I feel soo bad for the African athletes like Ngetich who traveled soo far and THOUGHT they won life-changing money and now may not get anything. Must be crushing for them
So you have no arguement. You just call him and anyone who says something you don’t like “racist”. You’re a coward who lives in denial. Do you chicken*hit cowards actually enjoy that incel lifestyle? Points for virtue-signaling helping at all?
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.
This grand slam thing was a failure from the start. Track and field has always been a somewhat niche sport and the thing holding it together has been diamond league. When Usain Bolt left it decreased in popularity fast. People just want to see world records broken and then the world record holders to stand by their titles at Championships. I don’t get what grand slam brought to the sport as it has always been a simple sport of the fastest man or woman going from point A to B. Grand slam gave high school meet varsity kind of vibes. It didn’t revolutionize the sport because the sport succeeds in its simplest terms : minimal drug testing to help athletes run the fastest times possible in their best event and cash to motivate them.
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.
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.
"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.
He conned them by saying it was 100% secured when he was recruiting athletes. Any evidence of this? I can't find any
And how you know what MJ was “led to believe” That's what he said and there is no other reasonable explanation. Ackman pledged $30 million. That is not in dispute, What else was MJ to think?
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!
Johnson KNEW that he didn't have a legally binding contract to get that money but Johnson acted as if he did and he fooled all those runners into signing contracts. Johnson is in big trouble.
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
So you can blame the black guy and exonerate the guy who got Harvard's only ever black president removed
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.
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!
Johnson KNEW that he didn't have a legally binding contract to get that money but Johnson acted as if he did and he fooled all those runners into signing contracts. Johnson is in big trouble.
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
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.
This article suggests that some athletes have been paid, but which ones?
"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.
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.
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
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.
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.