Hmmm..... wrote:
OK, I'm starting to understand. Here is one of her pleas for money. Her "training" is pretty laughable.
https://www.rallyme.com/rallies/2536
I needed a good laugh. That was freakin' hilarious. My favorite was her Rollerblade training.
I once had two team mates that couldn't break 11 minutes for 3000m on the track but both were top 20 for U19 in Canada for cross country skiing. I went to the gym with them once and neither could squat their body weight.
They were always bragging about all the travelling they were able to do and how amazing athletes they were. They received a lot of free stuff as they constantly made provincial teams for skiing. One guy even made the national team after switching to biatholon.
I know specificity is important for sport, but these guys were rocking skiing with no athletic ability. They did V02 max once and both barely broke 50ml/min*kg. Coincidently, both were loaded with cash from their parents. They spent over 2 grand on their skiis alone. Winter Sport is just an extension of hobby jogging for the rich. Maybe the top 10 guys are legitimately world class athletes, but the rest just show up cause no one else does.
Only raised $10.
Damn, check out this badass move!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSAxpDxJb10
Nobody tell me that girl doesn't deserve an Olympic spot.
Coach J46 wrote:
A few decades ago track and field didn't have the stringent standards to compete in the Olympic Games. Most people would not want to compete and make a spectacle of themselves. However, there were a few. We saw people who couldn't break 3 hours run the marathon and I recall watching someone run a 17 minute 5k. At that time 17 min. was a good run for me. I couldn't imagine running in the Olympics and embarrassing myself. But apparently some couldn't care less. Eventually each discipline will catch up and not allow that to happen.
We still have slow athletes taking part. Ranked at about 118th in the UK for 100mH in 2016.
http://www.eadt.co.uk/sport/katy-sealy-realises-olympic-dream-after-taking-to-the-track-in-100m-hurdles-in-rio-1-4659164Badass! wrote:
Damn, check out this badass move!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSAxpDxJb10Nobody tell me that girl doesn't deserve an Olympic spot.
Well, sure, if I had known she could do that, clearly she is worthy of an Olympic spot. And to think, she only started skiing about 8 years ago and was never particularly athletic before: zero to Olympic athlete. Remarkable progress.
Check out this "demo reel" from 2012. She's lost a lot of weight since then.
Can we get the running form analysis guy to do one on this?
Stable Genius wrote:
please explain wrote:
Why? I don't think the woman scammed anyone, but I really just can't for the life of me imagine why anyone would want to go to such lengths to suck at something.
That is what most people don't get. She is not even trying to, "compete". Not pushing herself. No risks. Nothing. Just get down her run w/out falling over. That is extraordinarily unambitious. If I were in her position, I would have trained my ass off to do a least one jump/trick. But she does nothing. I don't get it.
To be fair, she threw a reverse 360. At the MF Olympics.
what about the bobsled wrote:
You should only qualify for the country you were born and raised in, end of story.
Exactly!! I've been saying this for years about Bernard Lagat but everyone calls me racist!
Yeah. Completely true. She is a competent skier, to be sure, but pretty much any terrain park in any ski hill in the US - coast to coast - has a bunch of kids throwing better tricks.
I've changed my mind. This lady is awesome and I admire her bastardry in making the Olympics.
It's possible that Ms. Swaney did this all very cynically, with the minimum necessary amount of effort, just for the attention.
However, it could also be that she suffers from Clueless Competitor Syndrome.
"Does any other sport allow itself to be mocked in this way? Do we really want to encourage mentally clouded people to compete in a sport for which they are not prepared?"
what about the bobsled wrote:
You should only qualify for the country you were born and raised in, end of story.
What about when you live in different countries throughout childhood and life? Frank Shorter was born in Germany, Salazaar was born in Cuba - are they not Americans? It is really hard to draw a line about an absolute national identity in many cases and even more so today in a world which is becoming more and more globalized.
Double_Standard wrote:
They should change the rules so the actual best runners run, and remove the arbitrary "only three from a country" rule.
