Michael Johnson issues letter saying they don’t have the money, no GST2026 unless athletes paid

At the very start people should have realized that the athletes would get more out of a Grand Slam at Denny’s than they would get out of MJ and his fellow grifters.

I still want to know how much Michael Johnson and Kyle Merber got paid because they certainly weren’t missing any paychecks…. It continues to look like a big grift and scam. It continues to look like all the money went towards Johnson and merber and they refuse to speak on what they’ve earned from this and if they themselves have gotten paid. Michael Johnson keeps issuing these absolute JOKES of fluff statements thinking it’s going to save him and everyone else remains unpaid. Someone audit this. Michael Johnson is forever a loser now. Sorry not sorry. Legacy gone. This is what people will remember.

The decision to host the first meet in Kingston, Jamaica, will go down in track and field infamy. First impressions matter to fans, investors and sponsors. There was no coming back from the optics of that empty stadium.

Citius Mag are horribly compromised in all of this. No wonder they seem incapable of publishing a single critical article about this debacle that resembles anything close to actual journalism.

the grand slam was not a total failure.

the issue is that you have a delusional athlete thinking he is a businessman.

like a let's run basement dweller poster thinking they can run an olympic program, of course with NIL experience.

and, the basics of business is that you aren't going to make money the first FEW years.

in the world of sports, the overall budgets and prize money isn't high at all, but self sustaining the thing isn't a given of course, and sponsorship money needs to come in, at some point.

now the backers could be a syndicate of l where the object of the exercise is to do it, and support the sport, and perhaps get some advertisement for the business.

the guy to run it, would be a proven business guy that knows how to run events, and not a jkass moron promoter.

on the track and field side. MJ and his team, put on a nice show, for a start, cudos there.

and it is suggested with each meet to have one spectacle, like a 100m dash with retired NBA guys, or what ever pros, or youtubers with 100m followers to have a mile race. but just one of those somewhat insulting to the sport things. that sort of thing gets eyeballs.

i can see actually making money here, the backers should be in it for the fun , buy not to burn money on an albatross.

there was a pun there by accident

youtubers run a 100m (meters) with 100m (million) followers

This article suggests that some athletes have been paid, but which ones?

nbcnews.com

Grand Slam Track started with fanfare. Now it's short on cash and 'some wonder if our vision can survive'

NBCNews

Fronted by star Michael Johnson, Grand Slam Track promised payouts bigger than any other in track. But athletes are still waiting to receive what they are owed.

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"NBC News spoke with four agents who represent multiple athletes still owed money by Grand Slam Track, who spoke on condition of anonymity to retain relationships with organizers."

We know Grant Fisher has not been paid and his agent is Alistair Cragg.

Which others athletes have either confirmed they have or not have been paid? I'm wondering about the agents especially.

my name is mj and i confirm i have been paid everything three months in advance, plus all first class expenses paid and various, erm, gifts received.

GST 2026, LOL.

Johnson did NOT have a legally binding contract with that big potential investor. That potential investor only said that he MIGHT invest. That's a massive difference!

You have no idea what Ackman agreed to or how legally binding it was...other than it was a $30 million pledge and that he did not do what he pledged. WE have not been told. You are simply making stuff up. So you can blame the black guy and exonerate the guy who got Harvard's only ever black president removed

Letsrun is filled with people who wanted and want GST to fail.

Grand Slam Track probably studied the Clinton Foundation on how to run a business.

Ackman helped get rid of the anti semitic plagiarist? Good for him. sounds like a smart guy. the sensible speculation has to be that there were terms in the contract for the money that MJ / gst didnt meet and therefore Ackman didnt pay out. if it was in the contract then thats that.

It already has failed. GST cancelled, athletes not paid. michael Johnson walks away with $$$

Of course we know that it wasn't legally binding. If it was legally binding Johnson would have already said so. And Johnson would have also said that he's going to court to get the money from him. You aren't too smart. Think for once instead of keep saying the same nonsense over and over. It has nothing at all to do with race.

Go back and read that article again. It very clearly states that the only thing that has been paid was appearance fees for the Jamaica meet. That's it. Nothing more.

We know no such thing. Try suing a billionaire with sufficient insider connections to get Congress to hold hearings on anti-semitism at the Ivies due to people protesting the genocide in Gaza and to get 3 Ivy presidents fired.

Wake uo to the Real world.

Anything confirmed on GST2027 yet ?