And isn't she training in Oregon? Ain't weed legal in Oregon?
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And isn't she training in Oregon? Ain't weed legal in Oregon?
Host your own events and make your own rules. Yall wanna compete in these events then follow their rules.
I seriously dobut a diaspora hosted even would have a silly rule made to discriminate against you know who. Black athletes keep playing the world approval game and keep losing.
I seriously dobut a diaspora hosted even would have a silly rule made to discriminate against you know who. Black athletes keep playing the world approval game and keep losing.
exactly !! shit is str8 bullshit !! i knwo she lost her mother recently so she mightve been depressed/emotional but still shit sucks, shes young 21 but still, it sucks cos she should know u have to be extra cautious with shit like that ! she might still be eligible for the olympics but maybe not the 100meters
She made a bad decision. I understand having issues and trying to cope. I don't know the full extent of her relationship with her biological mother, but it does make me wonder if her passing was the root cause of her smoking. She mentioned being informed of her mothers death by a reporter. My first thought was how in the hell did he know before her?
Whatever the case may be, she lost a golden opportunity to cash in on her fame. And she may still do so at this point. But theres nothing like that endorsement money you can get from being an olympic champion. No way she recoups that. There's also no guarantees that she will find herself in the same position in 2024, shit happens(2020). Lucky for her she lives in the age of social media and reality television. I'm sure she can parlay her popularity through that also.
Whatever the case may be, she lost a golden opportunity to cash in on her fame. And she may still do so at this point. But theres nothing like that endorsement money you can get from being an olympic champion. No way she recoups that. There's also no guarantees that she will find herself in the same position in 2024, shit happens(2020). Lucky for her she lives in the age of social media and reality television. I'm sure she can parlay her popularity through that also.
Yes and yes.
boycotting this olympics
Some athletes already have.
The Olympics is not as important to us as other nations. We have folks who have won medals that are totally forgotten or unknown by the general public. It's not the end all be all for opportunity that it might be for folks coming from other nations. Our Olympic stars aren't our biggest sports stars in our country. This isn't the case for much of the world.
The Olympics are the most important for American Track & Field Athletes, though.
And swimming. That's where a lot of medals are won
Actual... She may become the face of allowing marijuana usage in all professional sports. Being the face of a movement may trump a few Wheatie boxes and watch ads..
Plus Nike is still supporting her
I think swimming has too many medals, it's like if track and field had a race for walking backwards & an event for every 50 meters: 50 meters, 150 meters, 250 meters, 300 meters, 350 meters. Also with swimming, change your stroke then you get a medal.
and
here's a good article about it:
Are There Too Many Events in Olympic Swimming?
There will be 35 total Olympic swimming events in Tokyo, and plenty off outsiders already believed swimming medals were diluted.
www.swimmingworldmagazine.com
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She accepted the 30 days suspension.
She will NOT be able to run cause it overlaps the Olympics
She's a WHOLE dumbass imo
She will NOT be able to run cause it overlaps the Olympics
She's a WHOLE dumbass imo
I was already done with the Tokyo Olympics from the anti Black rules. Now it's FUCK the Tokyo Olympics.
And? That's a State law, It's federally illegal in the U.S. and the Olympic committee is a global organization. THEY set the rules. They say no weed then you don't smoke weed
Ain't rocket science
No, long established rules applied to everyone equally are actually racist.
Like I said, I prefer tinctures and edibles over hard liquor but I am not about to get on a plane or the Acela with a carry on full of that shit knowing that is still illegal federally and still not legal in certain states.
I think they suspended him even longer.
If she’s suspended just for a month I think she’ll be ok. She’ll miss a race or two but hopefully she’ll still be able to compete on the world stage in time.
Yeah he was suspended for 3 months for smoking weed in a picture....he's lucky it was after he won all his medals.
But in the hypothetical I created to justify the present dumb shit he won a medal while lighting up on the podium and wasn't suspended.
Yeah I still think Phelps is insane but there are so many events. Breathstroke backstroke etc each over varying distanceI think swimming has too many medals, it's like if track and field had a race for walking backwards & an event for every 50 meters: 50 meters, 150 meters, 250 meters, 300 meters, 350 meters. Also with swimming, change your stroke then you get a medal.
and
here's a good article about it:
Are There Too Many Events in Olympic Swimming?
There will be 35 total Olympic swimming events in Tokyo, and plenty off outsiders already believed swimming medals were diluted.
Yeah man she made a bad decision.....was going through a lot mentally and emotionally.
But she admitted that she knew the rules and broke them anyways. Her energy was mature in her response, she's being accountable and handling her judgement better than a lot of people in the peanut gallery, on twitter etc.
Hopefully her; mental, emotional, and physical health holds up .. she bounces back and has a long and successful career....but damn this was a huge missed opportunity to capitalize on all the success and publicity she's been getting in track
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Nike is probably doing Risk Analysis right now
They paying her millions and probably spent millions on commercials and had a whole campaign
ready to go during the Olympics, it's all gone to shit.
Reebok is probably laughing their asses off
They paying her millions and probably spent millions on commercials and had a whole campaign
ready to go during the Olympics, it's all gone to shit.
Reebok is probably laughing their asses off
I think Nike is gonna stick with her.
I got members of my family that look like her too and guess what?
some of them are hood bitches and don't mind telling you either.
