Sha'Carri Richardson Discussion Thread :A Resilient Sha’Carri Richardson Wins the 100-Meter World Title

[The Villain]

Smoking weed is not so great or helpful that it's worth risking the bag if thats what your field/job requires.
Some folks learn that lesson easily, unfortunately she will learn it the hard way

I say that as an around the clock stoner that stopped immediately once it was time to look for jobs a few weeks ago. Havent felt like starting back since I got the job either.

 

[OG Talk]

Is ESPN gonna allow SAS to do his whole “Stay off the WEEEEED!” brow beating c00n performance , he does for all Black men?

 

[ucanthandlethetruth]

Phelps was suspended for months and career damn near destroyed… and that was after the Olympics and he never tested positive


He also lost sponsors and damn near had to become the anti-drug posterboy just to get some of his reputation back.

Shell be aight. Hopefully they’ll knock it down from 30 days to like 29 days on a technicality or something

His career wasnt close to destroyed it was paused. They suspended him for three months in February 2009 made him a anti drug mascot and After he immediately competed in the 2009 World Championships. The sponsorships he lost even major ones like Kellog he got most ALL of them right back. Ultimately you are right she is the only one responsible for this issue..hard lesson to learn if she misses the Olympics

 

[concise]

Stop making shyt up. Nobody is saying she needs to go to jail. People are saying she is an idiot for smoking it before a race knowing damn well she gonna get tested for it.

It doesnt matter what the substance is and how little you think of it, if your job requires you stay away from it you have a choice to make, you can either find another job or leave the substance alone. Thats it.

Smokers are left in the cold in states that allow businesses to not hire them


They have places that test for CIGARETTES.

 

[get these nets]

She's had a target on her back because she doesn't fit the "status quo." She's gotta move better than that.

What target is that?

If anything, her flair brought attention to the sport. If you are dominant AND have flair /charisma , it's a marketing bonanza.

Her fellow LSU Tiger can tell you that.

Or in the sport..........Usain Bolt, the late FloJo

 

[O.T.I.S.]

His career wasnt close to destroyed it was paused. They suspended him for three months in February 2009 made him a anti drug mascot and After he immediately competed in the 2009 World Championships. The sponsorships he lost even major ones like Kellog he got most ALL of them right back. Ultimately you are right she is the only one responsible for this issue..hard lesson to learn if she misses the Olympics

And all she got was 30 days… what point did all this prove

 

[Peak]

There's no way she is getting banned for weed.

They banned her for a month

 

[Illuminatos]

Y’all swear weed ain’t addictive though.

 

[Justin Nitsuj]

Never heard a Dallas dude say "thoro".....

 

[NaijaProdigy Redux]

What target is that?

If anything, her flair brought attention to the sport. If you are dominant AND have flair /charisma , it's a marketing bonanza.

Her fellow LSU Tiger can tell you that.

Or in the sport..........Usain Bolt, the late FloJo

That's my point. She has the flair to be perfect a marketing tool but that also comes with added scrutiny -- so she has zero room for error. The media loves to build and tear people down.

 

[Black Lightning]

The IOC is a notoriously racist organization.

Racist IOC President Avery Brundage Loses His Place of Honor

The decision to remove his bust from the San Francisco Asian Art Museum was long overdue.

As part of the national uprising against police violence and for black lives, monuments to white supremacy are coming down all over. Some activists have taken matters into their own hands, yanking down statues of slaveholders and colonizers. At other times, institutions have decided that the time is right to face their own history and remove problematic memorials.

Recently, the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco announced that it would remove its own bust of Avery Brundage—whose massive collection is displayed in the museum—from its prominent location and place it in storage to collect dust. Brundage was the ironfisted president of the International Olympic Committee from 1952 to 1972.

In Olympic circles, Brundage is infamous for his racism, sexism, and anti-Semitism. Time and again, he took positions that placed him on the wrong side of history. The removal of Brundage’s bust is long overdue. His toxic concoction of -isms and his perma-frown belong in the dustbin of history.

We received comment from Dr. Jay Xu, director and CEO at the Asian Art Museum. He said that the museum had planned to remove the bust in the spring, but then the pandemic hit. Even though we are still immersed in that public health nightmare, museum officials believed that the recent protests for black lives showed it was time to act. “Examining the record, asking hard questions, and rewriting the story are what a museum does,” Dr. Xu told us. “It’s why we all feel motivated by this moment.”

Brundage clung to the belief that politics and the Olympics should never mix, famously proclaiming, “We actively combat the introduction of politics into the Olympic movement and are adamant against the use of the Olympic Games as a tool or as a weapon by any organization.” His legacy remains in IOC policy. Earlier this year, the committee explicitly prohibited “gestures of a political nature, like a hand gesture or kneeling.”

In the late 1960s, Brundage was known as “Slavery Avery” for his anti-black racism. When athletes and their allies formed the Olympic Project for Human Rights in 1967, they listed a series of demands, among them the restoration of Muhammad Ali’s boxing title and the exclusion from US athletic events of all-white sports squads from South Africa and Rhodesia. They also singled out “Slavery Avery,” calling for the “removal of the anti-Semitic and anti-black personality Avery Brundage from his post as Chairman of the International Olympic Committee.”

Brundage did not take kindly to John Carlos and Tommie Smith’s iconic act of political dissent on the medal stand at the 1968 Olympics, when they thrust their black-gloved fists into the Mexico City sky to promote black freedom and human rights. Brundage played a key role in getting the athletes booted from the Olympic Village. Weeks later, in response to people who wrote him letters chastising Carlos and Smith, Brundage offered a range of castigations from “The boys were sent home, but they should not have been there in the first place” to “As a matter of fact, people of that kind should not have been on the Olympic team at all. This was not a schoolboy prank, as some seem to think…. it left international repercussions very harmful to our country.”

The IOC is the reason Jesse Owens was banned from competing.

They were so upset a him dominating the Germans they made an example out of him and a few other Black American athletes.

Brotha went from being the most famous athlete in the world to racing horses to make ends meet.smh

 

[get these nets]

Is ESPN gonna allow SAS to do his whole “Stay off the WEEEEED!” brow beating c00n performance , he does for all Black men?

She owned up to it, and mentioned her mother dying less than a month ago.

People giggling or mocking her about this publicly will look very bad.

 

[HARLEM AL]

She's had a target on her back because she doesn't fit the "status quo." She's gotta move better than that.

This aint it....

 

[Dak Pickscott]

 

[Champagne Kudo]

Stop making shyt up. Nobody is saying she needs to go to jail. People are saying she is an idiot for smoking it before a race knowing damn well she gonna get tested for it.

It doesnt matter what the substance is and how little you think of it, if your job requires you stay away from it you have a choice to make, you can either find another job or leave the substance alone. Thats it.

It’s a dumb rule and I’m not reading your post, police officer.