Last time we said that Nike became a big winner in the marathon trials of the US and Japan at the Tokyo Olympics held last weekend.
This mainly refers to the men's competition between the two countries, because the championship and runner-up of the American Women's Trials (Note: East Malaysia is not the Japanese Women's Trials Competition), neither of which are under the "Hook", but are sponsored by HOKA ONE ONE and Saucony respectively.
In fact, this game is a big upset because the "five golden flowers" that are most optimistic before the game are expected to qualify, namely:
- Emily Sisson, 2:23:08, 2019 London, the seventh in the United States and the fourth in active service;
- Jordan Hasay, 2:20:57, 2017 Chicago , the second in the United States and the first in active service;
- Des Linden, 2:22:38, 2011 Boston (non-compliant track);
- Molly Hurd (Molly) Huddle), 2:26:33, 2019 London;
- Sara Hall, 2:22:16, 2019 Berlin, the sixth in the United States, the third in active service;
, none of them entered the top three and were selected into the Olympic national team!
The most regrettable one is the 2018 Poma Champion Linden , who ranked fourth with 2:29:03 and missed the Olympic spot.
The other four favorites are three withdrew from the competition - Sethson, Hurd and Hall; Hasey, who is the "No. 1 American sister today", lost his standard and only ran 2:37:57, ranking 26th.
qualify for the Olympic Games in the first match
Among the top three decided in this game, dark-skinned Kenya immigrants account for two-thirds.
The only one who saves face for locally born contestants is Molly Seidel, who is quite young and innocent. This Wisconsin girl won the runner-up with 2:27:31.
The most surprising thing is that this is not only Molly's first marathon, but she did not temporarily decide to participate in this "Warrior Conference" until the end of last year.
The famous running website Letsrun wrote: "For most athletes, the Olympic Trials are the pinnacle of a four-year (carefully prepared) plan. And Molly Seidel's planning time is less than 4 months."
It turned out that on December 8 last year, she tried the half marathon for the first time ( San Antonio rock half marathon), and she ran a good result of 70 minutes and 27 seconds, reaching the registration threshold for the Olympic Trials in one fell swoop.
(The following are the registration standards for the US Olympic Trials, which must be gunshot results. The travel expenses of the A-level players can be reimbursed, while the B-level players can only pay out of their own pockets)
In this way, she, who was originally scheduled to enter the Malaysian Malaysia in Houston in January this year, decided to leave her debut for the trials, and Houston changed to half a distance as a warm-up.
January 19Houston Half Horse - It was the game where Shintani Hitomi won the championship with 1:06:38 and broke the 70-point mark with 1:09:35 and ranked third in the United States, only one second slower than Molly Hurd, the second-largest local record and holder of the United States (67:25) with her name.
Interestingly, the trial champion Aliphine Tuliamuk also participated in that competition, and that time she was average: 1:09:49, seventh in the United States.
Atlanta trials gathered, making Molly dare not have any extravagant hopes. Before the game, she told Runnersworld that it would be great to be able to win "10th to 20th."
Coach Jon Green's prediction is more optimistic, but it is only "between 3rd and 12th".
No one could have imagined that Molly actually ran out of the sixth fastest score in the US Olympic Trials, becoming the youngest female member of the US team for the Olympic marathon in 28 years (the last one was Cathy O'Brien, 24, in 1992), and was the first American woman to get the Olympic ticket to get her first horse!
Top field, road running newcomer
1 meter 65 and weighs 49 kg Molly Seidel was born in Brookfield, Wisconsin in July 1994 and grew up in Hartland town on the outskirts of Milwaukee.
Four years in high school, she won 12 gold medals in the three long-distance running events of the Wisconsin High School Students Games, 1600m and 3200m. In 2011, she won the most famous Foot Locker High School Students Cross Country Championships in the United States.
After entering Notre Dame, a famous Indiana university in 2012, she won four NCAA (National College Students’ Sports Association, equivalent to the University Games) long-distance running gold medals, including:
- indoor 3000 meters-8:57.86, 2016;
- indoor 5000 meters-15:15.21, 2016;
- outdoor 10000 meters-33:18.37, 2015;
- cross-country 6 kilometers-19:28.5, 2015.
She is also the first woman in the United States to win both high school and college off-road national champions.
But the high school and college track and field star also has her troubles: long-term suffering from illness - osteoporosis, depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder (specifically manifested as anorexia).
Due to the drag of these injuries, after graduating from college, she gave up the opportunity to sign a well-paid career contract and returned to school for more than one year.
After leaving school in 2017, Molly signed a contract with sports brand Saucony and moved to Boston, which is close to the company's headquarters, to share an apartment with her sister.
Because the sponsorship amount is not high, in order to balance income and expenditure, she had to work two jobs: working as a waiter in a cafe and helping people take care of their children.
She also played supporting roles for other experts. In the summer of 2016, an agency called her and asked her if she would be an assistant to Sally Kipyego, who was second in the London Olympics marathon at the 2012 London Olympics, who was preparing for that year's New York marathon.
Molly immediately agreed and drove to Flagstaff City, Arizona to help the famous Kenyan immigrant general "supports tea and water" - setting up supply points and delivering drinks on his training route.
