Jenn Suhr withdraws from USA Nat'ls In Protest

Dennis T Reynolds wrote:

rojo wrote:

Imagine if Payton Manning pulled out of a game complaining about the NFL, you'd blame the media for publicizing it before they had a chance to get all of the details from Manning.

Please.

You continue to be the king of moronic metaphors that are in no way comparable or equal. Keep up the good work rojo!

Honestly, you people who jump on rojo and wejo for every little perceived "mistake" are pathetic. You were that kid in college that raised his hand and excitedly pointed out the typo in the prof's lecture.

Saved me writing this post so I will just illustrate it.http://www.excellesports.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Sandi-Morris.jpg

Be reasonable please wrote:

Jenn withdrew for one reason and one reason only.

Sandi Morris.

By withdrawing, avoids getting beat and having her value decline. By making a fuss about the height progression, she gets a convenient excuse and can keep her sponsor happy.

Note that Sandi, nor ANY of the other competitors are pulling out in protest. They are competing.

Just go back and look at Rick Suhr's posts the day of the final in the PV in Rio and ask why would any coach post that about their athlete / spouse on the day of an Olympic final.

And Rojo -- if it is such a big story that she pulled out, then why not write about the dozens of other Olympic medalists who declined to even enter the meet. It is indoors, the exhibition season of professional track and field.

Be reasonable please wrote:

She has used the height progression excuse before. She and Rick think opening height and progressions need to be higher to eliminate people more quickly. She feels it unfair to have to warm up, then sit for 60+ minutes before taking her first attempt.

As a pole vaulter, that is a nonsense excuse.

Watch the olympics, the Olympic champion almost always sits and waits for 60 minutes for the bar to reach his/her opening height.

If she has a big issue with it, there is no rule against coming in lower, taking one jump, and then skipping a few heights just to stay warmed up. Top vaulters do this occasionally for exactly this reason. I've been in meets where I waited for over 2 hours (decathlons have a really wide range).

For Suhr to complain is ridiculous. It is akin to the top 5 seeds in the 3000 at this meet expecting to have their own heat just to avoid running with the people with no chance at winning.

Cutting out all of the "also rans" makes it boring for spectators, which is where the small amount of money is coming from. We want to see a pack, or see people failing at lower heights to appreciate the upper heights. I want to see an 18 year old out there vaulting just below the top vaulters so I can see them progress over the years. I dont want to see a battle between only the top few, with the event set up to make it perfect for them. Without making it at least semi spectator friendly, these meets disappear.

None of the other top competitors are complaining, as far as I know.

She should go to the meet, throw down a 17 ft vault during warm-up, leave her pole in the box, and walk out!!!!

rojo wrote:

Imagine if Payton Manning pulled out of a game complaining about the NFL

I don't even know who either of them are, so I'm imagining space.

seems ill-conceived and ill-justified, because she says nothing about what it is that they did wrong. of course, they do lots of things wrong. but maybe this is a case of morris-itis.

Sad to see a great champion collapse like this.

Rojo- have you contacted PVP to see if she knows anything?

Her butt will be missed.

Attack of the Huge Warty Balls wrote:

Unfortunately, it's very typical of Letsrun to post babble like this on its front page like it's some thunderclap of a revealing quote and say, "Yet another controversy at a national championship," all without knowing what the problem is or whether the "controversy" is even real.

"Jenn Suhr withdraws from USA Indoor Nationals, makes cryptic Facebook post" would have been better.

why are you blaming them? The Brojos at least included a nice pic. very beautiful journalism

rojo wrote:

Shoot the messenger. It amazes me that you are blaming the media.

No, he was blaming Letsrun. It amazes me that you would confuse the two.

And that stuff you wrote about Suhr not wanting an Olympic Trials -- why would you assume the average reader of this site even knows that? It's great that this site includes coverage of field events, but I doubt that a meaningful percentage of visitors follow women's pole vaulting.

But let me state things in a way I think your other critic meant to convey: There's nothing wrong with noting that Suhr withdrew. But without context, without even mentioning that she gave no explanation, it's senseless. It's a basic cut and paste job that anyone could do. And no serious outlet covering something like Peyton Manning withdrawing from the Super Bowl for unstated reasons would just pass along his statement and just leave it at that.

It sounds like the woman is a little odd or "off." And, not that this really matters, but her listed stats are 6' and 143 pounds and if she's really that tall she goes at least a buck and a half -- she's a pile of muscle and sinew.

Where's that polevaultladyorwhateverhernamewas? She's one of the few posters I trust here at lrc. I'm sure she can tell us what's up.

Yeah because Kara Goucher hasn't been proven right over the past week. Didn't anyone see the Spiegel article today?

Stupid2 wrote:

Yeah because Kara Goucher hasn't been proven right over the past week. Didn't anyone see the Spiegel article today?

No I didn't, but thanks so much for the link.

But here are the links

http://www.spiegel.de/sport/sonst/nike-oregon-project-usada-erhebt-schwere-vorwuerfe-gegen-weltklasselaeufer-a-1137247.html

http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/doping-wie-nike-die-manipulationen-von-spitzenlaeufern-laufen-laesst-a-1137226.html

Peyton Manning? Who he play for? Is

Sammy Baugh also protesting?

Who? ` wrote:

rojo wrote:

Imagine if Payton Manning pulled out of a game complaining about the NFL

I don't even know who either of them are, so I'm imagining space.

After winning the Super Bowl, Peyton was the one who planted an open mouth kiss on Papa John's sauce stained mouth.

The two were also reported to have engaged in light petting near the steam room a short time later.

From what I understood, she requested a large bowl of M&M's to be placed in her warmup area at a certain designated time, with ALL OF THE BROWN M&M's REMOVED. Meet officials didn't have the bowl ready nor did they remove the right M&M's.

USATF, what a joke.

Ich nein sprache sie Deutsch wrote:

But here are the links

http://www.spiegel.de/sport/sonst/nike-oregon-project-usada-erhebt-schwere-vorwuerfe-gegen-weltklasselaeufer-a-1137247.htmlhttp://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/doping-wie-nike-die-manipulationen-von-spitzenlaeufern-laufen-laesst-a-1137226.html

Nothing but smoke to try and keep the African doping issue out of the news. What's happened to Aden and the athletes he's "assisted" since he was arrested? Nothing. Europeans, Americans, Japanese and others would have been crucified.