It doesn't matter if it's only her second workout. What matters is she is unfit, gained about 20 pounds of weight, and the World Championship is only a week away.
It seems to me, after she got her first olympic medal in Tokyo, she couldn't motivate herself for gritty trainings (She is satisfied. She is ok with her career, even if she doesn't win any more gold medals. Note: she only won gold medals at Doha and Tokyo)
What an embarrassment. Sifan is a good athlete, but she is not an all time great (Legends don’t get satisfied after little success). After getting an olympic medal, good athletes usually disappear (But Legends will continue to dominate the sport, until they are physically worn out)
Success at the olympics is, the worst enemy of good athletes. Hassan disappointed me, I thought she was an all time great athlete (unfortunately, i was wrong)
And finally, I never liked her new coach, tim rowberry, he is not a coach material . Sifan gained about 20 pounds of weight on his watch. Trust me, Alberto Salazar wouldn’t have let this happen
Wow, this is a dumb opinion. She’s won double gold at the last two outdoor global championships. In 2019 she pulled off an unprecedented double and in 2021 she went for an unheard of triple. This is a person who is satisfied after “a little success?” No, she’s a legend and an all time great already even if she never runs another competitive race. Just because she’s out of shape now, does not mean that’s true, btw. She’s human, been through a lot of personal adversity, and has prevailed. She may well be the personally grittiest T&F star we have ever seen.
Give me a break. Are we supposed to believe that Hassan became the greatest distance talent in the history of the world at age 25 or 26? In her first 3 world championships (2 WCs and Olympics) the best she could manage was a single bronze. Then in 2019 she becomes unbeatable at any distance on the track over 1500.
The reason other distance greats never attempted Hassan’s double or triple is not because they lacked grit. It was because they knew they were simply impossible. So which is it? Hassan has more grit than any other runner or does she just have more talent? Other all-time greats, such and Bolt, Bekele, Geb, Kipyegon, Kipchoge showed tremendous talent as teenagers and won medals and championships before they turned 20. I’m not suggesting they were all clean either, but their great performances didn’t come out of nowhere.
Let’s see how the rest of Hassan’s career plays out. Will her career be defined by 2-3 really great years or will return to her top form?
I'm not sure why anyone thinks Sifan Hassan would want to blast a 5k one week before Worlds where she's signed up for 3 events again. Why tire yourself out for a race that doesn't matter so close to a major championship? If you think yesterday's 5k is a true measure of her fitness, you need to find some common sense.
Did you watch her run yesterday? If you did, “common sense” would tell you this was not a fit Hassan just saving herself.
Give me a break. Are we supposed to believe that Hassan became the greatest distance talent in the history of the world at age 25 or 26? In her first 3 world championships (2 WCs and Olympics) the best she could manage was a single bronze. Then in 2019 she becomes unbeatable at any distance on the track over 1500.
The reason other distance greats never attempted Hassan’s double or triple is not because they lacked grit. It was because they knew they were simply impossible. So which is it? Hassan has more grit than any other runner or does she just have more talent? Other all-time greats, such and Bolt, Bekele, Geb, Kipyegon, Kipchoge showed tremendous talent as teenagers and won medals and championships before they turned 20. I’m not suggesting they were all clean either, but their great performances didn’t come out of nowhere.
Let’s see how the rest of Hassan’s career plays out. Will her career be defined by 2-3 really great years or will return to her top form?
Are you just making another baseless doping accusation against her? What are you talking about no promise at a young age?? When she was 21 in 2014 she ran 1:59 and 3:57 and when she was 22 in 2015 she ran 1:58 and 3:56.
Give me a break. Are we supposed to believe that Hassan became the greatest distance talent in the history of the world at age 25 or 26? In her first 3 world championships (2 WCs and Olympics) the best she could manage was a single bronze. Then in 2019 she becomes unbeatable at any distance on the track over 1500.
The reason other distance greats never attempted Hassan’s double or triple is not because they lacked grit. It was because they knew they were simply impossible. So which is it? Hassan has more grit than any other runner or does she just have more talent? Other all-time greats, such and Bolt, Bekele, Geb, Kipyegon, Kipchoge showed tremendous talent as teenagers and won medals and championships before they turned 20. I’m not suggesting they were all clean either, but their great performances didn’t come out of nowhere.
Let’s see how the rest of Hassan’s career plays out. Will her career be defined by 2-3 really great years or will return to her top form?
Are you just making another baseless doping accusation against her? What are you talking about no promise at a young age?? When she was 21 in 2014 she ran 1:59 and 3:57 and when she was 22 in 2015 she ran 1:58 and 3:56.
She wasn't winning medals focusing on one event. Then she became unbeatable at any distance.
Hassan’s mom flew her out of Ethiopia as a teenager to go make her own way as a refugee in a completely new country, language, culture. God knows what she was fleeing, what trauma she’s been through and what will she has had to draw on to survive and succeed. I think she’s just insanely driven in a way regular people growing up in the US can’t imagine and doesn’t want to not give it a shot. She probably doesn’t know how to chill it out.
100%. Such nonsense from others about her not showing world class promise as a teen. She was a teen refuge and had barely started running. By the time she was 21/22 she was running world class times.
She wasn't winning medals focusing on one event. Then she became unbeatable at any distance.
