Uceny goes down! Uceny goes down!

it all falls down wrote:

Trip me once shame on you, trip me twice, shame on me

Mega dittos. She didn't learn her lesson from the World Champs.

If she would've just run her own race, rather than submit to that shameful pace, she wouldn't have gotten into trouble. Instead, she played their game, and went down on an absurd tap. Maybe she has balance issues.

And when it was all said and done, she lay on the track crying "Woe is me." From what I read she wasn't injured by the fall, like Slaney was, so she should've gotten up and finished the damn race like a champ.

Instead, she looks like someone who's all talk, but chokes when the chips are down.

She's the female Webb. The two should hook up. I'm sure they'd make some absurdly fast, totally uncoordinated babies.

Her childish response to her fall was in keeping with someone who wears an even more childish Flinstone/Fruitloop necklace. The Brits should have used a large iRobot vacuum to lift her up and carry her away.

I don't think it's even a matter of should she have gotten up or not. As competitors don't we instinctively get up when we fall? I know I personally would have been off the ground before I realized I was even down or out of medal contention. Let her be emotional if she feels that way, but finish the race and then cry, or at least cry when your instincts pick you off the ground in last place and you're still running. I'm confused why her instinct was "I fell - let's assess the situation - it's over - let's stay down" and not "I fell - I'm up - let's try this - well, crap, it's over - let's cry."

Perhaps I also can not comprehend the emotional trauma of falling in more than 1 championship race.

I don't feel sorry for Morgan Uceny at all. She should have immediately picked her ass up and ran her guts out. Once she fell, her chances of medaling diminished greatly, but they didn't diminish to zero. This is the Olympic final. You get up and give it everything you've got. The same way Manteo Mitchell ran on a broken fibula.

The world doesn't owe you anything, Morgan. Don't lie on the track throwing a temper tantrum just because things didn't go your way. Get up and make something happen.

i kinda like running wrote:

I don't feel sorry for Morgan Uceny at all. She should have immediately picked her ass up and ran her guts out. Once she fell, her chances of medaling diminished greatly, but they didn't diminish to zero. This is the Olympic final. You get up and give it everything you've got. The same way Manteo Mitchell ran on a broken fibula.

Yeah! Who knows what might've happened? Use that anger, channel that surge of adrenaline, and go for it. At least, you'll be remembered for finishing.

Instead, she'll go down as the girl who DNFd at TWO World Champ events.

i kinda like running wrote:

I don't feel sorry for Morgan Uceny at all. She should have immediately picked her ass up and ran her guts out. Once she fell, her chances of medaling diminished greatly, but they didn't diminish to zero. This is the Olympic final. You get up and give it everything you've got. The same way Manteo Mitchell ran on a broken fibula.

The world doesn't owe you anything, Morgan. Don't lie on the track throwing a temper tantrum just because things didn't go your way. Get up and make something happen.

Uceny is a crybaby and a quitter. These are not the traits that I look for when you represent my country. Waaah, waah, waah.

someone had to do it wrote:

Uceny is a cry baby wrote:

I don't like quitters and this needs to emphasized. If you fall down in a race, you get up and finish. What did Uceny do? She acts like a spoiled brat, punches the track and crys like a baby. You suck it up and finish.

And what would finishing the race have accomplished?

How do you know she was not injured?

How is she spoiled, she worked her ass off to get where she was, won the olympic trials.

People cry sometimes, have you ever cried after the age of 3?

You're an idiot

Moron

Imbecile

Drivel

fu.ck off

idiot

Your ranting doesn't change the fact that Uceny is a quitter. She could have got back on her feet and finished the race. Had she done that and then cried, okay. But she didn't and went into this "woe is me" routine.

i kinda like running wrote:

I don't feel sorry for Morgan Uceny at all. She should have immediately picked her ass up and ran her guts out. Once she fell, her chances of medaling diminished greatly, but they didn't diminish to zero. This is the Olympic final. You get up and give it everything you've got. The same way Manteo Mitchell ran on a broken fibula.

The world doesn't owe you anything, Morgan. Don't lie on the track throwing a temper tantrum just because things didn't go your way. Get up and make something happen.

Word.

Gentlemen, I and the rest of the committee have reviewed the tape at length and are now prepared to give our analysis.

