Breaking: Athing Mu WILL Debut in NYC After All, but in the 800m!

Athletics Weekly was super fast:

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Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone and Athing Mu lead line-ups at NYC Grand Prix - AW

Olympic and world 400m hurdles champion tackles flat 400m, while Mu races 800m on Saturday June 24 in New York

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Finally….

What sort of time will make you think she will be ready for Keely later this summer? I think if she can cruise to a win in 1:58.x, everything will be just fine in August. If she isn’t easily under 2 min, well, then it’s going to be time to panic….maybe.

Yep, but super fast = errors. It's a big problem in Internet era, where everyone want to be the fastest.

Michael Norman and Kenny Bednarek have withdrawn as per organizers.

That said we will have SML improving and Mu clocking XXX for a win.

I think 1:57-1:58, but it also comes down to how the race is run. If she goes 58-58 or 59-59 and is looking strong pulling away from Ajee Wilson, I'd feel confident. If she goes out faster, and Ajee is closing on her or even beating her I'd be concerned that she's got a ton of work to do.

Mu has yet to run a Diamond League outside the United States where USATF can't protect her.

So, any idea how much Kersee is holding them ransom for? $150k per athlete per meet, split 60/40?

Can't be cheap.

She ran and won the 800 in Rome last year.

Athing Mu also won the Olympics which were in Japan. But facts will never stop posters from saying crazy things.

Yes, prior to her move to L.A./Bob Kersee, which she did after the 2022 season.

And the other notable aspect of that race was the passivity of Mary Moraa. She opened like a bullet for 50 meters then voluntarily dropped to irrelevance at the back of the field.

Moraa has loads of talent but in the Olympic semifinal and both races against Mu she hasn't challenged at all. Mu has never had reason to know she's in the race. Moraa has been tons more aggressive and confident against Hodgkinson that Moraa.

A huge part of that is the reality that Athing Mu can jog a 56 or 57 opening lap and then extend on the backstretch. I had to laugh at the projections here of 58 or 59. Has Athing Mu been Hockerized? She is immune from the pathetic American mentality of late running stiff.

Somehow we'll actually have fans who are stunned when Mu effortlessly lopes to the lead and the class edge is like a stakes horse running against claimers.

The Olympics are not the Diamond League. When she competes in the Olympics she's part of the U.S. National team. When she competes on the Diamond League she competes an individual athlete.

Since their move to Kersee as coach neither McLaughlin nor Mu has competed overseas in their specialty. Must be just a coincidence.

Bob Kersee, as you recall, was Flojo's former coach.

Tears in my eyes, my goat is byke. She ready to run a WL hopefully

we shall see….

She hasn't raced *anywhere* since the move. And Worlds is going to be in Budapest. You have literally no point here. You are going to assume she has started doping before even seeing what shape she is in?

As for your later comment, Sydney trying out the 400 was established from last season. Furthermore, she *did* race a 400mH Continental Tour Gold in Hungary last year, so once again you literally have no point. If you want to make doping accusations speak with your chest instead of cowardly hiding behind demonstrably false statements.

'Good chance she scratches again.

The 2023 Diamond League just started recently. There are plenty of runners that haven't run a Diamond League meet yet. It has nothing to do with them all being protected by USATF.

You have a wild imagination!