Let’s be honest here for a second. She knew that marijuana was illegal and still took it. If she is willing to break the rules with one drug. What is stopping her from breaking it with another drug? She knows the rules and still chooses to break them. And we all know who her coach is also…
Jamaica Mon! wrote:
The US has not won the gold medal in the women's 100 since 2000 and that gold was taken away from Marion Jones for drug use. The last official 100 winner was Gail Devers in 1996. Jamaica has dominated the 100m for both men and women for the last three Games as well as breaking the 4x100 record for men. I think the 4x100 for women may fall to them this year.
I’m all for peds and Jamaica has been somehow better than everyone to cover it up. It’s crazy.
Richardson most likely wasn’t winning the 100m. I wouldn’t of been surprised if she didn’t make the finals. She obviously cracked under the pressure in oregon and now has a great excuse for her not winning. The man held me down.
hobby jogger1 wrote:
Let’s be honest here for a second. She knew that marijuana was illegal and still took it. If she is willing to break the rules with one drug. What is stopping her from breaking it with another drug? She knows the rules and still chooses to break them. And we all know who her coach is also…
A lot of bad takes on this topic. I fully agree that she knowingly broke the rules, and it was stupid and only hurt her. But her biological mother DIED and she found out at the same time she qualified for the Olympics for the first time. The stress, pain, and anxiety got to her. She turned to a recreational drug that is incredibly popular in the U.S and around the world. That does not mean she is using PEDs. The fact that you think marijuana usage implies PED usage does not reflect well on your ability to think critically.
hmmmidunno wrote:
Jamaica Mon! wrote:
The US has not won the gold medal in the women's 100 since 2000 and that gold was taken away from Marion Jones for drug use. The last official 100 winner was Gail Devers in 1996. Jamaica has dominated the 100m for both men and women for the last three Games as well as breaking the 4x100 record for men. I think the 4x100 for women may fall to them this year.
I’m all for peds and Jamaica has been somehow better than everyone to cover it up. It’s crazy.
Richardson most likely wasn’t winning the 100m. I wouldn’t of been surprised if she didn’t make the finals. She obviously cracked under the pressure in oregon and now has a great excuse for her not winning. The man held me down.
Her finals race was bad, but not a terrible terrible time she ran 10.86 into a head wind which means she probably would have ran 10.7 low with a decent tailwind it was about equal to Shelly's run at the jamaican trials.
"Thinking critically" is a carefully crafted term used by you to gaslight people into believing your way and agreeing with your reasons.
But I'll bite:
If you want critical thinking, please critically defend:
How a death means that a use of a banned substance has a different meaning than the fact that it's banned
How there is a natural correlation between coping with tragedy and immediately seeking marijuana (if you have never done it before)
How the increasing popularity of marijuana in one country should set a de facto and eventually de jure precedent for all competing World Countries
The fact that marijuana, in its pain inhibitory qualities is not a performance enhancer
You like what you like, but unless you critically address each point, your argument really just smacks of "I like...and I want.." more than anything remotely convincing .
Stoppit Smith wrote:
"Thinking critically" is a carefully crafted term used by you to gaslight people into believing your way and agreeing with your reasons.
But I'll bite:
If you want critical thinking, please critically defend:
How a death means that a use of a banned substance has a different meaning than the fact that it's banned
How there is a natural correlation between coping with tragedy and immediately seeking marijuana (if you have never done it before)
How the increasing popularity of marijuana in one country should set a de facto and eventually de jure precedent for all competing World Countries
The fact that marijuana, in its pain inhibitory qualities is not a performance enhancer
You like what you like, but unless you critically address each point, your argument really just smacks of "I like...and I want.." more than anything remotely convincing .
lol imagine taking the time to post this unironically
mehville wrote:
It’s somewhat insulting but 100 percent accurate.
Well she won the trials so she's not wrong
Aouita 84 wrote:
According to Sha'Carri, she's the only American 100m runner with a chance for gold. Hmmm...Big words coming from an athlete who just got banned for illegal drug use and is not competing.
On racing in Tokyo, Richardson said: “I greatly apologize if I let you guys down – and I did. This will be the last time the US comes home without a gold in the 100m.
Think she'll call Jennifer Prandini and congratulate her on MAKING THE TEAM... legally? NOT!
Can't be true. As she is not in the event she has zero chance for gold
Reading this forum made me lose intelligence. I see a lot of talk about people not liking her because she “disrespect others” when all I see on these forums is disrespect. Let alone none of you seem to know anything about weed. But what can you expect from joggers on Letsrun.
