Seriously, someone needs to slap the wanna be accent out of Jeremy. If it wasn't for that, his dumb glasses and leaving his coach...I might have felt bad for him last night. He's going to need that extra 5% since he's going to be losing some endorsements...retarded.
Jeremy acted like a spoiled child who was angry over losing a gold medal that he seemingly believed he was entitled to. First, he didn\'t run hard all the way to the line like he should have. Easing up and coasting the last 30 meters is pretty lame. This is the Olympic final. Run hard all the way. Poor sportsmanship.
And then he acts like he should be the one who chooses the post-race interview questions and storms off with pettiness when asked something he doesn\'t like. It was a legit question and a legit time to ask it. Jeremy might be annoyed by the question, but he\'s a pro. He should be able to answer it like a pro. Instead, he acted again like a spoiled child.
I want to root for Jeremy, but he makes it really hard.
His coaching change is no ones business it is between him and Hart! He should not have to talk with anyone about it and I think it was wrong of Hart to bring it up and make it public to everyone! It should have been a matter that was between him and Jeremy. I think Jeremy has been the one who has handled it in the proper manner by not saying anything about it and keeping it between him and Hart. Plus I think Hart is the one that is being greedy here. As a professional athlete you can make a ton of money but in the end you lose most of it between coaching, agents and taxes you have to pay. Put all three of those together and Jeremy was losing about half of his income. He earns the money he makes and should be the one who gets to keep it. Plus I don't think it was the coaching change that caused him to lose, if you have ever put a ton of pressure on your self during a race then you know that your mind can make you feel like crap during a race. I think all the pressure and crap that ppl have put on him caught up with him and he broke. I think all of you should shut up about him b/c he will always be a million times more accomplished athlete then any of you could dream of being and his life should be none of you business!
are the athletes allowed to tell neideputz no interview until later?
Your post is correct.
Jeremy should have carried some of Hart's philosophy over to his work with Ford. Hart would have Wariner "reload" on strength work after every big meet, pointing toward the next one. Ford did not do this, and Wariner thought it would be better not to, thinking that working more on speed would benefit him. He is not that kind of runner. There are all different kinds of 400 runners, and the strength formula works better for Wariner. It does not work as well for others but you have to experiment. The experiment did not work for Wariner, and the media was in fact at times malicious when it came to bothering him about Hart, about his "loss of confidence" etc. Maybe he'll bounce back after learning a good lesson, maybe not. We'll see next year. Right now, Merritt is top dog, and he's no more likable then Wariner, in fact, he's turned out to be kind of an ass in subsequent interviews. But that's par for the course when it comes to sprinters in general, at least American sprinters.
He is way more likeable than Wariner, and I do not know which American sprinters you are talking about: Allison Felix? Tyson Gay? Dix? Lauryn Williams? Allen Johnson? Neville? Sandra Richards? You have something against these people?
ThomasJ wrote:
His coaching change is no ones business it is between him and Hart! I think all of you should shut up about him b/c he will always be a million times more accomplished athlete then any of you could dream of being and his life should be none of you business!
Dood, you sound that kid on youtube who was crying over Brittany Spears.
there are a lot of very likable american sprinters in the olympics. wariner's hard to like. but so is merritt. i don't like to see the 4x4 teams celebrating largely without their best runner, as happened last year at worlds when the men and women got together after the men won gold. wariner was the odd man out. but merritt won by .99 running a pr that is still three-tenths slower than wariner ran last year, so the big question remains what wariner did. if he neglected the strength work, then you hope that he is man enough to admit when he errs and do what it takes to get back on pace to break johnson's record before bolt (or even merritt) does it. from that post-race interview, I don't think that he can admit his mistakes.
I predict that this will cause Jeremy to go to Europe for the last few races of the season and SMASH the world record, perhaps running a 42:59.
He simply had an off day at the worst possible time.
HE WILL BE BACK TO DOMINATE ONCE AGAIN!!
let's see him run 43.8 again before predicting 43.6 and let's reserve the sub-43 stuff for bolt. anyone get accurate splits on wariner's first 200. maybe he just went out way too hard. after running sub-44 in europe this year and 44.15 in the semis, he should have been capable of challenging 43.75.
C Town Track Fan wrote:
Seriously, someone needs to slap the wanna be accent out of Jeremy. If it wasn't for that, his dumb glasses and leaving his coach...I might have felt bad for him last night. He's going to need that extra 5% since he's going to be losing some endorsements...retarded.
He sounds like a whole lot of other people I know from Texas.
