I don't know what the issue is this was as plain vanilla as it gets. Walmarts trying to hit the boxes: using visible minorities, put the woman in the power position showing off all her medals vs Bolt having none, and appeal to moms being super.
This is so corporate. The fact that we know the people we're projecting more onto this than it is.
4 Olympics. 1 individual Gold Medal doesn't make anyone the GOAT. I'd put Jackie Joyner, Gail Devers, Flojo ahead of Allyson.
Usain Bolt was the dirtiest drug cheat in the history of track and field.
Is Usain Bolt on Steroids?
https://web.archive.org/web/20150905165210/http://www.muscleweek.com/is-usain-bolt-on-steroids
Excerpts from article:
“Bolt’s Coach is more of a Chemist than a Coach
According to the New York Times, Usain Bolt’s track coach Angel Hernandez has referred to himself as a chemist, scientist and nutritionist.”
“Here’s more from Usain’s ‘coach’ explaining his precise skill set as it applies to ‘coaching’ in that 2008 interview:
SPIEGEL: So you became a therapist for the athletes in matters of drugs?
Heredia: More like a coach. Together we found out what was good for which body and what the decomposition times were. I designed schedules for cocktails and regimens that depended on the money the athletes offered me. Street drugs for little money, designer drugs for tens of thousands. Usually I sent the drugs by mail, but sometimes the athletes came to me.”
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Usain Bolt Is Probably Doping (And You Know It)
https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2012/08/12/bernstein-usain-bolt-is-probably-doping-and-you-know-it/
Excerpts from article:
“When people ask me about Bolt, I say he could be the greatest athlete of all time,” Carl Lewis told the Times of London. “But for someone to run 10.03 one year and 9.69 the next, if you don’t question that in a sport that has the reputation it has right now, you’re a fool. Period.”
“Anyone wasting words extolling the greatness of Usain Bolt should know better.”
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Is Usain Bolt clean?
http://sporton.sportsblog.com/posts/1178816/is_usain_bolt_clean_.html
Excerpt from article:
“JADCO, the Jamaican anti-doping agency, should be placed under heavy scrutiny, their out of competition testing methods and practises have been heavily criticised by the World anti-doping agency . . . As well as the aforementioned Blake and Powell other Jamaican athletes to fail drug controls in recent years have included two time Olympic champion Veronica Campbell-Brown and at the same Jamaican trials which Asafa Powell tested positive Sherone Simpson also fell foul of the doping controls.”
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Victor Conte claims many athletes used performance-enhancing drugs in preparation for 2012 London Olympics
Excerpt from article:
“Bolt, meanwhile, has worked recently with Angel Hernandez, the trainer formerly known as Angel (Memo) Heredia. Hernandez testified during Graham’s 2008 trial that he provided banned substances to disgraced Olympians Marion Jones, Tim Montgomery and other athletes. In a 2008 interview with The New York Times, Hernandez acknowledged that he had helped clients use performance-enhancing drugs and avoid detection.”
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Really though? wrote:
streak wrote:
it's cool, thanks for apologizing. I guess what annoys me about it is the message of her activism being kind of "women are GONNA have babies! that's what women DO!" As a woman who is very much against the idea of that expectation being normalized, it irks a bit.
Why do you not want the expectation of motherhood to be normalized? Given that motherhood is necessary for the very propagation of our species, that seems an absolutely bizarre thing to be against. And it seems to be an especially weird thing to criticize Allyson for...
This is an interesting question! I don't like 'motherhood' being normalized, because I feel it is an oppressive concept for women. Women and young girls die all over the world, the US included, from pregnancy and childbirth complications. And many many more who do not die, suffer pain for life due to ripped perineums, torn vaginas, and cut abdominal muscles. It disturbs and disgusts me. I have no desire to see humanity continue, as I believe most humans on earth are suffering. There is no harm in simply NOT having children and allowing the human race to peacefully end.
Allyson should speak out for what she believes in. I just don't love her cause, but respect her right to fight for it.
The only race Bolt is winning is a race to the buffet.
Crazy with how everything's turned out he could of probably won another gold is colemans out. Probably couldn't beat lyles in the two. Not convinced Norman isn't a head case either.
If Bolt could have doped the past three years with impunity then he wrecks them all still.
cool slander bro, but foaming doper lewis should mention that bolt focused on 200 and eased into a 19.75 in 2007 before the switch to his best distance, the 100
Usain Bolt was juiced to the max. That is a 100% guaranteed fact.
If you think he ran 9.58 and 19.19 by being clean, you are either extremely naive, or your karyotype shows a trisomy.
says the pedo worshipper
streak wrote:
Really though? wrote:
Why do you not want the expectation of motherhood to be normalized? Given that motherhood is necessary for the very propagation of our species, that seems an absolutely bizarre thing to be against. And it seems to be an especially weird thing to criticize Allyson for...
This is an interesting question! I don't like 'motherhood' being normalized, because I feel it is an oppressive concept for women. Women and young girls die all over the world, the US included, from pregnancy and childbirth complications. And many many more who do not die, suffer pain for life due to ripped perineums, torn vaginas, and cut abdominal muscles. It disturbs and disgusts me. I have no desire to see humanity continue, as I believe most humans on earth are suffering. There is no harm in simply NOT having children and allowing the human race to peacefully end.
Allyson should speak out for what she believes in. I just don't love her cause, but respect her right to fight for it.
Your inferiority complex runs deep.
This thread is peak letsrun
It is kind of hard to be critical of any ad that provides money and national exposure for track & field athletes. I can see how the uninformed might think Allyson was a better athlete because she won more medals, but the ad is not for track and field people, it's for the general public. The ad is not trying to make a point, it is trying to be entertaining and create interest in something.