Sifan Hassan: "My biggest goal is to complete the event, rather than the medal."

I'm as big a Hassan's fan as you can get, but if she really wants to push the limit. She should focus on getting gold first, unless she's confident in getting at least 2 golds this way which made her triple in Tokyo all that impressive in the first place.

I mean she just ran a 2:13 last year. She has what it takes to win in Paris. It would be a shame if she goes home with just a bronze or a silver, or even empty-handed because she wasted her energy in the 5k and 10k.

Yeah, I don't know what she is trying to prove running 3 events. Her results this year have not been stellar.

Entered in WC XC then pulled out
Finished 4th in Tokyo
Won 5000 at Portland Track Festival, beating Cranny and finished 4th in the 1500
7th in the 5000 at Pre, behind 6 Ethiopians
5th in Hengelo in the 1500 then pulled out of the 10000 the next day
Entered in the 1500 and 5000 in LA Sunset Tour and pulled out of both

We will see, but I won’t actually be that surprised to see her pull out of an event in Paris.

She's just not in shape to win anything so instead will draw attention to herself by taking on a ridiculous schedule.

Hobbyjogger.

Hassan will give her 5000m/10000m. For Marathon it will completely depend how long the race go. But there is high chance she will DNF or won't medal because she will go all out in 5000m and 10000m

Not what I would do, but then again, I am not the one competing in the Olympics.

I think it will go about 42.195 km.

She sounds like a 16 yr old HS kid. This is a dumb spectacle. I wish she'd be focused.

Some of you people are so funny. Yet when Sydney focuses on the one event she has decided on, she must double or triple. Now an athlete who has decided to triple, must focus... SMDH

Guess what? There are a lot of different posters on the LRC message boards. It's quite likely that any comments you read regarding Sydney were made by other people than those commenting on this thread.

So she's going to transition to ultra running?

Sifan is in phenomenal shape.

She is a nice person but very chaotic.

Thing is, she doesn't care what other people think she 'should' do.
I'm Dutch so I probably catch a bit more news about her, and she basically said 'I already have Olympic medals, so I can take some chances now'.
She just really does not care too much if she gets gold. And we should celebrate athletes actually wanting to RACE many races.

If everyone thought like her, sports would be pretty boring.

I noticed from Hengelo that she is not running as smoothly as previously. Her mechanics seem a little off, my take is she is carrying a niggle.

She has a good chance of a medal though with her kick, but I can't see gold for her in any event.

So rather than try to make history by pulling off a triple no one's done in the modern era, she should sticking to the safe play that everyone else has done before... because it would be less boring?

Please try to make it make sense.

Not wise to underestimate someone with that much ability

Recent results are mostly trivial

ok, I was being an idiot.