In principle I agree but the rules of the Olympics are about having different categories and nations competing. You could be extreme and purist and just get rid of all sex and nation categories (how many thousands of runners are never given a chance of competing in the Olympics just because they are of the wrong sex or because they are in Kenyan or Ethiopia even though they have run times that are better than many of those competing in Olympics) and just have the top 30 runners competing based on time in each event. However this may make the Olympics more difficult to market and may not give good TV viewing figures.
life is complicated wrote:
what about the bobsled wrote:
You should only qualify for the country you were born and raised in, end of story.
What about when you live in different countries throughout childhood and life? Frank Shorter was born in Germany, Salazaar was born in Cuba - are they not Americans? It is really hard to draw a line about an absolute national identity in many cases and even more so today in a world which is becoming more and more globalized.
Comparing Shorter and Salazar is like comparing apples and oranges. Shorter was born in Germany while his father, a medical doctor was serving in the Army, most likely born at a US base, which is US soil.
Salazar was born in Cuba, from Cuban parents, actually his father was one of Fidel's henchmen until a dispute over building a Catholic chapel opened the old man Salazar's eyes and the defected. Have Salazar in 1980 would have said "screw the US, I want to be an REAL Olympian for the 1980 games by ACTUALLY participating in them" and go back to Cuba to represent Cuba (after all he was born there he and was a Cuban national while Shorter was NEVER a German national), that would be more in line to what this chick did.
doctorj wrote:
life is complicated wrote:
What about when you live in different countries throughout childhood and life? Frank Shorter was born in Germany, Salazaar was born in Cuba - are they not Americans? It is really hard to draw a line about an absolute national identity in many cases and even more so today in a world which is becoming more and more globalized.
Comparing Shorter and Salazar is like comparing apples and oranges. Shorter was born in Germany while his father, a medical doctor was serving in the Army, most likely born at a US base, which is US soil.
Salazar was born in Cuba, from Cuban parents, actually his father was one of Fidel's henchmen until a dispute over building a Catholic chapel opened the old man Salazar's eyes and the defected. Have Salazar in 1980 would have said "screw the US, I want to be an REAL Olympian for the 1980 games by ACTUALLY participating in them" and go back to Cuba to represent Cuba (after all he was born there he and was a Cuban national while Shorter was NEVER a German national), that would be more in line to what this chick did.
Not really. She was born in the US and lived her entire life in the US. It’s not even clear that she’s even ever visited Hungary. She is on the Hungarian team simply because her grandparents are from Hungary. That’s the sort of thing that needs to stop. You should have to live and train in the country for at least say 10 years before you can make their Olympic team. Have some actual attachment to the place, she’s two generations removed.
I haven't followed the Olympics in a while. I was under the impression that athletes who competed for their country were actually from that country. I grew up watching Cool Runnings, when the Jamaican bobsled team was actually from Jamaica. So I got excited when I heard there was a Nigerian bobsled team, I thought it was just like Jamaica. But then I found out they are from New Jersey, wtf?
And now this... A girl with no talent from California representing Hungary?? Hungary must be so embarrassed!
Have "athletes" always country shopped like this??
Hmmm..... wrote:
A good equivalent here would be if a women in the US ran a 2:45 marathon and qualified for the olympics for her small birth country. Of course she'd have no legit chance at competing in the marathon, but why not take the opportunity. For the rest of her life, she could say she's an olympian.
2:45!!!!! Are you out of your freaking mind?
Jefe in the CO wrote:
Hmmm..... wrote:
A good equivalent here would be if a women in the US ran a 2:45 marathon and qualified for the olympics for her small birth country. Of course she'd have no legit chance at competing in the marathon, but why not take the opportunity. For the rest of her life, she could say she's an olympian.
2:45!!!!! Are you out of your freaking mind?
LoL more like 5:00 or 6:00!! Also, her birth country is USA!!!
RIP: D3 All-American Frank Csorba - who ran 13:56 in March - dead
RENATO can you talk about the preparation of Emile Cairess 2:06
Running for Bowerman Track Club used to be cool now its embarrassing
Hats off to my dad. He just ran a 1:42 Half Marathon and turns 75 in 2 months!
Great interview with Steve Cram - says Jakob has no chance of WRs this year