She's a black woman. Many here don't like black women, particularly those that have achieved more in their lives than they will ever hope to. It's obvious "It's Obvious" doesn't like black women. He's a chucklehead that can't believe a woman is faster than he is. He's a loser that has never accomplished anything in his life so he feel the need to disparage someone that has. It's typical loser behavior.
The race card hs been played out. People don’t like her because she’s another big green cheat who revels in the protection she’s enjoyed.
Has the race card been played out? In this thread alone there are comments insinuating that she gets special treatment because she's black.
The fact of the matter is that there are still turds that hate minorities, particularly ones that are smarter and more successful than they are.
That's a lazy take. Look at her spring racing schedule from last year, when she went on to win Olympic gold:
March 30: ran 3 races (100m, 200m, and 4x100m) at the Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays
April 20: ran the 400m at LSU
May 4-5: ran 3 relay races at the World Athletics Relays in The Bahamas
May 18: ran 2 races (the 100m and 200m) at the LA Grand Prix
June 9: ran 2 races (the 100m and 200m) at the NYC Grand Prix
That's very comparable to her spring racing schedule this year.
Yours is a lazy take.
All of these events are one day of racing except for the world athletics relays. This is very different from the demands of Grand Slam Track where athletes needed to arrive Wednesday and stay through until Monday. A Grand Slam meet was 6 days of training disruption with 2 days for travel, 1 day media, competition across 3 days.
Racing for $100000 is not the same as racing for part of a buildup which is at least what the texas relays and the LSU 400m were. She wasn't given a cent for those meets. World relays for someone of her calibre is a paid vacation. The LA and NYC meets very normal early season competition timing where a lot of the sprinters get out and run under/over distance events too.
Your post is both lazy and disingenuous. Let's break it down:
She ran at the Texas Relays both years.
GST provided business-class flights and top-notch accommodations (one of the reasons they have no more $), which made her travel easier this year compared to last.
Meet locations were comparable in terms of flight length from her home in Austin, TX and time zone differences: Nassau 2024 vs Kingston 2025, NYC 2024 vs Philly 2025, and LA 2024 vs Miami 2025 (LA has one more hour difference compared to Austin than Miami).
If she traveled from meet location to meet location, her spring schedule was much more difficult last year: Austin to Baton Rouge to Nassau to LA to NY, compared to Austin to Kingston to Austin to Miami to Philly.
All of her GST doubles were on consecutive days. She never had competition across 3 days for GST.
Any extra burden from racing on consecutive days for GST was offset by its meets being spread out by four weeks in between. She entered meets more frequently throughout the spring last year.
Media commitments don't take a full day.
She raced hard last year too. She ran 22.08 with a +1.2 wind on March 30 last year. That result is very similar to the 22.10 with a +1.1 wind she ran at GST Philly and not far off the 21.95 with a +1.1 wind she ran at GST Miami. Her 22.68 with a -0.3 wind at last year's LA Grand Prix stacks up with her 22.62 with a -0.2 wind at GST Kingston.
The World Athletics Relays were not a vacation. She was part of a 4x100m team that ran 41.85 and then she came back less than 20 minutes later and split 49.58 on her 4x400m leg.
It's easy to blame GST for her injury. That doesn't make it right.
I don't buy that she's too injured to go. Her achilles held up in Eugene and since then she's had all this time to get treatment. You can go full send in Eugene but you can't go full send in Tokyo with 6 weeks in between?
Gabby created a weird situation for herself immediately after USAs.
She started posting cryptic messages about dopers but didn't say names. People interpreted it as her questioning MJW's legitimacy which Gabby denied but then openly said her coach (Dennis Mitchell) has to go. Shortly after, MJW unfollowed Gabby. Clearly MJW didn't appreciate the insinuation.
The past two summers, Gabby has won a couple of global golds on 4x1 relays with Tee Tee, Sha'Carri, and Melissa... Let that swirl around in your head for a minute... She's firing shots at the camp who did 3/4 of the heavy lifting for her, twice. They are a big part of her hardware. Imagine how awkward that was going to be if she showed up Tokyo knowing that all three of them were going to be there looking at her like wtf.
Also, Gabby has practically gone full influencer. She has almost nothing to gain from getting smacked at worlds which is what was likely going to happen this time around. That wouldn't be "on brand" for her. Most of her fans are casuals who couldn't understand why the Olympic champion struggled to get 3rd at USAs.
Also, the growing whereabouts buzz is clearly starting to get to her. Now she can lay low until all of that fizzles out.
She has a lot reasons to sit this one out. Why would she run multiple rounds of the 100 in Eugene if the achilles was the reason?
She only ran one round of the 100m in Eugene. In her post-race interview at the U.S. championships, she said her coach's plan was for her to just do one round of the 100m to get a feel for the track and shake out the nerves before running the 200m.
The race card hs been played out. People don’t like her because she’s another big green cheat who revels in the protection she’s enjoyed.
Has the race card been played out? In this thread alone there are comments insinuating that she gets special treatment because she's black.
The fact of the matter is that there are still turds that hate minorities, particularly ones that are smarter and more successful than they are.
