Cooper Teare

yikes at this somehow turning into an antivax thread lmbo. most pro athletes in every sport are vaxxed at this point. there have been way more horror stories regarding people getting covid and never returning to full fitness.

it amazes me how dumb some people are. for an already dumb thread seemingly poking fun at cooper for "acting" that way across the line, this comment might take the cake for stupidest. Replace "these shots" in your 3rd sentence with "the covid-19 virus" and you make more sense.

Don't want to overrun this thread with covid talk - huge respect to cooper for putting it all out there today. relatively disappointing season from him, i think he probably missed some fitness early in the season - he wore KT tape on his knee for the first few meets, so I'm guessing he missed some key workouts, or miles, tried to hammer late season sessions, and by the time we reach nationals (8k at altitude for conference, 10k last week, and hot, fast10k this week) cooper had nothing left. simple as that. id be surprised if there was something underlying that gives a clearer answer

formerucla wrote:

it amazes me how dumb some people are. for an already dumb thread seemingly poking fun at cooper for "acting" that way across the line, this comment might take the cake for stupidest.

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Everytime a girl collapse at the finish someone talks about drama. Why do you think Cooper is any different?

It seemed to me like Cooper was in a hard position for this race. He raced a long and very successful indoor and extended outdoor season and then was faced with the XC season. I don't think there was enough time between his seasons to get enough recovery and then train to win the 10k XC championship . The difference between track and XC is under appreciated by both the athletes and people in general. You could see he wanted to win with the fast start and he knew he wasn't outkicking anyone so had to be up front early. Just going by his credentials alone there's no reason he couldn't win but I think that an honest look at his recent workload and training cycle should have suggested a more conservative start and accept a top 20 or something rather than the all or nothing we witnessed which ultimately led to this. Part of racing is being honest with yourself and finding a way to put each race into it's proper context within your life. Luckily he'll learn from this and your best results carry more weight than your worst ones.

Anyone pushing themselves to the max is impressive. It’s the 27 min 5k male or female drama that’s not impressive.

I caught up with Teare after the race.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4UfldZ1BJo

Pineapple Juice wrote:

It’s common in marathons where there’s extreme glycogen depletion. However this seems odd for only a 10k. Especially in cool weather conditions. My first thought is he not eating enough? We all know now that Oregon is all about the weight “numbers.” I recall Cooper in past randomly commenting about eating junk food before a race. Certainly a sign of an eating disorder and we now know Oregon has a culture of eating disorders. I hope the NCAA investigates harder to clean this up.

LIBEL,

midpackgal wrote:

Birkoboy wrote:

Maybe he knew he was fading badly so rather than look bad he decided to fake it and get more press.

I feel like he would’ve dropped out and claimed to have been injured if he was worried about his ego.

I would be humiliated to finish like that and would take the DNF instead. The truth would be fine which was that he was no longer capable of running. No reason to lie about an injury.

rojo wrote:

I caught up with Teare after the race.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4UfldZ1BJo

Judging from this video, all the helium he's apparently ben inhaling might be a part of his problem today.

should be studying 102 wrote:

i 100% agree with this take. You crash in one race so you arent eating enough?? LRC obviously is still on stoopid pills. I guess it is comforting to see that somethings never change

LRC on Stoopid Pills for sure.

I had a similar thing almost happen too, but I was too much of a wimp,and stopped sooner. Only race I ever quit. I guessed I wasn't hydrated well the day before or something.

Hope's fully okay and recovers well.

Oxygen delivery not the issue.

He is more 2000m runner than 10000m runner at this point.

Would've run better in his trainers, jogging the first mile in 4:50.

The entire Oregon team ran like dog crap save for Aaron Bienenfeld horrible last 5k splits, 3:10 to 3:25/km. Teare's last km was like 6:22/km. Teare exhibited class in mini stroke symptoms where balance and coordination are temporarily lost. He ran poor at PAC 12s in the final and has been off all Cross season. Yeah i'm the sick evil villain. What should be next for him is a D Dimer test that would pickup on a micro blockage of an artery. It will not ID where it is but if he has one. I'm very concerned for his future especially when exerting himself. I've seen these symptoms in five people already what happened is not normal for an athlete of his ability to get to such a dark place after essential 20 minutes of running. He started trending backwards at 7k

SDSU Aztec wrote:

midpackgal wrote:

I feel like he would’ve dropped out and claimed to have been injured if he was worried about his ego.

I would be humiliated to finish like that and would take the DNF instead. The truth would be fine which was that he was no longer capable of running. No reason to lie about an injury.

Eaay to say armchair warrior. Lol