Valby’s post race interview

Exactly, imagine running the Olympic trials and then having to answer questions that could not be more inane.

I just think she'd be prettier if she smiled more.

No kidding. I would have been way more snarky, I thought she handled it very well. Stupid question deserve stupid answers.

You may be thinking of her cringy interviews on the infield with Jon Anderson. He’s a cheesy boomer and she plays along with his softball questions. Her mix zone answers are what the latest video showed. She’ll have to clean it up a bit.

What did she do or say in that interview that came off a fame-seeker to you? It looked to me like she didn't want to be there and just wanted the interview to end. That's not the demeanor of someone seeking more attention.

Arc trainer stock just dropped 25%

Signed - sub 18 minute dude

I thought everything was fine including almost all of the questions. Valby was more subdued than I expected. That means she really wanted to make this team and thought she had a legitimate chance.

She is uber competitive and hates loosing....But the 5k and 10k favor runners with a few more years under the belt

And yet, you have spent hours of your life writing about her, while she hasn't wasted a single second thinking about you. :)

Parker Valby is amazing, what gusts. Reminds me of a young Pre. She is also probably on her way to the Olympics since Elle St. Pierre in her interview doubts that she will double. Way to go Valby :)

And THAT is exactly why you run all out for every place. She had to do 2 things, keep the pace honest and make the standard, combined with her supposed lack of kick...she did precisely what every coach on the planet would have recommended. She ran Olympic standard pace and safely where she is used to running. Should she have run in the pack, 15 mim plus pace and sit and kick the pros? Im more impressed with her now than ever. She executed the most likely plan to get her on the team, she pressed hard to stay attached, but in the end she needed KS or Cranny to maybe have an off day. She did what she could.

yeah, i wish she'd say or do anything that suggested humility, interest in the sport as a whole, or knowledge/respect of her competitors. look, there are high schoolers and college sophomores at the trials with more grace, humility and clear love of the sport than her, and yet everyone gives her a pass. i guarantee she doesn't know the names of most of her competitors. she's admitted she didn't watch the last olympics. i hope she does get to paris just so she can get a taste of what the real world is like.

Aren't the questions about targeting the standard kind of stupid anyway? Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought her world ranking was high enough in the 5K that she'd get in with or without the standard.

Exactly. 4th place and there's zero guarantee all 3 ahead of her will be competing in the 5000. Not only did she make this an honest race, I loved that she still fought even after ESP, Cranny and Schweizer overtook her near the end.

vehemently disagree. the overwhelming majority of her interviews are very telling: she's cut from that same cloth as mcgee and all the other spoiled daddy's girls from U of F. it's an attitude of "i'm better than you". no matter how pretty she is, her tone and attitude completely neutralizes it.

Post race interviews are for the victors, not the runner-ups. When the non-winner, in this case, Parker, gives her interview -- she is not at her emotional best -- and she does herself no favors by struggling through the questions. (Body language says she is hurting -- so leave the girl alone.)

Valby and all non winners should say:

"Hey, it's Elle's day -- my congratulation to her and her coach!"

The whole process of answering dumb and repetitive questions 3 minutes after finishing a 5k is dumb anyway. Showed personality

Just the opposite. She frontran the fastest college time in history. Imagine what she can do in a paced 14:30 race.