Yawnfest wrote:
Sydney is simultaneously the most incredible athlete and boring, vanilla human being
I respectfully disagree.
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Think Again wrote:
C/M Runner wrote:
Why did she even do the Trials then?
She tried to back out of the Trials but her coach and her dad wouldn't her.
Lucky for her she now has a husband that can run her life and force her to do things she doesn't want to do. Yay Sydney!
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high school xc coach wrote:
honestly, i don't care that she did it, but i wish she didn't write about it. we have a generation that is gonna think it's perfectly normal to just say f-it and bail on competition. they are glorifying it at this point, after the whole Biles thing.
Have you ever made a good comment in your life? Nobody is glorifying the yips. Have you ever competed at a high level in anything?
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After this weak sh!t, that 6' NED girl is going to win, 2024 Olympic 400mH.
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DevonDixonFan wrote:
high school xc coach wrote:
honestly, i don't care that she did it, but i wish she didn't write about it. we have a generation that is gonna think it's perfectly normal to just say f-it and bail on competition. they are glorifying it at this point, after the whole Biles thing.
Have you ever made a good comment in your life? Nobody is glorifying the yips. Have you ever competed at a high level in anything?
maybe you didn't notice biles winning the time's 2021 athlete of the year. moron
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What legend wrote:
high school xc coach wrote:
I agree with this. at that age, getting there should be the prize. all the pressure should be gone for the race. no expectations. but that's not what she felt.
"There's no pressure, it doesn't matter. She's irrational to think people care." - person reading and commenting about it 7 years after the fact
that's what happens when you write about it in a book. 7 years later. nobody is just sitting around caring about this stuff.
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They now gonna maker her pay back for track suit, spikes, plane ticket and book bag
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After this weak sh!t, that 6\' NED girl ... wrote:
After this weak sh!t, that 6' NED girl is going to win, 2024 Olympic 400mH.
That's probably true, because I think that Sydney will skip the 400h at the Olympics and run only the 400.
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After visiting this place for decades, I guess I shouldn't be surprised at the startling lack of empathy by a number of posters here, but it's disappointing nonetheless.
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Interesting Info wrote:
She was suffering with crippling anxiety and did not want to make the final, and purposely tried to not qualify. Considering her PB from that year was around a 54 low, and a 53 high medalled, if she hadn't been suffering with those issues could she have been a medalist at 16?
Letrunners tend to discuss threads like this for pages without going to the source to see what she actually said. So I looked it up.
Her new book, Far Beyond Gold: Running from Fear to Faith, isn't scheduled for release until 30Jan2024 so we don't know what she actually says in the book. All I could find was the Introduction. It's 12 paragraphs and talks about her path to finding God over a six year period from 2016 to 2022. There is no mention of intentionally tanking at Rio.
To me, as someone who who has ghostwritten two books, her book has obviously been ghostwritten by an extremely competent writer. The usage of complex sentence structure, occasional use of short punchy sentences for emphasis, em dashes, and great sentences for wrapping up each paragraph is unusually good. Of course, I would expect nothing less from the Thomas Nelson publishing house.
As far as tanking in Rio is concerned, ghostwriters often use poetic license to improve a story or to make a point. For those who care, they can read the book and make their own call as to what happened.
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fisky wrote:
Letrunners tend to discuss threads like this for pages without going to the source to see what she actually said. So I looked it up.
Her new book, Far Beyond Gold: Running from Fear to Faith, isn't scheduled for release until 30Jan2024 so we don't know what she actually says in the book. There is no mention of intentionally tanking at Rio.
If you really wanted to know what Sydney said about intentionally tanking in the 2016 Rio Olympics, you could have tried a little harder to find out. Here is a quote from Sydney herself:
“I’ll never forget: I must have been going over the eighth hurdle and I was thinking, ‘I’m going to make sure I don’t make this final,’” the Dunellen native told NJ Advance Media this week. “I don’t care if my season ends early, I don’t care if I sweep (the medals) with the other (Americans), I just want this to be done.
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It’s crazy how literally not trying is now seen as bravery
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Gen Z is fd wrote:
It’s crazy how literally not trying is now seen as bravery
I don't see it as bravery. Sydney has an anxiety problem that she has admitted to and she has been trying to work on it. No shame in admitting that you aren't perfect.
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Hearing any top elite claim to have lost on purpose makes an instant hater out of me. Either
a) cheap excuse, don't want to admit they failed
b) wasted their own and everyone else's time, including whoever would have had their lane.
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Bad Wigins wrote:
Hearing any top elite claim to have lost on purpose makes an instant hater out of me.
She was a minor and her coach and father forced her to compete in the 2016 Trials against her will.
It's not a good look for you to hate a minor.
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Well What Do You Know wrote:
Disko Eric wrote:
SML didn’t write anything.
Well, obviously. Name one athlete in history that wrote a book 100% on their own without either another writer or an editor.
Sage Canaday.
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fisky wrote:
Letrunners tend to discuss threads like this for pages without going to the source to see what she actually said. So I looked it up.
Her new book, Far Beyond Gold: Running from Fear to Faith, isn't scheduled for release until 30Jan2024 so we don't know what she actually says in the book. All I could find was the Introduction. It's 12 paragraphs and talks about her path to finding God over a six year period from 2016 to 2022. There is no mention of intentionally tanking at Rio.
To me, as someone who who has ghostwritten two books, her book has obviously been ghostwritten by an extremely competent writer. The usage of complex sentence structure, occasional use of short punchy sentences for emphasis, em dashes, and great sentences for wrapping up each paragraph is unusually good. Of course, I would expect nothing less from the Thomas Nelson publishing house.
As far as tanking in Rio is concerned, ghostwriters often use poetic license to improve a story or to make a point. For those who care, they can read the book and make their own call as to what happened.
Are ghost writers usually as knowledgeable as your clinically insane letsruns user that notices that Sydneys gait looked different down the homestretch?
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she didn't ditch wrote:
You do realize that people sometimes write BS just to sell books, right? They need to make it interesting or no one is going to buy it. Add something "controversial" and the sales go up.
These days the word admit is too often accepted when the correct term is claim
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All I know is Syd is boring (which is refreshing, generally) and there a ton of other celeb autobiographies that have come out recently … so who is the market for this book?
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