Well she does look like a child wrote:
Well she does look like a child. Also, every other sport talks about the height and weight of their athletes. Why is this so taboo in running?
well for one thing, other sports usually don't have people dying from eating disorders.
well for one thing wrote:
Well she does look like a child wrote:
Well she does look like a child. Also, every other sport talks about the height and weight of their athletes. Why is this so taboo in running?
well for one thing, other sports usually don't have people dying from eating disorders.
No, they die from years of drug use.
Flotrack posted an article about this today. Kara Goucher called her a beast and that was taken as positive but an assassin is negative. One means that she is killing the competition but the other has no good meaning. A beast is a large ,ugly, nonhuman creature. If the youngest looking, shortest guy in the steeple was the winner, that would have come up in conversation and been taken as a positive. This has turned into a woman thing for no reason. There is way more discussion about the height and weight of men in sports than there is about women. Put a 7' or 5' quarterback on the field and that is all the media would talk about. The same with tennis or soccer or track. There is typically less disparity in the size of women so there is less opportunity to discuss it. I doubt Solinsky cared about the discussion surrounding his size but a large woman would go crazy today if she was winning 5ks and her size was brought up.
British commentary called Pre,"the chunky American" in the 72 Olympic 5000m finial. Where was the outrage than?
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You are missing the point, she is trying to provide constructive criticism for covering women's running more effectively. If every time she runs someone makes a comment on how she appears and not how she trains, then there is a problem. I think in particular she is not that much of an outlier in size to warrant these comments. Solinsky is a big outlier, and perhaps will warrant more attention.
I see no problem with it.
We need to protect women because they are weak. mens throws are always talked about in terms of size. Small for a thrower to big as a house etc. height weight size etc are spouted to the point of cliche. But woman are weak and can't handle this.
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
Rest in Peace Adrian Lehmann - 2:11 Swiss marathoner. Dies of heart attack.
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