“It’s going to be an unknown of what your body can do. “You never really know what it’s gonna be like until you get there,” Seidel told Runner’s World. It will be her debut at the distance, but she’s widely regarded as one of several wildcards who could make an impact. Play icon The triangle icon that indicates to playīut in 2020, Seidel is retaking control of the story-starting with the Olympic Marathon Trials in Atlanta this Saturday, February 29. She barely competed and got injured again. She came back to Notre Dame for a fifth year, citing unfinished business at the college level, but it was really because the sponsorship dollars weren’t there anymore. Seidel turned down the lucrative sponsorship opportunities to quietly enter treatment for her eating disorder. The truth was, the fastest woman in the NCAA was struggling with depression and an obsessive-compulsive disorder that manifested itself in disordered eating. “You look like you’re dying,” Seidel remembers her friend saying.
Olympic Track Trials from the stands at Hayward Field, where her Notre Dame teammate Dani Aragon gave her a reality check. She was the top female distance runner in the NCAA with four national titles and the Olympic Trials on the horizon.īut instead of signing a splashy contract with a shoe company, Seidel was sidelined with a sacral stress fracture and watched the U.S. At the 2021 Olympic Marathon on August 7 in Tokyo, Seidel won bronze in her third marathon ever, running 2:27:46.įour years ago, Molly Seidel wasn’t just the next big thing. This is what it means to be an athlete," she added.Editor’s note: On February 29, Molly Seidel made her first Olympic team by placing second at the Olympic Marathon Trials. This is the day you dream of your entire life. "I did get a bit overcome and start crying a little bit. The Olympics only happens every four years, you might as well take your shot." "I just wanted to stick my nose in where it didn't belong and get after it. "I wanted to go and be that person who, when you're racing, they're all saying, 'Who the hell is this girl?'" Seidel said after the race. Kenya's Peres Jepchirchir took gold, and her compatriot and world record holder Brigid Kosgei won the silver in the hot and humid 26.2 mile race in the northern Japanese city of Sapporo. But the 27-year-old from Wisconsin pulled off an upset and is leaving Japan with a bronze medal around her neck. TOKYO - Molly Seidel had only run two marathons before competing at the Tokyo Olympics.
Gold medalist Peres Jepchirchir (left) of Kenya, stands with silver medalist and compatriot Brigid Kosgei, (center) and bronze medalist Molly Seidel (right) of the United States, after the women's marathon at the Summer Olympics in Sapporo, Japan.
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