We've closed this thread to new posts. Please discuss this topic in a new thread given the fact she just won the race outright in 2023. Does that mean that the 2022 cheating allegations definitely have no merit?
Torches as symbolism of white nationalism isn't exactly new and the Olympics should know better to use one of the widest know white nationalist symbols in history. That article states: "Torches have long been associated with the Ku Klux Klan"
The record is not 3:10 for that stretch. It's 2:21 by Kostelnick in 2019 after he took off 8 or so hours to eat a burger and sleep. I know bc I'm slow AF and passed him at some point, only to have him sprint past me just prior to LP where he tore up Mt Whitney. It's in the results and Kostman has bragged about that for a few years.
Another kind of interesting thing about her and her doppelgänger is that she has the bib pinned on a strap rather than her shorts. Much easier to take on and off
Does her doppelganger also have dyed red (purple?) hair? I get the fact that they are dressed literally the exact same..shirt, shorts, hat, watch color (and wrist), light, waist belt and hair 'up" but the hair color..how do you get around that in any photos that might be out there? (Maybe she ran at night for Ashley?)
So she won, set a new course record, and ran 2:47 for the final 13-mile split. The previous course record holder ran the same split in her overall record-setting run in 3:24. But a woman has split that section in 2:48.
How much slower than the course record did the woman who split 2:47 run? Was she obviously slower earlier to have it makes sense that she was relatively fresh for that stretch? How do Paulson’s earlier splits compare to the previous record-holder’s early splits? These races are so long, with oddities of terrain, rest and fuelling, that it seems pretty hard to learn much from individual segment splits. That wardrobe coordination looks dodgy though.
Those straps are SUPER common out there bc of the need to switch out pacers multiple times. Trying to work safety pins after all those hours is a nightmare. My pacers have always used the bib strap so that's not anything out of the ordinary
Those straps are SUPER common out there bc of the need to switch out pacers multiple times. Trying to work safety pins after all those hours is a nightmare. My pacers have always used the bib strap so that's not anything out of the ordinary
And she's a triathlete, so she would normally use a race belt to pin number on in those races. I don't trust her due to her history, but the race belt isn't a red flag in this situation.
If I won Badwater, or even finished, I'd have that strava map shown bright, bold, loud and proud all over the place; on Facebook, on Instagram, Twitter and all the rest.
"135 Miles"
BAM!
But..."This account is private." I guess, some people are just very private people.
It's weird, isn't it! Very private, coy, demure, humble on Strava, and yet so.... none of those things on Insta.
"Take up the torch?" Could you please not use that kind of terminology, this isn't the 1930's
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Sorry. I admire your "research," "effort" and "tenacity," but to get any credit, a troll has to be believable. Your latest is not. No competent speaker of English could be as ignorant of English usage and history as your troll.
Competent speakers of English know that "take up the torch" has nothing to do with the KKK or Nazis or white supremacy. They know it is a commonplace phrase meaning to "hand over a job, task, duty or knowledge to a successor." Competent speakers know that it, like its relative, "pass the torch," has been use for a long time; some even know that it originated in ancient Greek religious rituals.
Even the most politically correct, virtue-signalling, manbun sporting, woke activist would not start flaming someone for using this phrase. And they certainly wouldn't double down on their criticism again and again. That's because nobody, not even the most insufferable prig, could believe that using the phrase "Take up the torch" contributes to the perpetuation of white supremacy.
Isn't the tower at Hayward Field meant to look like the Olympic Torch? Good grief, give it up, OK?
That said, much of Badwater is run in the dead of night. Someone wearing the same outfit would easily pass as being the real runner. It's too dark to see the color of somebody's shoes. Also, the crew vehicle can see another car coming from 20 miles away in the desert at night. So maybe the last split was real, but that might not be so hard if you've had a comfy night in the crew vehicle.
Sorry. I admire your "research," "effort" and "tenacity," but to get any credit, a troll has to be believable. Your latest is not. No competent speaker of English could be as ignorant of English usage and history as your troll.
Competent speakers of English know that "take up the torch" has nothing to do with the KKK or Nazis or white supremacy. They know it is a commonplace phrase meaning to "hand over a job, task, duty or knowledge to a successor." Competent speakers know that it, like its relative, "pass the torch," has been use for a long time; some even know that it originated in ancient Greek religious rituals.
Even the most politically correct, virtue-signalling, manbun sporting, woke activist would not start flaming someone for using this phrase. And they certainly wouldn't double down on their criticism again and again. That's because nobody, not even the most insufferable prig, could believe that using the phrase "Take up the torch" contributes to the perpetuation of white supremacy.
Imagine you, as a white man with your other white associates, in a room with some black people and they hear you call out, "Pass the torch!". What do you think the black people would think? It's the same reason you don't tell others to eat watermelon even though people have eaten watermelon for Millenia. With how widespread white nationalists use torches as one of their primary symbols, why would you even use the word when there are many other non-racially offensive phrases?
My black friends would get excited since that means we are lighting it up. We would probably ponder why some white dbag is trying to establish the torch as a symbol of racism so he can have something to complain about. Man, white people.
He black-balled a certain runner who had proof from multiple crew members from multiple teams that a well known, author of a best-selling ultramarathon book and previous Badwater winner cheated and hopped in a van to get ahead of said runner while on the Portal Road.
Wait, is this Dean we're talking about? I didn't know about this. Is there an article out there or anything?
I would have guessed Goggins. He seems like that kind of person.
Isn't the tower at Hayward Field meant to look like the Olympic Torch? Good grief, give it up, OK?
That said, much of Badwater is run in the dead of night. Someone wearing the same outfit would easily pass as being the real runner. It's too dark to see the color of somebody's shoes. Also, the crew vehicle can see another car coming from 20 miles away in the desert at night. So maybe the last split was real, but that might not be so hard if you've had a comfy night in the crew vehicle.
And be fair re: the shoes. Even cheaters and doppelgängers gotta be in the right trainers for their gait/other needs. Gotta keep those feet supported and comfortable if you’re gonna run 135, er, 67.5, er…
If you at all paid any attention to Derek over the past few years, you will know that he is still busy trying to shout down that black woman (Latoya Snell) who never cheated and has unfinished business trying to get her to lose her jobs. Is that what you really want for the person in this thread?