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1 year ago 08/01/2024 11:44pm EDT

Some interesting comments from Dina about how life is treating her in the US.

“I’ve been running great, I’ve put together a string of great performances and still have stuff to work in. So I think I’m in a really exciting position.

“I think they have (in America) a very different mentality. I was having this conversation the other day. I think they’re really, relentlessly optimistic. I think that’s a great thing.

“Obviously I’m very British, so that was a change, but if you were to say, ‘I want to go to the moon,’ they will be like, ‘How can I help you do that?’ and that is mind-blowing.

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1 year ago 08/01/2024 11:47pm EDT

re: rojo

rojo wrote:
“I think they have (in America) a very different mentality. I was having this conversation the other day. I think they’re really, relentlessly optimistic. I think that’s a great thing.
“Obviously I’m very British, so that was a change, but if you were to say, ‘I want to go to the moon,’ they will be like, ‘How can I help you do that?’ and that is mind-blowing.
Link:uk.sports.yahoo.com/news/dina-asher-sm...

Funny enough, the Americans asked German rocket scientists that question and they quickly moved to the US after WWII.

1 year ago 08/01/2024 11:48pm EDT

re: rojo

I see she hasn't visited the LetsRun side of America yet.

1 year ago 08/01/2024 11:52pm EDT

re: rojo

rojo wrote:
Some interesting comments from Dina about how life is treating her in the US.
“I’ve been running great, I’ve put together a string of great performances and still have stuff to work in. So I think I’m in a really exciting position.
“I think they have (in America) a very different mentality. I was having this conversation the other day. I think they’re really, relentlessly optimistic. I think that’s a great thing.
“Obviously I’m very British, so that was a change, but if you were to say, ‘I want to go to the moon,’ they will be like, ‘How can I help you do that?’ and that is mind-blowing.
Link:uk.sports.yahoo.com/news/dina-asher-sm...

I’m glad that she’s had a positive experience in the US. I mean it goes without saying that she must not visit this incel infested message board. I mean take a look at some of the posts on here. If the FBI’s not keeping an eye on Letsrun they should.

1 year ago 08/02/2024 12:58am EDT

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LRC is a disgrace wrote:
I see she hasn't visited the LetsRun side of America yet.

For real. I am glad though. It makes our sport seem less sad.

1 year ago 08/02/2024 2:58am EDT

re: 123 please kill me

Well, it's better than 'marginal gains'

1 year ago 08/02/2024 3:47am EDT

re: pupilpi

Bill Bailey nails it

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1 year ago 08/02/2024 3:57am EDT

re: rojo

rojo wrote:
Some interesting comments from Dina about how life is treating her in the US.
“I’ve been running great, I’ve put together a string of great performances and still have stuff to work in. So I think I’m in a really exciting position.
“I think they have (in America) a very different mentality. I was having this conversation the other day. I think they’re really, relentlessly optimistic. I think that’s a great thing.
“Obviously I’m very British, so that was a change, but if you were to say, ‘I want to go to the moon,’ they will be like, ‘How can I help you do that?’ and that is mind-blowing.
Link:uk.sports.yahoo.com/news/dina-asher-sm...

Dina is just trying to put a positive spin on things, but the facts are that she peaked in 2019 and this move to Texas hasn’t taken her to another level.

Dina has no hope of a medal in the 100, but a good chance in the 200 if Shericka is carrying an injury, as Dina’s only truly behind Gabby and Julien, with Mckenzie perhaps already having peaked due to the long NCAA season. I think Dina is ahead of Brittany.

Dina’s top 20 100m performances
4 in 2018
8 in 2019
3 in 2021
4 in 2022
1 in 2023
0 in 2024

Dina’s top 20 200m performances
3 in 2015
1 in 2017
2 in 2018
5 in 2019
4 in 2021
2 in 2022
1 in 2023
2 in 2024

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1 year ago 08/02/2024 6:28am EDT

re: AngryBrit

A significant change in body composition is apparent to me after watching that heat. Maybe a Kerr-like cut?

1 year ago 08/02/2024 7:33am EDT

re: rojo

Dina - as with most the Team GB athletes - is firmly British middle class (Grammar / Private school, Russell Group university etc).

