wellsk wrote:
At the end of the day, who really cares.
Coach is getting paid, his Nike and Adidas athletes are making teams.
If Nico had a problem with this Nike 'setup', don't you think he'd go elsewhere to be trained and coached?
“Who cares” is a lazy argument, you can say that about literally anything in sports. This was the first race Nico has run since fully stepping into this training environment, so obviously nobody’s drawing final conclusions yet. But if this pattern keeps happening, then yeah, hard choices come into play. And we’ve seen this movie before. Grant Fisher left Jerry Schumacher after breaking an American record because the system no longer fit what he needed. What happened next? Olympic medalist in both the 5K and 10K, and two of the greatest distance performances in U.S. history. Elite athletes eventually have to do what’s best for them, not the brand, not the group, not the coach’s payroll. If the setup stops serving Nico, history says the smart ones move. Time will tell this spring and the results that come with it.