(Un)Official Olympic Trials Day 4 Discussion Thread

wheres jadon sancho wrote:

Elise and Karissa give me mean girl vibes. They used to not be like this.

Rachel was #3 in the race, but is #1 in my heart.

Abbey on standby in case burritos pop or one or both of the BTC chicks opt for the 10.

Nice handle. Southgate is blowing this one.

trollin' along wrote:

It was VERY hot for this race. They all could have run faster in better conditions. Unfortunately the postponement of the Olympics seems to have really hurt Schweizer; she ran 14:26 last July, same time the Olympics would have been held. If she could have laid down a 14:26 in Tokyo instead of in Portland or wherever her time trial race was she could have placed very high. She was the #14 fastest runner of all-time when she ran it and is still #16 on the list.

Karissa may not be in 14:26 shape (or maybe both she and Elise are?) but damn if she isn't one of the most consistent elite we've seen in ages, along now with Cranny.

Abbey just blew my mind..she was suffering after the first mile.

AnimeLoverBoy27 wrote:

How hard is it to comprehend friendship like seriously if all of sudden your friend was accused and convicted suddenly. Would take their side or just drop them from your life. It’s like people on this damn site have no loyalty to anyone but themselves.

Agreed, loverboy

AnimeLoverBoy27 wrote:

How hard is it to comprehend friendship like seriously if all of sudden your friend was accused and convicted suddenly. Would take their side or just drop them from your life. It’s like people on this damn site have no loyalty to anyone but themselves.

I give Cranny credit actually. She can hate what Shelby did (although she may gullibly believe she's innocent) but not hate Shelby at the same time. The people who abandon their friends shouldn't have kids. Would they too abandon kids? Yikes.

I've never seen so many insufferable interviews in my life that at this track meet. The God thing is the most insufferable.

nhlgoalie wrote:

Watching the Burrito girls get trounced in Tokyo is going to be so satisfying.

So you are so certain they are guilty but are completely ok with the runners who will be doing the “trouncing” in Tokyo?

Rastus wrote:

Pfft...NBC and LRC fanboys go home devastated while their favorites tank. You all focus more on failure than success.

US has two 6 meter and one 5.95 vaulter repping the US. For you distance boys that's equal to sending three sub 3:30 distance runner to the games.

There is no vaulting equivalent to a sub 3:30 distance runner. It is the most niche activity in a sport that is already a niche.

The talent pool is UBER SHALLOW compared to the 1500. Who knows what is possible if all of the most qualified athletes went into it.

I would hope that none of my friends is a disgusting cheat.

In any case, to support and forgive them, they'd have to admit their guilt first, repent and ask for forgiveness instead of adding lie after lie.

casual obsever wrote:

I would hope that none of my friends is a disgusting cheat.

In any case, to support and forgive them, they'd have to admit their guilt first, repent and ask for forgiveness instead of adding lie after lie.

There's nothing a good inquisition can't solve.

AnimeLoverBoy27 wrote:

How hard is it to comprehend friendship like seriously if all of sudden your friend was accused and convicted suddenly. Would take their side or just drop them from your life. It’s like people on this damn site have no loyalty to anyone but themselves.

I would feel that they had betrayed my friendship and I wouldn’t say squat about them when I just made the Olympic team.

Trollminator wrote:

viva la pogba wrote:

All that NBC footage on Brazier now wasted.

I like Brazier but he peaked in 2019. There just too many good guys in this event to stay at the top for long.

Media $hits the bed with this stuff all the time. They look like idiots when their pick fails. It would make more sense to hedge a bit and cover the other favorites also. That obsessive coverage the other night was a terrible look - but no consequences in this dead sport so who cares.

I don't think there was a person on planet Earth who didn't think Brazier would make the team..

Runner10287 wrote:

NBC says screw you triple jumpers

Right. There were only two jumps left, you'd think they could have stuck around for 2 minutes. And in those jumps, Will Claye retook the lead, improving by 7 cm. The last three jumps were all over 17 meters.

I had to watch the last hour over the internet because west coast TV coverage is delayed until 8pm.

I

HATE

NBC.

STEVE THE ADDICT^^^^^^""""--""""-'--'-'-"-----^' wrote:

I've never seen so many insufferable interviews in my life that at this track meet. The God thing is the most insufferable.

Y’all are just haters it’s insufferable. Probably all the jealousy

pathfinder wrote:

casual obsever wrote:

I would hope that none of my friends is a disgusting cheat.

