Just watched his post race interview. He answered every reporters' questions expect Jon Gault. And it's not like Gault was asking him hard-hitting, uncomfortable questions. His questions were basically "were you surprised by Gatlin's time" and "do you have another race before USAs". Is there some bad blood between LetsRun and Coleman?
yeah that was fckin rude. show some class, man. it's your job to talk to the media.
it's not like LRC even writes about sprints very often... I'm assuming it's related to this?
not sure what bone he has to pick with it, though..
also, LRC should call this out more than writing that Coleman "wasn't in the mood to talk." If this was a politician's response to a reporter, the story would say so-and-so refused to answer questions, plain and simple.
Coleman is just being real.
I don't like the dude. Not rooting for him at all.
And his sprint form is TRASH. I'd wager this race ends up being his best executed race of the year. Even if he runs faster as the year goes, his trash finishing ability will rear its ugly head more noticeably.
If he wins in Doha it's because he has to out lean people running him down right to the line.
sanchobaile wrote:
yeah that was fckin rude. show some class, man. it's your job to talk to the media.
Did he not talk to the media?
Sammy Watson must have told him how LR did her dirty. Athletes talk to one another.
It's a tradeoff. If Rojo wants to post controversial opinions to drive traffic to the board, he has to accept that this may not endear his site to athletes. While I enjoy visiting the message board here, I really can't blame any athlete for not respecting LR as journalists.
And I don't think an athlete needs to have been personally bashed by LR to feel this way. They just have to have some knowledge of the rhetoric of people who run the site. Sort of like how a person might not want to give Fox News an interview.
That was weird. He was fine talking to Jon for 3 minutes straight the day before
Meh. wrote:
I don't like the dude. Not rooting for him at all.
And his sprint form is TRASH. I'd wager this race ends up being his best executed race of the year. Even if he runs faster as the year goes, his trash finishing ability will rear its ugly head more noticeably.
If he wins in Doha it's because he has to out lean people running him down right to the line.
Man that is some serious backpedaling in such a brief post. "Even if he wins the World Championship this year I'll still say he sucks".
Meh. wrote:
I don't like the dude. Not rooting for him at all.
And his sprint form is TRASH. I'd wager this race ends up being his best executed race of the year. Even if he runs faster as the year goes, his trash finishing ability will rear its ugly head more noticeably.
If he wins in Doha it's because he has to out lean people running him down right to the line.
I have no personal opinion of him.
However you may be correct about this being his best executed race.
He has a challenge over th elast 30. He rocks a little and loses his drive. Plenty of power and strength, but his form falls apart at key parts of the drive. Otherwise he'd be running .15 faster. His first 60 in this race was spectacular.
amateurhour wrote:
Meh. wrote:
I don't like the dude. Not rooting for him at all.
And his sprint form is TRASH. I'd wager this race ends up being his best executed race of the year. Even if he runs faster as the year goes, his trash finishing ability will rear its ugly head more noticeably.
If he wins in Doha it's because he has to out lean people running him down right to the line.
Man that is some serious backpedaling in such a brief post. "Even if he wins the World Championship this year I'll still say he sucks".
Not backpedaling at all . I didn't day "he sucks", I said his form is trash. But, to be fair, it was a blanket statement. He is the definition of good form when it comes to ACCELERATION. But EVERYTHING after 60ish meters is HIS version of amateur hour. And the stark difference between his starting ability and execution to his apparent IGNORANCE on how to maintain speed is, at least in this trolls eyes, embarrassing.
Not backpedaling. If anything, if Coleman wins I Doah, that's a win with an asterisk.
*didn't beat Lyles for it.
If Coleman had any ability to sprint AFTER accelerating, he'd be a better bet for a WR than Norman. As it is, he may have to settle for an AR, if anything. And his legacy may depend entirely on how serious Lyles gets over 100, and how much Lyles settles his inverse Coleman issues (terrible starter).
