EMMA MF BATES - 2024 BOSTON MARATHON Popularity Contest Champion

First clean finisher!

Setting the over/under at 25 for the number of instagram posts it takes to recap her race.

"They're on 2:25 pace but Emma Bates is technically winning so she must be really fast and the best runner in the field! Let's talk about her!"

At that slow of a pace it was just a matter of time before the fast women took control. It just happened to be they didn't do that until after 20 miles. They put 4.5 minutes on her in the last 10k.

I’ll take the over

Taking the under on that. She does a lot of posts but usually doesn't stretch to 25.

It so over the top. She dribbles them out to end just before the next major marathon and are so contrived. I bet GPT4 could write the 2024 version almost to the word based on her past recaps and a few new facts: overcame unprecedented adversity/inury, acted as pace setter for all the eventual top 10 runners and then promptly got dropped after high fiving the crowds like real competitors do in the middle of a race, and beat the last American winner of the race by two-ish minutes despite being nine years younger.

Edit: and I’ll take the under just because someone on Letsrun said it would take 25.

I'll take "Things you'd never post under your real identity", Alex

That's not a disagreement. You just dont like the fact.

I'm a fan of distance running, but could not tell you any of the winners of the big city marathons. I just don't care. Neither does anyone else.

Never responded to your requests for a date huh?

History of 100m and Marathon at Olympics:

One-hundred meter dash Olympic finals and medalists were multi-racial and multi-ethnic from 1932 through 1960. A 10.2 or 10.3 guy on cinder (which is fast) could expect to earn a medal through 1964. People not of recent African heritage either gave up, 100m dash aspirations or gene pool was altered due to WW2 deaths. Sprinters &/or 100m to 400m guys are going to be military basic training standouts. Basic training standouts go to infantry. Weaker skinny fat guys and large fat guys get set elsewhere, military. Those WW2 deaths changed sprinting. Many Europeans and/or Eurasian infantrymen died, WW2. By default, many 100m dash men died, WW2, many men with 100m genes died, WW2.

Too many in T&F used unsophisticated logic for decades:

If one needs to look like Bob Hayes to sprint well, 100m, by default Eurasians are the best Marathoners.

That's not how it works. That is not how it ever has worked.

Total garbage but I found it amusing to read

Totally agree. The announcers were terrible. So many moronic comments and just errors, it was pathetic. Yes, one or two of the errors was corrected a few minutes later, but that didn't save the broadcast. Just about unlistenable. "They're running passed Fenway Park, but I don't think they have time to watch the game right now" Total, unnecessary blather, as Lokedi and Obiri were locked in a thrilling duel.

the commentary at the vast majority of races is not geared towards runners.
it’s more targeted at the casual sports fan/theatre goer who may just have tuned in for this event.

this is a world wide problem, it’s not just the US.
I think if they catered to their core audience viewer numbers would improve and the casual fan might learn something that develops more than a passing interest in the sport…but what do I know.

How do you know she's clean?

I don't know if fully agree here. While some of the BBC/British broadcasting can be full of well-worn cliches (cue the Tim Hutchings drinking game, where a shot is consumed upon the phrases of "the proud East African nation," "the business end of the race," and/or "the heart of champion") I at least feel like I know who is racing, who is leading, and that the announcers actually have some knowledge of the sport. Granted, using the Boston commentators as a comparison is a low bar, but still, I'd watch a televisedLondon Marathon any day over Boston in that I feel like I'm actually supplied with pertinent information.

She was 12th.................. yawn... "Boston marathon recap 1" "2" "....25"

People b and moan about something they can control (lower the volume, dont follow, broadcast it yourself w streamyard, etc). Bunch of MF snowflakes. BTW, did I use MF correctly?

And this was the first stupid post. People like you should be put in a room with a group of runners so you can tell them to their faces that they cheat.

You're a coward.