Sha'carri x Kanye West x DRE Beats - premature?

Yes. That is how it works… never smoked weed before. Then before the biggest meet of her life decides to try it knowing she would be caught. To deal with the death of someone she never met.

Story checks out. Nothing to see here.

BrainCell wrote:

team Unruly Bush wrote:

She has the 6th fastest time in history. Kessler is light years away from that quality. Allyson Felix is 7th fastest in the 200. If we want to look strictly at performance, Sha'carri still wins.

Did you just put Sha'carri's 6th AT (in super shoes) over Allyson Felix's 7th AT (not in super shoes) AND her 9x OLY medals AND her 14x World Champs Golds? Don't talk to me about performance...

I believe she ran 10.72 not in maxflys and I also wouldn't consider any current sprint spike a super shoe

Shacarri was already the most popular track athlete by far after her trials win, she already had the attention of the casual consumer. Although this weed situation has gained her more attention she may have had the same amount of fame from being the first American women to win the 100m gold in over 20 years.

Some don't like her personality but the fact that she has or Expresses her personality more than your average track and field athletes is what makes her famous.

shootpost wrote:

Because here is the thing 95% of this board doesn't get.

It isn't about how fast you run anymore. It is about your marketability, social media presence, and ability to sell products.

Sha'carri gets this.

Thats why we have Tinman, Gwen, Athlete Special, etc. and ALL have more value than whoever else random dude running 3:34 no one knows.

Exactly!

I don’t think she wanted to run in the Olympics. She knew she wasn’t a lock to win and now she’s far more popular than she ever would be even if she had won gold.

I can’t stand this girl because she’s a cardi b wanna be dumba$$.

LRC's conservative disgruntled white male obsession with starting threads about black people is at an all time high.

Why do people keep saying this?

The Olympics is a global event. Had she won gold her popularity would have sky-rocketed globally. Right now she's just a trending name in the USA.

huhhh wrote:

Why do people keep saying this?

The Olympics is a global event. Had she won gold her popularity would have sky-rocketed globally. Right now she's just a trending name in the USA.

I respectfully disagree with this. The only global value she would have got would be increased appearance fees in European meets - maybe she goes from making 5k a start to making 20k as the Olympic champ? That ad she was in last night alone would dwarf a season of increased appearance fees, easily.

Track and field just isn't a big deal globally - I wish it was but it just isn't. Becoming a face of "mental health", "race discrimination" and all the narratives that have been cooked up and pedaled so far is simply worth far more here in the US.

I don't believe this was premeditated - I just think she made up an excuse plain and simple and it caught on with an uneducated public and an even less educated crew of political/social opinionists who quickly made her a victim to leverage their own agendas.

VroomVroom wrote:

I don’t think she wanted to run in the Olympics. She knew she wasn’t a lock to win and now she’s far more popular than she ever would be even if she had won gold.

I can’t stand this girl because she’s a cardi b wanna be dumba$$.

And conversely I agree with this - especially the first part. I don't think she wanted to run in Tokyo, but I believe the reason is she has incredible anxiety around the pressure and expectation of being the favorite for the gold. I think it's 100% a mental health issue.

I think she smokes weed - a lot of it and frequently, and I think she does so to deal with these anxieties and fears. I actually believe this is a sad story with multiple layers - that instead of feeling like she can discuss her insecurities and fears, that she has to put on a façade of strength and tough exterior. The hair, the nails - the whole package, it just reeks of someone uncomfortable with the situation they find themselves in.

She knew exactly what she was doing and what was going to happen in Eugene - she even said so herself. But again, instead of being honest about what is going on she cooks up a story that is on the surface believable and pulls enough emotional levers that it's very hard to question it in the current social climate (because can you imagine being the person that asks the questions such as "what was your mothers name, who was the reporter, who did they work for and how did they come across this knowledge before you if your mother meant so much to you?) - yeah good luck with that.

