Good to see ESPN writing up something about the mysterious DQ.
Crazy - what a badass. I remember my parotid gland or lymph node swelling up severely shortly after a workout (where I reached my highest heart rate ever) and feared that I did permanent damage. I can't imagine it actually leading to cancer like what she experienced (twice).
Regardless, her progression after finding out she got cancer (with a 1500 PB of >~4:23 at the time and 2:10 800m) in her final collegiate season in 2009 to a 4:12 in 2010, then 4:06/4:04/4:01 in 2011-2013 all in her mid 20's is nuts. I hope she does very well and I'm glad she's running at Worlds.
I was so hoping it was a Jennings thread.
Now if she could win a world championship and figure a way to market herself like Lance did, track might get some life blown into it.
Lance had cance too
#passinsidestrong
'Gabe getting some pub on ESPN! Nike looks shady! exclamation point '
Moron
Am I the only one that saw the thread title and got excited thinking the conversation would be about Gabe Jennings?
Jabe Jennings has some wicked caporeriea moves he learned in Brazil if Gabe tries to pass on the inside!
crestfallen: another DQ thread wrote:
I was so hoping it was a Jennings thread.
You On My Dirty Sticky Floor wrote:
...wicked caporeriea moves...
If you could only spell.
crestfallen: another DQ thread wrote:
I was so hoping it was a Jennings thread.
Me too
Doclove wrote:
'Gabe getting some pub on ESPN! Nike looks shady! exclamation point '
Moron
And you're obviously so very clever.
ESPN only cares because she had cancer. No money to be made off of anybody who didn't overcome some fantastic hardship.
endless sports propaganda wrote:
ESPN only cares because she had cancer. No money to be made off of anybody who didn't overcome some fantastic hardship.
Um, you do realize it's a commercial sports news outlet, right?
ESPN sells ad time and that ad time is to corporations whose primary mission is to appeal to as large a segment of the population as possible. ESPN's mission then becomes largely, though not solely, to come up with stories that appeal to the majority of the population. A story like Grunewald's appeals to most people.
In my opinion, ESPN still does a rather good job (for such an enormous commercial outlet) of keeping a high journalistic standard in addition to still making some decisions that are not based solely on commercial viability.
Your statement is either naive or hollowly cynical or both.
Weird that there was no mention of Salazar or Nike in the article.
Weird that you completely missed the references to Salazar in the article. And Nike advertises on ESPN, so that part is not weird
Noah's Ark wrote:
Weird that there was no mention of Salazar or Nike in the article.
This statement paragraph below is incorrect. What I saw was Grunewald running blind up on Hasey's foot and clipping her, only then did I see Grunewald maneuver around Hasay with more contact. Grunewald also ran blindly at the finish and almost ran into Shannon R. My take is the DQ was not correct but Grunewald needs to pay a bit more attention on the track for she is not completely innocent.
"Grunewald had clipped Hasay's foot as she maneuvered to get around her, but the official nearest to the incident ruled there was no infraction"
She can't run in a straight line. She's recklessly all over the place. Watch her race, even the announcer said she needs to relax.
Lets be honest. Letsrun is just as shady as Nike. The promote on side of the story. Allow any to post anything about Nike, its athletes, etc. But it deletes factually accurate statements about Gabe, her turd husband, her creepy coach who is trolling for women on twitter.
So Gabe is another top US athlete on thyroid meds? Hmmm