It’s nice to see that the “feud” or “rivalry” or whatever between CC and Lyles (if there is anything at all) is being decided on the track, and that the off-track comments have stopped.
Good for CC, performance talks, bs walks. Lyles races this week in Lausanne, and it will be nice to see him run.
The fact that they are both running very well is what is good for the sport—that, and the fact that their races are completely different, in a way that makes races between them exciting.
Once again, it is the athletes who are making the sport better through their racing. Coaches, officials, and administrators should be silent unless it’s a coaching, official, or administrative matter. The sport is not about them, it is about the athletes.
LetsRun has become the TMZ of the sport. More athletes should treat them this way.
I can only presume he didn't like what Jon wrote the day before. Coleman specifically asked Jon to not ask him about Noah Lyles at the Pre Press Conference and Jon noted it in his recap of the press conference.
Jon tried to report on it very straightforward but if the #1 sprinter in the world asks at a press event not to ask about the #1b sprinter in the world I think it is news worthy. One could argue Jon could have just ignored it but there is a reason Jon isn't asking him about Noah Lyles, per Coleman's request so I think is is relevant.
Somewhat related -years ago Alberto Salazar's lawyer asked for info on over 100 posters on the forums. We did not report about it at the time but I think we should have because something like that changes the relationship between us and one of the top people in the sport.
Excerpt:
Christian Coleman doesn’t want to talk about Noah Lyles anymore
Before I could ask my first question to Christian Coleman, he took a look at my credential and, after confirming that I was with LetsRun, told me that he would not answer any questions about Noah Lyles. I’m assuming that has something to do with the article I wrote after Coleman called out Lyles on Twitter following their race in Shanghai last month (though when I asked Coleman why he didn’t want to talk about it, he did not give me an answer).
One thing Coleman would talk about was the 200 meters. He may be running the 100 at Pre tomorrow, where he holds the world lead at 9.85 seconds, but Coleman’s last race was a 200 in Ostrava on June 20, where he ran 19.97 in his first attempt at the distance since 2017. Overall, Coleman was pleased with the effort despite finishing second to Andre De Grasse, and said that he believes he will only improve as he continues to run the event more.
“After [the race] I was super tired,” said Coleman, who led De Grasse off the turn but couldn’t hold on down the home straight. “And that’s just what comes with it. You can work hard in practice, but then once you get in the meet, it’s kind of hard to reciprocate that type of feeling and running that max velocity against the best in the world. So yeah, I was pretty tired, but I think that comes with getting more races in and running more races, that fitness will keep coming and it will get a lot more easier.”
Coleman reiterated that his plan is to attempt the 100/200 double at USAs and Worlds. The 100 is his specialty and favorite event, and because it always precedes the 200 at major championships, Coleman views the 200 as something of a risk-free bonus.
“After the 100, whatever happens in the 200 happens,” Coleman said.
Link here:
Good for CC. What are you going to say about someone else? Are you going to dissect their race? Why bother, everybody can see it. “Yeah, he’s fast” is pretty much all you should get.
You want to know about Lyles, ask Lyles—he’s the expert. Asking CC is tantamount to asking him what he thinks about Lyles, and this sport isn’t about thinking. Yes I know about competition, but there are a lot more questions to ask CC, about himself. Sprinting has lots of details—most of which are unfortunately totally boring to casual fans, which leaves non-technical questions about how the athlete feels about their race, about the conditions, about their time, etc.
I think it was good, and mature, of CC to have set that boundary. I like this from him, a lot.
Hats off to him.
Sprintgeezer wrote:
I think it was good, and mature, of CC to have set that boundary. I like this from him, a lot.
Hats off to him.
I totally agree.
It's fine if he doesn't want to talk about Noah Lyles. It's proper for LRC to report that he said he doesn't want to talk about Noah Lyles. It's childish for Coleman to be rude to Jon Gault for reporting that. Grow up, dude. Or like, feel how you feel, express it if you must, but be a professional and answer what were completely benign and intelligent questions.