In any case, to support and forgive them, they'd have to admit their guilt first, repent and ask for forgiveness instead of adding lie after lie.

There's nothing a good inquisition can't solve.

Lol, what? What's there to solve? Her cheating has already been confirmed by the A test, by the B test, by AIU, and by CAS.

But keep on trolling, this is letsrun after all.

high school xc coach wrote:

Rastus wrote:

Pfft...NBC and LRC fanboys go home devastated while their favorites tank. You all focus more on failure than success.

US has two 6 meter and one 5.95 vaulter repping the US. For you distance boys that's equal to sending three sub 3:30 distance runner to the games.

There is no vaulting equivalent to a sub 3:30 distance runner. It is the most niche activity in a sport that is already a niche.

The talent pool is UBER SHALLOW compared to the 1500. Who knows what is possible if all of the most qualified athletes went into it.

If they were capable of sub 3:30 then why didn't they run it as their best event?

The pool of vaulters is much more elite. The bar to be a 6 meter vaulter is literally higher than it is to be a distance runner.

Pole vault is a more athletic and skilled event. It in fact is more elite and tougher to succeed than distance running. You need those qualities just to try the event. Most people don't have it.

bet on it wrote:

trollin' along wrote:

It was VERY hot for this race. They all could have run faster in better conditions. Unfortunately the postponement of the Olympics seems to have really hurt Schweizer; she ran 14:26 last July, same time the Olympics would have been held. If she could have laid down a 14:26 in Tokyo instead of in Portland or wherever her time trial race was she could have placed very high. She was the #14 fastest runner of all-time when she ran it and is still #16 on the list.

Karissa may not be in 14:26 shape (or maybe both she and Elise are?) but damn if she isn't one of the most consistent elite we've seen in ages, along now with Cranny.

Abbey just blew my mind..she was suffering after the first mile.

Abbey was all heart. Both her runs were pretty inspiring.

Jewett front running rounds and the final was a close second.

Felix closing the last 30m was probably my third favorite performance so far.

Wow, what a day on the track! Just watched the full replay and it was full of drama, intrigue, and disappointment. Takeaways:

1) Steeple prelims has McGorty losing a shoe who sneaks in and Mann wipeout totally on the final 150m. Wow.

2) F#$% Osika. She came in so hot to try and cut of Jenny Simpson at the start, totally out of control, and caused domino-like chaos that almost knocked Purrier over. Glad she didn't make it.

3) Love Purrier's energy after the win. Scandalously dropping an F-bomb on live TV was great. NBC can't even be mad because she was just so joyous.

4) Sad Jenny didn't make it, but she wasn't in the same class as the top women. Surprising that neither she nor Hiltz was anywhere close to qualifying.

5) WHAAAAATTTT? Donavan Brazier DFL? What a race, and killer performance by Jewett. If it would have been Jewett, Murphy, and Brazier that would have been one of the most incredible teams.

6) The best three runners made it in the 5000, but my heart goes out to Abbey Cooper. She hung tough.

7) ALERT! Scandal #2 in an interview, with Cranny's endorsement of a convicted doper!!

8) I need a beer to calm down. Incredible.

More like F MacClean, she slammed into Osika and in the following chain reaction nearly tookout her teammate Purrier.

Osika should be going to Tokyo.

I wonder what someone as tough as Abby Cooper could have done training with Bowerman Track Club the past couple years. To run 15:07 solo in a heat three or four days ago and then come back in mid 90s weather to get fourth behind three runners of that quality, 14:26/14:49(Cranny?)/low 14:50s, just shows tremendous quality.

I am really sorry to see Donavan Brazier fail to qualify. There is no way that he was not injured. He looked fine doing strides beforehand but this was certainly not about race tactics. I don't know that he's been fully right all year but following a guy out in about 50.8 or 51 is not normally tough for him at all. He did move up too fast too early, I think, but there's got to be something wrong. Hoppel never looked as good as he had earlier in the year. I hope he is back to top form at the Olympics, because earlier in the year he looked like a serious challenger for gold. I am glad to see Murphy back to his 2016 form. He may even set a pr in the Olympics. He's very much a top medal contender, though his style of racing leaves him less likely to win in a race like the Olympics where you expect someone with terrific opening speed like Amos to be able to hold much better than Jewett could. Jewett has had a tremendous season.