Make no mistake, there isn't a more pessimistic ("but I'm realistic"), envious, tall poppy syndrome ridden, self-loathing group on the planet than a subset of this socioeconomic group.

It's driven into you from secondary school, and relentlessly so.

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1 year ago 08/02/2024 10:31am EDT

re: AngryBrit

9th June 2024, Rome 100m final (+0.7 m/s)
1st Dina 10.99
2nd Ewa 11.03

2nd August 2024, Paris 100m heat (+1.0 m/s)
1st Ewa 10.99
2nd Dina 11.01

This is Dina's level, and has been all season. I'm still waiting for the "Texas bounce", the result of American superiority, to kick-in.

Shout out to John Blackie.

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1 year ago 08/02/2024 10:54am EDT

re: rojo

rojo wrote:
Some interesting comments from Dina about how life is treating her in the US.
“I’ve been running great, I’ve put together a string of great performances and still have stuff to work in. So I think I’m in a really exciting position.
“I think they have (in America) a very different mentality. I was having this conversation the other day. I think they’re really, relentlessly optimistic. I think that’s a great thing.
“Obviously I’m very British, so that was a change, but if you were to say, ‘I want to go to the moon,’ they will be like, ‘How can I help you do that?’ and that is mind-blowing.
Link:uk.sports.yahoo.com/news/dina-asher-sm...

It’s expected that you say nice things about the country hosting you. What she meant is that most Americans are insufferable fat slobs who don’t even realize that they have no capacity to help anyone get to the moon.

1 year ago 08/02/2024 10:55am EDT

re: rojo

rojo wrote:
Some interesting comments from Dina about how life is treating her in the US.
“I’ve been running great, I’ve put together a string of great performances and still have stuff to work in. So I think I’m in a really exciting position.
“I think they have (in America) a very different mentality. I was having this conversation the other day. I think they’re really, relentlessly optimistic. I think that’s a great thing.
“Obviously I’m very British, so that was a change, but if you were to say, ‘I want to go to the moon,’ they will be like, ‘How can I help you do that?’ and that is mind-blowing.
Link:uk.sports.yahoo.com/news/dina-asher-sm...

1 year ago 08/02/2024 11:56am EDT

re: AnActualBrit

Watching the heat again, Coach Flo has really meddled (not medalled...) with Dina's mechanics.

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She looks nothing like this 10.84 performance from 2022, where she has that aggressive "reaching" style that propels her down the track. She's had that style since she first came to international prominence in 2014.

She now looks like a cut-price Julien Alfred, struggling to lift her knees, but without Julien's power output.

1 year ago 08/02/2024 11:59am EDT

re: bah.

bah. wrote:
It’s expected that you say nice things about the country hosting you. What she meant is that most Americans are insufferable fat slobs who don’t even realize that they have no capacity to help anyone get to the moon.

Brits spell realise with an "s", so... not a Brit.

1 year ago 08/02/2024 12:19pm EDT

re: AnActualBrit

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1 year ago 08/02/2024 5:20pm EDT

re: bah.

bah. wrote:
It’s expected that you say nice things about the country hosting you. What she meant is that most Americans are insufferable fat slobs who don’t even realize that they have no capacity to help anyone get to the moon.

Who peed in your cereal, bro?

1 year ago 08/02/2024 5:32pm EDT

re: rojo

Every Brit says the same things about America:

1. People are super positive

2. People are incredibly sincere

3. Customer service is brilliant

Genuinely, I've never met an American that I didn't like.

1 year ago 08/03/2024 12:13am EDT

re: toozy

toozy wrote:
Dina - as with most the Team GB athletes - is firmly British middle class (Grammar / Private school, Russell Group university etc).
Make no mistake, there isn't a more pessimistic ("but I'm realistic"), envious, tall poppy syndrome ridden, self-loathing group on the planet than a subset of this socioeconomic group.
It's driven into you from secondary school, and relentlessly so.

Awful soundbite of the capitalist West. Some of us optimistic, council estate British lot did pretty well for ourselves by making up our own rules. Some of us were realistic, too.

And I also made room in my life to go to the top Div I school on scholarship. Heard the Head Coach's overwhelming positivity only to find him yawning, scratching his head, under the hotel stairs at SECs. Years before his hair had fallen out with stress. Fascinating world under the surface of things...

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