Top UK pros claim Lauir Muir was allowed to enter 800 at UK champs after deadline, Muir wins race

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'.

Some rubbish about preparing all week for the competitors entered and Muir's entry ruined her plan?! Nonsense! She's just upset because she cannot beat Muir with any tactics which exist.

Agreed. Every boy a cry baby. Her insufferable BF certainly doesn't make it any easier to like her.

dummies out in full force today wrote:

OK, I'll correct you. Because you're wrong.

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Sharp could very reasonably hope to kick to a top-3 position and get selected in worlds. She is on the level with anyone else in the field, until Muir steps in.

People who don't get this are people who have never really competed for anything.

No, you're wrong.

She could hope for top-3 without Muir so why didn't she get top-4 with Muir in the race?

With at 62.7 first lap it was always going to be a burn-up on the last lap and someone would have gone hard at 300 to go. Fact is she couldn't stick with her competition. And as someone else said, she knew Laura was in the race a day before because there were heats the day before the final. Were her tactics so complicated that she needed more than 24 hours to adjust them? LOL. Anyway, as I said earlier she hasn't needed tactics this year beyond hanging on for dear life and then dying a death in the last 150.

Also, she wouldn't get selected for worlds from this performance.

Living thousands of miles away don’t follow uk distance screen at great level but why would anyone have problem with butchart? I knew some central ac guys back in the day and that just seems like club that does things right and has good group of guys. Obviously doesn’t train with them anymore but also think he’s been more willing to hop in local races where back in the day seemed the elites saved themselves for big races and wouldn’t be seen dead on start line with club runners.

So my view on this situ is that feel sharpe should have just stayed quiet but not sure why her bf being implicated in all this.

ex-runner wrote:

As a British fan I'm very pleased Muir was entered in the 800 because the 15/5k double isn't possible in Berlin but the 800/1500 is. Muir has a very good chance of winning both. Sharp has a very good chance of not making the final in one. Yate's athlete Walcott-Nolan also had no chance.

For those that didn't see the race, Muir chilled at the back for 400m, moved through to take the lead in 62.2 then she continued enjoying the slow pace up to 500m where she promptly put 5m+ on the field and closed with a 42/43 last 300m.

2:01.2, 62.2 then 59.0

Sharp 5th, Walcott-Nolan 6th.

Laura Muir has very little chance of beating Hassan in the 800 meters next month in Berlin. The best she can hope for is 2nd place.

No, you're wrong.

She could hope for top-3 without Muir so why didn't she get top-4 with Muir in the race?

My guess is that you are one of those LRC posters who has never actually raced elitely.

An extra person in a race can make a HUGE difference (in 800m), especially with pacing.

Muir pushing, has a butter-fly effect that affects EVERY-ONE. There's no denying it, ppl let up when there's nothing but 5th place to contend for (except if the first four are likely to be DQ'd later for doping, of/c). The mentality that Second Place is First Loser is still clamouring in the pack.

"We prepare all week for….blah blah blah"

Sore loser.

How far in advance are the entries posted?

And how great of an impact on training does that have?

What are you going to get out of the last 4 or 5 days or training?

What would you drastically change to address a different competitor? Think you will train to run faster or something?

Maybe you should be doing that anyways?

Just someone complaining, trying to get the victory she didn't.

dummies out in full force today wrote:

But strategy and final preparations for a runner who may be on the bubble will not be indifferent to the champ's presence in a top-three-qualify format!

An honest question: Was this a "top-three-qualify format"? I thought UKA could pick whoever they want. Muir, for example, did not run the 1500, yet everyone seems to suppose she will be on the team.

I want to know wrote:

dummies out in full force today wrote:

But strategy and final preparations for a runner who may be on the bubble will not be indifferent to the champ's presence in a top-three-qualify format!

An honest question: Was this a "top-three-qualify format"? I thought UKA could pick whoever they want. Muir, for example, did not run the 1500, yet everyone seems to suppose she will be on the team.

I think they "select" one and the other two positions on a national team are chosen by race results at British Champs.

thisisdumb wrote:

Just someone complaining, trying to get the victory she didn't.

Again, nobody did that. But you are to stupid to figure it out.

This confuses me.... wrote:

Living thousands of miles away don’t follow uk distance screen at great level but why would anyone have problem with butchart? I knew some central ac guys back in the day and that just seems like club that does things right and has good group of guys. Obviously doesn’t train with them anymore but also think he’s been more willing to hop in local races where back in the day seemed the elites saved themselves for big races and wouldn’t be seen dead on start line with club runners.

So my view on this situ is that feel sharpe should have just stayed quiet but not sure why her bf being implicated in all this.

Because he's always blathering on about others inadequacies- poking fun at them, etc. He's all about Mo Farah, so he's clearly not got a problem associating with sketchy characters either. He's a bit of an insufferable type.

+1

This confuses me.... wrote:

So my view on this situ is that feel sharpe should have just stayed quiet but not sure why her bf being implicated in all this.

Because this is the LetsRun World Famous Message Board and it just gives us someone else to heap shït on. Anyway, he does come across as a bit of prïck.

This is why: wrote:

This confuses me.... wrote:

So my view on this situ is that feel sharpe should have just stayed quiet but not sure why her bf being implicated in all this.

Because this is the LetsRun World Famous Message Board and it just gives us someone else to heap shït on. Anyway, he does come across as a bit of prïck.

He is acting like a jerk again.

Mark D. wrote:

This is why: wrote:

Anyway, he does come across as a bit of prïck.

He is acting like a jerk again.

Make that a 'BIG' prïck.

Just read Butchart's Twitter, what a complete cluster fück, add Lynsey Sharp and Andy Vermin and you'd have the trifecta of arseholes.

Wonder what this means?

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bksxeo1Hf_5/?taken-by=andybutchart

A pity that she is such a cry baby because she looks great in this shot

https://mobile.twitter.com/LynseySharp/status/943502603945521152/photo/2

Great legs, sexy secretary.

Uk idiots. wrote:

thisisdumb wrote:

Just someone complaining, trying to get the victory she didn't.

Again, nobody did that. But you are to stupid to figure it out.

Another case of " he said, she said". We my never get to the bottom of this !