The Official 2024 US Olympic Trials Orlando ‘Thon Live Thread

If you ain’t first, yer last

Natosha ran very aggressively for a first-time marathoner and paid the price. Props to her for getting to the finish line after the fast first 10 miles. Her first-timer teammate also ran aggressively, of course, and had a jaw dropping debut. But, not everyone can have those. (Puma must be doing something right with so many finishers.)

i think maybe she had bloody nose during the race. some around the shirt collar like she wiped it off her face.

If I were the ASICS sponsors I’d certainly be asking that question.

Well, Asics can offer a bigger performance incentive in the future. Nike probably was offering more and they'll split it.

NBC finally posted two clips

What was the prize money breakdown for the top 10-15 today?

For anyone international that maybe cannot access the youtube clips or wants to save the video, these are the same two clips direct from NBC

I found it:

The first 10 finishers in the men’s and women’s races will earn prize money, with the winner of each race getting $80,000. Second place will take home $65,000 and third will get $55,000. After that, the money goes $25,000; $20,000; $15,000; $13,000; $11,000; $9,000 for fourth through ninth. The 10th-place finisher in each race will win $7,000.

I wonder if the top two men pre-agreed to split the combined pot of $145k, so they wouldn't have to wreck themselves in a long battle that could cause one of them to blow up and not make the team. And would be harder to recover from of course.

Great line and a great sound bite, but the reality of it is that emaciation, at it's core, is more about the state or condition of ones health than one's appearance. Something we should all be concerned about if we actually care about these athletes. Thinness is merely a symptom of emaciation, and the comment literally juxtaposes the two. Anyone with a brain and an IQ North of 100 would easily understand the difference. Congrats on being subpar.

I do think it’s curious (and I could be remembering wrong) that every athlete who made a big stink about the weather and start time missed the team.

there is something to be said for mentally defeating yourself before the race even begins

The seals on the bottles were broken by the volunteers before putting them on the table.

O’Keefe and Sisson running 2:22 in a hot, championship-style race should be given major props. They both destroyed the previous US Olympic Trials record of 2:25:38. I know the time still isn’t anything flashy but if they train well for hills and heat we could see another US women’s marathon medalist in Paris. Reminder the heat in Tokyo resulted in the winning time being in the 2:27s.

The LR story says Zach Panning was on pace for the Olympic standard of 2:08:10.

So, nobody in the race hit that standard. Has anyone but Mantz hit it in the qualifying period? Korir has not.

I say only Mantz goes. Sending the others is an embarrassment to America, makes us look like a charity case. Mantz has assumed the Ruppian mantle of serious US elites.

Is her husband aware that you are her ex?

Mantz and Young both have the standard from Chicago.

A question: since USATF won't let anyone chase the Olympic standard after the end of the Trials, can Korir run a half marathon before May and try to get enough points to get in on rankings? And what races would he want to go to get a fast time and enough bonus points to go to Paris on ranking?

Also, does he leapfrog Fauble on the world rankings list based on what he ran today plus bonus points? I thought someone mentioned that he did.

I was thinking the same thing.

There's a local, to me, high school that used to have a guy coaching distance who knew absolutely nothing about running.

All these talented runners would go to D3 and improve amazingly.

How are financial pre-arrangements to split winnings even allowed? I get it for the runners, but what if this were another sport like football or baseball? Or tennis? Would it be allowed? It just seems strange to me.