Laura Muir? WTF with the over hyping?

Dear God, please don't let someone bite on this...

row row rowbury your boat wrote:

Dear God, please don't let someone bite on this...

No need to invoke the Deity. The Angelic Doctor, St. Thomas Aquinas, has this one covered:

For those who know,

No explanation is necessary;

For those who do not,

No explanation is possible.

Poof wrote:

You have a whole section devoted to Muir labeling her as a "star". About eight articles detailing every aspect of her life.

What exactly has she done to deserve this? It's kind of funny to me. I can understand the Brits overhyping her, but why here? Would you ever do any such treatment for Genzebe, who has six world records? Or Faith Kipyegon, the Olympic champion who has won at every level? These are the legitimate stars.

I'm all for new stars emerging and I hope Muiir is the real thing and can create a great three way rivalry, but don't you think it's a tad premature to glorify a girl whose most recent big race was a 7th place flop?

No.

Hint....(she's white)

douchelin^3 wrote:

Hint....(she's white)

Agreed. There's nothing special or mind blowing is an African does this.

I do like Muir though, as front runners have a place in my heart.

Poof wrote:

You have a whole section devoted to Muir labeling her as a "star". About eight articles detailing every aspect of her life.

What exactly has she done to deserve this? It's kind of funny to me. I can understand the Brits overhyping her, but why here? Would you ever do any such treatment for Genzebe, who has six world records? Or Faith Kipyegon, the Olympic champion who has won at every level? These are the legitimate stars.

I'm all for new stars emerging and I hope Muiir is the real thing and can create a great three way rivalry, but don't you think it's a tad premature to glorify a girl whose most recent big race was a 7th place flop?

Not biting but think it's pretty legitimate to point out that this website has a thing for white runners. Muir is a star and deserves the hype but she has gotten more coverage than many runners who have gone faster, won world championships/olympic medals.

LRC writes "Kenyan born" before certain Americans' names in every article they write. Why not do the same for Galen Rupp??? "The Greek immigrated Rupp is running the Boston Marathon this year." Everyone in the US came from somewhere unless Native American.

Yeah the Brojos have a predisposition towards white folks. So does everyone who went to school at any level in this country.

She breaks records on the reg.

She doesn't coast stoically across the finish line for the win like the human pharmacies do.

You can reasonably conclude she doesn't dope based purely on what her neck looks like.

I would point out that her 1500 PR is faster than the American women's 1500 record. That makes her faster than Mary Decker, Susy Favor Hamilton, Jenny Simpson, Shannon Rowbury, and any other American woman EVER. So, I think that justifies a fair amount of hype. Plus, the woman is only 23 and thus hasn't even hit her prime yet. I also agree with the being white point.

Ultradude wrote:

I would point out that her 1500 PR is faster than the American women's 1500 record. That makes her faster than Mary Decker, Susy Favor Hamilton, Jenny Simpson, Shannon Rowbury, and any other American woman EVER. So, I think that justifies a fair amount of hype. Plus, the woman is only 23 and thus hasn't even hit her prime yet. I also agree with the being white point.

It will only be a matter of time until the "Down Goes..." and "What happened to Laura Muir?" threads begin popping up. Until then it'll be fun collecting money from those who've bet the farm on her only to see her severely under-perform.

I made a thread about this type of thing a couple months ago... it was gone within 10 minutes. Surprised you've lasted this long.

Kipyegon deserves far more credit here but Dibaba is a dirty filthy little cheat who should be shunned from civil society.

If she's hyped, it's because the UK papers cover track and field extensively and they write in English. If there are a lot of links to articles on Muir on the LetsRun front page, it's because there are a lot of articles about her.

Overhyped? Yeah, maybe. I still don't see any reason to believe she'll defeat Faith Kiyegon, unless Kipyegon is hurting.

Subway Surfers Addiction wrote:

Kipyegon deserves far more credit here but Dibaba is a dirty filthy little cheat who should be shunned from civil society.

Dibaba is the cleanest runner in the entire world. You should be hung by your lying testicles

As for Muir, she is much more likely to be doping. She's a vetarinarian who has come completely out of nowhere and never did shiat as a youth or as an adult either until late late last year.

They are trying to hype her, so that drugs are not the obvious conclusion when she improves.

Well Hello There wrote:

If she's hyped, it's because the UK papers cover track and field extensively and they write in English. If there are a lot of links to articles on Muir on the LetsRun front page, it's because there are a lot of articles about her.

Overhyped? Yeah, maybe. I still don't see any reason to believe she'll defeat Faith Kiyegon, unless Kipyegon is hurting.

They have a whole segment on her on the front page, scroll down. As far as the white hope thing, Rowbury and Simpson have done much more. And let's say you dismiss Rowbury because of NOP, Simpson has never been associated with any doping that I'm aware of.

And it definitely is not because Muir is hot, she's rather homely to tell the truth. It's certainly odd. If she turns out to be the real thing, we'll see. I don't see her catching Kipyegon. Kipyegon is really fast, she has great coaching and a strong mind. And she will definitely never be anywhere near 'Zebe .

I see Muir more as a gutty Simpson type who will work hard and steal races here and there, but ultimately lacks the talent to ever be on top

Cynic me wrote:

They are trying to hype her, so that drugs are not the obvious conclusion when she improves.

Now we can add another to the list of drug suspicions, she is a veterinarian and has access to all the latest animal roids....

There is a massive difference between "Kenyan-born but now living in America" vs 10th generation American. Why is that not obvious to you?

John Utah wrote:

NERunner053 wrote:

Not biting but think it's pretty legitimate to point out that this website has a thing for white runners. Muir is a star and deserves the hype but she has gotten more coverage than many runners who have gone faster, won world championships/olympic medals.

LRC writes "Kenyan born" before certain Americans' names in every article they write. Why not do the same for Galen Rupp??? "The Greek immigrated Rupp is running the Boston Marathon this year." Everyone in the US came from somewhere unless Native American.

Yeah the Brojos have a predisposition towards white folks. So does everyone who went to school at any level in this country.

There is a massive difference between "Kenyan-born but now living in America" vs 10th generation American. Why is that not obvious to you?

Kenyan born who lived in Kenya until a couple of years ago.

I don't know if you know this, but Galen Rupp isn't a Greek or any other type of immigrant