Alysia Montano twitter fight with typical runner

You a$$holes made me wet my pants, I laughed so hard....

This thread is a microcosm of a larger debate that has been going on in LR for years: Can we the fans critique an athlete if he or she is faster than the fans? I say yes. Part of being a fan is picking apart the performance of the athletes that we love. If Montano does not like people watching her races, then she should give her endorsement money back.

Montano has had possibly the dumbest week in recent athletics history. She runs the World finals like an excited high school freshman and loses out on a medal. Then she comes back to the DL and drifts out to lane 5 in the final straight, effectively losing the race. She is clearly frustrated and took it out on a Twitter follower. Someone needs to get her head examined.

Cicirunner wrote:

To the person that said I can't touch my 4:39 from high school, you are so wrong! I ran my sub 10 a few months ago and 16:02 like 2 weeks ago. Why don't you consult Athlinks before you make judgements?

I made a video about this incident. Basically, I didn't realize she was tagged in my original tweet response to Flotrack. After that, I only responded to her directly if she addressed me. If I sent a tweet to one of her fans hating on me, I took her name out of the tweet.

If you're going to have a Twitter, you can't be that close-minded and offended by public opinion. If so, you shouldn't be on a social media site. I really didn't say anything out of the norm. If you saw the race, you were also thinking, "What is she doing?"

i find it absolutely STAGGERING that you are so full of yourself and so oblivious as to what is actually GOOD in running that you include your paltry PRs in your twitter profile and then come on here to defend them.

Jesus, what a joke. You're a total embarrassment and should seriously consider canceling your internet subscription as a favor to yourself and anyone unfortunate enough to encounter your delusion.

Tom Lawyer wrote:

Montano has had possibly the dumbest week in recent athletics history.

If you can't take pride in your own running accomplishments, then you shouldn't be running. I love running and am pleased with my times. Whether or not you find them impressive is irrelevant to me.

pathetic twitterer wrote:

i find it absolutely STAGGERING that you are so full of yourself and so oblivious as to what is actually GOOD in running that you include your paltry PRs in your twitter profile and then come on here to defend them.

Jesus, what a joke. You're a total embarrassment and should seriously consider canceling your internet subscription as a favor to yourself and anyone unfortunate enough to encounter your delusion.

Welcome to LR, Alysia.

She's the egomaniac here who has a problem. If you can't stand the tweets don't have twitter. As a professional you can't take this stuff seriously. Think pro athletes only get praise? Pick up the papers. Read comments from any article on yahoo.

This chic is completely unprofessional and childish. She dishes but can't take.

He's actually in medical school

No the poster had it right. No one wants to hear about your weirdo muscle girl and farting fetish, and sorry to break it to you but the rest of your drivel is bad trolling at best and more likely a bizarro fetish addiction that is enjoyed only in the seedy fringes of society. Good luck with that hermaphrodite bodybuilder chick and her strap-on. What it boils down to us you're into Jarmila K. and Maria Mutola, the rest of us are not. You're gross, dude.

BguyjMillenum013 wrote:

As diminutive distance runners, im sure most distance runners on here have been lifted and carried by a strong girl at some point in their lives and pinned down in a school girl pin, with your neck trapped against her crotch. So its no surprise that a Letsrun poster posts about getting sit on by women, since most distance runners are half the man of an average woman.

Cicirunner wrote:

That photo is from a race I won up Kaloko. 10% average grade for 6.5 miles and I averaged 8 min mile pace. Lets see you try it. I'll let you crash at my shack in Hawaii and we can race!

Isn't this the exact same argument Montano used against you?

Hey you men out there. How many of you are married to a lady who has her "thing" once a month and is a royal bitch? It was that time for Montano. Now close this post please.

Posts like this make me more sympathetic to cicirunner. Twitter, instagram, and the like is all about "look at me, look at me, look at me!!!!"

This flower would have done nothing to advance gay rights whether on the medal stand or not. It's self-delusion for Alysia to think that her medaling and thus being able to show off her flower = showering love to gays. Side note Alysia: don't count your chickens before they hatch.

AM is a great runner, and I really admire her ability to run from the front and set the pace. But I agree that it cost her this time round. Nothing wrong with that and nothing wrong with a guy on a social media site speaking his mind in a polite manner. Nothing really wrong with self-promotion on twitter even. Just be ready to take the good with the bad.

El Keniano wrote:

I also see nothing wrong or offensive in his tweets. She's the one who's coming off as rude.

I agree and the last one says keep doing your thing and she replies in the rude manner

At least she went for it in the race but the first 200m was too fast. Every runners has done it, or should have - but usually accepts that they ran like an idiot. Denial of that is not going to improve her chances and its frustrating to those of us without her talent to see someone else waste it

Cicirunner wrote:

If you can't take pride in your own running accomplishments, then you shouldn't be running. I love running and am pleased with my times. Whether or not you find them impressive is irrelevant to me.

Taking pride in your accomplishments has NOTHING to do throwing those "accomplishments" in to the face of anyone unfortunate enough to come into contact with you.

And the fact that your "accomplishments" are so shabby to begin with simply showcases your self-aggrandizing, ego-maniacal delusion. It speaks volumes of you, none of which is positive in any way.

Pathetic.

pathetic twitterer wrote:

Taking pride in your accomplishments has NOTHING to do throwing those "accomplishments" in to the face of anyone unfortunate enough to come into contact with you.

You could have stayed on twitter, but now you're doing the same thing on here.

Coach Brimmer wrote:

Perhaps you should heed your own advice cicirunner. alysia is very gifted hardworking individual and you dont know her life struggles to critisize her bloke...

Wait, wait, so now a fan of the sport needs to "know (a runner's) life struggles" in order to criticize them? Seriously?

That seems like a lot of work. It seems like it'd be a full time job to keep up with every player's "life struggles" on just one NFL team. Well, I guess that rules out being an NFL fan.

rxyktcuyvj wrote:

lingering butt-hurtness wrote:

She still sounds butt-hurt from Moscow. She was devastated. Maybe that's what prompted her to race this race the way she did.

You're probably right. If she had won this one then she could use that to defend her racing style.

If she had won, this would not have ever occurred.

jjjjjjjjj wrote:

She went to Cal. She's smart. And among the world's best. She made an error in the haze of battle, surely unintentional.

Plenty of folks who went to Cal are morons.

Glad I could clear that up for you.

and in other news wrote:

rxyktcuyvj wrote:

You're probably right. If she had won this one then she could use that to defend her racing style.

If she had won, this would not have ever occurred.

Good job. You're so smart.