Yes there are people who hate her cause of her mixed race and her public expression of faith. We live in a generation that people merely hate others for being openly Christian.
According to the Stasi archives, Koch took steroids - there's not much of a "doubt" about it. Her 47.60 does have a what if - what could she have run that day from a better lane than 2?
According to athletes associated with Bobby Kersee, he's been in and around drugs his whole life and supposedly cant coach a non-drugged athlete.
See why we either doubt both or believe both?
When SML breaks the WR and it stands for the next 40 years, future generations will ask the same questions you're asking of Koch.
There’ve been high profile allegations against Kersee from two of his former athletes in the late ‘80s, both of whom were on the tail end of their careers and one of whom was deemed wholly unreliable by world athletics agencies after it came out that he’d been bribed by the news source to which he’d made the allegations. Is Kersee squeaky clean? No idea — but none of his modern era athletes have ever been popped for drugs, and they’re among the most high-profile sprinters in the world. Since Flojo is always brought up here, reminder that her dramatic improvements came after she left Kersee’s coaching.
It’s a cute strawman, but comparing what ultimately amounts to hearsay to the incredibly well-documented Soviet/East German state sponsored doping apparatus is actually lunacy.
Yes there are people who hate her cause of her mixed race and her public expression of faith. We live in a generation that people merely hate others for being openly Christian.
Don't get me wrong, there are good Christians. But let's not turn a blind eye that many "openly Christian" people make it a part of their religion to hate, disparage, and hurt others. That is one of the primary sources of "hate" towards Christianity.
Amazing run. But she’s kinda boring. Like kinda low profile, doesn’t really make for a good story, always says glory to god etc. Makes it feel like “ok she just ran in a circle fast”.
Compare that to the 1500m last year which had all the factors at 10/10 - so enjoyable. Made it much more than just running in a circle.
Luther once said something like, If you are a cobbler, don't try to put little crosses on people's shoes. Just be a good cobbler.
Personally I don't mind being preached to. But when I watch a runner I want to see them run. No, I don't think she should be silent, but there is a fine line between being a good witness and just being annoying.
Paulino also ran a sub 48. Does Kersee train her as well? SML has the strength built up over running the 400H. You people are so freaking stupid.
You probably said the same thing about those who accused Lance Armstrong
Lance had 10 years of credible doping accusations from former teammates, coaches, and team staff, worked with a coach who was actually banned from the sport at the time, and had failed drug tests that couldn’t be used due to mislabeling (not technical mishandling as in, say, the Bernard Lagat B-samples).
Again, it’s a cute strawman. But there’s literally no comparison. Lance faced more [credible] doping accusations every single year from 1999 - 2009 than Kersee’s athletes have faced in the last 40 years.
A number of variables come into play with exceptional athletes, like mental toughness, hard work, and great coaching.
But one factor that I think we'll see more and more is genetics, where we have children of exceptional athletes, like Mondo.
It's also true for Sydney: Her dad "is a member of the Manhattan CollegeAthletic Hall of Fame as a three-time All-American. He was a semi-finalist in the 400 meters at the 1984 Olympic Trials. Her mother Mary was a 2:12 half-miler at Cardinal O'Hara High School in Tonawanda, New York, where she ran on the boys' team." Wikipedia
There’ve been high profile allegations against Kersee from two of his former athletes in the late ‘80s, both of whom were on the tail end of their careers and one of whom was deemed wholly unreliable by world athletics agencies after it came out that he’d been bribed by the news source to which he’d made the allegations. Is Kersee squeaky clean? No idea — but none of his modern era athletes have ever been popped for drugs, and they’re among the most high-profile sprinters in the world. Since Flojo is always brought up here, reminder that her dramatic improvements came after she left Kersee’s coaching.
It’s a cute strawman, but comparing what ultimately amounts to hearsay to the incredibly well-documented Soviet/East German state sponsored doping apparatus is actually lunacy.
Wrong, in multiple aspects.
Darrell Robinson was not bribed by Stern magazine. Please share proof that he was bribed, because that is a complete lie. He was actually paid a nominal sum for the interview.
Angela Bailey made her accusations under oath, in a court of law, during a Canadian Inquiry into doping in sport.
And guess what. .Kersee didn't dare sue either Robinson or Bailey.
As for Fko Jo, wrong again. She was trained by Kersee up until the Olympic Trials...where she ran 10.49. She moved to Al after that. So it was actually Kersee that coached her all winter and spring and got her into that form.
Get your facts right otherwise your posts are not reliable.