The American runner, Uceny, was traveling comfortably in 6th place as she approached the grassy knoll. The crowd was standing and cheering. It was a beautiful day.

Suddenly there was a loud "crack!" as Uceny was struck by an African foot that sent her head back and to the left. Her body seemed to suffer a second impact - some have suggested, though I cannot agree, that this came from a second African foot - that pitched her body forward and to the track.

Uceny's coach, wearing a pink hat and warmup suit, was on the inside of the track and when he saw her go down he began crawling toward her to assist her.

At this point Uceny was shown in close up striking the track with her palms and the rest is too gruesome to describe.

It is the conclusion of this committee that Ms. Uceny was the victim of a lone African foot. She was not the victim of a conspiracy.

In the aftermath of this tragedy Shannon Rowbury has taken Ms. Uceny's place as America's representative in future 1500 meter gatherings.

It is very clear from the slow-motion video that the Ethiopian runner behind Uceny clipped her foot. You can even see the runner's leg ripple from the impact.

It doesn't get any more obvious than this, folks.

falling too much in major competition. Stand up and win, like Lasse Viren did in 1972. She can only blame herself!!!!

i kinda like running wrote:

I don't feel sorry for Morgan Uceny at all. She should have immediately picked her ass up and ran her guts out. Once she fell, her chances of medaling diminished greatly, but they didn't diminish to zero. This is the Olympic final. You get up and give it everything you've got. The same way Manteo Mitchell ran on a broken fibula.

The world doesn't owe you anything, Morgan. Don't lie on the track throwing a temper tantrum just because things didn't go your way. Get up and make something happen.

Yeah, I'm sure she could have gotten up from a dead stop and run a 50 second last lap while weaving her way through a dozen other runners to secure a medal. What color is the sky in your world?

i kinda like running wrote:

I don't feel sorry for Morgan Uceny at all. She should have immediately picked her ass up and ran her guts out. Once she fell, her chances of medaling diminished greatly, but they didn't diminish to zero. This is the Olympic final. You get up and give it everything you've got. The same way Manteo Mitchell ran on a broken fibula.

The world doesn't owe you anything, Morgan. Don't lie on the track throwing a temper tantrum just because things didn't go your way. Get up and make something happen.

Uceny and Solinsky are both alike, when they get tripped up in a race, they quit. What a great show of sportsmanship.

LRC propaganda aside, Uceny is masculine, aggressive, broad-shouldered, narrow waisted, cut like a body builder, and has tree-trunk legs. If she were a South African with less Western adornment, we'd categorize her with Caster Semenya.

That said, her physiological advantages do not overcome her tactical failures. Two years in a row, she took her dump truck physique into Ferrari traffic and acts surprised when she clips a quarter panel. She ran up on the Russian, she transgressed on the Russians territory, and she paid the price.

Cry all you want, Uceny, but you are crying tears of self-pity, because it is entirely your fault, again

I love all of the pathetic wastes of life on this board. Nothing has changed over the years. But please, before you criticize Morgan (since you all clearly know what it's like), share which Olympic final you competed in and which year as well.

she's a double bagger

Aurora Borealis wrote:

I love all of the pathetic wastes of life on this board. Nothing has changed over the years. But please, before you criticize Morgan (since you all clearly know what it's like), share which Olympic final you competed in and which year as well.

Ah... but that's just it. She didn't COMPETE in the Olympic Final. That pretty well sums up the condemnation.

I am surprised there are not more falls in these absurdly slow/tactful races.

I understand many championship races are tactful but if I am a 4:00 flat 1500 meter runner in the most important race of my career and am in shape an capable of running 3:58 to 4:00, if I lost the race or didn't medal the runners in front of me will be running sub 3:58. If they are capable of running that I could accept it. That would spread the field out enough that you would not get tripped.

The same goes for the slow 5,000 meters men finals, etc.

Fifthstop wrote:

Aurora Borealis wrote:

I love all of the pathetic wastes of life on this board. Nothing has changed over the years. But please, before you criticize Morgan (since you all clearly know what it's like), share which Olympic final you competed in and which year as well.

Ah... but that's just it. She didn't COMPETE in the Olympic Final. That pretty well sums up the condemnation.

That's funny, because I clearly saw her competing before took a spill that removed her from contention. Running to finish the race after that wouldn't be competing, it would have just been to finish.