Classic self sabotage and inadvertently it's all worked out for her ten-fold. I mean even down to the fact that publicly she's the "worlds fastest woman" a title typically reserved for the Olympic Champion in the Olympic year - and she never had to put herself through one sleepless night about it.

Are you kidding me, OP? Why isn't Hobbs Kessler doing a Beats by Dre ad promoting Kanye's new album? We should get their marketing team on the line now. Clearly they're making some oversights.

Ignoring how problematic Dre & Ye have been and focusing on Sha'carri, it's obvious that marijuana doesn't help athletic performance even if you are a rules are rules guy. Sure, she knew the rules so she accepts the ban. Doesn't mean the rule doesn't need to be revisited. & it's pretty obvious why her story fits into the mainstream narrative about how black people have been negatively impacted by policing & the court system when it comes to stuff like this but, sure, let's have Hobbs Kessler talk about the impact this has had on the black community.

Celebs defend Richardson because they don’t know it wasn’t marijuana that got her banned…. It was not following the rules.

If the rules say don’t drink milk and you test lactose positive, you get punished.

You know what they say about Beats by Dr Dre, right? "No highs, no lows, must be Beats by Dr Dre."

I don't have time to quote all the comments that gave me apoplexy. Hobbs Kessler is a phenomenal talent and fab kid but you think he deserves a Beats commercial more than Sha'Carri? He didn't even make it to the final round of his event at Trials. She won hers and ran a 10.6 in prelim. On a personality level, she touched hearts with her personal story, her attitude and her unapologetic embrace of the Black community (who embrace her back with a Beats commercial + new Kanye song) even before the weed test, and then she showed a lot of heart again being accountable for her own actions. She never complained or whinged about not making the team because of that. She just said where she was coming from.

Someone is comparing her to Tinman and Gwen Jorgensen as in hype and social media numbers matter more than performance. She def backs up her confidence and hype—she would be a favorite for gold or silver if she were going to Tokyo and on the social media presence she has like 2 million more followers than Tinman or Gwen.

This is what people of color mean when they say they have to do three times the work and the performance than white people to get the same respect. I mean, c'mon. She's a superstar in the making for the mainstream public and you're comparing her to runners who have side revenue income from their own branded merch and videos about how to cook stuff in their hotel room in one pot. I mean, all respect to that. They are better runners than I am by 1,000. But Sha'Carri's on a whole other level.

She was already achieving recognition after trials before the weed story broke, growing to a million followers on Instagram and getting shout outs from huge names. It looked like she could've been heading in the same direction as Usain Bolt. With major Olympic success she could have come to approaching the status of Biles and Serena Williams. Instead she's carving herself out as a viral social media sensation, and riding that for as long as she can, rather than a genuine sporting superstar.

The people this ad is targeted for dont give a crap or know the difference of her running a 10.x 100m or a 13.x

What? Ur racism is truly shining. Why would Hobbs Kessler be in this music commercial? He has a small social media following and isn’t known outside of the runners world. Also why does Shacarri have to run amazing to be in a commercial…since when do u have to earn medals or run world records to be known? Glad she’s earning millions while u waste ur life sulking on ur phone lmfaoo

Seriously? The rest of the world has no idea, nor cares about the extent or length of her pro career. Why are people in our community so narrow minded?

alfamale wrote:

You'd have to be a moran to buy beats anyway.

Seems like a perfect match with a flashy icon.

I can't stand her or this product. Double no for lil' old me.

You guys (OP, this guy, and all of you like them on here) are laughable. How blatantly unaware and stupid do you have to be to think you know better than the people making these decisions?

She has a HUGE following. She is an ELITE athlete. She is a CHARISMATIC person. She's a marketing dream for those reasons alone.

And for the moron who can't spell and thinks she's too flashy and the product isn't for you: no one outside of your weird little bubble cares.

Making up all of this crap about how much she smokes, a conspiracy theory that she didn't want to run in Tokyo, and calling her wannabe Cardi B...

You guys are just racist and Salvitore is defintiely misogynist too. Both of you are pathetic.