Yeah, man, I agree.....
and the article said "Phelps won three gold medals in 200-meter races in 2008 while track star Usain Bolt had only one opportunity to win the 200-meter dash."
I think Nike is gonna stick with her.
Yeah, it's official, she only got a 1 month suspension so she will be good... he endorsements shouldn't be greatly affected.
They’re trying to start a whole #LETHERRUN campaign for her. I saw Gabriel Union and some other celebrities saying they should let her run like the people gonna change their minds
This whole thing is exposing a lot of people as hypocrites. If this happened to an athlete in another country, a lot of these ppl wouldn't have shit to say. Some are mad cuz it's an American getting penalized, others cuz it's a black woman. All ignoring the fact that is a long established rule that she was aware of and still broke it anyways. Just throw accountability out the window when biased perspectives gets affected. She's doing the right thing by acknowledging that she messed up and is taking her punishment accordingly.
It'll be a distraction regardless of whether she's there or not cuz of the significance of her ability to affect the results for any race she would've participated in. If she's allowed back in time to run the relay then let her run that. At least she'd be fresh especially if they put her at anchor.
In other athletics news..... 5 years for missed tests though. 
Hurdler Brianna McNeal loses appeal of five-year ban, will miss Tokyo Olympics.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/olympics/2021/07/02/brianna-mcneal-doping-ban-tokyo-olympics/
Olympic hurdling champion Brianna McNeal will miss the Tokyo Olympics, after her appeal of a five-year ban for violating anti-doping rules was rejected Friday.
The ban effectively could end the career of McNeal, 29, who claimed the gold medal in the 100-meter hurdles at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics in 2016 but received a five-year ban in April from the Athletics Integrity Unit for tampering with the doping-control process.
McNeal appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, which upheld the ban, backdated to August 2020. McNeal also will be barred from competing in the 2024 Olympics in Paris.
The panel did not publish any details on its decision, which came hours after McNeal told the New York Times that she missed a drug test in January 2020 because she was in bed recovering from an abortion that she had two days earlier and did not hear anti-doping officials arrive at her home in California. While McNeal has not been accused of doping, several discrepancies in documentation to prove she had an abortion led to her ban, according to the report.
“Right now I feel excommunicated from the sport itself and stigmatized, and to me it is unfair,” McNeal said in the Times’ report, which was published late Thursday night. “I just don’t believe that this warranted a suspension at all, much less a five-year suspension, for just a technicality, an honest mistake during a very emotional time.”
The five-year ban is longer than most track doping punishments because McNeal has violated rules before. After leading the U.S. to a sweep of the hurdles in Rio, she was banned by the United States Anti-Doping Agency for a year after missing three random drugs tests in 2016. That caused her to miss the 2017 world championships.
McNeal had held out hope that she would win an appeal after being banned earlier this year, and while her case was pending, she was allowed to compete in the last month’s U.S. Olympic trials in Eugene, Ore. She finished second in the 100-meter hurdles finals behind winner Keni Harrison and ahead of third-place finisher Christina Clemons.
The ban of McNeal means that Gabbi Cunningham, who finished fourth in the event, is expected to take the third spot on the team alongside Harrison and Clemons in Tokyo. The final roster is expected to be announced by USA Track and Field next week.
Hurdler Brianna McNeal loses appeal of five-year ban, will miss Tokyo Olympics.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/olympics/2021/07/02/brianna-mcneal-doping-ban-tokyo-olympics/
Olympic hurdling champion Brianna McNeal will miss the Tokyo Olympics, after her appeal of a five-year ban for violating anti-doping rules was rejected Friday.
The ban effectively could end the career of McNeal, 29, who claimed the gold medal in the 100-meter hurdles at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics in 2016 but received a five-year ban in April from the Athletics Integrity Unit for tampering with the doping-control process.
McNeal appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, which upheld the ban, backdated to August 2020. McNeal also will be barred from competing in the 2024 Olympics in Paris.
The panel did not publish any details on its decision, which came hours after McNeal told the New York Times that she missed a drug test in January 2020 because she was in bed recovering from an abortion that she had two days earlier and did not hear anti-doping officials arrive at her home in California. While McNeal has not been accused of doping, several discrepancies in documentation to prove she had an abortion led to her ban, according to the report.
“Right now I feel excommunicated from the sport itself and stigmatized, and to me it is unfair,” McNeal said in the Times’ report, which was published late Thursday night. “I just don’t believe that this warranted a suspension at all, much less a five-year suspension, for just a technicality, an honest mistake during a very emotional time.”
The five-year ban is longer than most track doping punishments because McNeal has violated rules before. After leading the U.S. to a sweep of the hurdles in Rio, she was banned by the United States Anti-Doping Agency for a year after missing three random drugs tests in 2016. That caused her to miss the 2017 world championships.
McNeal had held out hope that she would win an appeal after being banned earlier this year, and while her case was pending, she was allowed to compete in the last month’s U.S. Olympic trials in Eugene, Ore. She finished second in the 100-meter hurdles finals behind winner Keni Harrison and ahead of third-place finisher Christina Clemons.
The ban of McNeal means that Gabbi Cunningham, who finished fourth in the event, is expected to take the third spot on the team alongside Harrison and Clemons in Tokyo. The final roster is expected to be announced by USA Track and Field next week.
She claimed to be stress, definitely need some guidance, she obviously need to change the people around her and all you guys want to do in throw her back in a race?