Alexi Pappas no longer with Nike?

I wonder how much she has to pay Champion to be able to wear their gear....even they couldn't possibly be desperate enough to sponsor that bravey chick.

Completely contrived persona.

The millennial age reincarnation of Pee Wee Herman.

To be fair wrote:

For what it’s worth, I’ve met Alexi in person and she was very nice and pleasant. I didn’t get the narcissistic vibe from her at all.

However, it’s her online/interview “fame persona” that I think annoy a lot of people, including myself. She just seems to try too hard to be “quirky” and “different” that it comes off as a calculated marketing act. No one in real life is as much of a Manic Pixie Dream Girl to the level that she certainly makes herself to appear. It’s definitely irritating, but you can’t begrudge someone too much for trying to market themselves in a niche.

Good points.

Companies don't sponsor athletes based solely on performance. However, 34th fastest in the world in 2016, no matter how watered down the event, seems worthy enough, especially given her popularity with high school girls and collegiate women.

One thing the male-dominated LR forum forgets is this demographic purchases a ton of gear. Much much more than HS boys and collegiate men....

To be fair wrote:

However, it’s her online/interview “fame persona” that I think annoy a lot of people, including myself. She just seems to try too hard to be “quirky” and “different” that it comes off as a calculated marketing act. No one in real life is as much of a Manic Pixie Dream Girl to the level that she certainly makes herself to appear. It’s definitely irritating, but you can’t begrudge someone too much for trying to market themselves in a niche.

Her art and writing are very bad however, and as much as I respect her for going for a tough career, you know none of it would garner an ounce of media attention if she weren’t a good enough runner to make her story a human interest one.

I get that her videos are like finger nails on a chalk board and her writing is beyond terrible, but I don’t know why this doesn’t create sympathy? Obviously the people around her are either dishonest with her or idiots so that she’s not being told what people need to hear - the truth. Or because of her slight fame people are allowing her to persist because she can generate some interest despite being atrocious. In the end she’s putting her effort into a career for which she has no natural talent or ability. Eventually she’ll be faced with the truth but only after wasting years of her life leading to massive unnecessary disappointment. She’s that tragic girl with the terrible voice trying out for American Idol who actually thinks she has a great voice because nobody close to her ever had the heart to tell her she can’t sing. Eventually she’ll be forced to face the truth, but in the mean time I think it’s just sad.

Does she even compete anymore? I don't see a single race result from 2017.

Hardloper wrote:

Does she even compete anymore? I don't see a single race result from 2017.

I saw an interview with her where she said she got injured sometime in 2017 because she wasn’t doing a good enough job recovering in between hard sessions. I was surprised, because “recovery is good” was the big takeaway I got from her film.

The OP is right to wonder about decreased visibility of Nike on the Alexi Pappas platform.

Very very good. If he mentioned bravies 8 or 9 times it would be perfect.

To be fair wrote:

For what it’s worth, I’ve met Alexi in person and she was very nice and pleasant. I didn’t get the narcissistic vibe from her at all.

Here. We pray this will detoxify you.

Wow.

she's not that good wrote:

lagsun wrote:

It must suck only being the 34th fastest in the world in 2016

In an event 99% of African runners don't care about.

She got lapped twice.

Twice.

Twice?! No way. Then for sure she deserves all the hate. Crucify her!

The Corduroy Treatments wrote:

To be fair wrote:

For what it’s worth, I’ve met Alexi in person and she was very nice and pleasant. I didn’t get the narcissistic vibe from her at all.

Here. We pray this will detoxify you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZj360HgGbs&lc=z23ei5oigsuizppzh04t1aokggqfhcbwrkpulsczuqzgrk0h00410

I could not get through that.

I think she's trying to get a legion of teenage followers with that video presentation style and emphasis on this "braveys" thing.

The Corduroy Treatments wrote: Here. We pray this will detoxify you.

If by "detoxify" you meant "purge my lunch" then you were spot on. I made it to 1:45 before I couldn't take it anymore. Ugh, and I thought her movie was bad.

To be fair wrote:

but you can’t begrudge someone too much for trying to market themselves in a niche.

Or you could be an actual human being.

Okay fair enough, I didn’t know she had this blog thing. I think my IQ just dropped 10 points.

Not to sound like the old fart that I am for anything, but about 98 percent of the people I grew up with managed to get through their adolescence and young adulthood without using the word "magical" even once, and we didn't have to strain to do so.

Don't have any opinion about Alexi other than it seems close to cheating when you use a stretch of the dual-citizenship rules to run for Greece when you've spent your whole life in America. Same goes for Will Leer's wife running for Jamaica.

You're either an American or you're not.

M.A.G.A.

Good for Alexi. WISH THERE WERE MORE LIKE HER. I sure as h*ll wish I were the 34th best in the world at anything positive...AT ANYTHING, even if I'll never be 34th best again.

Yeah, who would you rather have in your sport -- a free-spirit personality who doesn't live for your opinion, or a flatliner stick-in-the-mud? She thinks for herself and doesn't give a hoot about lame brains on LetsRun.com who, from their armchairs and wishing they were good at something, can rag on her for embracing opportunities to excel.

Who cares if she hits the nail on the head every time or misses by a country mile? Not me! She has fun doing a variety of things, and she impresses me to no end. But jealously rules when one can hide behind anonymity. That's the LetsRun credo: "Jealous + anonymity = spiteful posting".

Finding someone’s vlogs terrible and irritating, and thinking that the person’s writing is awful is not jealousy, it’s just a different opinion than yours. You like her, good for you, but other people can think her stuff is god awful, that’s the way the world works. Look at other examples, like how some people love Star Wars, some people hate it - it’s not a big deal. Or go to Good Reads and see many examples of different opinions and people pointing out terrible writing.

I think she’s truly a terrible writer, sorry if that upsets you. But she really sucks. Really. Just really bad. However, if you enjoy it, fill your boots. This isn’t jealousy, this is just me not enjoying her terrible writing. Grow up.