I'd like to know how Sharpe would have changed her preparation to cope with Muir. Sounds like a few others were overlooked.
I'd like to know how Sharpe would have changed her preparation to cope with Muir. Sounds like a few others were overlooked.
Things might have changed wrote:
I haven’t raced in a British Outdoor Champs for 5+ years so things may very well have changed but all the ones I previously competed in you accepted your invitation via email so it wouldn’t update the list in real-time. Instead, whoever received the email would, I guess, manually update the invite list with the status of the athlete (invited, accepted, declined etc.). It would make more sense in the modern world for them to have an online portal that updates the status in real-time but that wasn’t the case when I was competing.
Correct, I competed slightly more recently than that and you get emailed an invitation which you reply to and then some bloke emailed me back to say my entry was confirmed. No online portals or anything like that.
You also state in the email which events you wish to be entered for out of the events you are eligible for. So it would not surprise me if Muir replied entering the 800, 1500 and 5k.
If UKA really wants to be transparent they would release the email from Muir to UKA.
Besides, as any athlete knows, entries are only really finally confirmed after you sign in a few hours before the heats.
It seems Laura Muir has gotten inside someone's head.
If UKA really wants to be transparent they would release the email from Muir to UKA.
This would violate all sorts of privacy regulations.
I smell a lawsuit coming.. wrote:
If UKA really wants to be transparent they would release the email from Muir to UKA.
This would violate all sorts of privacy regulations.
Not to mention that it would be really easy for UK Athletics to cahoots with Muir and fake the e-mail.
Re comments above about sharp - what was the drama when her and Andy Vernon a few years back? Remember something and quick twitter search drawing blanks.
While Laura muirs times are crazy I feel her progression is ‘beleivable’. Butchart came out of nowhere and is buddy buddy with mo Farah (about whom I know a bunch of sub elite 1330-1400 min guys will have nothing to do with given probability of drug use). Wonder if that is the potential rift between butchart and Muir
Andy Vernon says hi wrote:
Re comments above about sharp - what was the drama when her and Andy Vernon a few years back? Remember something and quick twitter search drawing blanks.
While Laura muirs times are crazy I feel her progression is ‘beleivable’. Butchart came out of nowhere and is buddy buddy with mo Farah (about whom I know a bunch of sub elite 1330-1400 min guys will have nothing to do with given probability of drug use). Wonder if that is the potential rift between butchart and Muir
Something about Sharpe having an IV fluid before her 800m at the Euro Champs 2014? Correct me if I’m wrong
I don't think there has been a previous rift between Laura and Sharp or Butchart. On social media they've always congratulated each other for their performances.
I think Lynsey Sharp may just be bitter that she sucks really bad this year. It's laughable to think that she had special tactics prepared since her only tactic this year has been to hang on to the leaders for as long as possible before promptly dying badly in the last 150.
What's next? Are we going to have some sort of "literacy requirement", that you have to know how to send e-mails to UK Athletics to get invited? It's bad enough they make pro athletes deal with all the anti-doping stuff that's beyond their ken.
Andy Butchart is self-proclaimed next Mo Farah.??
I smell a lawsuit coming.. wrote:
If UKA really wants to be transparent they would release the email from Muir to UKA.
This would violate all sorts of privacy regulations.
Maybe but the contents of the email that you reply to UKA with is literally just your full name, the events you wish to compete in, the club you are representing and then your email and phone number which can be blurred out.
This is a non issue, she won. Being elite, Muir's plans are day to day (fluid) unlike others. Governing bodies would also be criticized if they weren't flexible.
rojo wrote:
From the Daily Mail:
"A formal protest was issued shortly before Sunday's final to the track referee at the Alexander Stadium by former European indoor champion Matt Yates, who coaches Muir's 800m rival Revee Walcott-Nolan."
"In a separate email to the referee, seen by Sportsmail, Yates made the extraordinary claim that British Athletics official Ian Hodge had admitted to him in a telephone call on Friday that Muir had in fact missed the deadline and only entered for the 800m and 1500m on Friday evening."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/othersports/article-5906649/It-wasnt-fair-British-Athletics-row-Laura-Muirs-800m-entry.html
This. THIS. Christ, I don't understand why more athletes don't officially protest. Force UK Athletics to formally address the protested issue. I mean Christ, what is the worse that can happen? Think I would want Matthew Yates as my coach AKA in my corner.
Wasn’t Lynsey Sharp the one who was whining about Caster Semenya a couple of years ago- perhaps if she focussed some of this energy into her training rather than criticising everything else for her performances she might run faster
What you're saying makes no sense. You say deadlines were respected. If so, why were Sharp and OTHER WOMEN complaining about Muir's presence in the 800? If Muir had entered like everyone else, there would be no complaints about her entering the race at the last moment.
Gold medal in whining wrote:
Andy Vernon says hi wrote:
Re comments above about sharp - what was the drama when her and Andy Vernon a few years back? Remember something and quick twitter search drawing blanks.
Something about Sharpe having an IV fluid before her 800m at the Euro Champs 2014? Correct me if I’m wrong
Vernon thought she was making too much of getting Silver at the Commonwealth Games in 2014 , so he tweeted: "You won a medal? You should mention it now and again." She had been on an iv after getting food poisoning the night before the race, so Vernon added that he hadn't needed an iv to get his medal.
She responded by calling him Andy Vermin. I think they went a few more rounds before he eventually apologized.
ex-runner wrote:
Before even reading the article or clicking on the thread the name Lyndsey Sharp sprung to mind. I saw her today walking off looking stroppy. She's always the first to complain when it's 'not fair'.
I thought Sharp was wrong until you piped up, and now I realize that she must be right.
I believe this now, especially since the report from the British official who divulged the late entries.
whiningsharp wrote:
Wasn’t Lynsey Sharp the one who was whining about Caster Semenya
Muir didn't say a word - maybe she has something in common with Semenya.
I'll be glad when the questionable players are removed.
Les wrote:
What you're saying makes no sense. You say deadlines were respected. If so, why were Sharp and OTHER WOMEN complaining about Muir's presence in the 800? If Muir had entered like everyone else, there would be no complaints about her entering the race at the last moment.
The rules were obviously violated.
The only question, is that okay? And should people just ignore it?
Perhaps the rules are not really all that important, at least not for certain special people.
I smell a lawsuit coming.. wrote:
If UKA really wants to be transparent they would release the email from Muir to UKA.
This would violate all sorts of privacy regulations.
Oh, please.
Redact any irrelevant content and post it. Period.