Bring Back the 880 wrote:
Exactly. LF was passively aggressively calling out Phillips in public and then he overreacted.
They both look like huge jerks as a result. If the tweets look that bad to those of us that read a lot of letsrun threads, i wonder what normal people think seeing the exchange!
I don't know, it's freaking April of an Olympic year and Dwight hasn't yet communicated with the Athletes???? Yet he has time to go off on Twitter.
I've said it for a long time, USATF needs to be disbanded / or the athletes need to grow the balls, just balls, to threaten and back up a General Strike.
If America's entire track and field team threatened to strike during an Olympic year..."Someones" might step up and do an investigation / intervention and get things squared away.
Did the IOC not say, what, 3 years ago, that athletes could have a second logo on their uni's? --If approved by local governing body? (And not a competing company from the official sponsor for the team?)
This whole thing, the foot dragging, the progress slower than molasses, is selfish, stupid, borderline corrupt, if not corrupt, self-serving, smacks of protecting what lines their pockets -- Sheesh, a BOYSCOUT TROOP could figure out and rectify the complaints of athletes and create Fair solutions in one day.
I suspect the average fan has no idea exactly how poorly the majority of T&F athletes actually have it. You're a pro on less than 10k a year? You can't afford your own room in an apartment? Athletes doubling up like college dorms in apartments, houses? Living rooms used as a bedroom. USA ain't Iten. --Yeah, yeah, the usual barracking replies on LRC "nobody said they had to be a pro runner." It is an American thing to pursue your dreams, and running is a great community -- these athletes support one another -- and we fans should support them over an antiquated governing body that sure as ish looks like it is all about scratching their own backs.
Meb wears TWO LOGO'S when he road races. T-Mobile, and Sketchers. BTW, FYI. He hasn't been banned, fined or otherwise.
Of course he had to cool it for the OT Trials.
I'm going to assume that anyone else who's been in an executive meeting with real businesses, she's how incompetent this whole thing is.
USATF is not serving the athletes, and they could in one day allow athletes a second logo. (They really ought to be allowed as many as the Snowboarders in the Winter Olympics).
Fleshman and Symmonds may not appeal to all in their approaches, but at least they are speaking out for all athletes. You can call out their style, maybe, but their messages are fair and reasonable.
Carry on...