Mary Cain injured, pulling out of World Indolrs. Heather Kampf goes as alternate!!!

ron j wrote:

frequent injury dude wrote:

A runner gets injured and it means she's doping? It's like none of you have ever run before.

Runners get injured all the time. Hell, I'm injured now. Rupp is the exception people. Most other runners deal with injuries.

Let's make a list of the biggest names/achievers in the sport over the last decade or so:

Webb

Ritz

Hall

Goucher

Lagat

Rupp

Solinsky

Teg

Meb

Wheating

Centro

Manzano

Symmonds

Rupp, Lagat, and Symmonds are known for being healthy. The others have all had their share of setbacks. Some so bad it ended their careers. That's like 10 out of 13 who have had major injuries.

except that she isn't injured. did you even bother to read that the mri came back clean? tears/strains/pulls/etc all show up on an mri. why do you feel the need to comment when you clearly have no idea what is going on?

ok Ron, to defend the honor of MC, I will now post a few 'injured but negative MRI' stories.

1. New Orleans Saints running back Mike Bell, who sprained his right knee in the fourth quarter Sunday against Philadelphia, said Monday that an MRI showed no structural damage.

The injury is a sprained medial collatoral ligament, Coach Sean Payton said.

Bell said he has full range of motion and hopes to play Sunday against Buffalo, but the decision is up to the team.

2. Two months after the injury I got a follow up MRI that showed that the inflammation was gone and that the "bone bruise" was healed. The doctor said it was normal to have pain even after the MRI showed nothing. Therefore I have begun to step up the intensity of my workouts. However, as I increase the intensity I am starting to notice the familiar discomfort. It hasn't reached the levels of before, but I fear I am heading down that road

3. e Colts got some very good injury news today as top cornerback Vontae Davis's MRI came back negative and he is day-to-day, according to head coach Chuck Pagano. Davis suffered a groin injury during Sunday's win over the Jaguars and did not return.

4. FOXBOROUGH, Mass. – Tom Brady walked off the field under his own power. Several teammates didn’t think he was hurt badly when he grabbed his left knee after being knocked down.

Yet the possibility that the New England Patriots might lose their star quarterback caused a scare at the team’s joint practice with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Wednesday.

A person with knowledge of the injury said an MRI was negative and Brady was day-to-day with a left knee sprain. Asked if Brady might play Friday night in an exhibition game against the Buccaneers, the person said he didn’t know.

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I could keep going. Am I missing something here? 30 seconds of googling finds many athletes in pain but with negative MRIs.

Are we defining 'injury' differently, ron?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't these articles point toward MRI's being negative as a good thing? All those examples you posted say the athletes are likely to play in their next game (except Brady but it was preseason, as opposed to a WC meet for Cain). And besides, she's not getting smashed by 320 pound linemen running 4.7 40's (giggle) or having to make sharp cuts to the left or right that destroy knee ligaments.

Many excuses abound for all the NOP junkies. AlSal isn't concerned with getting her injured by running her, he is concerned with getting her banned for 2 years by running her! A sore calf isn't a huge set back, but a drug suspension is!

"AlSal isn't concerned with getting her injured by running her, he is concerned with getting her banned for 2 years by running her! A sore calf isn't a huge set back, but a drug suspension is!"

This is such NONSENSE. She was tested in ABQ after her race just over a week ago. She has been tested after all her record setting indoor performances this year and more. All of a sudden you think she is going to test positive 2 weeks after her last drug test ? I don't know why I even waste my time on this troll crap.

douglas burke wrote:

why the SPECULATION of doping.

runners really do get injured, it happens.

some injuries happen instantly.

some happen gradually.

no need for doping allegations.

Assuming you were actually responding to me ... I was not making a doping allegation. I was saying that the argument of "no high schooler is going to dope just to help her compete nationally/internationally", is a ridiculous argument.

And I don't like ridiculous arguments. For one, they're a reason silly doping allegation threads go on forever. People (possibly not even trolling) say "So and so would never dope, they've spoken out against doping publicly", and 18 more people point out that's a terrible argument. If people could stop making terrible arguments, then stupid threads would lose a major fuel source.

All that said, does it even make sense to argue against silly doping allegations on LRC? LRC is the Internet Capitol of silly doping allegations. They run idiotic "Who's doping?" surveys on their home page. LRC is literally designed to have these conversations. You may as well go to a explicit GIFs subreddit and complain about all the dirty pictures. That's what that place is *for*.