Mu vs Kersee - What Is The Fight About?

You mean like Usain Bolt? Naw, I don't think so. In fact, her best days are behind her and she will soon be forgotten.

After observing the dropping out and lack of racing I’ve concluded Athing just doesn’t love running that much. She’s obviously one of the best in the world but I just don’t get the sense she actually cares to break as many records as she can or compile as many wins or championship medals. Wouldn’t surprise me if she stops after Paris or after world champs in 25.

It’s Kersee’s fault. He lets his other runners race but not Mu. He treats her like the stepmother treated Cinderella.

This thread is quickly devolving into Mu firing her coach when it hasn’t actually been established that the OP’s claim about Mu entering, withdrawing, entering, withdrawing is true. Where is this coming from?

Multiple times she was listed on the meet website as being a featured athlete in the 400.

She is STILL listed on the website as a featured athlete.

https://www.lagrandprix.org/featured-events

Mu hates running, she’s just good at it.

That doesn’t mean she entered and withdrew multiple times. It means she entered and withdrew, which is something she has done a hundred times.

It wouldn’t surprise me if Mu opted out of LA because Brandon Miller was there. I don’t think she’s past it yet.

There are way more awkward situations in professional sports…and life. This is not an excuse. Sounds like high school drama if true but probably not.

Agreed. The cylce of dropping and rentering has to be Mu's choice.

As much as I don't like Kersey as her coach, his other athletes have all been racing, even Sydney who doesn't race much.

It may not be Brandon related, but its a plausible explanation. Normal to not like going to events around someone who caused us big emotional issues (if that happened). The in, out, behaviour fits cycling through emotions rather than some managment issue.

Could be anything, but I'm pretty sure this is a Mu thing. Kersey and NIKE just don't fit (if they pulled her, they'd stick with it, at least not waffle on it twice). Hope to see her rock it in her next race.

Distractions... meanwhile, to the gills!

The brains passive inclination to try and make sense of things in the case of something like Kersee's primadonna antics can drive one mad

She’s one of the few that I don’t suspect. Shes been fast from the beginning, and no suspiciously large jumps.

Mu has entered a couple races and not started, and I think it's all about keeping others guessing while she is not in top form. Seems like a similar deal with Sidney at times. It could be about saving face, and I have a feeling this comes more from the coach. She has given interviews about being in the limelight, and the stress that puts on her. Maybe she really should open with a 400 in 51... that would be a great start for any athlete of her caliber, but her coach, coming from a sprint background, doesn't want her deflated after, for example, Keeley opened up with a great 400. Md athletes are not 100/200 athletes, coach. They need rust busters and to be in the mix in the early season. Trying to maintain an "I'm the best in the world" mindset means showing up and competing, if you are not a prima Donna 100 runner. I am not sure if her coach understands that, as someone who handles uber-talented sprint talent. It doesn't hurt an md athlete's mindset or their brand to have a run for their money in non-major races.

This is the same meet that didn't even have ENTRY LISTS until LESS THAN 24 HOURS BEFORE THE MET STARTED

I absolutely, 10000% believe that something along those lines happened.

Bobby and Athing are being greedy and inconsiderate given LAGP is a charity meet put on by volunteers. No one is paid a dime. It's for 'The Love of the Sport'. Thank the local LA meet organizers, timing company, stats guys, TV Producers, camera operators, LIVE TV announcers, cable pullers, hurdles crews, stadium announcers, ticket takers, etc. for donating their time and efforts.

That's a prime example of "sh*tting where you eat"...

Kersee is one of the shadiest coaches in the history of the sport.