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Sally Pearson (Womens 100m Hurdle) has withdrawn from the Olympics as she has suffered a torn hamstring in training. I watched an interview on the news and she said that she was feeling no pain or niggles and the hamstring hadn't even been on her radar as being an issue. She had the best training block since her injury in Rome 2015 so obviously she's disappointed about it. Her aim now is the 2018 Commonwealth Games before retirement.

In other Womens Hurdles news I think Lolo Jones is another omission. I saw an article on facebook saying she hasn't raced since February and probably won't attend the US trials.

The US & Jamaican trials are going to be intense for track!

Quote from: Coges on July 01, 2016, 06:34:07 am

It is weird how people will gladly tell you how skinny you are (always with the tall and skinny) yet they would never say the same thing to a fat person. Just imagine that "hey, you're so short and fat. how's that working out for you?"

Quote from: Leonel on July 01, 2016, 06:42:29 am

That's actually true. I mean for someone who really struggles with being tall and skinny it's also pretty hurtful when you comment on it all the time yet in our society it's not appropriate to tell someone when he is really fat. I mean where's the logic in that.

The logic comes from the fact that it's better in pretty much every aspect of life (jobs, women, money, etc) to be tall.  And w the exception of a few athletes with musclerexia being skinny is usually thought of a generally good thing that comes with the territory. 

So someone might ask how is your good fortune working out for you?  This is completely logical.  It's the same reason we don't pry into why someone is poor but we comment on people who made it as a positive thing... There is a guy I train and I always assumed was an average upper/middle class (by LA standards) guy... He showed up to the gym Sunday in a blue lambo and I definitely asked him how he came up on that - turns out he was in Google early...  I wouldn't have asked about his struggles if he showed up in a bucket...

I get y'all don't like being skinny... But you can't expect society to assume your strange particular hangup when most people want what you have.  I always want to be smaller and less muscular - so when I change and someone says "whoa your traps are huge" or someone refers to me as the "big guy" or says "your amazingly fast for a big guy" I cringe cause I would rather see myself as a smaller speed athlete... This is why I haven't  done upper body training in years!  However, since I realize this is generally thought to be a good thing I understand where they are coming from...

Reminds me of a time recently when I was playing ball and after the game there was an impromptu dunk contest... I was jumping really well and threw down one of my cleaner windmills... A 22 year old guy asked me for my age and when I told him I was in my thirties he said "OMG you must have absolutely flew in your younger days!"   For some reason this made me so mad... But I just smiled and said thanks 😐.

is there not a stick for the t0ddday method at this point? i thought adarq made one.