Uceny goes down! Uceny goes down!

Uceny has a better final 300 meters than nearly all of that field (the two Turks are a possible exception), and good but not the best 1500 meter times. She knew that there have been no American medals in the 1500, and so bronze was good enough. She was well positioned to take Jamal (ultimately the bronze medalist) which she did several times last year, and so it made sense to be where she was (which was not really in the middle of the pack, but just on the flank). This has been her baseline tactic, and had worked in Diamond League, especially after her spill in Daegu. Also, the Turkish gold medalist had the best time this year so it didn't make sense to challenge her early. But the Turks quite smartly took the lead and slowed the race way down, having great confidence in their closing speed (and rightfully so). This compressed the peloton and made it dangerous - symptomatic of group think among the runners. Should Uceny have reacted to the danger where no one else did? Possibly, but from the video she came within a fraction of an inch of avoiding disaster. This was more bad luck than bad positioning. Had she avoided the spill she had an excellent chance of medalling. I hope she races again.

Sprintgeezer wrote:

I thought I'd let this thread play out before I posted what you guys inevitably knew was coming...

I have 2 words for Morgan Uceny:

Heather Dorniden

It's nice to see that other posters feel the way that I do, if maybe less vitriolically. Uceny exhibited total POS behavior. I don't need to see that shxt--get the F up and race, you absolute pu$$y. WTF is the matter with you? What CRAP. Not only would I have continued racing, I would have rolled out of that fall to lose as little speed as possible.

What you would not have done was start the race, because you're a massive blowhard.

marvin gardens wrote:

What you would not have done was start the race, because you're a massive blowhard.

0/10

That's the best you've got?

a news story says that this is from Uceny's FB page:

"I've never experienced such a heart breaking moment. I put myself in the perfect position coming into the bell lap and felt so relaxed and just ready to roll...I even thought to myself " I AM getting a medal" and the next thing I know I'm skidding on the track, "

If that's what she was really thinking then she might well have more to do with her fall than previously known -- it sounds like she got ahead of herself, perhaps losing a great deal of focus, awarding herself a medal before crossing the finish line.

Too bad she fell. Should have gotten up obv- that kind of needs to be an instinctive thing one way or the other though I feel like.

The sad thing about this race(and this olympics) is that ive sort of cracked in terms of believing many things are clean. The first thing i thought when Pulut was repassing 3-4 runners after leading for 1100 meters and then falling back- which is obv pretty uncommon- was oh the Turks certainly got their doping protocol right on. That was before i even knew the one was busted already.

Then when Jeter was pointing toward the clock as she was crossing the finish line they went back and showed it in slow mo her arm muscle just looks so ridiculous and improbable. Ugh.

"I like making other people hurt, I like making other people hurt a lot."

Karma Quote wrote:

"I like making other people hurt, I like making other people hurt a lot."

Is that something she said?

Apparently they weren't hurting that much from that blazing 75 first 400.

She was out once she fell. She was not going to throw down a 54 to catch everyone. She finished the World Champs. She knew she was done again. It's not like she was in a big 12 dual meet running against 3 Inferior women.With that pace, a fall was almost inevitable. It's too bad it happened to her. She bears some responsibility because she could have led. She lost her shot at a medal or title twice.Post again when Domiden is in the Olympic final. Or even when someone gets up and wins an Olympic final when they fall on the last lap.Otherwise, keep creating threads about Gatlin.

Once she fell, her race was over. Only a raving lunatic would get mad at her for not getting up. The top 6 all finished within one second, and there was no possible way that her getting up would have had any effect whatsoever. Since she is an experienced competitor, she realized that fact immediately. Too bad that some of the posters on here are too hysterical to understand.

She finished at Worlds.

Brianruns10 wrote:

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.

This was my first thought. The second time something like that happens, you have to be in complete shock.

And soon afterwards, she had to be thinking about how the headlines would read with her falling down in two championship races in two years, no matter if she finished or not.

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

"It's not like she was in a big 12 dual meet running against 3 Inferior women."

That's EXACTLY what it's like, especially considering Dorniden's was indoor, it was the Big 10 championships, and that it was only a 600m race, and she fell with exactly 1 lap remaining, and that she lost 25m that she had only 200m to make up.

Even WITHOUT those stats, that is EXACTLY what it's like.

YOU GET UP. YOU F*U*C*K*I*N*G RUN. YOU TRY AS HARD AS YOU CAN.

That's why she got up last year and ran to the finish.

You are given the opportunity, you don't throw it away so easily. How the F do you know what is going to happen in that last lap? Do you REALLY want me to go find out how many times some female runner has rallied to place well in a 1500m race after being down 25m entering the bell lap?

WHAT THE F IS THE MATTER WITH YOU? YOU F'ING LOSER.

Seek help.

StephenR wrote:

Once she fell, her race was over. Only a raving lunatic would get mad at her for not getting up. The top 6 all finished within one second, and there was no possible way that her getting up would have had any effect whatsoever. Since she is an experienced competitor, she realized that fact immediately. Too bad that some of the posters on here are too hysterical to understand.

Exactly right. For whatever reason this topic has really drawn a concentration of trolls who are taking glee in her misfortune.

Sprintgeezer wrote:

blah, blah, blah

WHAT THE F IS THE MATTER WITH YOU? YOU F'ING LOSER.

You really hate yourself for having quit when it mattered.

Nice name calling. I am impressed with the cursing too. However, to answer your question, yes, I would like you to give me some examples of people falling down in the last third of an Olympic or WC 1500 final and coming backing into contention. And no, the Big 10 Indoor 600, with a field of 4 or 5, is not the same thing.Perhaps you think Heather Domiden could have done better then El G in the Atlanta final in 1996 or better than Uceny in last year's 1500 final. My point is: once Uceny fell she knew she was out. And she was uniquely qualified to know that because she tried to recover the year before and finished next to last. She did not throw it away, it was gone.

I am now 100% certain that "sprintgeezer" is under 25 and a frustrated, 3+ hour marathoner who couldn't break 14 - FROM THE BLOCKS, FAT - in the 100. Possibly most successful identity troll since that guy who pretended to be a woman. (Dunes Runner?)

She tripped. No one purposely tripped her. She should have gotten right up and finished that race instead of crying that she wasn\'t going to medal. Typical spoiled american in a world event where many athletes have made the journey from war-torn countries, lost entire families, been kidnapped and poor little blondie with the candy necklace won\'t medal. The whole point is to compete and to try your best. Athletes have crawled across finish lines just to say they ran. I thought it was an atrocious and embarrassing show and she will regret it. For only that do I feel sorry for her