Tarmoh Blasts USATF For Leaving Her Off Relay

Except for one BIG problem. She did not do well in the meet just before the Olympics. It is too bad, but putting her in the final line-up was too much of a risk.

Why is it too much of a risk....she was a risk in the prelim too!!!

hard to complain after that world record. I'm curious to see the 2012 Olympic results in five or ten years.

You're an azzwipe. You suck and no one here has any respoect for you SG. No ifs ands or buts.

What's the deal Tarmoh ran the prelim. Gets a Gold.

looks like the right decision was made by Drummond. Wow--what a fast time.

Tard-mo' continues to provide more evidence that she is a POS.

Not only that, but Knight is, and always has been, a superior choice for 3rd, based solely on her athletic ability. See my posts at

http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=4553811

, which discuss her performance in the 42.19 at Penn in early 2012.

I called this team in late April this year, and gave reasons why they should remain together.

Ahh, more vindication. World-record vindication! (Eat that, Gallagher.)

Knight stole her relay spot, Sole her Fake hair, and stole her gold meda,l and World Record!!!

Knight with a running start is faster than Williams OR Tarmoh.

The result was a WR today.

Tarmoh, when you gave up your spot you showed weakness. In the USA we called that being a chicken. Chickens don't get to run in the Olympic final.

Sprintgeezer wrote:

Tard-mo' continues to provide more evidence that she is a POS.

Not only that, but Knight is, and always has been, a superior choice for 3rd, based solely on her athletic ability. See my posts at

http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=4553811

, which discuss her performance in the 42.19 at Penn in early 2012.

I called this team in late April this year, and gave reasons why they should remain together.

Ahh, more vindication. World-record vindication! (Eat that, Gallagher.)

To what Gallagher are you responding?

I don't find a post by that name on this thread.

Maybe sprintgeezer should be changed to alzheimer-sprint geezer.

I'm responding to the Gallagher who continually says that I make predictions and pontifications only after-the-fact.

Just a bit of preemptory linking.

USATF wants to win. Period. This certainly has to do with not dropping the baton when there are several runners available who are fast enough to allow the team to win. In the event they were right: no dropped baton, a win and new record.

You know, no matter how much the readers of these Boards love track, we also know deep down that we are devoted fans of a niche sport (doesn't even qualify as a minor sport anymore). I bring this up because it is completely beyond my comprehension why an athlete like Tarmoh - who realistically only has one shot at any semblance of attention once every 4 years - would devolve into such a spineless quitter. T&F is such a fringe sport - I have to laugh when I read "she consulted with her agents" - as if this was LeBron, Peyton or an athlete that generated real $$$$. She's not only a quitter, a loser and a crybaby - but an idiot.

+1

But how about the quality of that WR performance?

Regardless of doping status, the team still needs to get the baton around, which they did in spectacularly good fashion.

If the men trained the same technique and can actually deliver, then they will be close to Jam.

Tard-mo' will soon be relegated to the dustbin of 100m history, I hope.

For the first time I agree with Geezer. Originally Tarmoh should get the place if she were OK with the way the draw were handled. But the way she acted, the way she whined in media after it was pretty clear she never should have been on the team.

Kanye North wrote:

[quote]rojo wrote:

Your kidding right?

I'll admit I'm talking off of pure emotion here. I just got back from dinner and know no actual facts but when I read that, my first reaction was, "I hope there is some way she can file a lawsuit."

How in God's name can they leave off a women that got royally screwed? If anything, they should just run the same team that ran today. They almost got the OR.

People talk about her whining? Well wouldn't you whine? You were told you were an Olympian. Then got screwed as they didn't do the drawing of straws (which was in the rule book as the USA final was nothing more than the 1st round of the Olympics) despite what anyone says.

The public sentiment should be 100% behind her. Period.

This is very wrong.

Yeah, it sucks that she was told she was third when they actually tied. Everyone should feel bad about that. But she wasn't screwed out of the Olympics -- and I cannot believe you are seriously arguing that she was screwed because she didn't get a chance to draw straws. If that had happened, I guarantee you would argue that the USATF should have changed their procedure to something else and she got screwed by the decision to follow procedure.

I thought "I hope there's no way that someone who wasn't even willing to do a run-off can file a lawsuit" (and that's ignoring how stupid a lawsuit is in this situation).

But biggest thing is: they don't make a relay to reward the fourth place finisher at trials, regardless of how close the race was. The point is to create the best relay team possible. What has she done to make anyone think that the relay team is better off with her?[/quote

Totally agree with Kanye North. I usually agree with Rojo/Wejo, but the Ivy League education didn't help with common sense in this situation! While it was horrible that she was announced to be the Olympic qualifier at the trials prematurely, it was her own freakin choice to not do the run off, and it sure as hell doesn't mean she should be guaranteed a spot in the final of the relay.

Nuck Chorris wrote:

The race that Tarmoh ABSOLUTELY had to nail was Monaco. It was her chance for redemption and to show she was able to handle the pressure. She caved like a sand castle in a Tsunami.

rojo is so messed up on this I don't know where to start.

exactly...all this carrying on misses the point. i was rooting for her to do well on the relay but monaco was a mess and they could not risk putting her out there in the final. i thought the exchange she took in the heats was shaky too...she was out too slow

good talent though...i hope she grows up a bit and wins 100m gold in rio

Tarmoh had the opportunity to practice exchanges with Lauren Williams and Knight, who didn't have other event commitments. She did fine in the preliminary relay.

She wouldn't have the opportunity to do the same with Jeter and Felix who had quite a few races on their plates.

Tarmoh had a poor exchange with Felix in Monaco and NO exchange with Jeter in Monaco.

NO WAY Drummond was going to leave Felix or Jeter out of that final today. And Tarmoh proved that she was a risk. Good call, and the result speaks for itself.

How dare u guys get on here and blast her like this. If you think she just gave up her spot on the olympic team in the 100 then you know nothing about the inner workings of track and field. This sport is extremly crooked. It is one of the only pure sports out there but its somehow jaded by agents,coaches and shoe companies. The golden goose for usa track and field this olympics was the female sprinters. It couldnt be a male because bolt is dominating that aspect. They have been going through hell and high water to highlight felix,lolo and richards. You think they were gonna let tarmoh get in the way of that. If you think the sport isnt crooked then answer me this question, isnt it a conflict of interest to have agents be the meet directors of all of the major us track meets? Ive also seen athletes choose their own lane at the usa championships and had pro coaches tell me that agents sit in a room to negotiate who gets what lane at the major european meets. I feel sorry for her that she had to learn about this sport the hard way. Politics and PEDs is the name of the game