Noah Lyles = clownshow

False Flagpole wrote:

How many times do I have to ask this? Robert, Weldon, PLEASE, make a separate subforum for entitled boomer whiners so these kinds of threads don’t get mixed up with legitimate ones.

Never mind, delete my post, one of you guys probably started this thread and I fell for it again.

you are the racist wrote:

Avon Barkslug wrote:

jfc

this site is a bunch of angry old white men

You are the only one bringing up race here, dude. If Shelby Houlihan started dancing after her wins, I'd tuck a 20 in her bun huggers.

Cwilson wrote:

Yes, this is exactly what I've been thinking. It's so annoying that I actually avoid watching the events he is in.... So much for making a sport more popular.... Personality can be a great thing, but other times it can just fall off a cliff.

Holy shite! We lost ONE MORE fan in our sport because of a dance! And Cwilson is such an influencial human. THERE GOES THE SPORT, right down the urinal!

Clown Show? Meh... he’s supremely confident, and whether people believe it or not, he likely has a huge ego. But that’s what the sport needs right?

Also he’s the newly crowned golden boy... expect him to pass all drug tests despite being juiced, just like mr bolt.

Coming from a family where his dad was a national caliber sprinter you'd think he'd be less likely to act like he does. BUT......really no big deal, it really is just track and the whole thing only lasts a few minutes.

No big deal.

I do expect see a 19.4 before the Olympics.

What is a legit thread?

you are the racist wrote:

Avon Barkslug wrote:

jfc

this site is a bunch of angry old white men

You are the only one bringing up race here, dude. If Shelby Houlihan started dancing after her wins, I wouldn't like that either. I already don't like Devon Allen's earrings, and Engel's mullet and mustache.

You’re boring as fuck.

you are the racist wrote:

Avon Barkslug wrote:

jfc

this site is a bunch of angry old white men

You are the only one bringing up race here, dude. If Shelby Houlihan started dancing after her wins, I wouldn't like that either. I already don't like Devon Allen's earrings, and Engel's mullet and mustache.

crine

Dose of Truth wrote:

Squeaky shoes wrote:

He's a 21yo kid, doing what he loves, making $250k a year to do it. Cut him some slack, dude.

I am an NCAA coach and if one of my 17 year old freshmen athletes acted like him, I'd suspend him for a meet. If it continued, I would kick him off.

He is not a child, he is an adult. His salary actually disproves your argument. He is a professional track athlete. Time to start acting like a professional.

If you had an athlete as fast as Noah Lyles you wouldn't be allowed to kick him off the team.

Dose of Truth wrote:

Squeaky shoes wrote:

He's a 21yo kid, doing what he loves, making $250k a year to do it. Cut him some slack, dude.

I am an NCAA coach and if one of my 17 year old freshmen athletes acted like him, I'd suspend him for a meet. If it continued, I would kick him off.

He is not a child, he is an adult. His salary actually disproves your argument. He is a professional track athlete. Time to start acting like a professional.

Well, if you kicked someone like Noah off your team you’d go down in history as the most foolish coach in NCAA history. His running speaks for itself - you can’t say he’s not a “professional” when he’s one of the best 100m/200m runners in the world (if not THE best). If/when he becomes a global champion, his personality on top will make him marketing ‘gold’, and he’ll make much more money - for himself, the sport, and for anyone who sponsors him - than he would if he acted like someone such as Galen Rupp (for example).

So STFU you loser from an obviously second-rate NCAA programme.

From the article on the front page:

“I was really surprised on that,” Lyles said of Coleman. “The last time I tried to dab him up, he didn’t want to dab me up.”

If one of you youngsters would please translate for me. Sounds like Lyles wanted to have unlubricated anal sex with Coleman and the latter politely declined, though Lyles also offered to be recipient of same and was rebuffed there as well. Is this what kids are getting up to these days? Or is this all about smoking weed?

Yabba Dabba Doo! wrote:

From the article on the front page:

“I was really surprised on that,” Lyles said of Coleman. “The last time I tried to dab him up, he didn’t want to dab me up.”

If one of you youngsters would please translate for me. Sounds like Lyles wanted to have unlubricated anal sex with Coleman and the latter politely declined, though Lyles also offered to be recipient of same and was rebuffed there as well. Is this what kids are getting up to these days? Or is this all about smoking weed?

Keep advertising how out of touch and irrelevant you are.

showmanship is part of the game wrote:

You guys probably didn’t like Mohamed Ali either.

Yeah, I mean that float like a butterfly banter should have earned Ali a literary award. I still think the stare-downs to promote boxing matches are an example of terrible sportsmanship. Not saying Ali's behavior led to that, but I don't think it helped.

I like Noah Lyles, and he's clearly a massive talent. Ordinarily I wouldn't have an issue with these kind of antics if, as in Bolt's case, they were a bit more natural and impulsive. What irks me though, is that it's clearly so contrived and unnecessary ..... there seems to be nothing natural about it, as if he's sat down beforehand and carefully figured out "what can I do to be different this time?"

Have no issue with people having fun and showing their personality on the track, but when it's so orchestrated and OTT like this, it makes me cringe.

What a bunch of whiners LR posers are. Anybody good has to be torn down here for some reason or another. Lose a race, "They are OVER". Win a race where somebody was missing "They woulda lost to...". Can't complain about those things? Then you don't like the way they act or look. What a bunch of whiner losers posting from their parents WiFi.

Dose of Truth wrote:

Squeaky shoes wrote:

He's a 21yo kid, doing what he loves, making $250k a year to do it. Cut him some slack, dude.

I am an NCAA coach and if one of my 17 year old freshmen athletes acted like him, I'd suspend him for a meet. If it continued, I would kick him off.

Suspending someone for having fun....wow.

Dose of Truth wrote:

Squeaky shoes wrote:

He's a 21yo kid, doing what he loves, making $250k a year to do it. Cut him some slack, dude.

I am an NCAA coach and if one of my 17 year old freshmen athletes acted like him, I'd suspend him for a meet. If it continued, I would kick him off.

He is not a child, he is an adult. His salary actually disproves your argument. He is a professional track athlete. Time to start acting like a professional.

I hope you coach a serious group of D1 kids then. More than likely you have kids on your team who act like this you just don’t see it.

Squeaky shoes wrote:

He is not a child, he is an adult. His salary actually disproves your argument. He is a professional track athlete. Time to start acting like a professional.

He is a professional track athlete, therefor, however he acts is "acting like a professional."

OP goes home DEVASTATED