I’ve been involved with track and field for most of my life and even though I love the sport. We all know that awkward feeling when watching someone showboat in track and field it’s most of the time a sprinter. Y’all know that awkward feeling like you wish you weren’t there seeing it. She acts like that, that overzealous attitude that makes you feel embarrassed for them. I can’t stand that about our sport. I can’t stand that showboating awkward a$ feeling while watching the sport I love. Just run fast and keep it moving bruh
Perfect description. I know we have to have this type of athlete in sport, but it makes me appreciate class and tact. This person is stuck in the ego centric predicament. A great athlete/talent but lost.
Thanks. I am an American T&F fan til the death of me, but lately have watched SFP and she runs with such class, also didn’t realize til now how beautiful she is. Anyway, she shows up and competes, and if she has an off day.. she says that and moves on no excuses. I am a new fan of hers now, especially how fast she’s running at this stage in her career, super impressive!
She is the kind of person who is extremely Narcissistic. Maybe she had a tough upbringing and I should consider that but I don’t care for that kind of personality. But she is talented so maybe she will do something in the 200m. I
Plenty of people have a tough upbringing and don't act like narcissistic trash. On my college team we had one athlete who got hand outs our coach hooked him up with a local rich families because he was fast but also because our coach was brain washed to believe the kid had it rough because he grew up in a single mom household near gangs. Keep in mind he was loved his mom gave him whatever he wanted he always had money things were not bad for him at all. On the other hand the kid on our team who had a wealthy father did not get a dime as he grew up in the realm of you work for what you get. The so called poor fill bad for me kid is getting $500 bucks from him mom whenever he wants it and the so called rich kid is working work study jobs, and anything else to stay afloat. Fast forward 15+ years who is successful now? Sorry that this is long winded but Sha'Carri will be broke and miserable without a sponsorship because she thinks she deserves what she is getting she does not grasp the concept that hard work will keep her there.
Felix have no obligation to offer that role, lol. Hoping, and giving the advice to get a role model is a lot more than just not caring.
Who else would you suggest should be the role model? Allyson Felix is one of the only people in the world that understands the pressure and situation of being a young, black, female once in a generation sprint talent. At the very least she could have dropped her a message telling Richardson she can reach out if she wants, instead of telling all of America that Richardson needs a mentor without ever saying it to her face
Why is it Felix's responsibility to go beg Shacarri to be her mentor.
That quote was a pretty narcissistic one basically she needs to come to me to ask. If you actually thought you needed help you'd be the one asking around.
Allyson isn't going to waste her time mentoring someone who is not going to go out of her way to ask for help, and seems pretty difficult to deal with.
Also yes she's been this way at a lesser level for a while her bowerman acceptance was hilarious but looking back on it there were definitely warning signs.
I think my issue with SCR is the fact that the majority of the TF community actively WANTS her to fail. We're not cheering for her to succeed but expecting her to fail. It's more of an awkward surprise when she does come through. I saw her in the Jax ATL and the few of us in the stands (rainy, delayed) were ALL betting against her, even just making it to the starting line (again, just a surprise for her to show up). Has she brought in more viewership and interest to our sport? Probably. Just look at all of the "support" she has on Twitter/Insta that are not actual followers of our sport. Again, that doesn't benefit TF as a whole. What Bolt was able to do for TF was the same as Phelps for swimming. We WANTED those guys to win and EXPECTED the Ws to come through. SCR doesn't bring that to the table.
Most fans fall on a humility/showmanship spectrum. Those on the extreme humility end will find her act obnoxious regardless of her results. Those at the other extreme will love her regardless. I believe most fans fall somewhere in the middle. For them, her shtick is tolerable if she's winning but off-putting if she's not.
The fact that people are debating her shows that T&F needs these personalities. People are attracted to car wrecks and side shows. Simply running fast doesn't get noticed, we need 3-4 more crazies. A fight between 2 1500 runners after a close race would be all over the internet, the public wants to see the HS guy that punched the other runner in a rematch. Or maybe someone heckling another athlete just before a pole vault! !
A lot of covert racism on Letsrun. Black person displays their culture: “she’s classless and disrespectful”.
What culture is she displaying? That blond wig is a shameful appropriation of my white heritage. Her slow time is also a racist appropriation of my whiteness.
Look at the threads here, look at who everyone wants yo talk about, yep our little weed smoker, and after the 200m watch what happens and it won't matter what she does she will be the talk of the board. Track needs this kind of thing, it's more fun this way.
You say Sprinters come and go. Well, SCR is gonna "go" in a big way if she doesn't start showing some medals. Otherwise she will be boring...."Oh here comes the flashy costumed sprinter who can't sprint...." No One Will Care About Her. She'll be Sideshow Sha'Carri.
I was so depressed SCR didn't qualify that I clicked the wrong browser on my phone, and rather than arriving at this board found myself on my weed dealer page and got a 40 percent discount code. Thanks, SCR!
Craig Wallace, Doug Hawken, Vernus Ragsdale, Jerry Sims, Gus Briscoe, Clyde Duncan, yep, sprinters come and go. If one can get our attention for a little while, cool~