We are extremely disappointed that Sydney chose to side with The cis-gendered, Transphobic, Binary, Anti-Diarrheal, Speciesist Patriarchy.
We repeatedly sent her the most important video of our time, "Believe In Something", featuring another mixed-race athlete with even better hair than her. Perhaps she got jealous. In any case, she refused to Just Do It. A real letdown for those of us hoping for a more tolerant, non-binary, neo-globalist sweatshop Swooshy future for all children everywhere.
broken arrow wrote:
zxcvxcv wrote:
Allyson Felix was a tremendous sprinter and very, very likely clean. She never became world record capable on her own but that is a sign that she was clean. She won a lot of medals. NBC was always talking about her during their broadcasts. Nevertheless, you cannot tell me that she was anywhere near the sort of marketing sensation to move the dial all over the country that McLaughlin clearly already is and will become. She may never win as many medals, unless she improves to 21.5 and sub 49, as well as 400mH wr and relays, but she has that something that we have not seen since Marion Jones, Flo Jo, and Decker in U.S. women's track, and though that is a really regrettable troika in retrospect, that is the kind of fame I mean (and McLaughlin is clean, unlike those three).
I am happy for her and hope her training goes well with no major injuries. She has the potential to be the World record holder in the 400mH, but the more glamorous event is the 400M. If she can run 48.x she will become the face of T&F in the USA.
However that is territory that no clean athlete has been in.
Felix earned a ton of money, 2nd only to Bolt over the last decade. Although Felix has done some endorsing recently, almost all of her money is directly from running and her shoe sponsor. You can make a lot of money if you are really-really-really good for a long time. Besides Bolt, Felix is the only name the general public recognizes, obviously she could have made much more money, but she wasn't particularly interested in marketing herself. Sydney most will not make as much money as Felix directly from running unless she can become like an Edwin Moses and make people care about the 400h by going many years without losing a race. The talent in the 200m and 400m is such right now that she is years away from establishing her self as one of the best. Before anyone jumps on me, Nassar and SMU are beast and young and getting better.
TrackCoach wrote:
broken arrow wrote:
I am happy for her and hope her training goes well with no major injuries. She has the potential to be the World record holder in the 400mH, but the more glamorous event is the 400M. If she can run 48.x she will become the face of T&F in the USA.
However that is territory that no clean athlete has been in.
Felix earned a ton of money, 2nd only to Bolt over the last decade. Although Felix has done some endorsing recently, almost all of her money is directly from running and her shoe sponsor. You can make a lot of money if you are really-really-really good for a long time. Besides Bolt, Felix is the only name the general public recognizes, obviously she could have made much more money, but she wasn't particularly interested in marketing herself. Sydney most will not make as much money as Felix directly from running unless she can become like an Edwin Moses and make people care about the 400h by going many years without losing a race. The talent in the 200m and 400m is such right now that she is years away from establishing her self as one of the best. Before anyone jumps on me, Nassar and SMU are beast and young and getting better.
^^^This right here. People just don’t understand how we’ll known Felix is, and she didn’t even truly market herself. Plus has I think the greatest range in female sprint history.
Sub 50 400m
Sub 22 200m
Sub 11 100m
All she did was win from 100m to 400m, and was part of the world record breaking 100m female relay team.
And she became world reknown before the age of big social media platforms.
Syd will have to win and then some to even get close to what Felix did.
However, everything does look good on paper . And she is hell of a talent. So I’m rootjng for her.
Scorpion_runner wrote:
As much as I like Syd, I'm not sure she has the persona to really, really spring the market like Felix.
Ladies and Gentlemen....today's Special Kind of Stupid (SKoSSY) Award winner!
Oh great, scorpion runner has found a new female runner to obsess over.
no nope and no no no wrote:
Not possible. Unless that athlete is a 100/200m star, it won't happen.
The only thing that counts in this situation is crossing the line with good 'ol "USA" on the front and some good looks.
You haven't a clue what you're talking about
youtube? Who the *uck watches youtube unless it's a tutorial or you're a 9 yo girl learning to braid hair or make friendship bracelets.
bleu wrote:
youtube? Who the *uck watches youtube unless it's a tutorial or you're a 9 yo girl learning to braid hair or make friendship bracelets.
