It's time to have a conversation about Keely Hodgkinson

I ain't reading all that shiz.

She's clean, hot, and ready to win Worlds.

I think the UK intelligence services dope some of the athletes. Let them join the good old boys club if they go along with their plan to propagandize the citizens.

Controlling the population’s thoughts and experiences is very important to them maintaining order.

No, it not time to have a conversation about Keely Hodgkinson.

What is the impact of these hamstring tears on normal walking? She turned up to the Keely classic to do some speaking to the crowd, as I remember it some silly rap music and her attire was of a very bad Madonna video. She was not limping at all, surely walking around like this would not be recommended?

It's time to talk about American's fragile egos

I'm a Brit by the way.

Bee venom. It's the secret they don't want you to know about.

I agree I find it suspicious. Now they don’t go into details about the second hamstring injury, so to me it seems like May was possibly just an exacerbation of that first tear and not a separate grade 3 tear. As a PT I always find it insane when football or soccer players are back on the field like 3 months after an Achilles surgery, even with access to all the best care in the world and having healing be your full time job tendon healing still takes time. I think she raced smart and being good tactically helps take the race sharpness part out of the equation, but the ability to build up fitness that quick definitely makes me raise a brow.

I thought that. Certain elites seem to have big injuries then come back and run fast times.

Ingebrigsten is a key one

A bit fishy

She has some back though

Your just another one of the salty yanks on here.

The hypocrisy on here is unparralled. Look at what Hocker, Rooks et al did last year - massive, massive PB Improvements in Olympic finals out of NOWHERE.

You all turn the other cheek when it's an american, and accuse the rest of the world.

Don't have time to read your post. Congratulations, or sorry that happened.

A big problem about this sport is that no-one can have unbiased conversations and reduce everything to home turf wars. I, the OP, am a Brit from a location not far from Keely's hometown. Why should someone's nationality preclude them from having a certain opinion? I've laid out the facts quite plainly. Also you have no clue what I've said about Hocker before so this is just desperate deflection.

Now let's get back to the actual thread!

The whole sport is filthy and a joke

Worst sport ever really, every good result just causes scepticism

Better to just watch football

I watch athletics but its a joke, european, US and African. All doping at winning level.

Rather watch runners like Chris Thompson, Ben Conner and Dewi Griffiths than blatant dopers

Other sports are worse. But they don't pretend to do anything about it so nobody even thinks about it. Small margins rule sports, and doping provides more than small margins.

She is an absolute freak athlete. Her Olympic silver in 2021 came completely out of nowhere at age 19. Normal training logic does not apply to Keely.

Mu was regarded as the freakiest of genetic freaks. Keely might be even more absurdly talented. And her mental game is top tier.

This is what Trevor Painter had to say about those injuries in an interview with The Times :

thetimes.com

Keely Hodgkinson in sight of 42-year-old record after injury torment

Rick Broadbent

Briton’s coach details potholes on road to stunning comeback and reveals 800m runner has a physio present at every track session ahead of World Championships

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That is a goal to go with the gilded ones. Two laps at the Diamond League’s Polish stopover have firmly re-established her as the favourite to win her first world title in Tokyo, and it was remarkable to see her make a return from a year-long hiatus look so easy when the truth is the road has been long, hard and dotted with potholes.

“It’s been three different things,” explains Painter, whose canny coaching partnership with his wife, Jenny Meadows, has facilitated Hodgkinson’s ascent. “The injury after the Olympics was the bottom of the hamstring on the left leg just behind the knee. The one indoors [in February] was the top of the left hamstring.

“Then we were two weeks out from running in Stockholm in June and the right one did the same thing. They said it was a grade-three tear, but we don’t feel it was. It was fixed a bit quicker than that but the scans always show more and you just have to be sensible and cautious and take your time."

I assume the grade three tear is what Painter is referring to at the at end of this quote.

I'm assuming "they" are the medical team responsible for the scan and diagnosis of the hamstring issue.

The information above confirms the 1st G3 was on her left leg. The 2nd on her right.

Growth hormone is probably attainable for the sake of injury repair with TUE, and I truly don't think things that help you repair from painful injuries should be banned.

she has probably also been using collagen supps, MSM and glucosamine, red light and heat, PEMF, multivitamins, methyl donor vitamins, and a whole host of things to help her sleep and recovery. She can't be faulted for that - injuries suck.