Athing Mu - Either run more races or leave Bobby Kersee

Walk around talkin bout how track aint even your top priority, how you just tolerate it.. well you got your wish Ms Mu.. now you got all the time you want to do other things.

Congratulations

The Running Gods

Go to the Brooks Beasts or Very Nice Track Club or literally anywhere else

Bobby Cursee.

She definitely needs to race more, but I don't think she'll change coaches.

Bad look for Kersee

I'm assuming a protest will be filed (not sure if it will go anywhere...) from Athing's camp, any update on it?

Race more or leave Kersee? I think both would help her a lot.

What part of she has been injured this year and couldn’t race more do you not understand? It has been widely reported she had to dropout of meets with a hamstring injury and was fortunate to even get to race at the trials.

Hogwash! It was the same story last year and she's nearly fell in about 5 races the last two years. It finally happened today.

Mu is quickly becoming one of the biggest “what ifs” in U.S. history.

the early success has went to her head. The switch to a questionable coach, the lack of racing... Even if she didn’t fall, Hodgkinson would smoke her at the Olympics. You can’t just turn it on at this level, Keely is out there grinding, and is always sharp. It’s disrespectful to her opponents having this lazy attitude towards racing.

stick a fork in her. She’s DONE. She clearly doesn’t respect the sport or her opponents enough.

Not sure if it’s a Kersee problem if all of his other athletes race and do well. She and he surprised everyone with her 1500m performance last year.

This seems to me more like a Mu problem, but maybe she can only solve it by shaking everything up.

She needs to leave Kersee asap. She should by now be one of the best 400/800 runners the world has ever seen. But no, she mustn't race the 400 because that's where Sydney is going after Paris. I honestly think Mu is way more talented at 400m. She has the shape of a Shaunae Miller, but with much more endurance from her 800m running.

Yes, it's really stupid that Mu set the NCA record in the 400 but Kersee won't let her run it because Kersee wants to protect Sydney.

Can you imagine any other coach in the country not letting Mu run the 400? No way.

Well, any new coach would need to be based in LA so she still has access to her "modeling opportunities."

Winning that Eugene Diamond League final in 1:54 high last year, after bronze in Budapest, was the worst thing to happen to Mu.

She obviously assumed she could do it again. Just show up at trials at 1:57.5 shape, sneak onto the team, then work like hell for 6 weeks.

The threads here are a joke. I've long picked Mu to win Paris. Big deal. She deserves nothing.

The London diamond league should be a chance for her to race Hodgkinson and potentially Moraa, if she's up for it.

Would at least give us all a chance to see her in a proper race and go some way towards answering the "what ifs"

Exactly, she has a lot of potential in the 400 and she does not have to worry about traffic. She split 48.3 in Tokyo which indicated that she was around 49 low shape at age 19.

I'm surprised that Mu doesn't have more work ethic. Her parents must have raised her to have more than she has - they emigrated, as war refugees from South Sudan for better prospects. Athing has had opportunities her parents could only have dreamed of at the same age. Any modeling contracts she gains are going to be linked to her fame as an athlete, because in the highly competitive world of young models, she isn't going to make it otherwise. But she just doesn't seem to have the work ethic in athletics. She can't always be injured all year long except for 6 weeks in summer. She needs to practice her race craft more, because the 800m is highly tactical and she is a bit of a wrecking ball.

Also, Kersee seems to have an effect on some of his athletes of making them dislike racing and being anxious and nervous when they do race. I think Athing needs to be in a bigger middle distance group where she can benefit from the team ethic. I also don't see the point in basing herself somewhere like LA where the air quality is really poor. Does her group even do altitude training camps?

Why would a sprint group do altitude training???