Kate Grace, Elle Purrier St. Pierre, and Brenda Martinez recently had their babies. Congrats to the new moms! Elle’s and Kate’s were born just a day apart 3/4 and 3/5. Brenda’s was born 2/28.
Fast Babies: Kate Grace, Elle Purrier St. Pierre, Brenda Martinez
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The class of 2041 is going to be 🔥🔥🔥
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Assuming that they get mom’s mitochondria and dad’s normie DNA doesn’t become dominant.
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The Great Genetic Crapshoot wrote:
Assuming that they get mom’s mitochondria and dad’s normie DNA doesn’t become dominant.
Pretty sure Grace's husband was a div 1 NCAA champion swimmer. No slouch.
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Should put peds in the bottle
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Somehow I have a feeling that 2 of these mothers will get a lot less hate than Alyson Felix...
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no normies wrote:
The Great Genetic Crapshoot wrote:
Assuming that they get mom’s mitochondria and dad’s normie DNA doesn’t become dominant.
Pretty sure Grace's husband was a div 1 NCAA champion swimmer. No slouch.
That may be awful! Too many swimmers have short legs like highlanders from Nepal. Have you seen Mike Phelps' inseam to height ratio?
* We need U.S. elite women runners getting together with men who can throw a football 100 yards &/or throw a baseball 100 m.p.h.
* We need U.S. elite women runners getting together with men who can sprint 60m sub-7 seconds with 35 inch vertical leaping ability.
* We need U.S. elite women runners getting together with men with sub-70 seconds 600 yards &/or sub-75 seconds 600m ability.
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The Great Genetic Crapshoot wrote:
Assuming that they get mom’s mitochondria and dad’s normie DNA doesn’t become dominant.
Genetics aside, it's also an advantage to be raised in an athletic-positive family/environment. Beats being a crack baby.
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rEpLaCeMeNt ThEoRy wrote:
Somehow I have a feeling that 2 of these mothers will get a lot less hate than Alyson Felix...
It depends on whether their motherhood status is mentioned every other breath on TV coverage.
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XY wrote:
rEpLaCeMeNt ThEoRy wrote:
Somehow I have a feeling that 2 of these mothers will get a lot less hate than Alyson Felix...
It depends on whether their motherhood status is mentioned every other breath on TV coverage.
She almost died in childbirth and made it back to the Olympics. That's pretty impressive.
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rEpLaCeMeNt ThEoRy wrote:
XY wrote:
It depends on whether their motherhood status is mentioned every other breath on TV coverage.
She almost died in childbirth and made it back to the Olympics. That's pretty impressive.
I used to think it was corny to constantly mention an athlete being a mom until I got pregnant myself (currently 35.5 weeks with twins). Let's just say there's a lot to deal with physically and mentally that no one really teaches you until you're in the thick of it. It's definitely impressive that Allyson Felix has had the long athletic career before and after a life-threatening pregnancy.
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Let's be honest here, it looks like a pretty good way to suck another year+ out of your contract at the sunset of your career. Martinez and Grace would have surely been dropped had they not become pregnant. They probably won't get dropped now for another year since the appearance would not be a good look. I'd say that getting pregnant buys them at least a 2 year contract extension. Enough time to have the baby, a little maternity leave and enough time to try and make a comeback to elite running. Seems like a pretty good gig! Don't hate; you know it's true!
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Yeah, I'm sure they chose to alter their entire rest of their life to get one extra year of a contract.
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Keepin in Real wrote:
Let's be honest here, it looks like a pretty good way to suck another year+ out of your contract at the sunset of your career. Martinez and Grace would have surely been dropped had they not become pregnant. They probably won't get dropped now for another year since the appearance would not be a good look. I'd say that getting pregnant buys them at least a 2 year contract extension. Enough time to have the baby, a little maternity leave and enough time to try and make a comeback to elite running. Seems like a pretty good gig! Don't hate; you know it's true!
not sure about martinez but does no one remember kate graces european revenge tour shortly before she stopped running because of pregnancy?
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txRUNNERgirl wrote:
Yeah, I'm sure they chose to alter their entire rest of their life to get one extra year of a contract.
Babies are not cheap, as you will soon find out X2. If they were planning on having kids anyway, why not time it to ensure they get paid while doing so? I'm not judging them, I'd do it too. Just keepin it real.
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Huangdi wrote:
Keepin in Real wrote:
Let's be honest here, it looks like a pretty good way to suck another year+ out of your contract at the sunset of your career. Martinez and Grace would have surely been dropped had they not become pregnant. They probably won't get dropped now for another year since the appearance would not be a good look. I'd say that getting pregnant buys them at least a 2 year contract extension. Enough time to have the baby, a little maternity leave and enough time to try and make a comeback to elite running. Seems like a pretty good gig! Don't hate; you know it's true!
not sure about martinez but does no one remember kate graces european revenge tour shortly before she stopped running because of pregnancy?
After that, do you not remember the LONG period of "LONG COVID" and no training prior to her shotgun wedding and subsequent pregnancy announcement?
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Keepin in Real wrote:
Huangdi wrote:
not sure about martinez but does no one remember kate graces european revenge tour shortly before she stopped running because of pregnancy?
After that, do you not remember the LONG period of "LONG COVID" and no training prior to her shotgun wedding and subsequent pregnancy announcement?
the long covid that she had been recovering from? i don’t think it affected her that much
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