Fast Babies: Kate Grace, Elle Purrier St. Pierre, Brenda Martinez

The class of 2041 is going to be 🔥🔥🔥

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.

Thoroughbred horses can trace their roots back to three Arabian Stallions. What skills do the sires possess?

Should put peds in the bottle

Somehow I have a feeling that 2 of these mothers will get a lot less hate than Alyson Felix...

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.

Genetics aside, it's also an advantage to be raised in an athletic-positive family/environment. Beats being a crack baby.

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!

Yeah, I'm sure they chose to alter their entire rest of their life to get one extra year of a contract.

not sure about martinez but does no one remember kate graces european revenge tour shortly before she stopped running because of pregnancy?

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.

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