BoA wrote:
What shoes will she wear?
She said in her live ig that she wanted a shoe deal in addit8ion to Lululemon but the shoe companies would not allow her to wear Lululemon, they wanted her to wear their apparel. I guess she thought she could get a deal like Pappas with Champion but found out that she could not. She said she is trying out lots of other shoe brands. She won't get paid for wearing them but she low key trashed Nike saying that she never liked their shoes anyway.
come on now wrote:
zxcvzxcvc wrote:
Nike is not being smart, in my opinion, because they still don't know apparel outside of shoes like these other companies. Just as they lost to something called L.A. Gear in the 1980s because they thought it was all about performance (not that their shoes were any good until the cheater shoes were allowed), when it was about style, they're losing $ to newer brands like this that have an eye on women's fashions.
Nike lost to LA Gear? Where is LA Gear now?
[quote]zxcvzxcvc wrote:
and might well have been ready this year to drop under 9, given how far she's come and how well her teammates have been running.
You think she was going ot drop 10 seconds off her pb at age 28? No.
The reality is Nike pays elite performers. I think it would tarnish their brand to pay influencers. That's something adidas does right - pay rappers and what not? Does Nike do deals with celebs?
Yes you may have heard of him. The one with the buffet tables of delights downstairs
nikeman wrote:
I’ll guarantee you it’s not 3x what her original Nike deal was. It may be 3x what Nike offered her to re-sign, which I’m sure was a reduction from her original deal. I’d guess her new deal might be somewhere around 150k a year.
This is a good point. Her language from the Citius pod suggests this is the case.
Wanted to buy men's shorts wrote:
I wanted to buy men's shorts there on Sunday. They look comfortable, and you hear good things about their quality (from women)... The men's shorts feel terrible. They all have those built in compression shorts that go all the way down to where the shorts end. Why wear shorts AND compression shorts??? It felt terrible. Envision the girl's midlength spandex but with shorts on top of that.
The fast and free (4inch seam I think) are my go to short. I own 3 pairs.
Good for her, but really extra curious now how this will impact her performance at the trials, what after her last race being in February, plus the chaos and stress of finding a new sponsor and peddling products constantly on Instagram.
Wanted to buy men's shorts wrote:
I wanted to buy men's shorts there on Sunday. They look comfortable, and you hear good things about their quality (from women)... The men's shorts feel terrible. They all have those built in compression shorts that go all the way down to where the shorts end. Why wear shorts AND compression shorts??? It felt terrible. Envision the girl's midlength spandex but with shorts on top of that.
How did you possibly miss the pace breaker and surge shorts?? 🤦
kpoos wrote:
plus the chaos and stress of [...] peddling products constantly on Instagram.
😂😅
She looks good to me. Strong stout Belgian muscles with much in store. A good cup of coffee and who will beat her? A German? Kom schon
I like to see new sponsors on the scene, but lulu is a very "Karen" brand. I am not saying it, that is how it's viewed in the marketplace.
The whole Instagram video announcing her lulu sponsorship while she constantly braids her hair and softly cries in the background was something else.
north london is dead wrote:
I like to see new sponsors on the scene, but lulu is a very "Karen" brand. I am not saying it, that is how it's viewed in the marketplace.
Lulu makes cute clothes for middle class soccer moms to wear for their errands while they are not working out. Good for her for the pay day.
Gentleman Savage wrote:
kpoos wrote:
The whole Instagram video announcing her lulu sponsorship while she constantly braids her hair and softly cries in the background was something else.
This is Kara v2, where LRCBF magnify the perceived warts of a high profile woman (one who could beat any of their PRs over any distance) in the sport to pick her apart relentlessly. And the Brojos love it. I'm no CQ fan and this is astoundingly clear.
Exactly why most high profile women in the sport and the young women that they inspire loathe this site.
Do these people not get how contracts/jobs work?
So are you saying if I repeatedly don’t hit my performance goal at work I should expect to still be employed at the same pay because the company should value me as a whole person. Best of luck to Colleen, but I only care about her track performances not what new woke campaign she is jumping on.
kpoos wrote:, but I only care about her track performances
They’re just numbers without being tied to beauty, meaning and art...
you can buy shorts without the liner
kpoos wrote:
So are you saying if I repeatedly don’t hit my performance goal at work I should expect to still be employed at the same pay because the company should value me as a whole person
You are correct we cannot for the life and continuation of our civilization allow corruption, idleness and wasting in our industries and among the people. I’m sure you’ll all be on board with these society wide initiatives in the name of our national interest. #therealwoke
WHO CARES!
aintrightatl122alll wrote:
https://twitter.com/karagoucher/status/1395008595226337287Do these people not get how contracts/jobs work?
Apparently she does, which is why she opted for a contract/job that better suits her preferences. Nike offered one contract. Lululemon offered another. She chose the one she liked better. How does that show lack of understanding of how contracts and jobs work?
From a women sport perspective, I think it's a really great story she is putting out there. Far too many female athletes are being shortchanged in their contracts, if they are lucky to be paid at all. She made a very brave decision, but a good and calculated one, and it's really good she is talking about it, and talking about the money she is making. I'm curious to know whether female athletes in athletics earn as much as men (I suspect in the US it's different because there is more hope for the females to break on a world stage, while it's easier for male runners to get upstaged by others), however overall in sports, there are few if any athletes in the world being paid as much as men in the NFL or in soccer for example. And it's a sacrifice, it takes dedication, it makes it harder for families. Why do we accept some dude we'll forgot the name of in the NHL or NFL get millions, and will rarely get on the game - when a popular athlete like colleen get pennies on the dime? It does sell less on TV, but this element of sports is changing. The companies do have money to put up big sponsorhips for dudes, it's about time the ladies realise their value and demand they get what they are worth.
north london is dead wrote:
I like to see new sponsors on the scene, but lulu is a very "Karen" brand. I am not saying it, that is how it's viewed in the marketplace.
Your tiny penis is showing. Put on a second pair of shorts, incel idiot.
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