Agents or aspiring agents - Can you tell me why Shaunae Miller wouldn't run the Brussels DL for $50,000?

Here is the article saying she isn't running:

http://www.tribune242.com/news/2016/sep/07/golden-girl-shaunae-out-diamond-race/

Cover up a doping suspension?

Maybe she hates flying (TSA agents sweating her)

to you, everything is about money. you're always offering faux payoffs to people if they'll do what you say, thinking that everyone is motivated by that and only that. that is not the case. however, for Miller, I have no idea what is motivating her. Maybe for her it is about establishing an appearance fee for next year.

Maybe she still hasn't recovered from the dive in Rio

"Bryan said it was fiscal in nature when pressed about the decision for Miller not to compete."Literally says it right there in the article. Clearly her agent f%^&d this one up, since she missed 50k by 1 point and only had to finish the race.

jjjjj wrote:

to you, everything is about money. you're always offering faux payoffs to people if they'll do what you say, thinking that everyone is motivated by that and only that. that is not the case. however, for Miller, I have no idea what is motivating her. Maybe for her it is about establishing an appearance fee for next year.

DO you think it has to do with Caster running?

I've been thinking some more about this. When I wrote the initial post, I don't think I realized she was going to have to face the Olympic 800 champ Caster Semenya.

I can totally understand wanting to get paid for that. Plus a loss to Semenya might harm Miller's confidence heading into 2017.Not knowing how fast or slow Semenya would run, Miller took a stand which may help her financially in 2017 and she also ensured that she ended the year undefeated.

old coach man wrote:

Maybe she still hasn't recovered from the dive in Rio

This. She's a ditry, cheating flopper who beat the elegant Felix with a cheap trick. She doesn't deserve the 50k or the gold. Probably afraid she'll get booed.

rojo wrote:

I can totally understand wanting to get paid for that. Plus a loss to Semenya might harm Miller's confidence heading into 2017.

If her confidence is that fragile then it was never confidence.

Maybe she wanted as much or more than Caster, also a gold medal winner, and that broke the budget for the meet.

Sleepy wrote:

Maybe she wanted as much or more than Caster, also a gold medal winner, and that broke the budget for the meet.

Sadly, Semenya running the 400 is a bigger draw card, for reasons obvious to the LR aficionado's, than the Olympic 400m champion, so I think you're right.

Its budget plain and simple. Every meet director has a budget to spend on athletes. Budgets can get overloaded if they are building out a specific race or have a big name super star that takes the bulk. Sometime TV will put up the money for big names not impacting the budget as much.

Millers agent clearly had a different number in mind for a no name Miller. The stupid hold out cost her big cash and if she won the bigger press that would allow bigger appliance fees down the road.

It was not a fiscal decision. Most runners don't like to face top competition outside of championships. That's why you don't see Bolt vs Gatlin in Diamond League meets. Too blame it on something other than not wanting to race Semenya, her agent probably just asked for a crazy about of money as an appearance fee.

Running agents feel like it is more valuable to keep a winning reputation than to race the best. If it was just about appearance $$ we would see more competition. No matter what happened in Miller vs Semanya One, the rematch would be huge.