Lol, what? Who is clean as a whistle?
Choosing Mitchell as a coach... backing up Gatlin...
Some reminders:
Too dirty even for Gatin:
Lol, what? Who is clean as a whistle?
Choosing Mitchell as a coach... backing up Gatlin...
Some reminders:
Too dirty even for Gatin:
Hmmm. Bolt wasn't as thug but yes, they're both loaded with PEDs
she has alredy run a faster time than any other WR breaking time other than the ridiculously obvious drug cheat flo jo.
Armstronglivs wrote:
Bolt was a prodigy in his teens. Her recent improvements have comparatively come from nowhere. Like a lot do now.
This is incorrect. Sha’carri ran a 10.75 as a 19-year-old at the NCAA finals.
That being said, the idea that someone was already fast in the teen years being an indication that they didn’t need drugs to excel later on - I generally agree with this.
Dude, it was a little sarcastic but I want to try and at least give someone the benefit of the doubt. The point was even if you are doing anything, you want to give the impression that you aren't right - isn't that half of the game for track athletes that take PEDs - how you convince people you are clean? The point being making Dennis Mitchell your coach and being cool with it isn't a great start no matter how open you are with it and for that reason I just don't understand Ms Richardson here.
That’s an exaggeration. She’s on her way - if not already - to media darling status. She’s arguably already the face of GB Athletics (Laura Muir’s been a footnote to her all week).
She’s extremely marketable - sprinter, phenomenal talent, likeable, middle class, clean cut without being remotely boring etc.
Previous recent examples being Jess Ennis, Tom Daly, Anthony Joshua (to a degree) and Laura Robson.
Yes, sorry, to be clear, I understood your opinion, but have a different one. She obviously weighted the pros and cons to join the experienced doping coach, and the pros won.
I'll leave it at that.
casual obsever wrote:
Yes, sorry, to be clear, I understood your opinion, but have a different one. She obviously weighted the pros and cons to join the experienced doping coach, and the pros won.
I'll leave it at that.
Few things:
1) I agree it's weird that Nike pushes Dennis Mitchell as a coach for a top sprint group
2) Gatlin said he fired Mitchell but that is clearly not true as he still trains under him
3) I think the shoe sponsor (Nike) has more of a hand in this than people are saying. Yes, the athlete could raise a stink, and maybe they should more. How many guys/gals have said no to Nike about Mitchell? I suspect few just because the allegations probably don't mean as much to them as they do to astute track fans on LetsRun.
Salvitore Stitchmo wrote:
You have run 10.75 at college and are the best in the nation, clean as a whistle.
Why, just why, do you choose to associate yourself with Dennis Mitchell knowing his past and knowing the associations people are going to make? .
Exactly.
The Clown Show wrote:
Salvitore Stitchmo wrote:
You have run 10.75 at college and are the best in the nation, clean as a whistle.
Why, just why, do you choose to associate yourself with Dennis Mitchell knowing his past and knowing the associations people are going to make? .
Exactly.
A bit like signing a contract with BALCO. Now why would an athlete do that?
casual obsever wrote:
Yes, sorry, to be clear, I understood your opinion, but have a different one. She obviously weighted the pros and cons to join the experienced doping coach, and the pros won.
I'll leave it at that.
I'm not actually sure our opinions are different my friend. You know people can agree to things on these boards right?
I agree with you 100% that she assessed the pros and cons of joining an experienced coach heavily involved in doping throughout his career and the pros won - this is all very clear. So we agree with each other.
My underlying point is that in an event where as soon as you perform at a high level people are (quite rightly) suspicious of doping, surely the "con" of being involved with Dennis Mitchell trumps anything else, or in the very least leads you to another coach (which do exist). So I know what she has done, I don't get why. Unless the answer to that is a depressing one.
Yes indeed the answer was the depressing one.
toozy wrote:
I’m glad a generation of young women think that young women of the mid 20th century were shielding themselves.
My grandma would have a good laugh at that one.
+1,000,000
pupil3142 wrote:
she is 21, hardly done a real race and the doping allegations are flying all ready?
The 100m is the Eurovision song contest of sport, noone thinks for a second these poeple arent cheating - its just an entertainment freak show.
Anyone see Bernal on the Zoncolon? He didnt even look stressed.
It's power and efficiency. Something you fall short of.
Blah blah blah sockpuppetshow.