Will Katelyn Tuohy race the Olympic trials or not?

lol, I agree. But it appears there are more than 1 that do not like her.

What is not to like about her? She is always a good sport. She seems smart and seems like a good team mate. A few of you can't seem to discern the dilifference between discussing someone's physical ability and their likeability. Will you choose her to win the 5k at the Olympics if Letsrun holds a contest?

Call me old fashioned but I would not think someone who liked someone as a person would not put anonymous comments on a message board, using a user name implying she is "slow", declaring their career over, based on scanty "evidence". The answer to your question is no, at least for this year, and probably not in the future either.

You haven’t met her.

My daughter ran D1 and was told that she couldn't take an over the counter cold medicine because she may fail a random drug test.

So, no- it's not suspicious. Your mental stability is suspicious.

Yes it is. How many random tests has your daughter had? Tuohy has never been tested. I ran at nationals in college but was never tested.

You don't think she was already in the testing pool, competing at USAs? She's injured. Did she beat you or something?

She may be in the pool, but here's her USADA Athlete Test History:

"No results found for your selection criteria. Please change your selection and try again."

At least the article confirmed that she is back training and the injury seems to have resolved. Maybe not be ideal, but there is a shot she runs at the trials.

Thank you for posting that.

Here’s what Runner’s World said regarding Tuohy:

”Katelyn Tuohy is doubtful for the Olympic Trials after hamstring injury derailed her winter and spring training. Her agent, Ray Flynn, confirmed to Runner’s World on May 24 that although she’s back to training now, she is unlikely to be ready in time for the Trials, which begin on June 21.

Tuohy’s last race was November 18, when she ran the NCAA Cross-Country Championships for North Carolina State University. Despite suffering from illness during the race, she finished fifth, leading her team to the title by one point over Northern Arizona.

A few weeks later, she announced she was turning pro and signing with Adidas, the company with which she had an NIL deal during college. She said she would continue to train under her college coach, Laurie Henes, with stints at altitude in Flagstaff, Arizona.

Although her recent posts to social media show her running, she has yet to race in an Adidas uniform.

Tuohy, 22, has a personal best of 15:03.12 for 5,000 meters, which she ran on May 6, 2023. She doesn’t have the automatic qualifying time for the Trials in the 5,000 meters, although she would likely get in to the field of 30 women based on her 15:15.26 from last July.”

I would lap her in a 5k. But that is not relevant. She has never been tested.

Such a bummer.

We will see. But it is one of the pitfalls of being a clean athlete in a dirty sport. Other pros would take doping products that would quickly return them to peak fitness.

I am confused by your abstract wording. Are you trying to say that KT is at a disadvantage b/c she, unlike other pros, does not dope? If so, why don't you come out and say so? And if you are claiming KT is clean, how do you know this?

PS Just out of curiosity, do you believe Wejo's rule: "You only know for sure about yourself"? Or do you have some special method for sniffing out dopers that the rest of us don't.

How do you know that? If she was tested by the NCAA, that would not show up in the USADA test history database, which shows only tests carried out by (or in some cases, for) the USADA. Since the NCAA is not a signatory to the WADA rules, its tests are completely separate to the USADA tests.

Look up Blank231 and yourself in the USADA database. If you cannot find your history of testing, you must have been doping. You just didn’t realize it, did you?

Hopefully being obtuse is just an act.

Pro running is a doping sport. Not sure what is remotely controversial about that. You cannot reach the top of pro running without serious doping. Sorry.

Figuring out who is clean and who is doping is not complicated. You look at the usual red flags: shady associations, unusual progressions, ability to run times historically only achieved by dopers, sudden dramatic improvement, absence of natural fatigue, absence of off races, ability to return to peak fitness from injury quickly, coming from a proven doping cultures, etc. What the diehards in this sport cling to desperately is the fact that even where doping seems very obvious, it is still hard to nail down with a positive test. So examples like Chemusto or the Spanish miler where suspicion is quickly vindicated are rare.

All that said, if you can point to any red flags with Tuohy do it. Because I have tended to be right far more often than wrong. Again, this is not hard, just hard to admit.

You are the diehard.

Tuohy was far ahead of her peers at an early age. She has a square jaw and large muscles. She is associated with a shady character. She disappeared after entering the testing pool. Those are all facts, not judgements.