LetsRun makes a BuzzFeed List of "14 times famous athletes called out inappropriate interviewers"

LOL, she smoked him even worse than Wiley did a few weeks ago. They need to stop giving these guys Press Passes. Embarrassing.

FloJo's record is a joke. Dope + Wind guage

She was asked about the 200m record, not the 100m

Shericka Jackson: That's so rude of you to ask.

Letsrun.com: OK - Thank you.

LOL!

In LRCs defense, most journalists ask incredibly assinine questions, especially when they think they have the upper hand.

Was that list compiled by the Williams sisters’ dad?

Gotta admit, I side with team LetsRun on this one. Buzzfeed acts like they don’t know what it means to “believe in that time,” and they probably don’t. But Jackson has to know exactly what they mean and is being unnecessarily defensive. It shouldn’t offend her for someone to ask her if she thinks 21.34 was drug aided unless she’s super sensitive to any and all questions about drug use in world class women’s sprinting.

correct. there is nothing wrong their question. And it didn't attack shericka at all. why she is being sensitive to a doping accusation against somebody that most agree was doping, is anybody's guess.

This is why Gault's the only runnin' interviewer out there worth listenin' to. Citius, FloTrack, and whatever other fly by night bozos that usually interview all just gush and handle the athletes with lil kiddy gloves. Meanwhile, the LRC boys ain't afraid of askin questions like "why did you suck a fat one today?" or "a lot of people think you'd piss hotter than the Human Torch, care to comment?" Obviously our softy athletes only wanna be told they're the best and that when they suck or have controversy it's bad for their mental health to talk about it.

Agreed. Many Journalists wrote about the Wiley situation, but only Gault has the balls to ask her about it.

What about that guy from the running effect podcast that was trying to be super cool while interviewing Parker valby and said he had a press pass for ncaas but didn’t go because he finds the media room useless and was above it all or something like that

buzzfeed sure looks like a serious and important news site - not.

Athletes who refuse to discuss doping are even worse than reporters who refuse to ask about it. It's like kayfabe in pro wrestling, something you never mention unless there's a positive test.

That's the real purpose of anti-doping: scapegoat a few people to make the rest look beyond reproach.

Yep. To an outsider, perhaps the typical reader of Buzzfeed, it may seem like a ridiculous question, but that was a perfectly reasonable question given the history of track and her answer was needlessly defensive.

In SJ's defense, it was a loaded question. Gault could have gotten straight to the point and just asked her if she thought it was doped. He set it up pretty well but left it a little open. I think a great canned answer for all athletes to doping questions would be "I don't know and how would I know?" The last thing I would want to do as an athlete would be to accuse someone else of cheating unless there was a well established truth to it. We know there are and have been and will always be dopers, but many times we will never know for sure. That's what the LRC dope polls are for. :-)

The best part is Buzzfeed refers to them as “an interviewer” and everyone else they use the interviewer’s name. Pretty much saying whoever asked that question is so low that their name doesn’t matter. I agree.

Yeah. If they had the balls to call out the pork burrito storytellers

Fixed it.

The Wiley question was good because it had to do with her (and she did answer impressively, btw). The incredibly rude person in that exchange (that Wiley swatted like a fly) was the off-camera little biotch who interrupted and lamely tried to beef with Wiley in the middle of the film interview! Who was that?! She deserves the embarrassment.

Jackson was overly defensive and even just a more graceful dodge would have been better. But, given that she was caught off-guard, I can see how she felt trapped. If she says FloJo was doped, she looks petty and like she would necessarily have be doped to beat it. If she says it was clean, she looks naive or in denial.