Parker Valby, for real, I’m betting on her for LA 2028! After reading about her on Let’s Run, she’s a sure thing for the Marathon Gold in LA 2028. It will be a movie for real!
At the rate USATF is going, there won't be an Olympic marathon trials, and they'll just take the top three off the World Athletics ranking list. No city is stupid enough to put up the money to stage the trials knowing they're never selling enough hotel room nights and local sponsorships to make up for what USATF/USOPC is extorting.
Just because the so called experts on this board don’t know anything about what is going on in this sport doesn’t mean things aren’t happening. The OT are in Chattanooga.
There are always surprises at the Trials - how many people picked 43 year-old Abdi and the other random guy (from Boulder?) to make the team in 2020? Answer: Zero. I still think Rupp figures it out (an 80% Rupp jogs 2:09 and makes the team), then insert two randoms out of a pool of 30 and you have your team. Mantz would probably be the the second favorite but the guy has ran one marathon, so he goes into the pool of 30 with everyone else.
Seidel is in with a shout if she can get her brain right.
Molly Shapiro has a better chance
That's funny.
For the men who even cares? They're all so slow it won't even matter. That being said, Fauble won't as he will default to his normal 2:12 self. US men are so terrible a geriatric Rupp will still make the team and probably still win with a 2:08 on a flat course.
What a silly, stupid, and negative thread to start.
And you can't see beyond your hate filled nose. Based on the performances of all of the fall marathons, we should be able to judge the men and women. some did better than expected and some showed that their time is up. Grow up.