"I regard her as an idol. I remember thinking to myself: I hope one day I can be as cool as Sally Gippiego." After the trial, Molly told " Boston Globe ".
Now she has done it: defeated Gipuyego in the trials. The latter ranked third with 2:28:52 and got the last Olympic ticket.
In January this year, Molly went to Flagpole City for plateau training again. One of her training partners is the trial champion Turiamuk; they run 100 to 110 miles per week (160 to 177 kilometers; local altitude 2,100 meters).
"Black and White Double Evil"
02 at 12:20 pm on February 29, this highly anticipated competition finally fired.
A total of 444 people participated in the women's competition, and 390 people finished the competition, setting the largest scale in the history of the US Olympic selection.
Due to the strong players, although there were many windy slopes that day (the cumulative altitude rise and fall of 400 meters), when the first group reached the half-way point at 1:14:38 (the average pace is 3:32/km), the number of people in the first group still reached as many as 14.
The only one that fell out of the group was Jordan Hasey, the fastest PB (the hamstring tendon on the back of her thigh had an injury).
Until the legendary "Marathon Real Middle Point" 20 miles (32km), the group still has 12 people.
At this time, Jipuyego was leading the group. She brought the rhythm of the group a little faster. The first ones were the three hottest ones, Sisen, Hall and Hurd!
Mile 21 (33.8km) It was Turiamuk and Molly's turn to take the lead. They obviously ran quite easily in front of them, and Molly also brimmed with her sister in the 7th mile (her parents were also watching the game).
This difficult uphill road, they increased their pace to 5:30/mile (3:25/km), which is much faster than the first and second laps 5:42 and 5:47 (3:32 and 3:35/km).
Jipyego barely followed the two, and the pursuer group composed of Linden and four others was 5 seconds behind them.
mile 22 (35.4km), the two leaders, black and white, accelerated to 5:17 (3:17/km).
Jipyego couldn't hold on anymore, and was widened for 7 seconds, while Laura Thweatt (PB 2:25:38), who was running fourth, was 13 seconds behind her.
Turiamuk and Molly, the two plateau training partners, actually agreed to do it together.
The former revealed after the game: "I told Molly: Let's do it."
Molly recalled: "This is mainly due to Alifin...I think if it were someone else, I wouldn't be so calm when I rushed out together.
"Alifin is very respectful to me. It feels great to have this kind of ‘this is a friend I know and trust now’. Let's finish playing together (going down). The last 5 miles of pain, I don't want to share with anyone else. "
But they didn't finish it. In the next 3 miles, the two continued to expand the gap with Jipuyego: 15 seconds, 17 seconds, 23 seconds. By 25 miles (40km), the latter had been widened for as many as 62 seconds.
Seeing that the overall situation of the first two was decided, Turiyamuk then turned the gun inside and competed with the little sisters.
The gap between her and Molly increased from 1 second of 25 miles to 6 seconds of 26 miles, and finally won by 8 seconds. After the line was blocked, she stayed to wait for Molly. The two hugged each other tightly at the finish line, crying with joy.
Molly took 1:14:38 and 1:12:53 in the front and second half respectively, and 1:12:53 in the second half, and 1 minute and 45 seconds. - I didn't make the mistake of "fast and collapsed" for the first time for the whole horse.
childhood dream, realizing half of
Molly told " New York Times " that her daily routine in Boston is: get up; take the main course of training; go home; work in a cafe for one or two hours, or help others take care of their children; and conducting a second training in the afternoon.
She usually loves donuts, and her favorite competition is the " Turkey run" every Thanksgiving in Wisconsin (turkey) trot).
She will participate in the competition in a turkey outfit because "nothing is better than dressing up as a turkey to beat the boy."
Coach Green does not approve of her high-level training and two jobs while doing high-level training. She believes that working in a coffee shop is not bad, but being a nanny requires a long-distance driving round trip (mainly because of the congestion during rush hour) is too time-consuming and energy-consuming.
was selected for the Olympics US national team, allowing Molly to realize her first childhood dream.
According to Sports Illustrated, she was in the fourth grade of elementary school in 2004, and wrote a sentence behind the paper with her photos:
"I hope I can be shortlisted for the Olympics and win a gold medal. "Sign up: "Molly Seidel".
As for whether you can win medals, you can only find out in Sapporo - the International Olympic Committee moved the 2020 Olympic marathon to this northern Japanese city to avoid the hot and hot summers of Tokyo in midsummer.
Now due to the raging coronavirus, even whether the Olympics itself can run Chengdu is in doubt.
Molly told the Boston Globe: "If the US Olympic Committee determines that it is not safe, we obviously have to do what they say. But if necessary, I will wear a mask to compete... This is Olympic after all.
"I understand the seriousness of the situation... but from the bottom of my heart, I sincerely hope it will not affect the Olympics."
Molly's original plan was to wait until the 2024 Paris Olympics to compete in the marathon again. The unexpected success of the trials disrupted her short-term arrangements.
However, she will still participate in the Olympics American track and field trials at the University of Oregon Hayward Track and Field in June.
If she runs into the top three again, she may be in two events, like Galen Rupp did in Rio in 2016, at the Tokyo Olympics and the marathon.
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