Trials are over. Who went home the MOST DEVASTATED? Your vote

I am voting for Wheating...lots of talk and then choked...

I'll say it again. The answer is Felix in the 200M and all of the other posts are not even close. She has owned the event for over a decade. The IAAF arranged the meet format to accommodate her 200/400 double. She is probably the only US team member that is recognized by sports fans outside of the tiny, niche, cultish, increasingly marginalized and insignificant world of T&F. Then again, these boards belong to white distance runners who are a subset of a tiny, niche, cultish, increasingly marginalized and insignificant world of T&F.

USATF Scout wrote:

Mary Cain. Although written off early in the season, her more recent interviews indicated she was rounding into form just in time for the trials. The hope was that she would be in a position to pop a ~4:03 and if not win the trials outright at least make her first Olympic team. Unfortunately it was not to be. Keep working for 2020, Mary!

How can you feel that Mary Cain's experience was more devastating than say Leo Manzano's or Ben True's?

Manzano has won Nationals 5 times and placed top three for 10 consecutive years. I don't think there is one single other athlete that is true for (due to injuries, age, and just bad luck). He has also won one silver medal and has superior PRs to someone like Mary Cain.

He is 31 yo and likely will not make it to the next Olympics where he will be nearly 36 yo.

Ben True placed 4th in the 2013 Nationals in BOTH the 5k and 10k. Last year he made the team in BOTH the 5k and the 10k and placed 6th at Worlds and won the NY DL Meeting in the 5k, increasing his expectations for success in making the team this year. His PRs are much closer to the top than Mary Cain's.

He is 30 yo and will likely have a hard time making it in 4 years time. Adding to his frustration, he has NEVER made an Olympic Team.

Mary Cain is just 20 yo and if she can improve she can try for Olympic Teams at age 24, 28 and 32. She has had two very weak years now (2014, 2015 and 2016 so far) for the most-talented middle-distance HSer to ever run in the US. I don't see how you could think she was "devastated" this weekend seeing how she could not have possibly thought she could ever have placed in the top-3.

I could name 15 people who were more "devastated" (and should be) than Cain this past week.

Uceny is a terribly awkward runner

Ryan Hall. He's been coaching Sarah Hall. She "ran" really poorly. REALLY,REALLY poorly.

ROJO = TOTALLY DEVASTATED BY TORRENCE

"I think this is a lie. I'm going to delete this post in 9:40 pm ET if you dont' email me proof that this occurred."-Rojo

987tse987 wrote:

I'll say it again. The answer is Felix in the 200M and all of the other posts are not even close. She has owned the event for over a decade. The IAAF arranged the meet format to accommodate her 200/400 double. She is probably the only US team member that is recognized by sports fans outside of the tiny, niche, cultish, increasingly marginalized and insignificant world of T&F. Then again, these boards belong to white distance runners who are a subset of a tiny, niche, cultish, increasingly marginalized and insignificant world of T&F.

Felix goes home with the fastest time in the world in the 400--and she did that on a sprained ankle--and likely favorite status for Rio.

All of the distance runners go home more devastated than that.

I can't believe nobody has said Courtney Okolo? Although I'm sure we will have her on the 4x4.

How many potential medalists are we leaving home? I hate that we don't have a system in place that ensures we send our best team like so many other countries do.

NBC

Jenkins, if he had started his kick 5m sooner he would be an Olympian

donearun0 wrote:

NBC

...and Flotrack for their moronic coverage.

donearun0 wrote:

NBC

bell lab wrote:

...and Flotrack for their moronic coverage.

And anyone who watched either of them.

Kenny Albert because all dem hot biyatches said no.

It has to be Katie Mackey. Did you see her post-race interview.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Fa3JwzFT7hE

Why do people on here take such delight in highlighting failure. It would be great if posters had to show their real name together with prs and race history. I would bet that the worst trolls are the biggest failures.

Not highlighting failure...in fact, I respect her heart and how she left everything out there in that effort. Love how much she cares.

Troll police wrote:

Why do people on here take such delight in highlighting failure. It would be great if posters had to show their real name together with prs and race history. I would bet that the worst trolls are the biggest failures.

I'm not giving my name and my PRs suck, but I couldn't agree more. Why do letsrunners gloat in the "failure" of athletes who came up short at the Olympic trials? And how stupid the athletes are for using a race strategy that didn't quite work. Or in the case of Robby Andrews, criticize him for being such a loser because he came in second and is going to the Olympics and ran right at his PR but somehow didn't race the way the manly men of letsrun would have.

it takes one to know one wrote:

I'd say Letsrunners were most devastated.

A bunch of athletes made the Olympic team and weren't busted for drugs or DQed and seemed really happy. Devastating.

This.

987tse987 wrote:

I'll say it again. The answer is Felix in the 200M and all of the other posts are not even close. She has owned the event for over a decade.

At the end of the trials, Felix is going to Rio where she will likely win 2 or 3 gold medals. How is that more devastating than going home?