Ted Ginn Jr. Tries to Somehow Connect Himself to Usain Bolt And Gold Medals

Bolt also holds the record for the 40 at the combine. Ted Ginn? Nowhere to be found. But Ginn "thinks" he "unofficially" ran the record once. Oh and he ran the 40 six hundredths slower at tOSU! Guess that counts!

Ginn just seems insanely jealous of Bolt. I guess money can't buy everything.

A Hungry, Violent Mob wrote:

Bolt also holds the record for the 40 at the combine. Ted Ginn? Nowhere to be found. But Ginn "thinks" he "unofficially" ran the record once. Oh and he ran the 40 six hundredths slower at tOSU! Guess that counts!

Ginn just seems insanely jealous of Bolt. I guess money can't buy everything.

Bolt does not own any record. He did not run that at the combine, and it was also a fake publicity stunt. Letsrun covered this.

There are a few issues with the part about him running against Bolt, but Ginn was legit. If as a junior you are representing the US in the 4x100 relay at an international event, you are pretty darn good.

That Bleacher Report article (BTW I got a 404 error on your link) is a mess. The writer must never have taken a writing or English class, but your take on it is even worse. The guy claims he would have for sure won a Gold. Note he does not claim he is OWED one. He also does not say he would have beaten Bolt; Ginn was a renowned hurdler. I write some of this off as typical sprinter bragging.

Don't get your panties in a wad because in high school the girl you were in love with would not give you the time of day and then dated a football player.

WinnytheBish wrote:

A Hungry, Violent Mob wrote:

Bolt also holds the record for the 40 at the combine. Ted Ginn? Nowhere to be found. But Ginn "thinks" he "unofficially" ran the record once. Oh and he ran the 40 six hundredths slower at tOSU! Guess that counts!

Ginn just seems insanely jealous of Bolt. I guess money can't buy everything.

Bolt does not own any record. He did not run that at the combine, and it was also a fake publicity stunt. Letsrun covered this.

Also true. But lets not kid ourselves. Where Ginn claims to have run sub 4.3, Bolt can probably claim to have been capable of running no slower than sub 4.2. And that's being conservative; one could argue that with the way footballers talk about the 40s they ran at their college's pro days (where they are touting their guys for the draft), Bolt could/would have run a sub 4 in similar circumstances.

Also, here's another attempt at a working link:

There's another post that appears waaay more fluff/pro Ginn on this board that's trying to act like I didn't post this before they did. Mine will probably get deleted as a result BUT I WAS HERE FIRST! And my hot take is more accurate (if bloated).

WinnytheBish wrote:

A Hungry, Violent Mob wrote:

Bolt also holds the record for the 40 at the combine. Ted Ginn? Nowhere to be found. But Ginn "thinks" he "unofficially" ran the record once. Oh and he ran the 40 six hundredths slower at tOSU! Guess that counts!

Ginn just seems insanely jealous of Bolt. I guess money can't buy everything.

Bolt does not own any record. He did not run that at the combine, and it was also a fake publicity stunt. Letsrun covered this.

Did he run the distance? Was it laser recorded? Was it tied with the fastest ever recorded time? If you can answer yes to the preceding three questions, nothing else matters. LRC handtiming at home and being 2/10ths slow doesn't mean anything.

Luv2Run wrote:

The guy claims he would have for sure won a Gold. Note he does not claim he is OWED one.

I simply took his "for sure would have won one" and raised him an "owed" as being all of the same jibberish nonsense from the same poisoned tree of idiocy. That was my point.

The thing is he WAS really good in HS. It's not like I want to discount that, because that would just show me for a troll. But it feels awfully trollish on his part, or on the part of the rash of writers making these "articles", to be talking about gold medals and "I ran with Bolt-and even beat him" diatribes.

Sure. I'm jelly of the guy. Makes me say gregarious things....kinda sounds like how Ginn talk about sprinters.

Ginn was an Olympic level hurdler

Giles Corey wrote:

Ginn was an Olympic level hurdler

Question:

Did he ever even run a 110HH. As in the full 42"?

No matter how fast you got over the 39s, can you ever truly be Olympic level if you never even ran the real race?

If You Know Me, You Know Me wrote:

Giles Corey wrote:

Ginn was an Olympic level hurdler

Question:

Did he ever even run a 110HH. As in the full 42"?

No matter how fast you got over the 39s, can you ever truly be Olympic level if you never even ran the real race?

In addition to football, Ginn was a standout track athlete for the Glenville track team. As a junior, he became the national champion in the 110 meter hurdles and recorded the best time in the nation as a senior when he won the state title for the second consecutive year. He posted personal bests of 13.26w seconds and 13.40 seconds in the 39" 110 meter hurdles[3][4][5]

The Ohio State University track coach Russ Rogers recruited Ginn to run track, believing that he could qualify for the 2008 Summer Olympics.[6] However, his track career was put on hold in order to focus on football. He was timed at 10.2 in the 100 meters in his freshman year.

