Gabby Thomas heckled at Grand Slam Track by Sportsbettor

Not supporting his actions but in my personal opinion this is what’s going to happen when the sport grows by fan base. Not everyone is going to be “nice” to the athletes.

He wouldn't have heckled Ryan Crouser!

Absolutely. And there is history to support this.

When golf's fan base and live attendance exploded because of Tiger, the other professionals openly complained that it was changing the atmosphere at tournaments, as the new fans did not know the protocols (both written and tradition) and were "bad for the game."

As the WNBA grows, we should expect to hear more and more about unruly fans, heckling, etc. Angel Reese, for example, will be hearing more booing, people calling her names (Bricklayer Barbie, and MEbound), and mocking her missed lay ups. It's inevitable.

Then, mix in gambling (which is spreading like wildfire) and people trying to influence the outcome, and you have a recipe for a lot of obnoxious behavior.

I assume that you’re saying that because Ryan’s significant other is a black woman. He probably wouldn’t have harassed Kung Fu Kenny either who dates an Indian woman.

Chuckleheads like this guy probably have no sack and will only harass a woman.

So a genius who makes 100k a day, "Mr100kaday" heckles Gabby T. But was he enlightened enough to even mention whereabouts? If not, the cat needs to do more research.

I don't condone his aggressive behavior, but this story also subtly entails why people don't watch track meets to an extensive level. This behavior occurs at every single mlb, nhl, nba game, especially with player prop gambling.

The noise gets drowned out in a bigger crowd. The players on social media receive messages after every single game with angry or happy fans who bet on their props. Heckling is not exclusive to betting either. Is it excessive? Yes. It's a big deal in track when one thoroughbred gambler does what occurs like clockwork at real pro sports venues. It's dismissed as passion in that regard, but in track it's apparently abuse.

FIFY

Holy crap I just went to this guy's YouTube channel and he is MESSED UP. Not only does his own most recent video and footage of him heckling Gabby show that he is a bully, but he also has several other videos hating on interracial track marriages and hating on white sprinters like Coby Hilton and Lachlan Kennedy.

The worst one though is he has a long video about the kid who got stabbed and killed at a track meet, blaming the victim and spending minutes on end mocking his white family and their grief. What kind of psychopath attacks a grieving family? He celebrates the kid who stabbed him and is organizing a legal defense fund for him:

This kind of hate, putting down, and outright justification of violence is disgusting and personally I wouldn't want someone who makes this kind of content anywhere near any sporting event!

This guy is a complete piece of s##t He doesn't deserve anyone viewing his garbage on LinkedIn

I meant YouTube lol

I have a very small screen on my phone. Can anyone confirm if this heckler guy is black?

I was at GST Philly, and there was another guy going nuts about the bets he made. He wasn't as close to the track to bother athletes, though he did move to the backstretch at one point (which he announced to all of us around him)- who knows. In any case, despite no one engaging him, he was loud and obnoxious about the money he was winning on each race, the bets he made, yelling similar things to athletes, etc. etc. It is gross; calm the f down with your bets... Wasn't it Ollie Hoare who received similar harassment by betters on his IG DMs?

I've never liked the argument that certain behaviors by fans are okay in track because they happen in other sports. And I don't think the distinction between individual sports like tennis/golf and team sports like basketball is the relevant one. The difference between track and the other sports mentioned is that in the other sports the athletes are making crazy amounts of money and have teams of people who can help them deal with the abuse and attention they receive. If you want to play in the NBA or NFL or be a star golfer that's the bargain you strike - I'll make tons of money and in exchange I'll put up with invasions of my private life and a certain level of vitriol from fans. Track athletes, even the stars, simply aren't paid enough to be expected to tolerate this. It's obviously not good behavior in other sports either, but those athletes make enough money to be able to insulate themselves from it to some degree. I think its backwards to say track will get more popular if fans behave like they do in other sports - it's only in the event that track does get as popular as the NBA that then it's fair to expect track athletes to put up with the same things an NBA player does.

In other words, for eternity, track athletes will not have to put up with obnoxious.

His response.

LOL. He's over the top, but no different than any other sport.

It's actually kind of funny. Gabby needs to toughen up.

Wejo: "Heckling a 28-yo professional runner at a meet is BAD!"

Also Wejo:" Feel free to endlessly post false drug accusations (including against minors), false coach/athlete relationship accusations, info about runners' divorces, sexual history of athletes (including minors), false information about runners supposedly serving 'secret drug bans', anti-Semitic content, racist content, anti-homosexual content, and anything else you want to post that will drive up our clicks."

Face it Wejo, you would LOVE this "Mr 100K a day" guy to post here hourly with the same kind of stuff (or worse) that he was saying to Gabby Thomas. You and Rojo make this guy look like a better candidate for sainthood that the Pope.

Imagine having to deal with the entire crowd calling you a sorry a$$ b!tch when you miss a free throw. LOL. If you watch the video he posted of what he actually said and did, it's a big nothing burger and all the calls for police and FBI involvement for stalking is complete idiocy.

This is priceless.