Man, there must be some new "bar for success" I don;t know about
a 19 year old who would have been a college frosh makes a World's Final, and she is getting criticized?
For what? Ohh not being "engaging"? she is 19 for goodness sakes? And is not part of the Salazar/ probably soon to be Nike hype machine.
Please take a reading comprehension class. Thanks.
She ain't white.
Or, more accurately she is black. If she were Asian American, she would get more attention in general and on Letsrun
Ajee is a beautiful woman. I have watched her run since she was a little girl and she is a very sweet and bright young lady. She is a little shy with older people, but everyone who has met her finds her to be a lovely young woman.
It is definitely because she is black - racists abound on this site and in this sport and in the media. She is certainly more attractive than Cain or Judd - she actually looks like a woman - and while she isn't Halle Berry, only someone myopic and white wouldn't think she was all that. She carries herself well, and perhaps it is best that she isn't in the media spotlight - she can focus on her running, not on interviews with AlSal pulling all the strings. She will be fine, and will get an education on her own terms (Temple - close to home). This will NOT be the last team she makes and will be a player on the US 800m scene for years to come, even if she doesn't do the NCAA thing. Like Cain, she is beyond the NCAA now anyway - we see how that turned out for Goule this week (not in the final). She has a terrific sense of place and will run faster (1.56-57) in due course as she gets more opportunities on the Diamond league circuit. She is still 19 (a real Junior) and it might best avoid the hoopla that surrounds the Cain-train anyway.
6 Ajee Wilson USA 1:58.21 PB
Fantastic.
and new AJR!
some stagnation.
Ajee isn't cute? She is much better looking than the anorexics we see plotting around getting lapped by Africans.
Ajee isn't on many front pages, but she's not under the radar. She's run a lot this season with pretty consistent marks around 2 flat, and now with a bug breakthrough running 1:58.2 in the WC final.
if you pay any attention, you'd have known abut ajee. you might even know how to pronounce her name correctly. bbc...cough cough
and to whoever is only getting their news from LRC, you're an idiot. most of the news on the boards are made up anyway by trolls
Recent interview at http://dailyrelay.com/5-questions-with-ajee-wilson/ makes it clear she is not skipping college (she says entering sophomore year at Temple).