DINA ASHER-SMITH: Best Sprinter In The World 2018

I would have to say Ta Lou has been better. destroying everybody : Elaine Thompson, Dafne, Tori, Ahoure, ..just eating up the diamond league.

anyway, no one cares about this year. bragging about an off championship year is not the way to go.

Win when it really matters: WC and Olympics.

Talon would have something to say. Diamond league final surely is the most important this year, just in front of Gold Coast comm games and Jamaican champs

The lack of enthusiasm on this site for Dina is amazing.

If Daphne was running as well as Dina, and had got the European double, we have had lots and lots of comments.

It will be interesting to see what happens in the rest of the Diamond League season. Remember, Dina's season has been geared towards the European Games.

portsea57 wrote:

The lack of enthusiasm on this site for Dina is amazing.

If Daphne was running as well as Dina, and had got the European double, we have had lots and lots of comments.

While schippers tends to draw some comments, a lot of them are negative due. I think that is at least partially due to her size. Some people seem convinced that since she is tall and ripped, she has to be on steroids. She may very well be doping, but i dont think her size is much useful info.

Dina isn't a lightning rod since she is more normal size. But also, schippers draws more comments because she has won big events and has had years where she was seriously dominant.

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portsea57 wrote:

The lack of enthusiasm on this site for Dina is amazing.

If Daphne was running as well as Dina, and had got the European double, we have had lots and lots of comments.

While schippers tends to draw some comments, a lot of them are negative due. I think that is at least partially due to her size. Some people seem convinced that since she is tall and ripped, she has to be on steroids. She may very well be doping, but i dont think her size is much useful info.

Dina isn't a lightning rod since she is more normal size. But also, schippers draws more comments because she has won big events and has had years where she was seriously dominant.

^ The revisionist abilities of Letsruners who want to convince themselves of something to push their agenda, even when those claims can be easily dismantled by a simple search of the forum, never ceases to amaze. Posters here were convulsing over Dafne’s supposed good looks and variously describing her as the “clean world record holder” and “wife material”. Truth LetsRun crushed on Dafne (along with Laura Muir) as the “saviours” of the female side of the sport. Criticism was rare and everyone here was rooting for her over Elaine Thompson in Rio.

portsea57 wrote:

The lack of enthusiasm on this site for Dina is amazing.

If Daphne was running as well as Dina, and had got the European double, we have had lots and lots of comments.

Dafne is clean, beautiful, great personality.

Clean WR holder.

Easy to root for.

You must struggle with someone like Dina. She's black so you should love her but she's British so you should hate her.

It's easier for those of us who don't have these odd hatreds/obsessions based on race or nationality.

Dina is the fastest sprinter in the world this year and hot off the back of 3 x Euro titles and 3 WL (including 4x100m relay).

Anyone who saw her reel in her competitors on that final leg and blow past them to claim gold will surely say, she is the sprint master in 2018!

portsea57 wrote:

The lack of enthusiasm on this site for Dina is amazing.

If Daphne was running as well as Dina, and had got the European double, we have had lots and lots of comments.

No. Are you just searching to stir up controversy and argument? Percy would not be amused at an attitude like that.

"If Daphne was running as well as Dina, and had got the European double, we have had lots and lots of comments."

Does anyone else think that Schippers looks a bit heavier this year?Both in her upper body and her legs? She certainly seemed to lack the explosiveness and top end speed of previous years.

Talou and Ahouré both have not run anywhere near as fast as Dina.

Dina is #1 in 2018

Clapboard wrote:

portsea57 wrote:

The lack of enthusiasm on this site for Dina is amazing.

If Daphne was running as well as Dina, and had got the European double, we have had lots and lots of comments.

No. Are you just searching to stir up controversy and argument? Percy would not be amused at an attitude like that.

Percy was tactless and always stirring things up! Good on him, I say!

Dina is a lovely girl, and is making a massive comeback off of a devastating injury. Nothing but props to her and her support people.

Blood dEPOr wrote:

Talou and Ahouré both have not run anywhere near as fast as Dina.

Dina is #1 in 2018

WHAT?

Ta lou run 10.85 in doha

and ran 10.89 in a stacked field in Monaco.....beating out Daphne, Thompson, Ahoure,

stop the madness. ....and she is 5-1 in the DL

she is the best sprinter in the world right now ...hands down.

Also ta lou and ahoure smoked dina in Pre back in May.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ez8swA1XNjU

And Ahoure smoked Dina in Oslo back in June:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAavJ3i7-vY

It has been all Ivory Coast this year... Ahoure is the indoor WC and more than likely Ta lou is going to win DL ...and both smoked SMith this year

LOL at some funky Euro Champ win, as if that makes dina number 1. FOH.

You don't get it, do you? May? Dina was aiming to peak at the Europeans in August.

She is going to get 100 times the amount of publicity in the UK for winning at the Europeans than if she won the Diamond League title,

The average Brit is not interested in the Diamond League, but winning gold medals for the UK, gets your face on Tv and in the media in a big way.

portsea57 wrote:

You don't get it, do you? May? Dina was aiming to peak at the Europeans in August.

She is going to get 100 times the amount of publicity in the UK for winning at the Europeans than if she won the Diamond League title,

The average Brit is not interested in the Diamond League, but winning gold medals for the UK, gets your face on Tv and in the media in a big way.

No. You don't get it. One weak a r s e Euro race against weak comp does not make her number 1, when she has not done s h i t all year against the best.

I will give her number 3 at best, since Elaine, Bowie, and Daphne are not at having a good year. But Ahoure and Ta Lou have just been on another level and are the best sprinters in the world.

and who gives a s h i t about what the british watch . The world watches the DL, and didn't watch the Euro Champs. And the IAAF rankings have Ta Lou and Ahoure at the top. period.

YOU don't get it!

This year the Diamond League doesn't matter to Dina. Being great in May or June doesn't matter to Dina.

Do you have any idea of the coverage that the BBC gave to the European Champs? Every day. Prime time.

Just this morning, Dina was interviewed for 10mins on the main BBC TV news programme.

Dina is now better known to the average Brit than Allison Felix ever was to the average American.

And that high profile to Dina is money in the bank!