After this latest clown show by LetsRun I finally decided enough was enough and sent an email to the USATF national staff, to include the CEO (searchable on Google), imploring then to revoke LetsRun’s press credentials.
I cited links to their interviews, website, and Gault’a tweets.
Journalists must meet certain standards of quality and propriety. If they do not, there’s the door. It is more likely than not that our athletes are negatively affected by the behavior of the LetsRun staff, and therefore, LetsRun has the pay the piper, so to speak
Just FYI, not harassment of any kind
The standards of journalism you refer to are not set by fans. Or by athletes. You can choose not to read what journalists write - but that's it.
Some of us don't agree with the views that you and your ilk express. That doesn't give us the right to silence you or those views - or you the right to silence ours.
It’s out of my hands. It’s up to the USATF now. Nothing I can do
Threads like this prove that doping denial continues to run very deep in a dirty sport.
Saying the questioning was inappropriate is not the same as denying doping in the sport.
He wasn’t going to get the answer you wanted. So that made the question rhetorical and useless and the athletes won’t even allow them to ask questions in the future if they are going to be a gossip column.
The question was not inappropriate. That is merely an opinion. The question is relevant and it is interesting that an athlete approaching Flojo's mark won't answer it.
Athletes - like any other public figures - don't get to decide what questions can be asked.
Saying the questioning was inappropriate is not the same as denying doping in the sport.
He wasn’t going to get the answer you wanted. So that made the question rhetorical and useless and the athletes won’t even allow them to ask questions in the future if they are going to be a gossip column.
The question was not inappropriate. That is merely an opinion. The question is relevant and it is interesting that an athlete approaching Flojo's mark won't answer it.
Athletes - like any other public figures - don't get to decide what questions can be asked.
The question was inappropriate and the USATF will make them pay
The standards of journalism you refer to are not set by fans. Or by athletes. You can choose not to read what journalists write - but that's it.
Some of us don't agree with the views that you and your ilk express. That doesn't give us the right to silence you or those views - or you the right to silence ours.
It’s out of my hands. It’s up to the USATF now. Nothing I can do
Yes - there is nothing you can do. I also doubt the USATF can do anything that approaches media censorship, which is what you are advocating.
Journalists often ask questions that the subject avoids or is made uncomfortable by. That, too, is information. There is no journalism if there is only "patsy" questions. That is pr. But that's what a lot of fans here would prefer.
Good journalism involves finding a way to get the person being interviewed to discuss something. This was a total fail, and predictably so given the approach of the interviewer. You and wejo can argue all day long that the “tough questions” illustrate being a good journalist, but the responses illustrate that the journalist has a lot to learn about people.
And this particular subject simply likely isn’t one that athletes at this level give a lot of thought to. Just because people chatter about it on forums all day long doesn’t mean it’s something that the very top athletes spend their time on; especially given the context here, being the record was set and ratified 10 years before Shericka was born, and FloJo’s been dead for so many years.
It’s about as relevant as asking Jakob if he feels Jake Wightman’s run is better than Roger Bannister’s sub-4.
So Bannister was a likely doper? The better example you might have given is a woman 800m runner today beating Kratochvilova's world mark.
I observed what he asked. It's a bit odd of a question considering she just won, but certainly not out of bounds considering the controversy around that mark.
The fact such a big deal is being made out of a fair question is odd.
It's an odd question but doesn't deserve the attention it's getting. Being blown out of proportion x100.
I observed what he asked. It's a bit odd of a question considering she just won, but certainly not out of bounds considering the controversy around that mark.
The fact such a big deal is being made out of a fair question is odd.
It's an odd question but doesn't deserve the attention it's getting. Being blown out of proportion x100.
Well Greg, you are too mentally ill to work, not to mention a major a**hle, so sorry if we don’t consider you the best judge of character
He isn't judging character. You are. He said the question is fair. You aren't bright enough to see the difference.
It is ironic that Lord Coe has just said he hopes runners like Jackson will erase the dubious world marks from the '80's. So, like Gault and almost anyone else with a brain, he clearly sees the connection between her performance and Flojo's record. I guess he should be cancelled, too.
It is ironic that Lord Coe has just said he hopes runners like Jackson will erase the dubious world marks from the '80's. So, like Gault and almost anyone else with a brain, he clearly sees the connection between her performance and Flojo's record. I guess he should be cancelled, too.
Re-read what you wrote and and ask yourself is that really the message you were trying to portray?
I am beginning to think you’re trolling and intentionally playing dumb.
It is ironic that Lord Coe has just said he hopes runners like Jackson will erase the dubious world marks from the '80's. So, like Gault and almost anyone else with a brain, he clearly sees the connection between her performance and Flojo's record. I guess he should be cancelled, too.
Re-read what you wrote and and ask yourself is that really the message you were trying to portray?
I am beginning to think you’re trolling and intentionally playing dumb.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone trip themselves up so much 😂😂😂