Shakira Richardson loses 3 in a row

Sprintgeezer wrote:

SCR has already shown the “mental ability “ to go 10.7. 10.6 will be the same, because when you are on fire, anything is possible.

She has shown the mental ability to run 10.7 against light competition. When the pressure is off, she's been able to deliver. But with the pressure on, she has shown quite the opposite. And she will be under pressure to perform for the rest of her career. Even running 10.7 on the circuit is a vastly different animal than running 10.7 in a championship final. Asafa Powell is the great example of an athlete who crumbled in the biggest of moments. He's 4th fastest 100m runner in history, and has a single bronze medal in an individual race to his credit.

The thing that has really stood out for me, and it was the thing that frustrated me about Asafa, is he inability or lack of desire to finish a race. Every single one of her races post trials, where she was outmatched (reason for her not being able to compete aside) she eased up at the end. No fight. No finish, Her 10.64w at trials could have been 10.5xw had she not ease back. In the finals she ran through the line. Her 10.74 at Mt. Sac happened with her easing at the line. So with the exception of the US Trials Final, every other race she has eased up before the finish line. That was Asafa Powell. His body never learned to finish a race, And when the pressure is on, you need to know how to close. Richardson does not know how to finish. She can't start well either, so there is a lot she needs to work on.

Without the pot, she can't break 11.

The clean vs. doped times that you’re speculating are absurdly wide spreads. Victor Conte, who knows much more about doping athletes than you do (unless there’s a confession you need to make, geezer, for the sake of clean sport, in which case I would be happy to hand you over to authorities), calculates that in the 100 the dope creates a maximum difference of .2 for men snd .4 for women. The fact that you assume that it would have about the same effect on men as it would on women already shows you’re out of your depth, a child used to the kiddie pool trying to swim in the open ocean.

Gay was 9.9-10 flat clean.

D.K., who is way more doped than any sprinter, is 10.6 clean.

There’s no evidence whatsoever that SCR has doped, but if she has, she would be more like 11-1.1ish clean.

Your kid’s meal is waiting for you, geezer, right by your bouncy house.

twistncrawl wrote:

Her 15 minutes are up

Was that even 15 minutes?

It’s way too early yo say that she is Powell 2.0.

You think it is due to pressure, I think it is due to less gear. We will see.

She can finish a race, just never had to when she was on. Almost everybody eases up when not pushed, even if their time is heroic. Bolt Beijing is probably the best example.

Fake hair , fake nails , fake persona , fake everything

Conte knows some stuff, but his info is outdated.

As far as roids go, I saw what he saw, only earlier than he did. Roids are now only part of the deal, and are done differently than back in the day. There is a much newer stack now.

Gay was nothing. He would be 10.3 on the circuit, 10.2 at his PB, maybe 10.1x-high, maybe once or twice in his life. MAYBE. Women easily gain 0.50 these days, some more. SCR is no better than 11.3 clean.

thoughts and prayers wrote:

I think she just gave up on the season.

It’s not a great look but let’s see what happens next year.

Form is temporary, class is permanent.

Did you actually use the word "Class" in reference to SR? Hmmm...interesting.

Yes, form is temporary and yes, it's not a "great look", but when you had "form" and a "great look" in you're back pocket and simply pissed it away (literally) and then go on to run your mouth and disrespect your competitors the word "class" isn't close to what SR is. Colored hair, tatted up, and illiterate (fake or real?) in addition to running slow is not a successful marketable combination. She deserves all the ridicule and criticism in the world until she steps up and re-deems herself.

Here's a question:

Do we really want a person (of what we've seen) like SR to be successful? Imagine the Sh^t that would've come out of her mouth if she won the gold medal and crushed the Diamond League races while at the same time beating the Jamaicans? If in failure she acts like she is, imagine how bad she would be in success. I've said it before, she needs a good coach and manager to keep her in check. Nothing wrong with being different or unique, but know when to use it and when to shut it down.

birds of a feather wrote:

retrofit wrote:

Letsrun is a platform for racist incels to tout BS. I’m going to get NYT, WaPo and Outside to do some investigating of this pathetic shvthole site.

