C/M Runner wrote:
"Other competitors at the "Brooks Running 50k and Marathon" include:
Marathon competitors:
Adriana Nelson (Romania/ASICS): 2:29:30 goal
Pacemaker: Patrick Hamilton
Chirine Njeim (Lebanon): 2:35 goal
Pacemakers: Jared Carson, Patrick Reaves
50K:
Charlie Lawrence (Brooks)
Ryan Linden (Linden x Two)
Nicholas Thompson (Brooklyn Track Club), CEO of The Atlantic, chasing the 45-49 USATF age group record of 3:06:10 (Mike Wardian).
Sally McRae (Nike Trail), in training for Badwater."
Per Erin Strout tweet
So Adriana Nelson is Romanian again? What a joke, she's 41 and long in the tooth and desperately wanting to extend her career and get to Tokyo. She was Romanian up until about 15 years ago, then switched to USA to get the USATF benefits and when she could no longer make a US team (2012 was the latest) then she had to go back to Romanian allegiance. People who call out Alexi Pappas for going Greek should be outraged over Nelson's shady country-hopping loophole opportunism. This is as bad or worse than the paper Qataris and Bahrainians. At least we can feel good that as a choke artist she never did anything of note when she had to compete for a USA team spot. She's just as dodgy as her fellow Romanian marathon women like Constantina Dita and there's good reason nobody legit in Boulder will touch her, much like that other sketchy Euro Adrienne Berry.