Northern Realist wrote:
One race and she should have gotten a paid vacation to London?
We *NOW* know Lanni & Krista can run competitive times. In 2012 that was not at all clear.
Paid vacation? That's pretty rude of you, as well as being utter rubbish. I see nothing about either of them to suggest that they would train and compete at anything short of a 100% effort.
You seem to be missing the point of the "Rising Star" criteria. If they ran the IAAF A standard in any other event and were 20 year-old girls, they would have been selected.
Because AC doesn't understand athletic development in the marathon (a fact proven by this weekend's record runs), they were denied the opportunity to compete and develop in the Olympic environment. Canada's loss.