Ajeé Wilson

Uh, but again, the, the, the beauty of the women's 800 in the... on the US side of things, that it is a rotating cast of athletes who make these teams year in and year out.

I think we're a little bit past now, you know, the Athimghie, Raven Rogers, Ajee Wilson era, where it's like, okay, that's who's gonna make it.

Now it's like we could probably ha- I, I think you could come up with a combination of, like...

It seems like there's a trend that it's one NCAA athlete, one person who managed to stay on their feet, and then, uh, a, an-

This is hoarding mentality.

I mean, like, but Aja Wilson's, that's like how it was like resolved-

Yeah

... 'cause like-

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Um, so he was like, "It's the exact same, like, situation that she had," so...

And, you know, there's been US athletes that, like, uh, you remember Ajee Wilson, like, she got-

Mm-hmm

... popped for, like, this tainted meat, uh, situation, and, you know, they cleared, cleared her pretty quickly, and, you know, no one ever looked, looks down on her career at all or talks bad about her, and, as they shouldn't.