Aouita 84 wrote:
According to Sha'Carri, she's the only American 100m runner with a chance for gold. Hmmm...Big words coming from an athlete who just got banned for illegal drug use and is not competing.
On racing in Tokyo, Richardson said: “I greatly apologize if I let you guys down – and I did. This will be the last time the US comes home without a gold in the 100m.
Think she'll call Jennifer Prandini and congratulate her on MAKING THE TEAM... legally? NOT!
What is insulting about this? Name one US 100M entrant outside of Sha'carri who stands a chance of medalling?
Call Prandini for what? Because she's white? If Sha'carri was running Prandini would not be one of the entrant. This is another stupid thread.
Aouita 84 wrote:
According to Sha'Carri, she's the only American 100m runner with a chance for gold. Hmmm...Big words coming from an athlete who just got banned for illegal drug use and is not competing.
On racing in Tokyo, Richardson said: “I greatly apologize if I let you guys down – and I did. This will be the last time the US comes home without a gold in the 100m.
Think she'll call Jennifer Prandini and congratulate her on MAKING THE TEAM... legally? NOT!
She needs to smoke another joint and chill out
Jamaica Mon! wrote:
The US has not won the gold medal in the women's 100 since 2000 and that gold was taken away from Marion Jones for drug use. The last official 100 winner was Gail Devers in 1996. Jamaica has dominated the 100m for both men and women for the last three Games as well as breaking the 4x100 record for men. I think the 4x100 for women may fall to them this year.
What I would like to know is when someone will bust the Jamaicans for PED. Any moment now, I expect Fraser-Pryce to enter a body building competition.
What if she were your athlete? Isn't accountability and being careful the issue here? If you were the coach, wouldn't you kinda know she smokes weed based on your contact with her?
No? Incessantly warn her of the banned substances...Oh, you know she smokes? Tell her to totally abstain while we are rolling. You have a star. Do not f this up.
Stoppit Smith wrote:
You can use any definition you like.
In my judgment of Sha'Carri as someone who neither uses PEDs nor dope, I can freely use my definition.
No you can’t. Part of being a person and discussing things with other people is sharing definitions to bring clarity to our discourse. If your definition is objectively wrong or objectively misleading, then you can’t use it to honestly argue anything. If I use different definitions for words that everyone else agrees to the definition of, then I’m essentially just living in fantasy land where I make up my own truth.
i want to know who rolled and handed sha'carri the spliff?
I cant imagine that it is possible to be within 100m of SCR without knowing she is a potential 100m wr challenger, and yet someone handed her a spliff?
'man, i just handed scr a joint',
' hey, scr, dont bogart the joint'
if she rolled and smoked it herself, presumably her levels would have been off the scale? and if she did it, who gave her / sold her the gear?
no i dont believe it.
or might we have the new internet challenge? film scr smoking a joint?
In the past I haven't been hugely keen on her interactions over social media etc, but over this whole event she's handled herself with class.
There are a lot of ridiculous things being said by people who have jumped on bandwagons, but remember not to attribute them to her.
She broke the rules, got a ban, accepted it and is getting on with things. My only hope is that this makes her realise that the optics of her coaching set up do her zero favours - it's not like there aren't loads of great alternative options in the US.
Aouita 84 wrote:
According to Sha'Carri, she's the only American 100m runner with a chance for gold. Hmmm...Big words coming from an athlete who just got banned for illegal drug use and is not competing.
On racing in Tokyo, Richardson said: “I greatly apologize if I let you guys down – and I did. This will be the last time the US comes home without a gold in the 100m.
Think she'll call Jennifer Prandini and congratulate her on MAKING THE TEAM... legally? NOT!
Marijuana use is LEGAL where she used it. That's different from it being on some athletic federation's banned substances list.
Also, get a life.
She's 100% right though.
Just because she's right doesn't mean it's not insulting.
That said, it more sounds like she just wanted to send a message to usada - put dumb bans on people and lose out on gold. Can't disagree with her there.
qqqqq wrote:
Just because she's right doesn't mean it's not insulting.
That said, it more sounds like she just wanted to send a message to usada - put dumb bans on people and lose out on gold. Can't disagree with her there.
Eh, I think she's just expressing confidence in her ability and was calling her shot to win gold at Paris and Los Angeles and probably Brisbane too. I don't think she was intentionally trying to slight her teammates, though she's not wrong that none of them will win gold in the 100.