has been under the microscope since 2017. Has been written off a dozen times. Came back from surgery. Came back from disappointing races. (Ex: Outdoor Regionals, 2021). Won the whole thing in epic fashion. And apparently gutted it out for 5th at XC nationals while sick. So I guess I am not swayed by dollar store psychologizing.
Yeah, I'm sure out of several hundred men and women runners put there today Tuohy wasn't the only one with some sort of ailment. There were probably dozens of others. Yet we only heard about KT's.
name some names
Paityn Noe? She is usually right with teammate Syd.
