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polevaultpower wrote:
New Section 9 complaints filed today.
Sucks for athletes on all sides. I hope the athletes on the team with 2018 marks have not had friends/family buy tickets yet :/
As if you could care any less about the 2018 athletes. You're practically foaming at the mouth at the idea of them losing their spots.
Athletes on both sides are victims. Neither side did anything wrong.
USATF intentionally failed to inform dozens of athletes of their legal rights to pursue arbitration. Yes, I will speak out and try to let athletes know their rights.
When the arbitration is through, I think athletes on both sides will probably have grounds to sue USATF for the damage caused by USATF. And I 100% support the athletes who were removed from the team, defending their spot in the current arbitration and suing USATF after the fact if they choose to.
It is gross to pit the athletes against each other, which is why I did not publish the names of the 39 athletes USATF listed as affected in the first arbitration.
The only winners here are the USATF executives making many hundreds of thousands of dollars for performing their jobs badly. In the real world, stuff like this gets people fired.