Lucia Stafford leaves Bowerman Track Club

Oh and for what it's worth. Chris Derrick is also (finally) not on the roster.

Running media better be prepared to ask about the team's situation re: Houlihan this season, and remaining BTC members better be ready to answer. Haven't heard any accountability on this so far, but it's owed to fans if they want us to keep following their social media, buying their merch and supporting their athletes.

WHAT?!?!?!? WHAT HAPPEBED HOLY SHOT!!! We need a Letsrun black page for this !!!

Yes, I'm still waiting for the running media (including Let's Run) to interview Jerry/Shalane on GDS leaving. Now Lucia....will someone hold BTC accountable to this?

Don’t hold your breath.

Though you might find a new snarky T-shirt with proceeds given to banned athletes.

Who?

And another one gone, and another one gone
Another one bites the dust

Between Jan 2021 and April 2022 that's...

...Kate Grace, Colleen Quigley, Sinclaire Johnson, Emily Infeld, Gwen Jorgensen, Marielle Hall, Gabriela DeBues-Stafford, Lucia Stafford. And of course Shelby Houlihan. A full range of 30+ year old vets down to 23 year old recent college grads.

Interesting though it took them 6 months after the CAS decision to remove Houlihan from their online roster but two seconds to get the Staffords off it.

That's 9 women gone in 16 months. Only 5 women left on the team.

The sad part is that so many athletes don't mind staying on a team whose coaches openly support a convicted doper.

Who says they don't mind? Maybe they have looked at other training groups and think that Bowerman, despite it's problems, is still their best option.

To be fair to Gault, he mentioned that Jerry rejected all his interview requests.

I wish this site, and other running media, would do their jobs and be actual journalists and not fans. Stop trying to be liked by the athletes and do some actual, in-depth journalism and ask hard questions. Pretend you are Woodward or Bernstein when asking the BTC questions.

Fair point. Let's say

... choose to stay ...

They are Nike sponsored athletes, so they can't train with a group sponsored by another shoe company. And Pete Julian's Nike sponsored group has it's own taint because of Alberto Salazar.

What other Nike sponsored 1500-10K group do you think they should choose to move to? There aren't that many options.

You must be referring to Citius mag. We all have our complaints about Letsrun but this is the only site that regularly DOES ask real questions to athletes and coaches.

That's the point, isn't it. There are options, as demonstrated by those who left (not counting the Canadians).

aoidjfosdifjsdi mentioned "hard questions". Asking "are you clean" or "how do you feel about doping?" are not hard questions.

Try something like:

- Given that Houlihan is a banned doper with her ludicrous burrito joke, how do you feel about her coach still coaching her?

- Given that some of her colleagues still continue to stand up to that convicted doper, do you think they doped too?

- Would you ever stay in such a team that appears to be pro-doping?

So few women left and what, nearly a dozen or more guys on the team. Saw a recent video of a workout with Centro tagged