RELATED: How Strava Fame Became a Burden for Molly Seidelĭ’Amato, the American record holder, joins Sara Hall and Emma Bates to round out the women’s marathon team. The Olympic bronze medalist also noted that the process for getting a Therapeutic Use Exemption from the US Anti Doping-Agency and World Anti-Doping Agency for her ADHD medication played a factor in stepping back. “Continuing to train and race on it would lead to a full fracture, and I’d waste a team spot being unable to race to a level Team USA expects of their athletes,” she wrote. In an Instagram post Seidel cited a stress reaction in her sacrum as the main reason for withdrawing, not wanting to push it to a full stress fracture.

Had she waited any longer, alternate Keira D’Amato wouldn’t have had the chance to take her place. But when it happened, word traveled quickly that Molly Seidel had resigned her spot on Team USA for the World Championships Marathon. In fact, she waited until the last possible day to do so.

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