Did you ever consider she was paid to show up and run 3000m? Having a couple of stars in that type of meet motivates the college kiddies ("I ran against Athing Mu!") Also is a draw for the fans even though she didn't finish the race.
Did you watch the video? The stands were almost completely empty. It made Grand Slam Jamaica look like a sellout.
what an embarassing performance. why humiliate yourself in public running a p1ss poor pace training rep.
if thats all shes got to offer, shes better off hanging up her spikes. no one able to run 1:57 or faster is running 3kms that slow even in training
Did you ever consider she was paid to show up and run 3000m? Having a couple of stars in that type of meet motivates the college kiddies ("I ran against Athing Mu!") Also is a draw for the fans even though she didn't finish the race. I realize you are a LRC regular which means only world records get you excited as you sip margaritas with your super model wife in your ocean view Newport Beach home, but the vast majority of us plebes are happy enough to see Athing is healthy and can move around a track for 3k. So chill out, man.
I get that you're defending her, and I appreciate that because I also don't like seeing her slammed like this either. However, your reasoning is ridiculous .... who on earth is going to pay her to jog through and then knowingly drop out of a race shortly after the halfway point? And it's not as if what she did do was particularly electrifying either. If the aim was to draw people to the meet then I'm pretty sure they won't be back next year.
Now, if this works as part of a longer term plan then that's fine. However, the optics are not good. It's just completely mystifying.
Stop saying Mu's 3000m was a weird decision because of the Top 10 fastest ALL TIME 800m runners almost half of them experimented in competition with over distances from 1500, 5000, and even 10000m. They did so after cementing their 800m place internationally. So Nuff said is OR did anyone rag on them?
When are we gonna realize that these athletes are gonna do what they want to do, and not what we fans want them to do? If Mu wants to run 5000 meters so what? If she runs half the race and drop out, so what???
I missed the results. How many people did she trip before dropping out?
Stop saying Mu's 3000m was a weird decision because of the Top 10 fastest ALL TIME 800m runners almost half of them experimented in competition with over distances from 1500, 5000, and even 10000m. They did so after cementing their 800m place internationally. So Nuff said is OR did anyone rag on them?
This is indeed true, however when they did experiment with 3000m or 5000m races, they did it in races of that distance, and they actually raced.
Not whatever the hell that was that Mu did last week