The results are in: Women > Men. 8.3% of women, 25.9% of men drop out of 10k

Temperature during each race?

Did more women than men qualify for the team?

Thats disgusting, if they knew they couldn't handle the heat instead of cancelling last second or during race, why don't they give their position to another athlete? How long was Nick's ankle injured? 2 weeks now? Why didn't he give it up then instead of last second?!?! At least then some other person would have tried for the Oly's.

With 24 water stops, I don't know why any of them dropped out unless they incurred an injury.

Lot easier to run 5:15s in the heat than 4:35s

Obviously people drop out of races for a variety of reasons, so it's hard to come to a lot of real conclusions. While it was very warm, the heat wasn't necessarily responsible for every DNF. Good example of this was the shoe problem.

But years of coaching have made something very clear to me. I might get beat up on LR for saying this, but I'm absolutely convinced it's true. Women are just tougher than men. They can/will put up with more suffering without throwing in the towel.

rojo wrote:

2 out of 24 women were a DNF whereas 7 out of 27 of the men were.

Discuss.

Were you guys sleeping during both races? If you need to pose the question you are not a track and field fan.

Haha.. wrote:

Lot easier to run 5:15s in the heat than 4:35s

Lot easier to only have to run 28 minutes than 32 minutes.

Pathetic display of preparedness.

Honest question: How many women are also declared for the 5000?

More honest question: Why are the men over extending themselves? Multi-event men will perform poorly at Rio. A 28 minute 10k will mean getting lapped.

X-cuses wrote:

More honest question: Why are the men over extending themselves? Multi-event men will perform poorly at Rio. A 28 minutes 10k will mean getting lapped.

Fair enough. Also might be partly that some of the men have convinced themselves that dropping out of a bad race can be a good business decision. Not saying I agree, especially on this stage, but whatever.

In a broader sense, the argument that women are generally tougher than men can be made and things like childbirth would support the notion from an evolutionary perspective.

I blame the multi event swimmers. Track stars want to be huge stars too, but can't possibly win as many medals as a top swimmer.

Why are the men over extending themselves? Multi-event men will perform poorly at Rio.

At least half of the guys who dropped out are doubling in the 5k. They were saving themselves for the next race after realizing they were not going to qualify in the 10k. Lagat, I'm sure, could have kept running and still hung on to 4th or 5th. Mead could have finished in that range, too, I'm sure, but they were running to qualify for the Olympics. With no honest effort rule, you can't blame them. As for some other iffy performances, it was about just jogging it in. Ben True realized he wasn't going to qualify, but he finished the race because he wasn't sure if there was an honest effort rule in place...hence, the 29 minute run.

I was going to ask how many men were doubling back in the 5000.

Still never saw an answer to the earlier poster asking about the temperature differences. Pretty sure it wasn't 82 degrees or whatever at 11:00 am in Eugene today.

Its the Trials to pick the Olympic team. That's all that matters, It doesn't mean you are tougher for pushing yourself to finish in 8th place which gets you nothing, If more women that thought they had a shot for the team and finished the race means nothing regarding toughness comparing men and women.

I would not disagree that women are tough.

But the misogynist in me likes to think they're just too stupid to know when to quit.

This kind of seems true when you watch any non-professional cross country meet in this country. Girls dropping like flies everywhere.

Sorta Admire Tough Chicks wrote:

But the misogynist in me likes to think they're just too stupid to know when to quit.