What’s up with Gidey that last 400? Fixing her chain and shorts and gave up the win.
LRC Note: Hello everyone. Jonathan Gault reached out to Letesnbet's management team to ask them about her grabbing her shorts. They responded that it's "a little bit (of) a habit of Letesenbet at times, that she will learn to control the more experienced she gets."
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That was bizarre. Moments earlier she was checking her watch and gave a thumbs up sign to someone. I assumed she was preparing for the win and wanted to look organized for the finish line photos.
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Maybe she has some type of OCD? Who does that in the last 300m?
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Most strange.
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It seemed like she was making adjustments all race. Assumed it was jitters from the slow pace, but doing it thru the whole last mile was bizarre. I hope everything is okay, maybe stomach issues or an injury.
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downvoted this because no video, please do better
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why was the women's time considerably slow?
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She keeps some smelling salts in the belt of her shorts. That's why you keep seeing her touch her nose.
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She sure has the best running form out there.
One poster on the boards once said something in the lines of: "If aliens arrived on Earth and needed an explanation to what running is, a video of Gidey is what they should be shown".
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Its seems they jogged for quite a bit early on. Since its not a fast course, why bother gunning it?
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jiggymeister wrote:
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She sure has the best running form out there.
One poster on the boards once said something in the lines of: "If aliens arrived on Earth and needed an explanation to what running is, a video of Gidey is what they should be shown".
Lolll this is amazing because it’s so true.
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jiggymeister wrote:
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She sure has the best running form out there.
One poster on the boards once said something in the lines of: "If aliens arrived on Earth and needed an explanation to what running is, a video of Gidey is what they should be shown".
If I recall correctly I gave that quote. But yes, Gidey is a beautiful sight to behold. She runs like somebody skipping stones upon a beautiful mountain lake on a still and sunny day. - In contrast Obiri runs like she is charging directly into a hurricane whilst being attacked by a hive of angry bees……
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She's been like this her entire career on the track.
Stewart McSweyn is similar. Every couple of strides he's adjusting his shorts or touching his face.
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Pohlpredictor69 wrote:
What’s up with Gidey that last 400? Fixing her chain and shorts and gave up the win.
Sandbagging. Obiri was the winner they wanted.
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As a super experienced marathoner (2 marathons finished, one barely so) I can attest that I become a very stupid and irrational person the last 6-7 miles. She was probably mentally honking pretty good.
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CopperRunner wrote:
As a super experienced marathoner (2 marathons finished, one barely so) I can attest that I become a very stupid and irrational person the last 6-7 miles. She was probably mentally honking pretty good.
Bonking*
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first, she spends most of this finish "chasing the game" from slightly behind. she didn't lose because of fidgeting. she was already falling back a little after a brief pulse up to even. second, it struck me as anxiety or OCD (as someone said), a nervous tic. the necklace didn't seem to be wildly swinging or hitting her in the face. she just seemed to touch the necklace and front bottom of her loose singlet over and over.
we should know from sifan that pretty or efficient doesn't always win.
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Just the Opinionated Facts wrote:
She keeps some smelling salts in the belt of her shorts. That's why you keep seeing her touch her nose.
She does like to touch her nose a lot, not like blowing it but like gently patting an itch or shooing a fly.
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