Olympic Trials Marathon Champ Aliphine Tuliamuk is Pregnant

Astro posts here wrote:

Tuliamuk, born in a tiny Kenyan village near the Ugandan border, is one of 32 children on her dad’s side and eight on her mom’s side. 

What does this mean?

Polygamy.

This is brilliant news. Anybody stating that she should give up her spot based on the fact she's a woman giving birth, is a complete buffoon.

I highly recommended giving the Sports Illustrated article a read. Hoka are fantastic.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.si.com/.amp/olympics/2020/12/06/aliphine-tuliamuk-starting-family-tokyo-training

If you're Des Linden you have to be, like, "what the fvck?"

If you make the Olympic team you have a responsibility to yourself, your country, and your competitors to use that spot to the best of your ability. Some exceptions (eg. Ritzenhein in 2004) if you know you're going in hurt, but there's no one else qualified to take your spot, and you're young and will benefit from the experience.

free shipping with purchases wrote:

If you're Des Linden you have to be, like, "what the fvck?"

If you make the Olympic team you have a responsibility to yourself, your country, and your competitors to use that spot to the best of your ability. Some exceptions (eg. Ritzenhein in 2004) if you know you're going in hurt, but there's no one else qualified to take your spot, and you're young and will benefit from the experience.

I guess you weren't around in 2012 when Desi showed up injured to the Oly marathon and jogged a few miles and dropped out. She's one of the last people who could complain

Des a preplanned DNF with no intention of finishing

https://www.runnersworld.com/runners-stories/a29667059/desiree-linden-new-york-city-marathon-preview/

A lot of people run in the Olympics injured, Jenny Spangler did in 1996.

Astro posts here wrote:

Tuliamuk, born in a tiny Kenyan village near the Ugandan border, is one of 32 children on her dad’s side and eight on her mom’s side. 

What does this mean?

It means that the father has had multiple wives

Spesh wrote:

free shipping with purchases wrote:

If you're Des Linden you have to be, like, "what the fvck?"

If you make the Olympic team you have a responsibility to yourself, your country, and your competitors to use that spot to the best of your ability. Some exceptions (eg. Ritzenhein in 2004) if you know you're going in hurt, but there's no one else qualified to take your spot, and you're young and will benefit from the experience.

I guess you weren't around in 2012 when Desi showed up injured to the Oly marathon and jogged a few miles and dropped out. She's one of the last people who could complain

Linden also noted in a post-Atlanta interview (in Runners World, I think) that many pros have contract bonuses for running in the Olympics but not for qualifying for the Olympic team and DNSing.

Astro posts here wrote:

Tuliamuk, born in a tiny Kenyan village near the Ugandan border, is one of 32 children on her dad’s side and eight on her mom’s side. 

What does this mean?

Queen Elizabeth I of England was one of four children* on her dad's side and the only child on her mom's side.

*Legitimate: Add another one to seven for possible illegitimate children on her dad's side.

That's life wrote:

wasted spot wrote:

She’ll pull a ‘Des in London’ and lose respect from many.

Isn't it ironic that after London 2012, Des is the person who would benefit if Aliphine doesn't consider herself ready and withdraws? Des kept the spot and dropped out after 2 miles.

So many people seem to forget the following fact: For 2012 London, USATF didn't name an alternate. So if Des had chosen not to go to London, only two Americans would have run.

Amy Cragg, the 4th place finisher, was the named alternate, but she made the team in the 10,000 so she didn't want the marathon spot. USATF could have named Deena Kastor, the 5th place finisher, as the alternate, but they didn't.

Des staying home would have benefited no one. So she started the race and ran one lap on an injured leg.

Spesh wrote:

I guess you weren't around in 2012 when Desi showed up injured to the Oly marathon and jogged a few miles and dropped out. She's one of the last people who could complain

I was in medical school, so must have missed that.

Point still stands. Selfish decision by Tuliamuk.

Honestly I don't think she'd figure in the medals anyway. Linden has had enough chances and is at the very end of her career so it doesn't bother me one bit if she gets left out.

Cue the LR basement doctors and soothsayers.

ddnbb wrote:

That's life wrote:

Isn't it ironic that after London 2012, Des is the person who would benefit if Aliphine doesn't consider herself ready and withdraws? Des kept the spot and dropped out after 2 miles.

So many people seem to forget the following fact: For 2012 London, USATF didn't name an alternate. So if Des had chosen not to go to London, only two Americans would have run.

Amy Cragg, the 4th place finisher, was the named alternate, but she made the team in the 10,000 so she didn't want the marathon spot. USATF could have named Deena Kastor, the 5th place finisher, as the alternate, but they didn't.

Des staying home would have benefited no one. So she started the race and ran one lap on an injured leg.

That's not correct. First of all, Janet Bawcom was the 5th place finisher, not Deena Kastor. Like Amy Cragg, Bawcom was already on the team in the 10,000. After that was Deena Kastor (6th), Clara Grandt (7th), and Alissa McKaig (8th), and Kastor and Grandt were reportedly both injured or otherwise unavailable in the weeks before the Olympics. In any event, it never got to that because Desi never gave up her spot.

adsfdasfasfsafadfa wrote:

you had one chance wrote:

Talk about really bad planning. Wtf?!?!

It was planned. if

PS: we planned this knowing that we would have 6+ months to get ready for Tokyo Olympics!

is enough time is hard to say. I am going with no.... Seems like ~18months is closer for most people...

I highly doubt anyone would stupid enough for this to be a plan.

She’s 31 now.

She’ll be 32 in July.

Neither ages are high risk ages for pregnancy. In fact, it would have been an amazing plan to run the Olympics and then get pregnant in August.

track is accurate wrote:

adsfdasfasfsafadfa wrote:

It was planned. if

PS: we planned this knowing that we would have 6+ months to get ready for Tokyo Olympics!

is enough time is hard to say. I am going with no.... Seems like ~18months is closer for most people...

I highly doubt anyone would stupid enough for this to be a plan.

She’s 31 now.

She’ll be 32 in July.

Neither ages are high risk ages for pregnancy. In fact, it would have been an amazing plan to run the Olympics and then get pregnant in August.

And if she wants 2 kids how old will she be if she waits til august 2021 to start trying? I tend to take people at their word until they are. proven to be profligate liars...

a mom weighs in wrote:

I am not an Olympian or even close, but I was not even close to good racing shape 6 months postpartum. Around the 1 year Mark I was close. 18 months was probably when I was 100%.

I had c sections though, so maybe my recovery took longer.

Do you not understand the massive difference between an Olympic level athlete and yourself, both physically and more importantly, mentally? Not to mention, running is her full time job and she can focus more on recovery and would have access to trainers, physical therapists, massage therapists, nannies, etc. Why you would even try to make a comparison between your self and an olympian is amusing. On top of all that, as you mentioned, you had a C section, which is considered a major surgery and would take much longer to recover from than a regular birth. So I think she is going to be just fine and will be ready to compete at 100% much quicker than you were.

Some women run better after giving birth, it's kind of like blood boosting...

The Olympics will likely be in 2022 not 2021.