All the while focusing on football.

The 13.40 and 13.26 were on 39" hurdles. The 13.26 was wind aided. This is not to denigrate those results; indeed the 13.40 is the Ohio State Championship Meet record. (Or was last I saw). But there is a huge difference between a wind legal 13.40 on 39" hurdles, and a 13.40 on 42" hurdles. I'm betting Ginn never even trained on 42" hurdles. He certainly has no verified results on them.

For context, Robert Griffin III ran a 13.55 on what I presume were 39" hurdles (wind info unknown), but he was known more as a long hurdler with a 49.22 400m hurdle time. Supposedly Griffin ran a mid 35 300m hurdle in HS whereas Ginn ran a purpoted mid 36.

I also dont want/need to hear about ANY coach - HS/College/Track/Football or otherwise - and what they supposedly timed someone in practice at. Did Ginn run a 10.2 verified 100m FAT race? The answers no. As far as I know, he has no official 100m result. I know he ran a 21.16 200 in high school. Which is great, by the way. But not indicative of garunteed team USA material, let alone Olympic medal contention likelihoods.

The funny thing is, for all Ginns greatness in HS, he was always pretty clearly below what Nelloms. Nobody wants to talk about Nelloms because he is/was a pedophile/incest predator, but where Ginn runs 13.26 wind aided, Nelloms ran 13.30 wind legal (or at least it's the state overall HS record). Where Ginn ran 21.1x in HS, Nelloms broke 21 (I think it was 20.8x). Where Ginn ran a HS 46.5 on a flat 400 Nelloms ran sun 46.

Nelloms was legit. Went on to be an NCAA champ, won golds internationally in Junior stuff. But....I dunno that he was going to be an ACTUAL olympic medalist. I'm not sure his progressions indicate that he was going to beat the Michael Johnsons/Butch Reynolds/Frankie Fredricks of the world, and I think he turned away from the hurdles mostly, too, so he was trending toward the flat 2/4, which honestly is what Ginn probably would have done, too.

Nelloms was faster than Ginn ever was and his 100m PR was supposedly 10.33. So, that's how I feel about that supposed Ginn 10.2

Anyway, whatever.

How much can an olympic gold medalist 110m hurdler make in a lifetime?

Making the right life choices wrote:

How much can an olympic gold medalist 110m hurdler make in a lifetime?

Hey. You're right, man. Totally legit.

So.....why does a rich person have to try to prop themselves up further by making grandiose, dubious, claims??? Their bed of money isn't good enough for them anymore?!?!

[quote]If You Know Me, You Know Me wrote:

[quote]Giles Corey wrote:

The 13.40 and 13.26 were on 39" hurdles. The 13.26 was wind aided. This is not to denigrate those results; indeed the 13.40 is the Ohio State Championship Meet record. (Or was last I saw). But there is a huge difference between a wind legal 13.40 on 39" hurdles, and a 13.40 on 42" hurdles. I'm betting Ginn never even trained on 42" hurdles. He certainly has no verified results on them.

High school times for someone specializing in football.

This guy is a special talent.

Nelloms won a USA title in the 200m but ended up in jail.

If You Know Me, You Know Me wrote:

I also dont want/need to hear about ANY coach - HS/College/Track/Football or otherwise - and what they supposedly timed someone in practice at. Did Ginn run a 10.2 verified 100m FAT race?

I was coaching Ginn online, as proved by when I told him "happy birthday" on Facebook and he replied "thanks".

He ran eight 100 m repeats in practice back to back in under 10 seconds. He also ran a hand-timed 9.4 at altitude in West Virginia, but they made an error in the results and gave him a 14.9.

I was training him to be a 1500m runner using my MANBUN coaching system and he would have been the best ever, but he got malaria and then some unethical coaches got to him and made him play football.

It will all be explained in a major world-wide broadcasted lecture that everyone in the world will watch and then you'll see. You'll see. You won't be laughing then.

Giles Corey wrote:

[quote]If You Know Me, You Know Me wrote:

[quote]Giles Corey wrote:

The 13.40 and 13.26 were on 39" hurdles. The 13.26 was wind aided. This is not to denigrate those results; indeed the 13.40 is the Ohio State Championship Meet record. (Or was last I saw). But there is a huge difference between a wind legal 13.40 on 39" hurdles, and a 13.40 on 42" hurdles. I'm betting Ginn never even trained on 42" hurdles. He certainly has no verified results on them.

High school times for someone specializing in football.

This guy is a special talent.

Nelloms won a USA title in the 200m but ended up in jail.

Yes. Nelloms won an INDOOR 200 in 94. Correct. But to be clear, he never placed top 3 in an outdoor 200. Or any other even that I'm aware of, but I didn't look into the others.

Nellom's was a great talent but was shot and seriously injured before he could really develop to his full potential. Then he ended up in prison as was indicated earlier. I don't believe he ever really was the same after the shooting. He did qualify to the Olympic Trials in the 400 while in high school.