The Official 2024 US Olympic Trials Orlando ‘Thon Live Thread

Filling up the gas tank with sugar is hard on the engine and a seriously bad idea.

What I also like about Lindwurm is how she chose to race close to home at Grandma's and learned how to compete and win in the marathon. A lot of people don't do anything like that, they always go to the highest level that will give them the biggest appearance fee and perpetually finish in the pack and then wonder why they don't have the tools to react in a selection race to make the top 3.

Nipple chafing I’d think? Ouch

Oops I meant to reply to someone asking about the blood my bad

Trials volunteer here. The seals on the bottles were broken by the volunteers but caps left on.

Jessica McClain 4th place finisher, works full time, is self coached and sponsorless!

Anyone know what happen to Keira D'Amato. One of the favourites and just dropped off to never be seen again. Big disappointment. I had her as one of my safe bets.

Why did Young let Mantz win?

Don't be stupid, Ed. That was a well deserved compliment.

Love how Lewis looked Clayton right in the eye and said ”Conner…”

C/O many DNFs

Black announcer amd two white guys so it was fine. Reverse it and....

Clayton agreed beforehand to let mantz win but Clayton keeps the different of the prize money

Just based on what I read in the days leading up to the race, I guessed O'Keefe and Sisson, but knew nothing about Lindwurm. I figured the third might be Saina or another of the canny old guard, like Hall, but things can get real tough suddenly at around 40. I had never seen O'Keefe run before; I thought she looked terrific the whole way -- probably one of the best unpaced marathons on a record-quality course by an American woman since Joanie's brilliant Chicago race in 1985. Alistair Craig seemed dead on about her natural ability in the marathon, and I'm guessing that she's going to get significantly faster as she moves into international competition.

Jenny Simpson DNF at 18 mile. Will she run another ‘Thon?

Would love to know how bad the HS training was😂

here is a crazy thought. Stop commenting on women's bodies you freaking loser

I really wish NBC would cover the distance events with more professionalism. They insist on taking this "Good Morning America" style approach and it drives me nuts every time.

ESPN has done such a good job with NCAA XC the last couple years, we need more of that.

Although I don't like these prearrangements, especially when a pacer throws the race at the last moment to the preselected winner, this was a tough situation. And I was scared that they would do something really stupid, like crossing the line holding hands and thereby risking disqualification of both runners, which would have been horrible. So they more or less did what Shorter and Moore did in the 1972 trials race, with Shorter getting credited with the win after the two friends had run the whole way together. (Shorter had correctly slapped Moore's hand away at the end to avoid a possible disqualification of both runners.)