Molly, I am one of your biggest fans. It is heart breaking to see you go through this but you sort of brought it on yourself. That was honestly more heart breaking to watch than Morgan Uceny's Olympic fall. I still love you, but man its going to take a while for you to forgive yourself for this one. I hope you are well.
It was REALLY STUPID THING!
Second time this has happened to Huddle http://running.competitor.com/2012/02/news/sara-hall-prevails-at-u-s-xc-champs_47211
Huddle's had a bunch of exciting finishes over the years. There was the 2012 XC championships, when she also celebrated early, allowing Sara Hall to squeeze by.
http://www.runnerspace.com/eprofile.php?event_id=9&do=videos&video_id=58821
Then there was the Rowbury lane-a-dope in the 5000 at the USA's last year. In that one, Huddle got by Rowbury:
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Molly, I am one of your biggest fans. It is heart breaking to see you go through this but you sort of brought it on yourself. That was honestly more heart breaking to watch than Morgan Uceny's Olympic fall. I still love you, but man its going to take a while for you to forgive yourself for this one. I hope you are well.
You are not a Molly fan if you think that this is her legacy. How 'bout an AR in the 5000m? Multiple times NCAA AA? etc?
She made a mistake that she'll regret. I think she'll use this as motivation for the Olympics next year.
man oh man, she didn't just let up at the finish she let up about 10 METERS from the finish!
She's had her best year ever this year. She can still get better next year and 2017. I don't think she's going to retire without a world/olympic medal. But she might want to go after world xc next time it is held (not til 2017 because of the quitting Europeans, right?).
jjjjjj wrote:
She's had her best year ever this year. She can still get better next year and 2017. I don't think she's going to retire without a world/olympic medal. But she might want to go after world xc next time it is held (not til 2017 because of the quitting Europeans, right?).
She has 2 realistic chances left (i.e. not many people are on the upsides of their career at 34) and she is at best going to be in that back of 4-5 ladies competing for the bronze. I don't like those odds....
To be fair, she did it at USAXC too.
But this won't define her career.
Yeah, about 10 meters from the finish she started slowing up. Does anyone know the layout of the stadium? Usually in Diamond League meets there's a video screen at the end of the home straight so runners can check their position without having to look around. Maybe there was no board there so Huddle was blind to Infeld's charge.
One of the first things we teach is to run your best 10 meters past the finish line. I'm remember hearing some coaches say that they would not coach you if you did not because it was an important point in racing.
Alyssa B wrote:
One of the first things we teach is to run your best 10 meters past the finish line. I'm remember hearing some coaches say that they would not coach you if you did not because it was an important point in racing.
And now you have some video so they can see that you aren't just some random old folks blowing 'em smoke.
Les wrote:
Yeah, about 10 meters from the finish she started slowing up. Does anyone know the layout of the stadium? Usually in Diamond League meets there's a video screen at the end of the home straight so runners can check their position without having to look around. Maybe there was no board there so Huddle was blind to Infeld's charge.
Both screens at the ends of the stadium are showing the current race. She could have seen infield coming.
To be honest, it's two... wrote:
Huddle's had a bunch of exciting finishes over the years. There was the 2012 XC championships, when she also celebrated early, allowing Sara Hall to squeeze by.
http://www.runnerspace.com/eprofile.php?event_id=9&do=videos&video_id=58821Then there was the Rowbury lane-a-dope in the 5000 at the USA's last year. In that one, Huddle got by Rowbury:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAfJQNjkQYk
Great point. We've updated the main article with this point. We thought there might have been another race but couldn't remember it at 2 am last night when we were looking.
http://www.letsrun.com/news/2015/08/agony-ecstasy-in-the-womens-10000-molly-huddle-gives-the-bronze-away-to-emily-infeld-as-vivian-cheruiyot-wins-gold-once-again/road rashed wrote:
Second time this has happened to Huddle
http://running.competitor.com/2012/02/news/sara-hall-prevails-at-u-s-xc-champs_47211
This one looks like she put her hands up to knock the finishing tape out of the way. She doesn't seem to be celebrating.
To be honest, it's two... wrote:
Huddle's had a bunch of exciting finishes over the years. There was the 2012 XC championships, when she also celebrated early, allowing Sara Hall to squeeze by.
http://www.runnerspace.com/eprofile.php?event_id=9&do=videos&video_id=58821Then there was the Rowbury lane-a-dope in the 5000 at the USA's last year. In that one, Huddle got by Rowbury:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAfJQNjkQYk
Yeah I was actually going to start a thread about this. Was kind of hard for me to feel too sorry for her considering she should have learned her lesson the first time. Run through the line, celebrate all you want afterwards.
Distance running fans are a fairly small, if passionate, segment of the population. There's, not a lot of casual sports fans who really care one way or the other about the track, especially something like the women's 10k. Thus, this may not define her legacy, because the that small passionate fanbase is fairly well-educated about the sport and all of its nuances. I bet they'll be able to see more in Huddle's legacy than a blown bronze medal at a World Championships (unless she completely tanks the rest of her career from here on out).
And, if it somehow does define legacy her among the hardcore (i.e., only) fans, then I guess she deserves it. Watching the replay, it's pretty idiotic. Though, I do feel sorry for her, as we've all done stupid things - just usually on much smaller stages with much less at stake.
Remember Leon Lett? He thought he had a touchdown in the bag, until.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTeqQY_T2mE
Never, never, never celebrate until you cross the finish line or goal line for that matter.
She is celebrating. Look at slides 3-2-1 in that order. Sara plows through her hand which is well above the tape.
Sesamoiditis wrote:
road rashed wrote:Second time this has happened to Huddle
http://running.competitor.com/2012/02/news/sara-hall-prevails-at-u-s-xc-champs_47211This one looks like she put her hands up to knock the finishing tape out of the way. She doesn't seem to be celebrating.
..it happens.