FauxJo wrote:
Master Of Lolly wrote:
ATHING MU - double olympic champion.
One of 7 children of South Sudanese immigrant family with very limited income.
That's pretty much the coolest thing that has ever happen in USAs Track & Field.
ding ding ding
winner, but w(hit)ejo won't acknowledge for obvious reasons.
They can’t get out of their own way
rojo wrote:
ga ga gai pan wrote:Meb, Molly Seidel, Athing Mu have stories every bit if not more compelling. Why do brojos hype stuff the way they do? Can anyone explain?That said, kudos to Keira! Outstanding run today.
Look. It takes massive talent to set an American record but the point of Weldon's post is simply to say this is the most unlikely AR in a long damn time. When Kentucky wins the NCAA title in basketball, it's not a shock. When Butler does, it is (Yes I know they didn't do it).Meb and Seidel and Mu were literally teenage and NCAA SUPERSTARS. Some of the best ever seen. They all got pro contracts out of college. D'Amato - while 5th at NCAA xc - was 9th in the NCAA 5k her senior year- the only year i think she made it.Meb - national runnerup in HS, collegiate superstar, signs with nike out o f college, breaks AR in 10k and then has great succaess.Molly Seidel - HS national champ, NCAA national champ,MU - won USA indoors in HS.Keira D'Amato - doesn't break 4:20 of 16:00 in college. Quits sport for 7 years. Has two kids. Has a full-time job, no shoe contract. Comes back anyways. Ends up being way better than she ever was. Breaks AR.Plus she's coached by Scott Raczko - a guy who was shat upon non-stop for 'ruining' Webb even though Alan Webb ran HS and US mile records for him.-RojoPS. And of course it doesn't happen without the shoes.
Where is your vitriol over the shoes. If she were African that would be your talking point.
This century?
What are you talking about?
Almost every African success story is far more rags to riches than this one.
They go from living in huts with no food to setting WR's.
And you know this.
Why the needless hyperbole now?
Even Gault is wrong.
And of course suddenly the shoes are forgotten.
Maybe THATS the biggest story this century.
To me, "rags to riches" is the wrong narrative to try to force onto Keira D'Mato.
Rather, her story is one that perhaps ought to be most appealing to an ideal prototypical Letsrun member: someone likely to be educated, having their own full-time career and life (I do say "ideal" member) but running because they're passionate about running.
Here is someone who didn't "need" running as a career -- she was already well onto her own life story as in a two-income, two kid, suburban wife, but she recommitted to the sport, reorganized her life, paid her own way and has made it to truly elite status even though she is bumping into her later 30s. She does what Letsrun posters aspire to do, only better.
She is a suburban, 21-century running hero.
Onwards wrote:
Here is someone who didn't "need" running as a career -- she was already well onto her own life story as in a two-income, two kid, suburban wife, but she recommitted to the sport, reorganized her life, paid her own way and has made it to truly elite status even though she is bumping into her later 30s. She does what Letsrun posters aspire to do, only better.
She is a suburban, 21-century running hero.
99.9% of runners have a job even a lot of the top runners. It would be crazy not to have a real career since your top level running can go away anytime soon.
The most amazing thing about D’Amato’s AR is that she did it when so many know it all geniuses on this site said she had no chance.
And the shoes are now a non factor. Everyone in the world uses them and all the competitions and times adjust accordingly, just like they’ve done in every era of transition and change.
Unfortunately, I am no longer WOWed by records broken in blade shoes.
Are you and Gault "special" The decade just started.
I think you two should go back to defending drug cheats. No wonder no legit journalism outfit takes this site for gault seriously
dc doctor wrote:
And the shoes are now a non factor. Everyone in the world uses them and all the competitions and times adjust accordingly, just like they’ve done in every era of transition and change.
The shoes have only been out since late-2017. that's 4 years, of which 2 years have essentially been lost to real competition. They won't be wash until all the elites have had a chance to run a fast marathon in them. Right now, they're all still chasing pre-super shoes records, and the shoes are making the difference.
Also, she uses "super shoes." If Deena wore those she'd have gone sub 2:19
Doping. Yawn.
MeHereYouWhere?! wrote:
Leicester City winning the EPL in 2015-2016 season was 1000x a better rags to riches story than this.
Sorry Gault and Wejo...it's not even close.
