RE: Malindi Elmore

I loved her in "A Walk to Remember"

So sad when she and Ryan Adams broke up.. :*(

Dear Canada wrote:

Dear Athletics Canada:

In light of the rampant doping revelations have you rethought your selection process and how it hurts your own athletes and encourages doping?

You have athletes, like Malindi, whom have done everything right and you have essentially punished them for not doping.

You say you want a team that will win and the indirect message you send is that you want a team that will cheat because it is clear that the playing field is not level and cheaters are the ones setting the highest standard that you are expecting your athletes to achieve.

The IAAF sets standards for world competition and for years, that has not been good enough for Canada. Explain yourselves Athletics Canada.

How do you expect Canadian athletes to achieve standards that are being set by doped athletes?

Sincerely,

A Fan

+100000

Exactly....

Are you singling her out as compared to other Canadian runners, or are you just using her as an example of how all Canadian runners are being unfairly treated?

Referencing the quote of the day. It applies to many Canadian athletes. The selection process is just stupid.

i totally agree that the A+ standards are absurd.

but i just wanted to make one clarification...malindi did make the 2004 olympic team.

I miss Malindi on the circuit. Very sweet, smart and relatable.

A great couple with great genes:

http://gchood.blogspot.ca/

What if she doped to be just not quite good enough?

The selection process in Canada has indeed changed. No more A+ standards.

Canada's whiniest couple?

Qualifying standards are too tough...there's too many pro triathletes around....that last race was too windy...boo hoo hoo...

Man Overboard wrote:

Canada's whiniest couple?

Qualifying standards are too tough...there's too many pro triathletes around....that last race was too windy...boo hoo hoo...

Sure... A woman runs 4:02, is in the top three in the country, gets the IAAF A standard and doesn't get to represent her country in Worlds/Olympics.

Oh yeah, whiny couple...

Get a grip.

hold the phone wrote:

The selection process in Canada has indeed changed. No more A+ standards.

Sure they've changed, but for Olympic selection they are still unfair. Can't seem to treat athletes fairly. Got it partially right by saying top two at the Olympic Trials are on the team. Fell of the rails again by leaving the third games qualifier up to a "committee" that they say will select the best runner based on rankings. Yeah right. Opens the doors for all sorts of abuses, and they also have an escape clause that lets them change their own selection rules at any time. Fairness is easy to apply to Olympic selection. Look at the US Trials. It works, and it's fair. The best team that Canada is so intent on selecting has to have the element of fairness in the process that they are missing, and always have.

hold the phone wrote:

The selection process in Canada has indeed changed. No more A+ standards.

This is incorrect; there are still A+ Olympic standards for the Marathon and RW. Athletics Canada also rejected a 'compromise' set of Marathon A+ standards put forth by distance coaches, and went with considerably faster A+ standards.