T.C. wrote:
well then, when is it the best time to talk with him about his coaching change. After the Olympics, he will get on a plane, fly back to the Texas plains and won't be heard of again until March of 2009.We want to know now about his coaching change.
The best time is any time except after the race. Would the interviewer with the stupid bald mullet have asked a question about coaching change if Wariner had won? Who knows? But the question posed right after the race and the way and timing in which he asked it loosely translates to "You really screwed the pooch by changing coaches, way to go! How does that feel?"
Wariner was defending champion and had every right to be disappointed and I would think nothing less of him had he walked off the track without talking.
I would surmise that all of you dinks criticizing JW for his reaction have NEVER run in a championship race of any caliber. I can tell you from experience that when you have a disappointing race in a championship event (especially when you had it and lost it at the end) the first thing you want to do is leave the track.
I once got squeaked out of the last AA spot in the 5000m just before the line. I can't imagine how running out of steam and losing the gold must feel.
The announcer was out of line and he obviously is clueless about track championships and what it takes to get there. As are you critics.
"I predict that this will cause Jeremy to go to Europe for the last few races of the season and SMASH the world record, perhaps running a 42:59. "
He won't break any 400m record by just breaking 43 minutes.
Every time he talks I think I'm listening to Brad 'B-Rad' Gluckman on Malibu's Most Wanted.
So he has an accent ... BFD !
A.) He is from Texas
B.) He probably picks up some from being around black runners
C.) Who cares regardless !? And does it matter ? NOOOOOOO
Whoever posted about about the whole pressure thing... give me a break, he has been to the Olympics before and more big pressure meets than probably anyone on that track. He has also had more expectations than any of those other runners for the past few years !
Running a very, very sub-par race especially after not completely gunning it in your semi-final race tells me there is something not working in his program.
I would wager that with an inconsistent year(possibly b/c of a less experienced coach), a new rival, and perhaps lately the mental questioning/lack of confidence at the line of whether or not he has had the optimal training has been playing with him mentally now. I was kind of disappointed as well to see him ease up at the end when he knew he wouldnt get 1st. And for those who think JW is too arrogant, Merrit is not exactly a model of modesty either.
MJ needs to start helping him manage his career and get him back to Hart.
A runner in Texas wrote:
B.) He probably picks up some from being around black runners
You sir, are a dumb ass. Black people are not caustic or radioactive. Just by being around a few black people, a white person does suddenly become magically transformed into a hip-hop, ghetto home boy. An accent is formed early in life. Intentionally changing your accent late in life for dubious reasons is sad.
Many of you are defending a conscious decision to suddenly adopt a PHONY accent. It shows you are just plain stupid or very immature. Most of you, I suspect are still in high school. At that tender age adolescents try on different personalities. Therefore, you are defending these phony accents to make your silly accents seem genuine. I believe the street vernacular would be "keepin it real". YOU ARE NOT KEEPIN IT REAL.
Please take a good, long hard look in the mirror, and realize that pretending to be someone or something you are not does not impress anyone around you.
You all are complaining about Jeremy's coaching change but who would say that he would have won under Hart?! I think he broke mentally and would have no matter what b/c he has had more pressure on him the last four years then anyone else in track and field. Plus Hart coached Richards and she blow up the last 100 meters! I don't believe her hamstring tightened up, she has done this in every major championship, but no one has a probelm with her choking the last 100 meters just with Jeremy!
Yawn.
Cliffnotes: 1. Arrogant dominant athlete dumps classy coach.
2. Arrogant athlete loses gold medal that had his name written all over it.
3. People recognize that payback is a b**ch, and find it hard to feel sorry for the arrogrant athlete. No one cares how the coach's other athletes did at the games. Coach's legacy is well-established. Meanwhile, athlete is yet to establish that he is not a turd and that he can comeback from the adversity which he is now faced with.
I'll second that. Just watched the women's gold medal basketball game. They interviewed Becky Hammons after the Russian team ( which she played on) got the bronze. The announcer spent most of the interview ragging on her for ot playing on the USA, neglecting to point out she wasn't picked for the USA team.
Wariner ran a very poorly distribute 400m race. Questions from reporters about the coaching change should be expected as coaches play a greater role than most believe. It's obvious from the difference in how Wariner now runs his races that it is indeed the coaching change that has affected his performances. This should be expected as well and Wariner and coach Ford need time to work out communication kinks that are affecting performance.
Would Wariner have won the race if he ran the same race through 350m that he did in the semis? That's a tough call as all evidence points to him being ahead of Merritt final race through 350m of his semifinal.
I produced an analysis which you all are welcome to view at sprenten.com along with some commentary about Wariner's semifinal and final races at the Olympic Games.