As much as this statement made me laugh, I have to say the mid 90's called and wants it's mentality back. You may want to take a gander over to youtube, it's super fun.
Did NB hire a runner/athlete or a model? There's a reason women track runners make more than men. (see Gisele more money than Tom Brady)
TrackCoach wrote:
broken arrow wrote:
I am happy for her and hope her training goes well with no major injuries. She has the potential to be the World record holder in the 400mH, but the more glamorous event is the 400M. If she can run 48.x she will become the face of T&F in the USA.
However that is territory that no clean athlete has been in.
Felix earned a ton of money, 2nd only to Bolt over the last decade. Although Felix has done some endorsing recently, almost all of her money is directly from running and her shoe sponsor. You can make a lot of money if you are really-really-really good for a long time. Besides Bolt, Felix is the only name the general public recognizes, obviously she could have made much more money, but she wasn't particularly interested in marketing herself. Sydney most will not make as much money as Felix directly from running unless she can become like an Edwin Moses and make people care about the 400h by going many years without losing a race. The talent in the 200m and 400m is such right now that she is years away from establishing her self as one of the best. Before anyone jumps on me, Nassar and SMU are beast and young and getting better.
In the future, Nassar will only be a shade of what she was this year. She'll no longer be around after Doha in any significant form. That's all I'll say.
Cathy Freeman ran sub 49 for 400m clean, so I easily see Sydney Mc doing it. Plus, the 400m hurdles is an awesome event to train for to transfer speed endurance and agility to other events, even 800m. Obviously the 400 and 200 too.
She’s hot. And has a great personality. And of course ridiculously talented with WR and Olympic Gold potential. And she’s hot.
It be true, yo wrote:
She’s hot. And has a great personality. And of course ridiculously talented with WR and Olympic Gold potential. And she’s hot.
And multitalented:
https://www.flotrack.org/video/6231639-sydney-mclaughlin-hits-a-backwards-shot-on-a-unicycleyes, and hot.
She was decent I thought could have been the next big thing. Then today on her Instagram story she posted a video mocking someone that owns a ‘make America great again’ hat. The people around her seemed very much encouraging. Already she’s hanging with the wrong crowd and mocking the president. Sorry but you’ve lost my support Sydney!
Fame has gone to her head and she has no respect for her country.
Sounds to me like she actually loves our country deeply.
YMMV wrote:
And multitalented:
https://www.flotrack.org/video/6231639-sydney-mclaughlin-hits-a-backwards-shot-on-a-unicycle
Sploosh!
perhaps in purgatory wrote:
No way in heaven wrote:
There is no way her yearly base is $1.72.
UA did not offer her $2m.
Im not sure why people believe these over inflated numbers presented by agents or so called insiders.
Her ROI does not make sense short or long term.
They NB may be close to a $5 billion in revenue company but they are not stupid.
Only way these numbers pan out of is if your talking total value of a multi year agreement.
You are literally wrong on all counts (except perhaps UA not offering her $2MM, I can't comment on that part).
Unless you can provide us with the signed contract your purely assuming gossip and rumor.
Very few athletes in history have really sold shoes as we know it. Track and field athletes men a further reach. Her ROI will be determined with time and if she does more than just winning. Not all athletes translate beyond the field of performance.
Its a bad assumption or disconnected view from the industry if you think otherwise.
Blew it all wrote:
She was decent I thought could have been the next big thing. Then today on her Instagram story she posted a video mocking someone that owns a ‘make America great again’ hat. The people around her seemed very much encouraging. Already she’s hanging with the wrong crowd and mocking the president. Sorry but you’ve lost my support Sydney!
Fame has gone to her head and she has no respect for her country.
Lol, I like her even more now if tight wads like you are offended over "disrespecting the country", whatever that means.
Syd and Felix are easy on the eyes, bottom line it helps getting paid. Syd needs to work on how she comes across, America want's bubbly personality. Just one loser's opinion :-)
I think she comes across confident & intelligent. And has a flirtatious personality when appropriate
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