Emma Coburn "My Tokyo Olympic race was a total failure. I was terrible. Disappointed to not be my best and represent my country and team well."
I think it was a poor race but she'll be back with this attitude... seems hungry for more.
Emma Coburn "My Tokyo Olympic race was a total failure. I was terrible. Disappointed to not be my best and represent my country and team well."
I think it was a poor race but she'll be back with this attitude... seems hungry for more.
My respect for her has shot way up after that quote...
234242ff wrote:
Emma Coburn "My Tokyo Olympic race was a total failure. I was terrible. Disappointed to not be my best and represent my country and team well."
I think it was a poor race but she'll be back with this attitude... seems hungry for more.
That would be the expected response from most athletes having a similar result and many get carried away with berating themselves. Is there something about her personality that made you expect something else?
I don't know, it's pretty rare to see an athlete be this honest and straightforward about a race. For example, Purrier St. Pierre wasn't very straight-up about her 10th place finish. Nor was Galen Rupp about his sub par marathon performance.
SDSU Aztec wrote:
234242ff wrote:
Emma Coburn "My Tokyo Olympic race was a total failure. I was terrible. Disappointed to not be my best and represent my country and team well."
I think it was a poor race but she'll be back with this attitude... seems hungry for more.
That would be the expected response from most athletes having a similar result and many get carried away with berating themselves. Is there something about her personality that made you expect something else?
I think the point is that she's not making excuses and blaming her "mental health" or "racists".
Also good, like you said, she's not carried away about berating herself, which shows maturity and wisdom.
Bottom line, this is how it's done. S#it happens. Move on.
this ! wrote:
I don't know, it's pretty rare to see an athlete be this honest and straightforward about a race. For example, Purrier St. Pierre wasn't very straight-up about her 10th place finish. Nor was Galen Rupp about his sub par marathon performance.
What did Rupp say?
Then she should fire her coach.
POKE IT wrote:
SDSU Aztec wrote:
That would be the expected response from most athletes having a similar result and many get carried away with berating themselves. Is there something about her personality that made you expect something else?
I think the point is that she's not making excuses and blaming her "mental health" or "racists".
Also good, like you said, she's not carried away about berating herself, which shows maturity and wisdom.
Bottom line, this is how it's done. S#it happens. Move on.
Could you point me to all of these Olympic athletes that are blaming their Olympic performances on racists? Must be a ton if not doing so is newsworthy.
what did rupp and purrier say?
i did think it was wishful thinking when Purrier was blown away in the semis and chalked it up to tactical. SHe was tactically near perfect from my recollection.
Oh.
Also Purrier was drawing dead. Success for her was making the final. Mission accomplished. She had no chance is a fast race against that field. Would 5th really have been any better than 10th?
Did she say she was "Sent Home Devestated?
The Delta Variant wrote:
Also Purrier was drawing dead. Success for her was making the final. Mission accomplished. She had no chance is a fast race against that field. Would 5th really have been any better than 10th?
yes. it shows you are close to international medal level. coming off of trials, it looked like she could be in 356 shape. maybe. After the semis, it was clear that it would take a miracle for her to break 4 at the moment.
Her shape at in Tokyo was dreadful. Who knows what lead to that. Some people can hold a peak endlessly. For others, it is a brief moment.
SDSU Aztec wrote:
234242ff wrote:
Emma Coburn "My Tokyo Olympic race was a total failure. I was terrible. Disappointed to not be my best and represent my country and team well."
I think it was a poor race but she'll be back with this attitude... seems hungry for more.
That would be the expected response from most athletes having a similar result and many get carried away with berating themselves. Is there something about her personality that made you expect something else?
I won't blame athletes for having the response they do, but a lot of Americans outwardly displayed so much positivity about just being there. And that's fine, but those aren't the people you'll expect to ever be at the top of the sport. Champions often have a relentlessness to them and accept nothing short of that.
My opinion is that all the grief Biles got was people who couldn't reconcile a person who was so successful with a seemingly "no big deal at failing" attitude. I'm not criticizing her because she has earned the right to do as she pleases. But that she lacked the killer instinct mentality is telling of where she is now and her priorities. She's still the most accomplished gymnast of all time, but I highly doubt she'll ever win another gold.
And it's the same with track athletes. Emma still has the fire to be at the top. Will she get back there...who knows? But if she was like, "I just had some bad luck and I'm just grateful to represent my country," you'd know that she was finished.
Nissan Hardbody wrote:
Then she should fire her coach.
Thank god you're not her manager.
The Delta Variant wrote:
Also Purrier was drawing dead. Success for her was making the final. Mission accomplished. She had no chance is a fast race against that field. Would 5th really have been any better than 10th?
Purrier's chances were massively overblown after the trials. There's a top 4 in the world right now in the 1500, then Gebreezibeher, then five women who are all within 1 second of each other. Purrier is in that last group. Her target now is to make that next step and get into 3:55/56 shape to be competitive.
Coburn just had a bad race. It was going to happen at some point. Maybe the fall in Monaco was still on her mind, maybe she just wasn't prepared for the conditions. I can easily see her coming back and running sub-9 before the end of the season
High hopes wrote:
The Delta Variant wrote:
Also Purrier was drawing dead. Success for her was making the final. Mission accomplished. She had no chance is a fast race against that field. Would 5th really have been any better than 10th?
Purrier's chances were massively overblown after the trials. There's a top 4 in the world right now in the 1500, then Gebreezibeher, then five women who are all within 1 second of each other. Purrier is in that last group. Her target now is to make that next step and get into 3:55/56 shape to be competitive.
Coburn just had a bad race. It was going to happen at some point. Maybe the fall in Monaco was still on her mind, maybe she just wasn't prepared for the conditions. I can easily see her coming back and running sub-9 before the end of the season
She was in 3:55/56 shape. Just not at the right time.
A good result for Purrier would've been a PR of any type, in my view. PR'ing after 3 rounds would have been solid.
But she didn't make any excuses, either. Her IG post made it clear that she was disappointed but just noted the fact that if she had told herself a few years ago she'd be disappointed with 10th at the Olympics it would have been surprising because she's come pretty far pretty fast. Her and Emma are at different stages of their careers. It would be like Emma giving this quote after her 9th place finish in London.
234242ff wrote:
Emma Coburn "My Tokyo Olympic race was a total failure. I was terrible. Disappointed to not be my best and represent my country and team well."
I think it was a poor race but she'll be back with this attitude... seems hungry for more.
This is equally stupid. No one cares how you failed. thye just saw you DQ and shut down. She's a complainer. If she wasn't ready to race she should have DNS.
What she said is not even that groundbreaking. Litterallu 1000s of athletes have said the same thing. she's is a twit
Exactly. She went from crushing GDS from the front and also solo'ing 3:58.0 in her 3rd race in 4 days with a 61 last lap right? Merber let it out that she had a foot injury post-Trials and she didn't compete in Monaco which was the first sign of trouble. I don't think a medal was happening this year with how great the top 3 ran (and Hassan running at all), but she should've been top 5