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.
It's predictable an athlete approaching the mark won't answer it. Did you expect her to say "I think Flo Jo's mark was not clean so that makes me the fastest to ever run the distance"? Of course, she will not say that, even if she believes it. Do you think she is Muhammad Ali? That's why it was a dumb question.
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
Wait, you want have to have their credentials revoked for asking questions that you don't like? That's not how the world works Gen Z.
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 looks like Gault asked a question that matters to the high-ups in the sport, if not to the dumb fans.
Sebastian Coe wants the current generation of athletes to finally take down world records from the 1980s which he concedes “may not be the safest on the book”.
The issue has become a major talking point in Eugene after Shericka Jackson ran a stunning 21.45sec to win world 200m gold, a time that put her second on the all-time list behind Florence Griffith Joyner. The controversial American, who also broke the 100m record in an era when drugs testing was sporadic, died in 1998.
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 😂😂😂
More, more, more….
Lord Coe has just shown how stupid some fans are. Like you. He has picked up on the very point Gault raised about a doped world mark. The embarrassment is all yours.
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.
It's predictable an athlete approaching the mark won't answer it. Did you expect her to say "I think Flo Jo's mark was not clean so that makes me the fastest to ever run the distance"? Of course, she will not say that, even if she believes it. Do you think she is Muhammad Ali? That's why it was a dumb question.
She could have said, "I don't know whether that record is doped but I think there's a chance now I could take it and I would love to". Lord Coe would agree and hopes she does. Is that very hard for her to say? I suppose it is if she wants to duck questions about doping altogether, which gives a different impression.
That’s not just being offended. There’s a civil war going on. The Ethiopia. president himself went to the front lines. Tigray people are facing genocide. She could be imprisoned or disappeared for saying something. Letsrun out here playing games thinking they’re doing “journalism” while actually endangering athletes for clicks. “This question is not good for us” is not offence, it’s literal. If she answered she could really be harmed.
Seriously. I don’t care if you think it’s “race baiting” or whatever stupid foolishness. They are only pulling this nonsense on black and African women athletes. And now it’s gone beyond disrespectful to actually blithely dangerous. Please, Brojos, grow the hell up.
That’s not just being offended. There’s a civil war going on. The Ethiopia. president himself went to the front lines. Tigray people are facing genocide. She could be imprisoned or disappeared for saying something. Letsrun out here playing games thinking they’re doing “journalism” while actually endangering athletes for clicks. “This question is not good for us” is not offence, it’s literal. If she answered she could really be harmed.
Seriously. I don’t care if you think it’s “race baiting” or whatever stupid foolishness. They are only pulling this nonsense on black and African women athletes. And now it’s gone beyond disrespectful to actually blithely dangerous. Please, Brojos, grow the hell up.
I suppose Russian athletes shouldn't be asked about the invasion of Ukraine, either. You're a bunch of Pollyanna's.
That’s not just being offended. There’s a civil war going on. The Ethiopia. president himself went to the front lines. Tigray people are facing genocide. She could be imprisoned or disappeared for saying something. Letsrun out here playing games thinking they’re doing “journalism” while actually endangering athletes for clicks. “This question is not good for us” is not offence, it’s literal. If she answered she could really be harmed.
Seriously. I don’t care if you think it’s “race baiting” or whatever stupid foolishness. They are only pulling this nonsense on black and African women athletes. And now it’s gone beyond disrespectful to actually blithely dangerous. Please, Brojos, grow the hell up.
I suppose Russian athletes shouldn't be asked about the invasion of Ukraine, either. You're a bunch of Pollyanna's.
You refuse to answer questions about your admissions of racialist terms.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone trip themselves up so much 😂😂😂
More, more, more….
Lord Coe has just shown how stupid some fans are. Like you. He has picked up on the very point Gault raised about a doped world mark. The embarrassment is all yours.
Ok, let’s spell it out SLOWLY for you.
YOU spent all day yesterday saying that Jackson is a doped athlete.
Then YOU use Coe says that if Jackson erased Flo Jo’s old mark that would be better for the sport.
Lord Coe has just shown how stupid some fans are. Like you. He has picked up on the very point Gault raised about a doped world mark. The embarrassment is all yours.
Ok, let’s spell it out SLOWLY for you.
YOU spent all day yesterday saying that Jackson is a doped athlete.
Then YOU use Coe says that if Jackson erased Flo Jo’s old mark that would be better for the sport.
Surely you get how damn stupid that is????
Power on, you’re humiliating yourself.
I am shocked he needed that explained.
He shot himself in the foot when he introduced the ‘Lord Coe’ point. A spectacular and delightful own goal.
I mean, you can ask anyone arsey questions if you want to. But I note he’s not asking the British or Norwegian athletes, “you’re having a recent run of success on the track. Is that a national doping program like your cycling and skiing teams or have you just changed training methods?” People think that too, and at least that question would be about something actually related to them, not asking for comment on an athlete who died before they were born.
Jackson would know as much about Flojo as any of us. She never trained with her, didn’t run against her, isn’t from the US…it was purely a question to set her up, and try to get a headline out of her like “Sour grapes? Jamaican star accuses legend of doping.” Jackson put him in his place and the question ended up being entertaining because it backfired on Gault and he ended up looking foolish.
So everyone on Letsrun knows about Flojo and the doping arguments. But a 200m runner who is knocking on Flojo's world mark doesn't have a view on that? If she doesn't care whether the record is doped then she doesn't care about doping. We can form our own views as to why that would be.
Seb Coe disagrees because he would like to see Jackson erase Flo Jo’s mark.
He literally thinks the exact opposite of what you think regarding Jackson.
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.
No, I didn’t suggest anything like that. I simply pointed out that the subject of the question is long dead, and the ratified record has been on the books and competed against for nearly 40 years. Asking a 24 yr old athlete whether s/he “believes in” that record, after a race like that, is simply trying to find a moment and some conflict and a headline. She responded perfectly appropriately.
Lord Coe has just shown how stupid some fans are. Like you. He has picked up on the very point Gault raised about a doped world mark. The embarrassment is all yours.
Ok, let’s spell it out SLOWLY for you.
YOU spent all day yesterday saying that Jackson is a doped athlete.
Then YOU use Coe says that if Jackson erased Flo Jo’s old mark that would be better for the sport.
Surely you get how damn stupid that is????
Power on, you’re humiliating yourself.
I can see why you like to work so SLOWLY. You are as thick as a bunch of bricks. The point of this thread is whether Gault's question was a legitimate question. It is. From one perspective, that has been shown to be so by Lord Coe's comments. I don't have to agree with everything he said in order to make the point that a top official in the sport has effectively validated the point of Gault's question. Lord Coe's response is independent of my own view that Jackson is herself a doper. Neither view is incompatible with the fact that Gault's question was a fair question. But I realise these distinctions are beyond you and most on this thread. Running is clearly not a cerebral sport.
So Bannister was a likely doper? The better example you might have given is a woman 800m runner today beating Kratochvilova's world mark.
No, I didn’t suggest anything like that. I simply pointed out that the subject of the question is long dead, and the ratified record has been on the books and competed against for nearly 40 years. Asking a 24 yr old athlete whether s/he “believes in” that record, after a race like that, is simply trying to find a moment and some conflict and a headline. She responded perfectly appropriately.
Flojo has long gone but the record is still there and it is currently only a fraction of a second out of Jackson's reach. It is one of the longest-standing and most notorious records in the sport. Of course she knows about it. Yet she doesn't have a view about that and her prospects of erasing it from the books. You say that is appropriate; I would suggest evasive - and wonder why.
