Nick Willies throws shade at Sifan Hassan on twitter

You’re really stretching the limits of the facts of the Salazar case here. Sure if I lived in the imaginary world where you do and Salazar was suspended for giving his athletes epo starting in 2012 to the present itd be perfectly reasonable to question Hassan. In fact it would be crazy not to.

But what you’ve done is bent space and time to create a world where Hassan is somehow directly implicated in the Salazar case. And then after performing act only possible by Benedict Cumberland as Dr strange suggest that it’s completely reasonable as a professional adult athlete to call publicly another athlete a cheat in no place other than SOCIAL MEDIA when the athlete targeted by the libel has committed no misdeed other than association. But yah, totally surprising that people would take issue with willies statement.

Worth noting that Shannon Rowbury also threw some shade by not congratulating Sifan Hassan in her IG story. She congratulated Shelby and Koko and that was it.

Does anyone try harder to stay relevant than Nick Willis? He’s truly one of the most embarrassing people in the sport and totally a guy who would be on a real world/road rules challenge

avaeion wrote:

Worth noting that Shannon Rowbury also threw some shade by not congratulating Sifan Hassan in her IG story. She congratulated Shelby and Koko and that was it.

Isn't/wasn't she a Salazar athlete? #Tainted

One does not justify the other. Hassan was always really good. Salazar is a driven sketchy personality which does not mean Hassan has done anything wrong. I just think it is pissy to attack Hassan in this way.

This is a totally pathetic statement/post by Willis. These accusations/insinuations by him and many others, here and elsewhere on social media, without any proof are cowardly and weak.

- The Ultimate "Sour Grapes!"

- Particularly from this "weak sister" who turned down a invitation to compete at the Worlds because he hadn't trained for a couple of weeks. This is why I love folks like Conseslus Kipruto .... they demonstrate "What it takes?" which separates the East African from the Western athlete.

- I've lost so much respect w/such a number of "alleged" professional athletes over this BS Coach Salazar ruling.

He absolutely does. You also need to look at his career as a whole looking at his success. If Sifan is consistent for several years and a high level I am led to believe performances are legit. But these performances that suddenly are out of this world hard to believe. Ever heard of guilty by association? That is why he and many of us are skeptical

Dril wrote:

Nice. I just expect more from a 35+ year old man to go on the internet and talk poorly about another person, dragging names through the mud, based on circumstantial evidence only. The pro athlete response has been the saddest thing about the whole Salazar scandal.

Is this the guy that talked openly about how his midget bondage porn fetish?

Dril wrote:

08 and 16 olympic 1500 wrote:

This is someone who has been cheated out of Olympic gold twice, so I think he has the right to say what he wants on this matter.

Oh yah. Is that how it works? Now he gets a free pass for being a terrible person. Good to know.

The mental gymnastics on this site of late is incredible.

Can’t we all agree Salazar is a bad guy. Some NOP athletes were bad. Being a crappy person on Twitter is also bad. One doesn’t excuse the other.

So what’s your excuse for being a crappy person?

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Lickety Split wrote:

- The Ultimate "Sour Grapes!"

- Particularly from this "weak sister" who turned down a invitation to compete at the Worlds because he hadn't trained for a couple of weeks. This is why I love folks like Conseslus Kipruto .... they demonstrate "What it takes?" which separates the East African from the Western athlete.

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Folks like him are on the good stuff.

Coevett wrote:

There is absolutely nothing to criticize him for here :

https://twitter.com/nickwillis/status/1180546595663880203

Nick stating what is obvious. But in the virtuous halls of Letsrun, professional athletes with a distinguished record are not allowed to say things like that.

Unfortunately true wrote:

That is a racist behavior is not acceptable.

New Zealanders in general have a history of that type of attitude.

Everybody has a history of that. So what's racist about New Zealanders today that is any worse than anywhere else?

zxcvzvxc wrote:

Here was the all-time great Sifan Hassan's championship record together with this World Championships.

She had just a bronze at the 15 and the 5 for her entire career.

HONOURS - OLYMPIC GAMES

PLACE DISCIPLINE MARK WIND PLACE DATE

5. 1500 Metres 4:11.23 Estádio Olímpico, Rio de Janeiro (BRA) 16 AUG 2016

HONOURS - WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS

PLACE DISCIPLINE MARK WIND PLACE DATE

1. 1500 Metres 3:51.95 Khalifa International Stadium, Doha (QAT) 05 OCT 2019

1. 10,000 Metres 30:17.62 Khalifa International Stadium, Doha (QAT) 28 SEP 2019

3. 5000 Metres 14:42.73 Olympic Stadium, London (GBR) 13 AUG 2017

3. 1500 Metres 4:09.34 National Stadium, Beijing (CHN) 25 AUG 2015

5. 1500 Metres 4:03.34 Olympic Stadium, London (GBR) 07 AUG 2017

Gosh, there are a couple of outlier performances there. Raises an eyebrow.

Funny even though he raced him many times and was cheated out of higher medal placings by him, Nick Willis never said anything similar about the now-banned Asbel Kiprop.

Les wrote:

Funny even though he raced him many times and was cheated out of higher medal placings by him, Nick Willis never said anything similar about the now-banned Asbel Kiprop.

Not making much sense there.

For a start, Nick certainly did say things about Kiprop that look like 'throwing shade' at him during his career. In fact, Kiprop himself, after he was busted, posted a video on Twitter of Nick being interviewed before the 2016 Olympics (I think) in which he seems to imply he thought Kiprop was doping.

Many times he's stated his belief that many of his rivals are doped, and it's been quite obvious who he meant.

But at the end of the day, Kiprop hadn't been caught until last year.

Hassan chose to join a coach under investigation for doping offences, she's promptly turned into a GOAT by him, puts in two absolutely crazy performances in the very week he's convicted and banned, and then gets roid rage when people start questioning those performances in the light of Al Sal's bust.

Armstronglivs wrote:

Unfortunately true wrote:

That is a racist behavior is not acceptable.

New Zealanders in general have a history of that type of attitude.

Everybody has a history of that. So what's racist about New Zealanders today that is any worse than anywhere else?

SJWs - 'a white person implying the athlete of a crooked coach is a doper on Twitter is an evil racist, like every single white person'.

SJWs - 'Black South Africans necklacing Nigerian immigrant workers in the street are just angry about foreigners taking their jobs'.

Willis needs to relax and remember the internet is for a much more useful purpose than Twitter, one that can help him calm down much easier.

Go rub one out, Nick.