Not sure about 1000x, but that was actually the first example I thought of when I told Weldon it wasn't the best sports story of the century. I do think Leicester is #1 across all sports.
Jonathan Gault wrote:
MeHereYouWhere?! wrote:
Leicester City winning the EPL in 2015-2016 season was 1000x a better rags to riches story than this.
Sorry Gault and Wejo...it's not even close.
Not sure about 1000x, but that was actually the first example I thought of when I told Weldon it wasn't the best sports story of the century. I do think Leicester is #1 across all sports.
No. That is wrong. A minor team in a minor country is a minor story. The Bad News Bears is a cooler story.
Jonathan Gault wrote:
MeHereYouWhere?! wrote:
Leicester City winning the EPL in 2015-2016 season was 1000x a better rags to riches story than this.
Sorry Gault and Wejo...it's not even close.
Not sure about 1000x, but that was actually the first example I thought of when I told Weldon it wasn't the best sports story of the century. I do think Leicester is #1 across all sports.
It that’s what you think then why did Wejo start this dumbazz thread (which, again: the subject line says coolest performance of this century, the body says rags to riches of the century and Rojo, at least from what I could tell from his incoherent rant, called it just a cool performance and that WE should have known)
And then your other boss, Robert, CALLED US STUPID for not agreeing with Weldon’s dumbazz thread
Jonathan Gault wrote:
MeHereYouWhere?! wrote:
Leicester City winning the EPL in 2015-2016 season was 1000x a better rags to riches story than this.
Sorry Gault and Wejo...it's not even close.
Not sure about 1000x, but that was actually the first example I thought of when I told Weldon it wasn't the best sports story of the century. I do think Leicester is #1 across all sports.
1) I criticized Robert privately last night for asking if posters were stupid
2) I said “in the sport” which means not in any sport but in running
3) I asked a question and said to prove me wrong to post another example. She ran a 3:14 marathon less than 5 years ago and now is more than 2 minutes a mile faster.
4) The more I know about EPL the more I can’t believe Leicester
wejo wrote:
Jonathan Gault wrote:
Not sure about 1000x, but that was actually the first example I thought of when I told Weldon it wasn't the best sports story of the century. I do think Leicester is #1 across all sports.
) The more I know about EPL the more I can’t believe Leicester
they are very suspicious. fake news? doping? the shoes? rigged results? BLM antifa elf hillary hunter biden? dead people playing?
bio Domer wrote:
Going from nowhere to world beater in record time:
Donald Thomas: a random amateur basketball player at an NAIA school to high jump world champion in one year
Dennis Kimetto: farmer turned world class runner, winning races within a couple of years. Best marathoner in the world 5 years later.
Jenn Suhr, a star basketball player at an NAIA school catches the eye of a pole vault coach. 10 months later she wins a USATF title. Later wind Olympic silver and then gold in 2012.
Maybe we need more non-D1 basketball players to try track and field events (I assume that if basketball was important in Kenya, Kimetto would have been an above average talent…)
No we’ve got someone following the rules.
They had instant and greater success than D’Amato . Sort of apples to oranges as I liked the fact she was running 3:14 5 years ago
wejo wrote:
Jonathan Gault wrote:
Not sure about 1000x, but that was actually the first example I thought of when I told Weldon it wasn't the best sports story of the century. I do think Leicester is #1 across all sports.
1) I criticized Robert privately last night for asking if posters were stupid 2) I said “in the sport” which means not in any sport but in running3) I asked a question and said to prove me wrong to post another example. She ran a 3:14 marathon less than 5 years ago and now is more than 2 minutes a mile faster.4) The more I know about EPL the more I can’t believe Leicester
Congratulations on telling your brother, for the tenth time? One hundredth time? To not call posters stupid for something that HE is actually being stupid about
IM SURE THIS TIME HE’LL LISTEN TO YOU!
just asking questions like a porn star wrote:
This. They undermine her performance with some weird childish take that it’s the best running performance by anyone this century?
They are actually making it about themselves, because they are unwilling or unable to do the hard work of properly analyzing her performance and instead want to gain attention for being the first to say the performance is something it isn’t
Arrested development due to being rich and spoiled their entire lives
I never once said it was the best performance . I just think it’s super cool a 3:14 marathoner 5 years later ran 2:19. I joked my wife should give it a go last night .
Not sure how that makes me lazy. But glad this thread got a lot of discussion. Clearly people are interested in the topic.
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