Leah Falland calls out Rojo and Wojo

Who?

Everyone is entitled to an opinion.

Next.

Leah Falland. Ring a bell? NCAA indoor mile and steeplechase champion? Olympic trials contender this year?

yea, so what is your opinion? That is question posed above.

No Fat Dudes wrote:

Who the f is Leah Falland? Is she knew of those that will sue her coach if he calls her too fat to be elite?

2/10 troll. Low effort. downvote

Just another thin skinned youngster who likes to oppress freedom of expression. You would think runners would have a little more humor and tolerance for people’s opinions, but no, the lefty mindset is to stifle dissent and contrary thoughts. So sad!

All you jerks saying "Who is Leah Falland?" in order to make yourselves feel big and Leah look small are pathetic nobodies whose lack of accomplishments can't even hold a flame to hers. Whether you're familiar with her or not, these responses are juvenile and asinine. Grow up.

Ten Brue wrote:

Leah Falland. Ring a bell? NCAA indoor mile and steeplechase champion? Olympic trials contender this year?

To be fair, that she had a different name when she won the NCAA titles. There are lots of “Olympic trials contenders” that even diehard fans don’t know.

Uneducated athletes half-cocked opinions make sense to serve as the most refined legal policies in the developed world.

Wejo and Rojo's stance is to allow open discussion on everything, including those discussions that tread into the realm of being vile. This allows good and bad stuff to get on the boards. To me, the antivax, whacky right winger, and obvious paid Russian posts detract from the board more than discussions of athletes bodies - at least some of those come from people trying to help, even if those people trying to help are often wrong.

I wish the mods would clean up the grime and turn the boards back into the place I remember from my college days when there were so many top runners on the boards, but they seem to be more of just letting the boards go until they can't get hits any to make it worth it anymore. Maybe the boards last forever though - there are enough people with nothing better to do that they could.

Peder wrote:

Leah apparently has serious issues. She is just not good enough as an athlete so she vents at the message boards. She needs scapegoats to avoid facing reality: Leah you fell but you were not good enough. It is OK.

So Leah Falland is really just like another Mary Cain (and not in a good way)? Who's her coach? We need to warn him to stay away from her or he'll get sued.

I love the fact that true elites are now saying the same thing that nobody Stoppit Smith was yelling at you about for several years.

I feel good about this lol

TMADDDHASFNE wrote:

Just another thin skinned youngster who likes to oppress freedom of expression. You would think runners would have a little more humor and tolerance for people’s opinions, but no, the lefty mindset is to stifle dissent and contrary thoughts. So sad!

Perhaps you might change your opinion if I said she specifically addressed how hobby jogger trolls needlessly and shamelessly comment on women's bodies with no basis in reality. It is one thing to comment on training, the actual race performance, and not meeting expectations (although people on this site were generally never good enough to pass comment on that anyways). You can have your "opinion" but what when people start talking about division 1, ncaa championship-caliber women, who train >60mpw and are more fit than 99% of this site being "chunky" you're just being an A-hole.

7/10 troll

They should have invited Zion Williamson to the podcast; I'd love to hear his thoughts on the matter.

Thats exactly what the podcast discusses. How the boards are pretty click-baity, but the actual journalism from Jonathan Gault is pretty good.

I would agree. some of the threads on here have been incredible, and some even hilarious (when it is obvious satire and well-crafted). The problem is trolls just sh*t-posting at work without even putting effort into the comment. Time will tell, the latter will probably win tho.

TMADDDHASFNE wrote:

Just another thin skinned youngster who likes to oppress freedom of expression. You would think runners would have a little more humor and tolerance for people’s opinions, but no, the lefty mindset is to stifle dissent and contrary thoughts. So sad!

Did you listen to the interview and the conversation that they had about the web site? The concerns that she raised? Instead you just allow yourself to be triggered and say your usual stupidity. Do you ever want to not sound like an idiot? Or have you resigned yourself to be the voice of stupidity on here?

Ten Brue wrote:

Basically, she said "F**k letsrun message boards"

Hey buddy, why don't you post her actual quote rather than "Basically, she said ..."

She probably said, "I don't like reading message boards" and you translated it into, "F**k LetsRun"

No link, no quote. Post reported.