It depends on how the reporting is done. It could easily be done so as to suggest that CC has some sort of character flaw.
CC of course wants to avoid this. One way he could do that would be to set the boundaries in a very tactical way, very specifically worded—but WTF, the guy’s an athlete in the simplest of sports, not a politician. He shouldn’t have to do these things and think about this shxt.
A responsible and ethical media should mot put athletes into such a spot. Maybe it shouldn’t have been reported—after all, what does it have to do with track? And if it was reported, maybe it should have been reported in a light favorable to the athlete, with some favorable suggestions along with it as to why an athlete might not want to comment on another athlete, and how such things are mot properly part of the sport.
Media should shoulder much responsibility for managing the situations on which they report, because when they’re dealing with young athletes, the media are “the adult” in the room. Here, it seems as though CC did the right thing, in the best way he knew how, and counted on media to do the same—which it probably appeared to him that they didn’t. Because it probably didn’t seem like media was doing its job in the best way, CC may have thought that they were either incompetent, negligent, or malevolent, the only 3 options, really.
What to do then? More situation management by CC? PITA for which he didn’t sign up, and for which he is ill-equipped. Not saying anything may have been the best, most mature play.
Just speculation, but I could see it.
wejo wrote:
years ago Alberto Salazar's lawyer asked for info on over 100 posters on the forums. We did not report about it at the time
did he get the info, and did you know there's no law requiring you to keep info in the first place? You can set your site up to be amnesic about ip addresses and so forth.
wejo wrote:
I can only presume he didn't like what Jon wrote the day before. Coleman specifically asked Jon to not ask him about Noah Lyles at the Pre Press Conference and Jon noted it in his recap of the press conference.
Jon tried to report on it very straightforward but if the #1 sprinter in the world asks at a press event not to ask about the #1b sprinter in the world I think it is news worthy. One could argue Jon could have just ignored it but there is a reason Jon isn't asking him about Noah Lyles, per Coleman's request so I think is is relevant.
Somewhat related -years ago Alberto Salazar's lawyer asked for info on over 100 posters on the forums. We did not report about it at the time but I think we should have because something like that changes the relationship between us and one of the top people in the sport.
Excerpt:
Christian Coleman doesn’t want to talk about Noah Lyles anymore
Before I could ask my first question to Christian Coleman, he took a look at my credential and, after confirming that I was with LetsRun, told me that he would not answer any questions about Noah Lyles. I’m assuming that has something to do with the article I wrote after Coleman called out Lyles on Twitter following their race in Shanghai last month (though when I asked Coleman why he didn’t want to talk about it, he did not give me an answer).
One thing Coleman would talk about was the 200 meters. He may be running the 100 at Pre tomorrow, where he holds the world lead at 9.85 seconds, but Coleman’s last race was a 200 in Ostrava on June 20, where he ran 19.97 in his first attempt at the distance since 2017. Overall, Coleman was pleased with the effort despite finishing second to Andre De Grasse, and said that he believes he will only improve as he continues to run the event more.
“After [the race] I was super tired,” said Coleman, who led De Grasse off the turn but couldn’t hold on down the home straight. “And that’s just what comes with it. You can work hard in practice, but then once you get in the meet, it’s kind of hard to reciprocate that type of feeling and running that max velocity against the best in the world. So yeah, I was pretty tired, but I think that comes with getting more races in and running more races, that fitness will keep coming and it will get a lot more easier.”
Coleman reiterated that his plan is to attempt the 100/200 double at USAs and Worlds. The 100 is his specialty and favorite event, and because it always precedes the 200 at major championships, Coleman views the 200 as something of a risk-free bonus.
“After the 100, whatever happens in the 200 happens,” Coleman said.
Link here:
https://www.letsrun.com/news/2019/06/pre-classic-media-day-highlights-shelly-ann-fraser-pryce-explains-how-she-ran-10-73-after-a-c-section-laura-muir-has-all-the-pieces-now-more/
Good for Coleman. Gault isn’t a journalist.