…yet, here you are…

I think Nancy Pelosi and F^ck Schumer will help you out.

Again, women respond much more to testosterone supplementation than do men for basic biological reasons that have not changed. Are you confused about the man/woman divide? Are you another Canadian leftist extremist?

Or are you a Charlie Francis disciple? Be careful how you tread if you’re a dirty coach/smuggler. You Canadians have always preferred dome dirty pool, haven’t you, geezer?

Sprintgeezer wrote:

Conte knows some stuff, but his info is outdated.

As far as roids go, I saw what he saw, only earlier than he did. Roids are now only part of the deal, and are done differently than back in the day. There is a much newer stack now.

Gay was nothing. He would be 10.3 on the circuit, 10.2 at his PB, maybe 10.1x-high, maybe once or twice in his life. MAYBE. Women easily gain 0.50 these days, some more. SCR is no better than 11.3 clean.

Sprintgeezer, are you even aware that SCR ran 11.3 when she was 16 years old?

I used class as a reference to her talent not her character.

Sorry for the confusion.

Poor fella. So triggered by them uppity black women!

You are clearly a racist.

He never mentioned race.

zxcvzxcv wrote:

No, seriously? Sha'carri Richardson peaked early and is slow now because she stopped training. Smoking doobies down by the river is not going to get you to 10.6, but that's the level she was at a while before the trials. She also disappointed after her great first college season when she ran 10.7. Mark my words, she'll be back next year at a high level, but she's got a lot of growing up to do if she wants to be a true and consistent threat to the top Jamaican sprinters, all of whom are much more mature.

"Stopped training"? Source for that? Correction: she stopped racing - for one month. That doesn't lose an athlete of her level .4 sec over the 100m. Whatever she was in when she ran 10.6 she isn't on now.

Yeah she wouldn't be talking sh1t like she was if she'd stopped training I would think

DietBacon wrote:

Yeah she wouldn't be talking sh1t like she was if she'd stopped training I would think

For me, this is the most puzzling part of this whole situation. She was so outspoken and publicly confident in what she was about to do at Prefontaine and I have a hard time believing she didn't know that she wasn't ready (mentally, physically etc). Whether its because she didn't train hard, or she wasn't on the enhancers she was previously on .... whatever. She was SO sure she was about to do something big.

Hence why I don't buy her act. None of this is real. She's not a confident person at all. Quite the opposite. She's been overcompensating this whole time. It's all false bravado.

rojo togurt wrote:

The clean vs. doped times that you’re speculating are absurdly wide spreads. Victor Conte, who knows much more about doping athletes than you do (unless there’s a confession you need to make, geezer, for the sake of clean sport, in which case I would be happy to hand you over to authorities), calculates that in the 100 the dope creates a maximum difference of .2 for men snd .4 for women. .

yes, i hope that VC knows more about doping than SG. But why would he tell the truth? It is in the interests of doping coaches to make their products seem just about worthwhile to the outside world and not divulge their true significance.

DietBacon wrote:

Yeah she wouldn't be talking sh1t like she was if she'd stopped training I would think

Why would she be talking sh*t if she was doping and eased off the dope? You guys aren’t making any sense.

Do I think she’s clean? Questionable. Her camp is dirty and dirt tends to rub off on people who train with dirty camps. But all this ad hoc reasoning is laughable.

If you watch her races recently, her execution is all over the place. She’s not running like a pro athlete who understands the importance of technique, she’s running like a high schooler who thinks being fast is enough to win races.

No drive phase, poor transitions, terrible mechanics. She obviously either hasn’t been training, or is so psychologically damaged that she’s forgotten how to put together a good race, or most likely both.

All she needs is a disciplinarian and a therapist.