This is what it means to be an athlete,' she added. Welcome marathoner Molly Seidel to the Picky Team Well be rooting our faces off on October 4th (might still be the 3rd over here with the time change) whi.

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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