i don’t remember the new york times or nbc caring about rupp qualifying in his first marathon
i don’t remember the new york times or nbc caring about rupp qualifying in his first marathon
Rupp was already an Olympic medalist. Doesn’t have the same feel-good quality as “made the Olympics on their first try!”
You know why
Did you know Gabe Jennings lived in a house without running water?
Oh wait, in actuality, Mr Jennings (a teacher by day) installed various water system necessities himself to better the existing ones in the Forks of Salmon home. Gabe actually played football as a teenager and had a gradual build into high school running.
The media just wasnt used to responding to eccentric intellectuals and misquoted he and the family in many places. They ran wild with it!
Your use of the adjective mainstream is telling.
She over came the female athlete triad and proved the low BMi white women is a trap and 10 wks in flagstaff.
Rupp was already an Olympic medallist and not viewed in the same way.
Molly had two part times jobs and people eat up the first time marathoner does well story.
I won the Marine Corps Marathon in 2:25 in my first marathon. Now everyone who knows anything about running knows that is not that impressive a time. I think it was the slowest or second slowest winning time ever for Marine Corps. I made CNN Headline News. "First time marathoner beats 20,000 runners".
On local DC news I think it lead the sports as their was no Redskins game that day. The non sports anchor was just flabbergasted someone could win in their first marathon.
The comments on some articles indicate many people believe she has no running background and just decided one day to get up off the couch and train for a marathon. Next thing you know, she's going to the Olympics! How amazing is that?!?!
Why didn't the mainstream media gobble up the Aliphine Tuliamuk story? Her story is better than Seidel's. She's one of 32 siblings and makes her living selling knitted caps on Etsy that she personally made. She also WON the race.
Because she is white!
Mainstream audiences should eat up my tv show.
My character wins (spoiler alert) the olympic marathon in his SECOND marathon.
He made the olympics by running a swift 2:11:59 to qualify
And people wonder why Rupp didn't participate in the media appearance the next day at the public marathon. The whole thing is a sham. The underdog winner of the race, with the incredible story, gets passed over by the media for the privileged white Notre Dame grad who looks about half her actual age. The only thing missing is the blonde hair. Reality just gets twisted around by all involved in order to fit the narrative that sells the most stories.
NBC is especially excited because they have a new human interest story they can tell during the first 15 minutes of the Olympic Marathon instead of showing the actual race..
I think you missed the point of the OP.
A few of my non-running coworkers heard about the woman who qualified in her "first marathon." She was a legit underdog story though moreso because of her surgery and eating disorder than the fact that it was her full marathon debut.
Hardloper wrote:
A few of my non-running coworkers heard about the woman who qualified in her "first marathon." She was a legit underdog story though moreso because of her surgery and eating disorder than the fact that it was her full marathon debut.
Not to sound cynical but I hope her success doesn't give those with eating disorders the idea they can jump into a marathon and win.
They can after they have trained for a few years.
Greg wrote:
Hardloper wrote:
A few of my non-running coworkers heard about the woman who qualified in her "first marathon." She was a legit underdog story though moreso because of her surgery and eating disorder than the fact that it was her full marathon debut.
Not to sound cynical but I hope her success doesn't give those with eating disorders the idea they can jump into a marathon and win.
They can after they have trained for a few years.
I have a different take. Seidel coming back from an eating disorder is just the sort of story an editor likes.
I agree that emphasizing the angle of "qualifies in her first marathon" angle is misleading. When you are running at an elite level, there is no great mystique about the 26.2 mile distance. It's not like they're wondering if they can even run that far. When Rupp ran his first marathon, it wasn't exactly a huge shock that he won. Not literally everybody picked him to win, but it certainly wasn't a huge surprise. What would be amazing is if an unknown person who had never played tennis before entered the US Open (let's pretend they'd let you do that) and made the finals. Some people probably interpret the Molly Seidel feat the same way, and that's obviously ridiculous.
On the other hand, it's hard to deny that Molly Seidel's Trials race is a great story. I mean, the other 2 women qualifiers were Kenyans. Nothing against them, but it's hard to make an interesting story out of "Kenyan transplant makes US Olympic team". When I was watching the race, I was pretty f'ing excited to see Molly Seidel up there. I didn't even know much about her, other than a vague knowledge that she was a good-ish runner. It was a surprise, and she has an interesting back-story. I'm finding it pretty hard to latch onto the whole "it's just because she's white and decent-looking" criticism. It's a good story. Such things exist. Deal with it!
I might have a mild eating disorder.
Overeating or eating to the point it effects your energy levels is unhealthy.
A symptom often of isolation. Eating beyond what is healthy or neccessary.
But I don't seek help for it, I don't seek treatment. I know in my heart I shouldn't eat so much all the time.
If I qualify for the olympics I won't tell them I overcame an eating disorder.
FemaleRnr wrote:
dsgfagfs wrote:
Why didn't the mainstream media gobble up the Aliphine Tuliamuk story? Her story is better than Seidel's. She's one of 32 siblings and makes her living selling knitted caps on Etsy that she personally made. She also WON the race.
Overpopulation in Africa is destroying our planet. Let's not celebrate it.
I always thought its the super consumers that are destroying the earth, not those who sit in their mud huts and walk by foot to where they want to be. Thanks for educating me.