re: Valby...can we just cut to the chase

Agreed. She is never going to run a sub 60 last lap to beat the fastest women on the track. But probably has lots of potential in the marathon.

It’s not at all a similar scenario. In addition to the big difference in age coming out of college, there’s a big difference in their success on the track. Valby won numerous NCAA track titles, and Conner didn’t. Valby was also immediately successful in qualifying for the Olympics on the track coming out of college, and Conner wasn’t.

can you guys give her another couple weeks to run in the freaking Olympics before making posts insisting shes washed up in all track events and demanding she be relegated to the running gulag that is the marathon?

It’s crazy to me the lack of respect she gets despite being the most successful collegiate distance runner of all time, destroying her competition, and shattering records.

She has plenty of time before she needs to decide these things, and she’s still relatively new to the sport, if you consider she didn’t even start running until high school, and was injured for much of her first two years in college.

Dumb take. Valby has raced more times this spring than msrathoners do in a career. Diamond league. Road races. Her earnings are endless on the track.

Number of Olympic teams made:

Sara Hall - 0

Valby -2

You’re arguing an athlete should abandon the events she’s just started having national success at, in favor of an event that would pose a significantly higher injury risk to her. She isn’t exactly a runner who thrives on high volume, is she?

Most of the criticism for Valby, or any other “It!” girl of the moment, is driven by sexually frustrated men that wish to possess and control her. When reality sneaks in and they realize that she will never be Mrs. Basement Virgin, they find any and all means to criticize and discredit her.

There is a long line of such behavior on this site stretching back to its founding.

I generally agree that we need to send the top US distance runners, men and women, to the marathon much earlier and even try to cultivate more marathoners while they are in college. Valby would be the perfect case for that as she has the potential to be a Paula Radcliffe 2.0. She is tall, has a long and powerful stride and a huge aerobic engine. But Valby right now cannot handle the mileage needed to be successful in the marathon. She has been able to be successful with a training program that is heavy on cross training, but that isn't going to carry over to the marathon.

Not to mention she also displayed a good kick recently to put to bed the last knock. Pretty much everyone has been wrong about every aspect of her career so far.

How about some FACTS.

Valby has made 1 Olympic team- 2024

and at least Sara Hall has a sponsor. Elephant in the room is why is Valby unsigned? Brands don’t want to shell out the money due to either injury risk, mechanics, durability, personality, combination, or because she has zero speed.

So you want to deal in FACTS? Or are you actually dealing with your idle speculation?

Was the RunnersWorld article factual, or was it a journalist’s idle speculation?

So why don’t you give us some actual FACTS on the matter?

Seems I read the same thing about Wiley being unsigned for a while. "Nobody will ever sign her!" Signs a huge contract with Adidas and promptly justifies it by making the World Indoor Championships.

Valby is patiently weighing her options, just like Wiley did. There is no reason to rush into things. The largest contract ever offered to a recent collegiate female distance runner awaits her (unless you consider the 800 a distance event - Mu); she only needs to decide which brand she wants to represent.

Do we read the same boards?

Kelati is a future Team USA marathoner. Valby is not.

Hahaha.

Olympian. Live with it.

She has been offered $5M. Her father is negotiating with multiple sponsors. Every sponsor wanted her. You sound ridiculous.

How da fk do you know this? She's just started her career. You've barely seen a glimpse of what she can do.

You typed that out, knowing full well someone will dig it up in the near future and call out your bad take? Because I don’t think for a second you actually believe what you wrote.

Another disgruntled Tuohy fan. Valby = Olympian. Tuohy has a contract. That is the only thing that they latch on to. Calby will have a contract twice as large as Tuohy's. She will also get real sponsors outside of the normal shoes makers due to her looks amd personality.