The official announcement includes 4 women named to the team whilst an appeal is resolved - someone out of Rose Davies, Linden Hall, Georgia Griffith and Lauren Ryan is going to be cut. Wonder who appealed / what happened?
The official announcement includes 4 women named to the team whilst an appeal is resolved - someone out of Rose Davies, Linden Hall, Georgia Griffith and Lauren Ryan is going to be cut. Wonder who appealed / what happened?
Lauren Ryan is appealing
Seems to be Lauren Ryan should have the edge over Linden Hall. If anybody has "outlier performances" it would be Griffith.
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Griffith came 2nd at the Australian champs, which their vague selection policy seems to favour (when it suits them). Jess Hull, who won, isn't running the 5000m. Linden came 4th and Lauren didn't run them. But she's got the 3rd best time during the qualifying period, so agree she should have the edge over Hall.
she has outlier performances wrote:
Lauren Ryan is appealing
Honestly I swear that Athletics Australia and it's team selectors live for this drama. It's actually a situation where they want all these appeals and infighting over who makes it and who doesn't. A bunch of now irrelevant old white men with very little to do in life except live for the "excitement" of a team selection drama.
What else can it possibly be? EVERY team selection this happens. "Someone is appealing" "CAS is being involved" "Bideau pulled strings" - every time.
Yeah we all get it - selecting a team based off the National championships which because of the geographical location have to be usually 6 or so months before a major event doesn't seem smart. "What about current form, injuries" - okay sure. But you are telling me that in all the free time that these guys have, over all these years, nobody has been able to come up with a fair and equitable solution that gives even a remote semblance of transparency to athletes, it's all just "at selectors discretion"? Everything will be "taken into account by the selection committee?"
That's all you got? A system that at a point becomes totally unobjective in the sense it can be influenced by outside parties (which we know it does)? They say the national championships is still the most important qualification event but it's clearly not because if you have the qualifying standard then it's essentially meaningless. Then you might ask yourself why you would bother getting race fit for the nationals and even racing them if it's really your form in August that matters - but if you don't race the nationals you basically can't be selected. All these active paradoxical situations at play and you then expect athletes to show up in these major events in their best form? Take Jude Thomas - cool he's on the team now. He's just run a PR 2 weeks before the world champs - that could mean he's on his way up and ready to do it again in Tokyo. But considering he's been in race shape since March there is also a chance he was forced to reach that peak 2 weeks before Tokyo just to get there.
Bureaucrats and politics just getting themselves in the way of athletes forever with no end in sight.
jakobuk wrote:
Griffith came 2nd at the Australian champs, which their vague selection policy seems to favour (when it suits them). Jess Hull, who won, isn't running the 5000m. Linden came 4th and Lauren didn't run them. But she's got the 3rd best time during the qualifying period, so agree she should have the edge over Hall.
Ryan was 8th at the champs. I don't think either Ryan or Hall have Bideau connections but Griffiths does. For the sake of avoiding drama, they should just select Ryan and leave Hall to only run the 1500. It's not like either will be a medal threat anyway