Lauren Fleshman Blasts USATF Selecting ConvictedDoper Dennis Mitchell as World Relays Coach

gonchar wrote:

No one else has ever dominated Shalane Flanagan like she did when she was healthy.

i beg to differ

Sally dear...stop bashing and stay on topic.

Are you for Mr. Mitchell having the job? Or against?

And I vote for him to be excused from his position.

I also vote for Lauren...She rocks!

This is the Best Post Ever!!!

How on earth can they even hire this drug freak????? Well, Gatlin's got a medal and everybody's turned a blind eye… Hell, let's just forget Tyson's test results and put him back in the blocks tomorrow as well!!!! Why were at it, give Lance back his medals! Hell, let's put Eddy Hellebuyck in charge of the distance guys and Marion Jones in charge of the lady jumpers -sound good???? BALCO can pay for the damn whole frick'in thing!!!

Our sport has a chronic tumor that needs to be cut out with a chainsaw!!!!!

I'm more interested in when she is going start and finish a race again. She was all over social media talking about her soon to be oxy performance yet she never started (which seemed more psychological than physical). Same scenario with the meet at Stanford. At this point she is much better at typing on a computer than actually doing anything of value in the sport. If she feels as strongly as she does, then do something. Because her blog entries and tweets aren't going to accomplish anything.

In the end I just wish she would finally race already.

stevenson wrote:

I'm more interested in when she is going start and finish a race again. She was all over social media talking about her soon to be oxy performance yet she never started (which seemed more psychological than physical). Same scenario with the meet at Stanford. At this point she is much better at typing on a computer than actually doing anything of value in the sport. If she feels as strongly as she does, then do something. Because her blog entries and tweets aren't going to accomplish anything.

In the end I just wish she would finally race already.

I'm going to drop some heavy knowledge on you anti-fleshmanites.

the ad hominem argument is considered a last refuge of scoundrels. It isn't worth the pixels used to type it.

Here - it is officially a 'logical fallacy' to make ad hominem arguments like you are making:

Abusive ad hominem usually involves attacking the traits of an opponent as a means to invalidate their arguments. Equating someone's character with the soundness of their argument is a logical fallacy.

An ad hominem (Latin for "to the man" or "to the person"[1]), short for argumentum ad hominem, is a general category of fallacies in which a claim or argument is rejected on the basis of some irrelevant fact about the author of or the person presenting the claim or argument.[2] Fallacious Ad hominem reasoning is normally categorized as an informal fallacy,[3][4][5] more precisely as a genetic fallacy,[6] a subcategory of fallacies of irrelevance.

So what I take out of this thread is that finally someone with at least some credibility has decided to say what is on her mind, and make a valid point. Meanwhile, a bunch of anonymous, pedestrian pro dopers decide to launch a blistering attack on her use of grammar. Typical Lets Run.

Lauren is faster, smarter, better looking, more relevant and vastly superior to Letsrun pond scum any day. You little boys are clearly threatened by a strong, Alpha female who can one-up you with ease and it calls your manhood into question. It's predictable that your fragile and bruised ego would leave you haters to lash out in pain and jealousy. Lauren rocks and everyone thinks so except for 3-4 little boys on Letsrun who could not get a date for prom.

Oh no she de int wrote:

Lauren Fleshman is a bag.

Fixed it

Trying to drum up biz for her sh!tty bars.

As it goes wrote:

Rose is just one of the USATF flunkies that has played the game for years and because of this gets the token nod for various plum coaching selections.

You've clearly never met Rose Monday. She coached Maggie Vessey, and she is a class act. She's paid her dues and earned her position through tons of coaching and service to the sport.

I am here to remind everyone that Lauren Fleshman is not, nor ever was, an Olympian.

She is not an "all-time" great.

Oh no she de int wrote:

Lauren Fleshman is a bag of hot air.

Yes, we don't want those little women standing up for anything or speaking their minds do we?

Oh no she de int wrote:

Realistically though, don't we agree that most of the people are taking something they shouldn't be. Mitchell and Gay had the misfortune of being caught.

Wake up. Not even close. We need more people like Lauren.

Now "Oh no she de int", isn't is past your bedtime?

"effects the reputation" affects the reputation of your writing.

It's unfair for Lauren Fleshman to single out Dennis Mitchell when alleged drug cheats like Albeto Salazar, Mohammed Farah, Nick Symmonds, Jerry Schumacher, Jordan Hasay, Galen Rupp, etc. remain unmentioned.

Words can hurt wrote:

It's unfair for Lauren Fleshman to single out Dennis Mitchell when alleged drug cheats like Albeto Salazar, Mohammed Farah, Nick Symmonds, Jerry Schumacher, Jordan Hasay, Galen Rupp, etc. remain unmentioned.

I heard that "Words can hurt" forcibly had sex with a dog.

Hey look, now you're an alleged dog rapist!

I actually heard that "alleged allergy" was the doggie-doer.

I agree with Fleshman. Mitchell has no place in a coaching capacity.

Nice to see a first year college student participating in the discussion. Cut and paste is an amazing tool. Speaking of tools, do you notice that your family and friends tune out almost immediately when you attempt to impress them with some BS you recently picked up in one of your classes?

Why does she only slam DM? Rupp?