Sydney McLaughlin out of Monaco???

As per the other Sydney thread, she did a handful of meets pre Tokyo - all in the US - and nothing afterwards. Then a small handful of meets - all in the US - pre Eugene, and now just this ONE meeting post Worlds. Not even a Diamond League race.

Her continued withdrawal from meetings and not competing on the main circuit at all does her no favours IMO. She could be earning a LOT of appearance fees, let alone winning/record bonuses, and whilst she may be on a great contract with New Balance, and not necessarily motivated by money, surely, she WANTs to run, isn't that why athletes do track? And I'm also surprised New Balance are happy with her only doing low key US meets and no international ones of note.

As to why she chose the Hungarian meeting over Monaco, who knows, maybe they've agreed to waiver a dope test (hence she won't run a WR...)

I must say I agree. DNS and withdrawals have become a habit, and it's not always clear as to why. But hey, coach Kersee does as he pleases, he's been giving the finger to the athletics world for over 40 years, he doesn't GAF.

But can you imagine if she were Russian/Bulgarian/Greek/Kenyan and doing this, setting crazy WRs, only competing at home, pulling out of meets and no DL meets? She certainly wouldn't be heralded as the sweet, innocent Queen as she is now.

Good thing she's isn't then!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If anything, I hope she takes this as one last time to set the WR and firmly put it out of reach from anybody and then transition to the 200/400 for sprints. The US has plenty of athletes who can still medal in the 400mh but not so much the open 400m. Even with some young talent, medaling in the 200m is no easy task currently with the Jamaicans, Mboma, and Miller-Uibo dropping the 400 to become a pure 200m runner next year.

Sydney McLaughlin is an introvert with social and race anxiety. She may love to run, but hate the attention and stress that comes with racing. She should be able to race exactly as much as she wants, and no one has the right to judge her for that choice.

That's the real reason why she races infrequently and prefers smaller meets. She's the track and field version of Naomi Osaka.

But the question still remains as to why she told Monaco she would run there? Why didn't she just say no in the first place, instead of saying yes and then backing out?

Most of these anti McGlaughlin comments are poorly thought out and insane

Do any of you think NB is not entirely in the loop on all of this?

if not, you have no idea how this works

Sponsor

Agent

Coach are all connected in the overall plan at some level

If you don’t think NB is okay with her limited but excellent , never anything else but, performances and plan , yoy are f’ing clueless

Under Armour? Where is she wearing Under Armour clothes?

Her HS team wore Under Armour uniforms

Did Sydney ever say why she backed out of Monaco after saying she was going to run there?

She's obviously not injured, and she obviously had the time since she's sitting in the Monoco stands right now. So why didn't she honor her commitment to Monaco?

Has it ever occurred to you that perhaps she NEVER committed to run in Monaco? In fact that may be the case for several athletes were who listed to compete but did not. DL meet promoters sometimes announce and PROMOTE that athletes are slated to compete in the meetings, when in fact that is not the case. This is a tactic used to boost interest in the meet and drive ticket sales. To the fans and media it looks like the athlete are bailing out, but to agents and insiders...they know what the real deal is.

That's NOT how it works. At all.

Athletes need to ENTER a meet. Athletes don't get assigned to the starting list of a meet just because a meet director feels like putting any athlete into the starting lists that they feel like.

Are you crazy? Probably the best female athlete we have seen competing lately, cause she broke the WR consecutively... and even so you think she doesn't need a break? Can you imagine the level of training she has been submitted lately? Yes she needs a good rest and respect.

Bobby must have seen something. He is always a man of mystery.

Extremely unusual that someone prefers running in
Székesfehérvár over running in Monaco.

You can argue even in Monaco she would have had no competition at all.

But what's the reason for such a strange looking decision?

This isn't strange at all, everyone is overthinking this. She very clearly got a higher appearance fee to run in Hungary vs Monaco, its not a mystery. There is Zero competition for her in either race, so why do people care where she races? Hungary was a great meet on the sprint/jumps side with SAFP, Shericka Jackson, Knighton, Bromell, Coleman, Mondo and more.