Nevermind, I read the link. Something about a Red Bull headband. Stephanie Hightower and Ian Stewart are now officially the enemy.
Nevermind, I read the link. Something about a Red Bull headband. Stephanie Hightower and Ian Stewart are now officially the enemy.
You guys are too reactionary, posts such as, "call the sponsors," and "athletes should boycott the meet" are silliness. If you want to effect real change in the sport get some investors and have a track and field meet.
Here are the issues you will face after reading this thread:
If the athletes are sponsored, ala NASCAR, then you will need to charge the athletes a fee to run, for them to get money from sponsors the meet must be televised--there has to be broad commercial interest for it to be televised and thus you need a hook for the target audience and proof you can get eyes on the TV. The other problem you will have is that the primary sponsors of most athletes already have relationships with USATF and may not be interested. A third issue is that few athletes have secondary sponsors that pay worth a darn. Thus, they may not have the money to be at your event. Finally, If you're going to change the paradigm you're going to need to be ready to lose money and spend time building for 5-10 years.
This is the reason why no one worries about blackballing Lolo or Nick, is because by the time their NASCAR type sponsorship structure takes off they'll be old news--there is another athlete from somewhere who will be bigger/faster/stronger and cheaper.
Is Blow-Low still running?
Weary wrote:
If Symmonds actually wanted to sue Ian Stewart, he probably has a case. But the aggravation and expense may not be worth it.
Sue him for what?
Anyway, the onus in the British legal system is for the plaintiff to prove beyond doubt to the judge that the defendant was liable, rather than the other way around.
Plus there's no jury involved.
A lawsuit against a large UK organization for defamation could cost 6 figures in legal fees, in return for a 4 figure settlement if should they win.
To my knowledge Lolo has never been black balled.
GOOD!!!!!!!!!!1
about time those self absorbing idiot punks get their butts handed to them.
More of this please.
I throw a grand ball one evening and don't invite you because you will spend your time telling folks other peoples balls or parties are better and I'm wrong?
Oh and you want me to pay you to show up too?
... plus last I heard Lolo was a bulked up bobsleigher and Nick? Well he would rather be in Paris anyway!
Dude, this was two years ago.
Good for Aviva. Lolo is a shamelessly inappropriate self promoter and Symmonds is a gay propaganda peddling homo. Neither are good enough athletes to outweigh the baggage they bring in bad publicity.
I don't think you've followed their careers very closely. Making a statement like neither are 'good enough' is just plain misinformed or you have some angst towards them. You shouldn't let that interfere with facts and replacing with irrational utterances.
Caged wrote:
Good for Aviva. Lolo is a shamelessly inappropriate self promoter and Symmonds is a gay propaganda peddling homo. Neither are good enough athletes to outweigh the baggage they bring in bad publicity.
Would you idiots please stop making comments on something that happened two years ago? We have enough uneducated morons on this website as it is, don't make it worse.