If the Olympics are delayed a whole year, as USATF and USA Swimming are requesting, then the marathon trials should be re-run. A guy like Abdi, who is older, is unlikely to be able to keep form for another whole year. Discus.
If the Olympics are delayed a whole year, as USATF and USA Swimming are requesting, then the marathon trials should be re-run. A guy like Abdi, who is older, is unlikely to be able to keep form for another whole year. Discus.
That's only logical to re-run it.. send the best team on a course that mimics Sapporo. Ain't no way that 6 will be the best in a rerun next Feb on a flat course.
In other news Kellyn Taylor ran it with a broken Tibia, tough cookie that girl.
They should rerun it, but can the ones who qualified also go? Maybe expand the field, they deserve to go to the Olympics since they qualified.
what next wrote:
They should rerun it, but can the ones who qualified also go? Maybe expand the field, they deserve to go to the Olympics since they qualified.
can't, few other countries have a qualifying race for the marathon, so they can't just let the us and a select few countries send 6.
That said, I don't believe they should rerun the race.
Dear moran poster,
A year from now Korir will absolutely be better in the marathon than Abdi and Jake Riley. This isn’t a racist post I’m talking about putting the best team on the line next summer. If anything I’m agist. The level of stupidity runs high in you.
Try not to jump the gun you self-righteous tw@t
A Logic Based Thinker
Walmsley
Nobody deserves anything. You earn the right to go and if they did so once they should be able to do it again.
DirtyT wrote:
If the Olympics are delayed a whole year, as USATF and USA Swimming are requesting, then the marathon trials should be re-run. A guy like Abdi, who is older, is unlikely to be able to keep form for another whole year. Discus.
So there are tons of examples where a runner was injured, sick, or whatever before the Olympics after making it, and we all knew it and he or she ran anyway and dropped out.
They need to keep the team they have. All three earned and trained for their spot. You only get ONE chance to race at the Olympics, so why should you get more then one chance to qualify. All 6 men and woman deserve to run wether it’s in 2020 or 2021.
Max Crush Mondays wrote:
Dear racist poster,
If we re-ran the Olympic Trials 100 times, you would never get your dream All- White team.
Sincerely,
True Team USA fans
Racist? Sheesh...
DirtyT wrote:
Dear moran poster,
A year from now Korir will absolutely be better in the marathon than Abdi and Jake Riley. This isn’t a racist post I’m talking about putting the best team on the line next summer. If anything I’m agist. The level of stupidity runs high in you.
Try not to jump the gun you self-righteous tw@t
A Logic Based Thinker
L. Korir is probably better than Abdi And J. Riley NOW, but the Marathon is unpredictable and he was NOT BETTER on THAT DAY.
The only reason these 6 qualifiers shouldn't represent America in the next Olympics is if these Olympics are dumped and the 2024 Olympics are played out.
If any of the women qualifiers are currently with child at time of Tokyo 2021 games, she should have every right to run anyways. At least two pregnant women ran the trials.
Facts my good fellow , these were for the 2020 Olympics . If there are no 2020 Olympics, then the trials has to be run again. IT’S THE LAW!!!!!!!!!!! ⚖️⚖️⚖️⚖️
this x10000. Also applies to every person on, and off, the team.
douglas burke wrote:
L. Korir is probably better than Abdi And J. Riley NOW, but the Marathon is unpredictable and he was NOT BETTER on THAT DAY.
Unfair wrote:
They need to keep the team they have. All three earned and trained for their spot. You only get ONE chance to race at the Olympics, so why should you get more then one chance to qualify. All 6 men and woman deserve to run wether it’s in 2020 or 2021.
Completely agree. And if for some reason one of the qualifiers can't run because of injury or some other reason the next/4th place finisher goes, etc.
3rd Monday in April wrote:
Max Crush Mondays wrote:
Dear racist poster,
If we re-ran the Olympic Trials 100 times, you would never get your dream All- White team.
Sincerely,
True Team USA fans
This is the American Trials, not the Kenyan ones.
We need American athletes representing the USA, no Kipyego who was born in Kenya, grew up in Kenya, trains in Kenya and even medalled for Kenya.
East Africans will not replace us!
If you thought 3 out of 6 was bad, wait until you see the US men's 5000 and 10000 teams....
In the marathon, it is no advantage to run the trials within six months of the Olympics. Keep the teams. If they're injured or pregnant and can't run with full effort and ability, let them be replaced. They'd have to show fitness.
Max Crush Mondays wrote:
Dear racist poster,
If we re-ran the Olympic Trials 100 times, you would never get your dream All- White team.
Sincerely,
True Team USA fans
Lmao you snowflake. He wasn’t involving race and it’s true. He is older so it could be hard to keep from. You liberals are getting worse.
hhsrunner32 wrote:
Max Crush Mondays wrote:
Dear racist poster,
If we re-ran the Olympic Trials 100 times, you would never get your dream All- White team.
Sincerely,
True Team USA fans
Lmao you snowflake. He wasn’t involving race and it’s true. He is older so it could be hard to keep from. You liberals are getting worse.
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