It's possible to be world class AND respectful. See Syd, Mu, and Kerley to name a few. Showing up a high schooler you jut beat by hundreths of a second says more about you than the time. I still admire Lyles' running though.
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This is epic. Lyles is making world interesting. Rivalries are lit. Track could use a bad guy.
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The hypocrisy to me is that Lyles makes all these statements about mental health and depression and then trash talks an 18 yr while he's digesting his loss. Like bruh... you seem to only care about your own mental health. Don't be a narcissist.
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Finally we have a spicy thing to talk about in track and field after Bolt's departure! Y'all haters are boring mfers who bring down this sport to obscurity. Y'all the reason Hayward Field's like half empty
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Richardson talks more smack than anyone and she isn't even good.
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Hydro033 wrote:
The hypocrisy to me is that Lyles makes all these statements about mental health and depression and then trash talks an 18 yr while he's digesting his loss. Like bruh... you seem to only care about your own mental health. Don't be a narcissist.
Hypocrisy?
I support mental health stability...
I support fairness..
I support weirdness.
And I trash talk on letsrun like a city dump.
Sometimes blasting is therapy.
If you don't know now, you won't
But it's true.
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Tuohy fans never stop talking and lose their minds if one negative thing is said about her.
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Getting pub in the Washington Post (with a jgault tweet in the story):
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Honest Mike wrote:
Hydro033 wrote:
The hypocrisy to me is that Lyles makes all these statements about mental health and depression and then trash talks an 18 yr while he's digesting his loss. Like bruh... you seem to only care about your own mental health. Don't be a narcissist.
Hypocrisy?
I support mental health stability...
I support fairness..
I support weirdness.
And I trash talk on letsrun like a city dump.
Sometimes blasting is therapy.
If you don't know now, you won't
But it's true.
Context is everything
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Richard Son wrote:
Tuohy fans never stop talking and lose their minds if one negative thing is said about her.
Simple courtesy.
Let the men battle.
Support the women.
Go after Knighton; go after Lyles.
Shut your mouth about Tuohy.
Any credible dad could have taught you that.
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Sprintgeezer wrote:
Wise Old Man wrote:
Did you listen to the reactions of Ato and Sanya? They loved it. It’s sports and a little celebrating at your opponents expense at the pro level is ok. The whole Hocker v Centro last year was fun. Loved it when Jakob said he would have beaten Tefera by 100m if healthy.
Ato and Sanya are soft in the head.
There is nothing wrong with teasing and showboating, as long as it’s between friends. If it’s not, then you’re just being a dick, or if you push it, an a-hole.
Back when Lyles and CC were at odds, and everybody was blaming CC and his girlfriend, I pointed out that Lyles needed to grow up. He has made some improvement, but this brought out the worst in him.
He’s the elder, he’s the champ, and he needs to act like it, not like some punk-azz little bltch.
Without knowing what has been going on between Lyles and Knighton, you can’t really judge fully what went on here—but IMO it brings Lyles down a few notches. Too bad.
Well said.
Most track and field fans don't need hateful type rivalries to make the sport interesting. It is often the press which really plays up these things.
My own reaction was not one of "oh this is going to be good" but rather all of the air being sucked out of the room.
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They lose their minds even when you don't say anything about her.
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Hopefully somebody close to Knighton gets him to mentally reframe this as a learning experience.
Lyles made his point (literally) on the track and was unnecessarily yucking it up in the interview. Borderline but not inappropriate.
Knighton, to his credit, kept his cool during the interview when Lyles was antagonizing him.
Lyles maintains his top spot (for now). Knighton, due to being so freaking young and pretty mature when he could have been a spazz, leaves unhumiliated but a maybe with a chip on his shoulder.
Setting up well for Worlds.
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Jeeesus there are so many squares on this website.
Loved Lyles flex. Added a nice cherry on top of an absolutely amazing race.
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Calling Bahlz and stri[o]kes wrote:
You can see people forking to the political/religious paths our parties demand of us. Trumpers are going for Lyles and Dems are going for Knighton.
Uh uh...Lyles is SJW/BLM; Knighton is very quiet and reserved to a fault, the definition of conservative demeanor
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Lyles has always been doing cringe stuff like his little wolf howl before getting demolished by the field. This is exactly how I’d expect him to act when he finally gets a win. he’s the chick hicks of the 200m
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This is the best thing for the sport. If I have to hear one more time how great a mother Allyson Felix is, I will jump out a window
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And Noah's tweet tagging Knighton was purely damage control. Someone told him he needs to soften his rhetoric.
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Absolutely love this. I've always been indifferent for Lyles but I love seeing this type of confidence. I don't give a sh!t if Knighton's a high schooler or not, he's now the fourth fastest man over 200 all time. Lyles has probably heard a bunch of sh!t about how great Knighton is, how he's gonna win worlds. Lyles had something to prove this race and he did just that. And I've seen people saying stuff like "way to hit a kid while he's down". What??? Knighton was an elite football player before he was a track star. You know the amount of talk he's probably heard playing football, the amount of trash talk he's been on the receiving end of. He can handle himself just fine. He's a competitor. This is just fuel to the fire for him. This is a test to see if Knighton has that killer mentality. The 200m finals at the World Championships is going to be special, I can guarantee that.
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sprintguy wrote:
This is the best thing for the sport. If I have to hear one more time how great a mother Allyson Felix is, I will jump out a window
Regardless of how hard you land from said window, Allyson will always be a great mother.
She's got another promising future on the way and you..are a dude....yay..or not.
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