So is Parker Valby owed an apology?

It is frustrating because the people who accused her are crazy Tuohy fans. They set up a situation of propaganda whereby they said something so many times that they hoped people would believe it if Tuohy would have lost. They will resurrect the messages when Valby beats Tuohy during track season. Letsrun allowed the posts to go way too far. This is an innocent young lady. The posters are disgusting to have done this and continue to do this.

Everyone else except for you cares , that's who. Great rivalry that the rest of us are excited to see going forward.

I like Parker Valby and FWIW, I don’t believe that she is a doper. She’s a huge talent and I’m glad that we have athletes as talented as Tuohy & Valby.

That said, Tuohy won because she ran a better race than Valby. She stayed back to help pace her teammates, didn’t blow up, and then once she was assured that her team was OK, went for individual glory. She was going to get 1 point regardless of if she finished 1st or 2nd so why not go for the individual title? By the time she waited to reel Valby in, she was pretty much guaranteed not to blow up.

Also, if anyone is owed an apology, it is Tuohy. She has had to endure a lot of crap on these forums from jackwagons like you. That is probably why she hates this place so much.

Both are great, Natalie Cook is going to get there, Taylor Roe, and others. The future of the sport for women in the United States is promising.

Chris Solinsky is owed an apology. He ran for Schumacher starting in college, long before Schumacher took his public stand with a convicted doper and against the entire anti-doping system.

One of the "others" that should be in the discussion is Zofia Dudek. She was another phenom that had to endure a lot of hate on this forum. She had a pretty significant injury and is steadily starting to get her form back. She's not totally back but she may get there and I'm rooting for her. She had a good XC season that will hopefully carry over to track. I'm looking forward to seeing what she can run at BU this weekend.

Nobody has ever said a negative thing about Tuohy that would warrant an apology. Valby was accused of cheating.

Puhleeeze… Tuohy has had plenty of negative drivel spewed about her on these forums, far more than Valby ever has. She has also been accused of doping and cheating.

We have just seen this week two American athletes busted. No one here thought they were doping. The nature of the sport now means that no top athlete automatically gets a pass. Just about anyone could be doping. They quite probably are.

Nobody accused Tuohy of doping. They tried to show the Valby accusers how ridiculous they were being by pointing out that if Valby is doping, Tuohy is too. They don't believe that either are. As far as all of the terrible comments pertaing to Tuohy that you are fabricating, please link to just three of them. You can't do it because they don't exist. Predicting that Tuohy will lose a race is not something that requires an apology or preducting that a runner won't improve is not a comment that requires an apology. But accusing a person of cheating does require an aopolgy and the person should be banned.

Not me. They are professionals. Valby is a 20 year old amateur, college student. You are ruining her future life.

Relax. Valby's life isn't ruined just because of some random posts on a message board that only .0000001% of the US population has ever read.

Employers do background checks. They will see these posts and select a different candidate assuming there are multiple qualified candidates.

I can’t be the only one who opens these stupid threads for the sole purpose of upvoting valbymania’s shenanigans.

if you dont think Valby wasnt aware of the rumors you are in full denial or just lying. this isnt about the "US population", its about the running industry subculture that has a finite set of communication resources and things tend to get around those resources fairly quickly (not to mention the viral element of social media). and this website is the number one spot for rumors about runners to come from because it is essentially a troll farm whose livelihood is based on encouraging trolls to make provocative posts even if they slander people without evidence. why do you think this place has such a terrible reputation?

Oh give me a break. Employer's aren't complete idiots. They aren't going to refuse to hire Valby just because some anonymous knucklehead using a weird name like "dogfart55" wrote some speculative posts saying negative things about a person they've never even met.

People who accuse others of anything unethical without evidence says more about their own dissatisfaction with themselves and resentment towards others' success. One thing is true about running. There is always someone else faster than you are out there at a given point of time. Your job is to focus on yourself and figure out how to make yourself better rather than worrying about everyone else. And thank your competitors for giving you a challenge because it is competition that raises the sport.