Sha’Carri lost an opportunity

Did your brother inject EPO to run 28:06 and/or to escort Paula?

Will she get another opportunity to run at altitude in the shape she's currently in? Not this year.

No, you are wrong.

Don't know, Dane - I really enjoyed her performance. Don't really care that she didn't run through the tape.

His brother had no connection to Paula's obvious EPO use. Sha'Carri is another obvious PED user. Hopefully HGH and EPO LeBron James is denied a title this year.

Better the dominant display than an altitude-assisted PR you’ll have a hard time touching again. Save the PR for a time without the A-suffix.

she will make up for that......on a Bigger stage

The point of the post is that no athlete is guaranteed another chance to do that.

She will have many more great races, but she is kind of very unpredictable, she could challeng or even get the World Records at the Trial or not make the team, their have been several threads on this.

I’m so sick of the criticism. Everything she does gets criticized. If she runs a fast time, people say she’s peaking too soon and will get beat at the championships. Now she takes it easy at a meaningless early season meet, and you say she should have run hard to the finish to register a fast time. Leave her be! She has finally found peace in her life. Stop trying to ruin it.

Another chance at what??? Times at track meets have been irrelevant since we went from heavy leather shoes with heavy spikes in early 1960's to nylon shoes. Times at track meets have been irrelevant since we went from cinder tracks to rubber tracks (or other synthetic surfaces) mid-1960's. She wasn't going to earn a World Championship medal or Olympic medal, no matter her time. It's just medal counts now.

It was more important for her to.flip off the event organizers for not letting her run the 100 instead.

It’s not a direct attack on her. She’s an amazing athlete and if I saw any other top athlete run a race like that I would comment the same. Yes it’s early in the season but any future races are not guaranteed. I’ve seen it time and time before where an athlete has held back in a race towards the end that they otherwise perfectly executed (especially in sprints) and then never got quite that unique opportunity again either due to an injury or any number of other reasons.

Ask yourself which is more valuable- a PB that will likely fall again soon, or millions of people talking about how you were so far ahead in a 200m that you could take the end of the race off. She probably got it right.

Nobody minded when Usain Bolt did it regularly and also this career turned out fine

Actually I recall a lot of commentators and just people in general frequently saying “imagine what he could have run if he didn’t slow down”

No, you are wrong again.

It's the culture. Messed up 100 different ways to Tuesday.

It isn't "showmanship" or "good for the sport" (as if people who don't enjoy track are going to suddenly sit through meets because the athletes suddenly start acting like jerks), it's not respecting the sport by giving less than your best.

Would far and away prefer to watch a 24s from someone giving it their all for the whole 24s, than a 22s from someone who only tries for 18 of them.

Better to save your best for champs and the top European meets, whether in the sprints or the distances. Sprinters can race a lot at a high quality but going for that last extra bit is where the injuries pop up, so don't go 100% until World's.