This just gets stranger by the day! The news interviews made Lauren, Addy, and Aspen look awful. Their current #2 is transferring at semester. Recent alums of the program are writing statements of support to post on social media. They are running turkey trots together. Dinner at the Johnson's afterwards? What is next? I can't believe anybody allows any of this to happen.
I also think Lauren Johnson thinks training with Athlete # 1 is her best chance to revive her career. This is a mutually beneficial yet highly toxic relationship.
Even if both of them made a team...who in their right mind would sponsor these women?
Feel free to be the change you wish to see in this world!
For sure the entire situation is totally depraved, but I don’t think that anyone can be surprised by any of it (evident upon the first reading almost 2 months ago). If anything, wouldn’t it seem that it would’ve come out by now that LJ’s been with a number of the guys on the men’s team? If / when that were to occur, would the general sentiment be that those would necessarily be rapes (regardless of Indiana law) due to the unequal power dynamic of her being coach and them being subordinate team members?
I can't believe anybody allows any of this to happen.
Feel free to be the change you wish to see in this world!
For sure the entire situation is totally depraved, but I don’t think that anyone can be surprised by any of it (evident upon the first reading almost 2 months ago). If anything, wouldn’t it seem that it would’ve come out by now that LJ’s been with a number of the guys on the men’s team? If / when that were to occur, would the general sentiment be that those would necessarily be rapes (regardless of Indiana law) due to the unequal power dynamic of her being coach and them being subordinate team members?
However, I actually think athlete 1 could make a US team in the next three years. Her level of improvement over the past three years, has been outstanding and it's easy to forget how young she is, to be running the times she is.
This is complex. Because I happen to think her best chance (athletically only), of making a US team is by staying in the environment that is absolutely abhorrent, disgusting and one that should absolutely not be happening. For the worse mentally, physically and emotionally, she is thriving, athletically, in that environment.
But there's so much more to life than running, and for her athletic performance, it's so obvious that athlete 1 is suffering a world of trauma.
I really hope she gets out of the situation she's in, moves as far away from Indiana as humably possibly, takes two years away from running to get some help and support, and lives a happy life going forward.
It should be mentioned that the prosecuting law firm expected this to happen. Jon Little has said that Huntington is scared of going to court, and said they hired an outside firm for their own investigation to hide facts. Here:
A lawyer representing two former Huntington University runners who have alleged sexual assault by a former track coach has accused the Christian institution of trying to “hide facts” by hiring a law firm to conduct an externa...
Don’t know how this gets resolved. I am not a lawyer. Goes to some judge or something? I’m sure we’ll hear about it in the coming days, weeks, months. The rumors that they would reinstate Lauren are sad, but remember that Nick himself vowed that he would be reinstated. Who knows where these rumors are coming from? At this point, we can only trust that the lawyers know what they are doing.
Lauren Johnson's whole career is based on peds and fraud. When she made the world team there was a thread on here asking who she even was. People do not suddenly discover character that they never had.