Michelle Jenneke -- Is this what happens when people dare to try to make a living for themselves?

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ wrote:

"She doesn't need the aussie org funding" - Good, cos she ain't getting it, it can be better spent elsewhere.

But, worth an estimated $3 million?

Why don't you google it?

AFAIk te AA funding is not a lot. Not enough to be full time athlete or call it your job IMO. Also, although they've cut her, loads of good athletes never get it so it's probably not a big deal. They're just emphasising this because it sounds like a dramatic story. I get the feeling she could have taken it more seriously but trained or not was she really in serious contention in Rio?

I think some people went to Rio from Aus who never got AA funding anyway.

I don't know if the $3mil sponsorship is true but can guarantee her endorsements would have been worth many more $$$ than AA funding. So financially I doubt she cares.

Also she's not an idiot, she's studying engineering essentially full-time. Which must not only be a heap of work whilst training but also gives her a future career. Funding or not she's in the same situation as any other uni student except with endorsement $ and the Olympics on her resume. Not bad at all. Not the first woman to make $ by playing off being young and fit and I can't really criticise her for it.

Also. Australia did crap at the Olympics in general. To publicly come out and claim she's not focussed is poor form. Pretty much everyone did badly and it should be between them and their sport governing body, not made public. I mean look at the Campbell sisters. Were any Australian athletes focussed?

So some are saying she should have skipped $x00k in sponsorship dough in order to maybe advance to the semis.....and then get possibly get cut anyway?

I remember when Moses Malone went straight from high school to the NBA and people were saying he was passing up a great opportunity to play NCAA ball. Bunch of self-righteous morons.

fred wrote:

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ wrote:

"She doesn't need the aussie org funding" - Good, cos she ain't getting it, it can be better spent elsewhere.

But, worth an estimated $3 million?

Why don't you google it?

Because I don't really give a rats arse and can't be bothered, but I give enough of a rats arse to query it as you or someone else may give enough of a rats arse to answer, if not, fine by me.

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ wrote:

fred wrote:

How much money does she get per month from the Australian taxpayers?

Dunno Fred. Something like this may help answer:

http://bfy.tw/88xI

Wow!

How did you do that?

She should run faster

TrackCoach wrote:

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ wrote:

Dunno Fred. Something like this may help answer:

http://bfy.tw/88xI

Wow!

How did you do that?

You old track coaches need to get with the times and while your at it throw your collection of these away:

and these:

She's famous for doing a stupid jiggle before a race, whoopee doo, and in the mean time her athletic peers, who actually achieve something in their event, get no coverage, publicity or sponsors, no wonder they're pissed off with her.

No wonder they're pissed off. wrote:

She's famous for doing a stupid jiggle before a race, whoopee doo, and in the mean time her athletic peers, who actually achieve something in their event, get no coverage, publicity or sponsors, no wonder they're pissed off with her.

I agree and if I were another athlete I'd be pissed I'd have to do a dance to get attention and actually earn a salary. But that is not her fault for being the one to realise this and take advantage of it, it is AA's fault/problem as they choose who to fund and they are not paying or promoting most of the others whether they perform or not. Now they have thrown her under the bus, who are they adding instead? Some of their top runners are still not funded

Didn't she get a boob-job?

$3m WTH? How?

She will quit soon and get a radio show or TV sports hosting role. End up marrying a league star or cricketer.

Subway Surfers Junkie wrote:

Didn't she get a boob-job?

$3m WTH? How?

She will quit soon and get a radio show or TV sports hosting role. End up marrying a league star or cricketer.

No, she'll probably get a job as an engineer

DancingDebby wrote:

Subway Surfers Junkie wrote:

Didn't she get a boob-job?

$3m WTH? How?

She will quit soon and get a radio show or TV sports hosting role. End up marrying a league star or cricketer.

No, she'll probably get a job as an engineer

Is that some sort of hidden sexual innuendo or am I being dumb (is she really an engineer? She doesn't strike me as an academic)

for someone who's (in my opinion) pretty average looking, she's done amazingly well to get all the publicity she has and make a name for herself off the back of it.

12.8 100mH girls come and go each year, no one would remember her otherwise, iof that's all she was. More power to her for what she's managed to achieve (in a marketing sense), even if I don't really 'get it' myself

she needs to lose a few kilos plus she really is not that hot.

hickdickdoc wrote:

for someone who's (in my opinion) pretty average looking, she's done amazingly well to get all the publicity she has and make a name for herself off the back of it.

12.8 100mH girls come and go each year, no one would remember her otherwise, iof that's all she was. More power to her for what she's managed to achieve (in a marketing sense), even if I don't really 'get it' myself

Yeah it was really weird, I don't live in Australia, but an ad break would come on during the Olympics and here is Jenneke prancy about on a Coke commercial and I didn't even realize that she had even qualified because I never saw her in action.

If she has made $3m from her available talents good for her, she is still more talented than Kim Kardashian.

Subway Surfers Junkie wrote:

DancingDebby wrote:

No, she'll probably get a job as an engineer

Is that some sort of hidden sexual innuendo or am I being dumb (is she really an engineer? She doesn't strike me as an academic)

She's nearly finished her engineering degree. I think playing dumb is her shtick

No wonder they're pissed off. wrote:

She's famous for doing a stupid jiggle before a race, whoopee doo, and in the mean time her athletic peers, who actually achieve something in their event, get no coverage, publicity or sponsors, no wonder they're pissed off with her.

Sorry but that isn't quite it. They are all entertainers with athletics as their expertise. People watch sports to be entertained with their performance and their personality. That's all. she is doing all the right things

She not the first one to be screwed over by a national organization.

Christopher Kendall:

" Should there be a maximum threshold considered so that funding can go to those who need it more? For example, Natasha Wodak, Canada’s all-time fastest 10,000-metre runner who was turned down for the meagre support of approximately $900/month would find the supplemental income important for her training leading up to the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, an event which she has indeed qualified for.

As she said on the Rob Watson Show, “this could have covered my rent.”