USA 400m Trials winner Kendal Ellis pulled from women's 4x400m only minutes before the race.

I totally understand her frustration. I think the coach probably said be ready to run (as alternate) and she thought she said you’re in.

I do worry she’s done herself in my tweeting about it.

She got unlucky with the addition of the repechage round. Had she not done that, I bet she would have run in the prelims and gotten a gold.

I’m curious to know if she has named anyone specifically to blame??

“Tearing down the system” is a Marxist tactic and it is very unprofessional of her to make such a statement about her American teammates rather than celebrating their victory and asking for the explanation in private through her agent.

Sore losers and self proclaimed victims are not helping themselves to be selected for future relays and they are not wise enough to know this. Whomever is in charge is going to notice that she publicly complained. She should read “The 48 Laws of Power” and understand how the world really functions…

Yeah! F what's right or wrong here. Play the game and don't rock the boat. Don't question authority!

You obviously haven’t read that book nor can you comprehend what my point was. I’m curious about the details that will possibly come out but I don’t think it’s professional to piss and moan publicly as her teammates are being celebrated for their incredible performance.

It takes away from their victory and so far the explanation for her not being in the finals seems warranted by her poor performance in the open 400. The coaches are ones who select the best team just like they do in a team sport and she has every right to question authority but it works both ways and by doing so she has to face the criticism.

If I was her coach, I would have advised her to publicly speak glowingly about her teammates and say that she was ready to go if needed by the team then her group can talk to USATF and others to find out what happened.

She was running like crap during this meet. I doubt it went down like she said it did. She most likely was told to warm up as an alternate if someone couldn't go at the last minute. The team that ran almost broke the world record. They would have been much slower with Ellis running.

I agree. Gabby should not have been on that relay, or the 4x1. She didn't run any relay leg 4x1 or 4x4 that well in Paris. Kaylyn Brown should have been on the track for the 4x4 final, then Anna Cockrell and as a last resort Ellis.

Exactly!

I hope she makes the next 400 team and then tells them to f-off come the relay. They disrespected her.

Yeah, not trying to be a hater, but I'm guessing there's some sort of politics or favoritism involved. GT's 100m PR is 11.00 and she ran the 400 once this season. And how do we have 1/4 of our top 4 finishers from the 400m at the trials? And Shamier Little? She ran great, but didn't she get 9th at the trials?

Somebody is pulling strings somewhere. It is what it is I guess.

The key thing is knowing what the coach specifically told her. Since we don't have a video of what he said to her we can't say for sure. If the coach had doubts about running her it would've been nice to give her a chance to prove herself in the prelims. Little ran 3 rounds that earned her the leadoff and found a new gear with one of the best 4x4 leadoffs I've seen giving us 0.75 lead on the field. For Cockrell, we don't know what potential relay split she could give. a 49 mid to low might be a rough assumption. Gabby I'm sure they assumed could split a 48.5 on a good day, she looked a bit gassed and didn't run her fastest. With how Ellis looked a 49 mid to high might've been assumed.

With Ellis on the team, the USA would have lost. No one but Ellis has time to play that nonsense.

With how Ellis looked, a 51 mid might have been assumed - the reason why relay management told her - no.

It has nothing to do with PRs and everything to do with your performance and the shape you are in when it is time to race. If PR was it, then Ellis with her PR should at a minimum have made it to the final of the 400. Gabby Thomas won the 200 gold with a zero wind time conversion of 21.78. You can't run a 21.7 200 and not be in form to run a sub 11 100M. Relay coaches have discretionary calls to add to the relay pool. Little after doubling at trials indicated she had the strength. And knocked it out the park on all of her relay legs. She was part of the mixed relay that set the WR and gained silver. Why would she not be selected?

What did Ellis to? Came out of the blue and won Trials. Disappeared and turned up at the Olympics in less than mediocre form having to run a repechage round. As the winner of trials, she is entitled to be part of the relay pool - which she was. She is not entitled to run the final. If she wanted to run the final, she should at a minimum had ensured she made it to the final of the Olympic 400M - her individual event.

I will concede that the coaches could have put her on the prelim of the 4x4.