You need to find new material instead of the bent and faded race card. She’s a cheat. She was caught and let off due to force$ that felt the could market her. People aren’t glad she’s out because she’s black. They’re glad she’s out because they’re tired of cheats who coast along with ear to ear grins because they know they will get off scot-free.
You need to find new material instead of the bent and faded race card. She’s a cheat. She was caught and let off due to force$ that felt the could market her. People aren’t glad she’s out because she’s black. They’re glad she’s out because they’re tired of cheats who coast along with ear to ear grins because they know they will get off scot-free.
You need to find new material instead of the bent and faded race card. She’s a cheat. She was caught and let off due to force$ that felt the could market her. People aren’t glad she’s out because she’s black. They’re glad she’s out because they’re tired of cheats who coast along with ear to ear grins because they know they will get off scot-free.
You sound like you’re triggered.
You seem triggered, defending a cheat. He comes off as fed up with cheats, like most honest people. The sport is becoming more polarizing unfortunately.
I hope She makes a Full Recovery and runs better than ever, Ideally I want all the Top People to be at their absolute best And Watch Multiple Amazing Times, Seems like Track and Field Sprinters (And Distance Runners to a lesser extent,) Rarely get 5 Years without Having an Injury, That Greatly Hinders their Performance. Even The Top Runners Who can afford the best Doctors get Injuries. All Coaches Try to keep their Athletes Healthy as The Athlete cannot Progres when Injured, But Injury seems Inevitable at The High Levels, There are rare exceptions of course as Always.
I don't buy that she's too injured to go. Her achilles held up in Eugene and since then she's had all this time to get treatment. You can go full send in Eugene but you can't go full send in Tokyo with 6 weeks in between?
Gabby created a weird situation for herself immediately after USAs.
She started posting cryptic messages about dopers but didn't say names. People interpreted it as her questioning MJW's legitimacy which Gabby denied but then openly said her coach (Dennis Mitchell) has to go. Shortly after, MJW unfollowed Gabby. Clearly MJW didn't appreciate the insinuation.
The past two summers, Gabby has won a couple of global golds on 4x1 relays with Tee Tee, Sha'Carri, and Melissa... Let that swirl around in your head for a minute... She's firing shots at the camp who did 3/4 of the heavy lifting for her, twice. They are a big part of her hardware. Imagine how awkward that was going to be if she showed up Tokyo knowing that all three of them were going to be there looking at her like wtf.
Also, Gabby has practically gone full influencer. She has almost nothing to gain from getting smacked at worlds which is what was likely going to happen this time around. That wouldn't be "on brand" for her. Most of her fans are casuals who couldn't understand why the Olympic champion struggled to get 3rd at USAs.
Also, the growing whereabouts buzz is clearly starting to get to her. Now she can lay low until all of that fizzles out.
She has a lot reasons to sit this one out. Why would she run multiple rounds of the 100 in Eugene if the achilles was the reason?
She only ran one round of the 100m in Eugene. In her post-race interview at the U.S. championships, she said her coach's plan was for her to just do one round of the 100m to get a feel for the track and shake out the nerves before running the 200m.
I'm not sure why this dudes post got downvotes when its factual?
Anyway, it seems a simple case of getting she got injured during part of the season, she was playing catch up, and now doesn't feel it's worth going to the Worlds & not getting a medal. I totally get that when you're an Olympic Champion.
The only thing I would add is that when she posted those messages re doping coaches, she might have known she was going to withdraw, and therefore felt comfortable throwing some sh*te because she was out for the season. I doubt she would have done that if she really thought she was going to have to practice baton exchanges with these women. EIther that, or she knew her form over 100 was too poor to be selected for the 4x1. But those posts were carefully considered, she isn't stupid.
Haven't had time to read comments, and I have to get ready for work. I just wanted to quick comment on Grand Slam Track's role in this.
Whereas Rojo keeps hammering away that these rich western athletes didn't lose anything from doing it, here we have somebody who may very likely be suffering an injury because they worked themselves into low 49.xx shape back in early April, and then tried to ride out peak shape until September. Because GST.
GST may have also messed up handsome Kenny's Tokyo peak--who was NOT an ambassador making hundreds of thousands just to associate with it.
question for the people in charge of LR: why do you permit unfounded accusations of athletes being on drugs to dominate your message boards. And don't give me freedom of speech bs. Also, it is not infrequent to read not very subtle racist remarks permeating the atmosphere here. Now I know why LR's reputation is below gutter level with many in the running community. Au revoir!
She's a black woman. Many here don't like black women, particularly those that have achieved more in their lives than they will ever hope to. It's obvious "It's Obvious" doesn't like black women. He's a chucklehead that can't believe a woman is faster than he is. He's a loser that has never accomplished anything in his life so he feel the need to disparage someone that has. It's typical loser behavior.
She's a black woman. Many here don't like black women, particularly those that have achieved more in their lives than they will ever hope to. It's obvious "It's Obvious" doesn't like black women. He's a chucklehead that can't believe a woman is faster than he is. He's a loser that has never accomplished anything in his life so he feel the need to disparage someone that has. It's typical loser behavior.
The race card hs been played out. People don’t like her because she’s another big green cheat who revels in the protection she’s enjoyed.
It's amazing how the race card is always played out until some white incel failing upwards use it as their stock in trade.