Your dinging her because she lost in 2015 to Dibaba and Kipyegon at age 23? I’m just saying that this argument that she came out of nowhere at age 25/26 is totally false and especially pernicious if you are using it to justify accusing her of doping.
and it was around the age of 25 that she lost the weight and changed training to become more of a distance runner than middle distance. She is no more suspicious than anybody else out there.
the 800/1500 times from earlier on already showed tremendous talent. turns out, unlike mary cain, she actually was better suited for longer distances, and the change in training was brilliant
LOL ya'll are pretty naive to believe this woman was clean at the Olympics. Again, getting caught is easy to avoid when you're on PEDs in this sport on top of having a governing body susceptible to being paid off (see Lamine Diack). . The elites all know this and some use PEDs. It's the general public that's naive and impressionable enough to believe an athlete such as Hassan is actually clean. She ran 3 events in the Olympics because the PEDs enabled her to recover extremely quickly. That's what endurance PEDs enable. Human supervision powers beyond what typical human psysiology encompasses. I'd consider her the female Mo Farah. An also ran a good chunk of her career then miraculously (sure) becomes a superhuman world beater. Not hard to figure it out either. Come on, people.
She wasn't winning medals focusing on one event. Then she became unbeatable at any distance.
Your dinging her because she lost in 2015 to Dibaba and Kipyegon at age 23? I’m just saying that this argument that she came out of nowhere at age 25/26 is totally false and especially pernicious if you are using it to justify accusing her of doping.
In 2016 and 2017 she also lost to Jenny Simpson. She was one of the top 1500 runners in the world from 2014-2017. But she went from running 3:56-3:57 to 3:51 AND winning 5 and 10Ks. Are you suggesting she did not make a significant jump in performance from 2017 to 2019?
Your dinging her because she lost in 2015 to Dibaba and Kipyegon at age 23? I’m just saying that this argument that she came out of nowhere at age 25/26 is totally false and especially pernicious if you are using it to justify accusing her of doping.
In 2016 and 2017 she also lost to Jenny Simpson. She was one of the top 1500 runners in the world from 2014-2017. But she went from running 3:56-3:57 to 3:51 AND winning 5 and 10Ks. Are you suggesting she did not make a significant jump in performance from 2017 to 2019?
Read HS coach’s response. That’s what I think. She has already shown great promise and then took it to another level. Happens with doping, happens without doping. Not any more amazing than Kipchoge becoming unbeatable in the marathon at age 30.
LOL ya'll are pretty naive to believe this woman was clean at the Olympics. Again, getting caught is easy to avoid when you're on PEDs in this sport on top of having a governing body susceptible to being paid off (see Lamine Diack). . The elites all know this and some use PEDs. It's the general public that's naive and impressionable enough to believe an athlete such as Hassan is actually clean. She ran 3 events in the Olympics because the PEDs enabled her to recover extremely quickly. That's what endurance PEDs enable. Human supervision powers beyond what typical human psysiology encompasses. I'd consider her the female Mo Farah. An also ran a good chunk of her career then miraculously (sure) becomes a superhuman world beater. Not hard to figure it out either. Come on, people.
Ignorance. Look at Farah’s trajectory and Hassan’s. He was way more “out of the blue.” Also, what’s your point? Yes, they may all be doped or not. Don’t think you can sort this out based on progression. Could just mean those with early promise doped earlier. Anyway, you choose to be a nihilist. Enjoy it. Why do you bother paying any attention to the sport at all?
In 2016 and 2017 she also lost to Jenny Simpson. She was one of the top 1500 runners in the world from 2014-2017. But she went from running 3:56-3:57 to 3:51 AND winning 5 and 10Ks. Are you suggesting she did not make a significant jump in performance from 2017 to 2019?
Read HS coach’s response. That’s what I think. She has already shown great promise and then took it to another level. Happens with doping, happens without doping. Not any more amazing than Kipchoge becoming unbeatable in the marathon at age 30.
Maybe, but Kipchoge has sustained his high level of marathon performances for many years. We will see is Hassan can do the same.
Your dinging her because she lost in 2015 to Dibaba and Kipyegon at age 23? I’m just saying that this argument that she came out of nowhere at age 25/26 is totally false and especially pernicious if you are using it to justify accusing her of doping.
In 2016 and 2017 she also lost to Jenny Simpson. She was one of the top 1500 runners in the world from 2014-2017. But she went from running 3:56-3:57 to 3:51 AND winning 5 and 10Ks. Are you suggesting she did not make a significant jump in performance from 2017 to 2019?
In all fairness, she was a 3:56.05 1500m runner and a World Championship Bronze medalist while looking like this:
It seems completely reasonable for her to drop 4.10 seconds in the 1500m and upgrade to gold when she joined a world class training team, dropped 20 pounds, and gained more muscle. For reference, this was her in 2019:
She probably had the lowest body fat in women’s distance running. She was a refugee who left everything behind at a very young age (including her family)for better opportunities. She probably has more willpower, grit, & discipline than any other women on that starting line.
She wasn't winning medals focusing on one event. Then she became unbeatable at any distance.
Your dinging her because she lost in 2015 to Dibaba and Kipyegon at age 23? I’m just saying that this argument that she came out of nowhere at age 25/26 is totally false and especially pernicious if you are using it to justify accusing her of doping.
Achieved a world ranking high enough to avoid the above in 0 events.
Finished top-3 in her national federation's trials in 0 events. (To be fair, they may not have one. They may just pick their team randomly, by vote, according to sponsor affiliation, etc. Point is she has not actually earned a spot. Maybe any Dutch citizen doesn't need to; just saying she hasn't.)
Her presence at the big event is even a bigger sign of some sort of favoritism/nepotism or even corruption/bribery than Alison Felix's.