"No, thank you!" 😳
Sha'Carri didn't stop to talk to ANY of the media, saying, "No, thank you!" She ONLY stopped to talk to these black journalists! 😬
#NoThankYou
#ShaCarri
RELATABILITY!!! 💫💁🏾♀️🙌🏾💯✨️
Can you imagine a white male journalist asking this question?? IT COULD NEVER HAPPEN!!!
This is why having black female journalists in the mixed zone is SO important. Getting THIS level of openness & authenticity from an athlete is SPECIAL! 🦄👌🏾✨️
"No matter what the world may say, I give these women standing next to me the biggest honour." - Sha'Carri Richardson (post race stadium interview) 🇺🇸🇯🇲🇯🇲
This photo says A LOT! If youve followed Track & Field this season...you'll know theres about 6 side stories going on sounding these four women for different reasons. But when all is said & done...they ALL came out, put on a show, & gave their hearts!❤️🔥
📸 Christian Petersen
If you know...YOU KNOW!!! 🙌🏾💥✨️
@ItsGabrielleT
hands off to
@itskerrii
, screaming, "GO! GO! GO!" as Sha'Carri brings them home to GOLD🥇 in the womems 4x100m relay!
All beef gets gets put to the side when SHIT needs to get done, and medals NEED to be won! 🤩🇺🇸❤️🔥
Bigup the one named RG3!!
This guy has been killing the commentary at NC’s.
Obvious respect for the sport here.
The NCAA has been doing
Track & Field right for a long time now… Adding
@RGIII
just solidifies it.
@espn
#NCAATF
When you come to win gold and break the 400m indoor WR, you can't forget to pack your toddler inflatable paddling pool for your recovery ice bath! 👀😂💦🧊🛀
📸 IG: Lieke Klaver
"I LOVE women! I love womanhood, sisterhood...I LOVE me some Shericka, ya'll!" 🥰🇺🇸✨️🫶🏾🇯🇲
Sha'Carri speaking to
@LewisJohnsonMG
after her 200m bronze🥉.
And, that little giggle at the end... how can you NOT love her! 😍💞🖤
Enemies put their differences aside for the GLORY that comes with the win!🥇 Respect to these ladies and the rest of team USA! 🇺🇸 🙌🏾❤️🔥
#Womens4x100mRelay
Two tweets, two athletes, same behaviour, tweeted 1 hour apart lol.
Also, look at the amount of comments retweets, and likes for one compared to the other...
Wtf...is this official SERIOUS?! 👀🤯 The way he's manhandling that athlete is completely unacceptable.😡 Imagine what must have been going through that Belgium 🇧🇪 athletes mind 😤😮💨
DO NOT TOUCH THE ATHLETES!
#WorldIndoorChamps
Gotta respect Athing Mu🇺🇸 for actually running at these Championships because clearly she did not have the most ideal preparation leading in. Tbh, I think she needed to feel this. When you've won EVERYTHING there is to win by 19 years old...what else is there but to LEARN!
Was it just me, or were all the photographers confused as to who WON after the Women's 60m Final?? 🤔
"Black skin, blue uniform, that's her!....Oops...that's NOT her?!" 🥴
All the while, Alfred is crying about her historic win for her country 🇱🇨, and they all miss it! 🤦🏾♀️
Fyi....here is
@itskerrii
doing two interviews with media! Media she clearly relates to, feels comfortable with, and feels can relate to her. If she didn't do ANY interviews with any other media outlets, maybe she's making a statement!? 😬
Richardson had told USATF before the meet that she would address media at end of competition on Sunday but declined to stop when walking through mixed zone.
THIS IS THE KIND OF PASSION and EXCITEMENT I WANNA HEAR FROM THE COMMENTARY team when a World Record is broken in the field! 😳😂🤪
But, what an OUT OF THIS WORLD performance that was from Faith Kipyegon🇰🇪! 🙌🏾🤩 Previously broken by Genzebe Dibaba🇪🇹 on July 17th, 2015.
#RomeDL
Carey Mcleod🇯🇲 must have some of the wildest Long Jump experiences EVER!👀🤯
On the left, the Final of the World Indoor Champs, jumping while they are STILL raking the pit! 😱
On the right, the World outdoor Champs last year, slipping off the board & FLYING through the air! 💀
WOW...its all about being patient...and that is EXACTLY what
@zharnel_hughes
did. He just broke
@ChristieLinford
's 9.87 British Record🇬🇧 (
@BritAthletics
) thats stood since 1993, running a WL of 9.83! The last part of that race was disgusting!!! 😱🙌🏾🔥
#NYCGrandPrix
Wait....What??😯
@FastElaine
is at the Commonwealth Games??👀 This is great to see.🤩🙌🏾 I just assumed she would miss it, but I think this will be good for her!👌🏾🇯🇲💫 ran 10.98 to win her heat.
#CWG2022
As of now...its looking like the World Championship 100m 🥇 might go to one of these two ladies -
@majotalou
🇨🇮 (10.75) OR
@itskerrii
🇺🇸 (10.76).
We are still yet to see ETH🇯🇲 or SAFP🇯🇲 this season.
So, who's your early season pick for 100m 🥇 in Budapest?? 🤔🍿🤩
This is just RUDE!
@usatf
reportedly negotiated a deal w
@Nike
worth 400mil to host USATF Outdoor Champs in Eugene until 2040. Meanwhile, athletes are STUCK being forced to spend THIER hard earned money to compete there EVERY YEAR. Below
@JaneeNae24
gives us a breakdown👇🏽😨💰💸👎🏽
To give you some perspective about what
@rhasidatadeleke
🇮🇪 did with THAT time of 49.20...the British Record by Wolrd & Olympic Champion
@chrissyohuruogu
🇬🇧 is 49.41!!!
And, here's the Top 5 best British women over 400m. Those are some serious names she's over taken! 👀👏🏾🤩
That exchange between Noah Lyles and Erriyon Knighton in the post race interview after the 200m…
Yes… Yes… YES!
Now the Men’s deuce at the World Champs is an event we MUST SEE!!
Imagine... female athletes & the WORLD used to think women's career were over as soon as they got pregnant.🥴
How many athletes of recent years have come back & won medals at major champs!? 🤔
@realshellyannfp
@ItsPooda
@allysonfelix
@J_Ennis
And, I'm sure MANY more!🤰🏽🏃🏾♀️💨🤩
My face when I heard Sydney McLaughlin is withdrawing from Worlds due to a "minor knee issue"! 👀😬 Yet, there's broke athletes out here with legs, backs, shoulders hanging off still tryna compete! 🥴😓 but, hey, athletes gotta do what's best for them, I guess...🤕🤷🏾♀️
Woulda been cool to be able to watch the first day of the
@usatf
national championships without having to buy an annual membership.
Perhaps a one time fee for today would have been a consideration.
Need people watching.
Stumbled on this
@MJGold
tweeted from last year.
"Its one thing to go on social media & throw down a challenge.
BUT...at some point you must go show up where they are.
Talk is good. But competing is better."
Can't wait to see
@fkerley99
vs
@LylesNoah
this outdoor szn!👀🍿
If AIU put you on blast BEFORE they have ALL the facts/results & THEN are found to be WRONG...do you have grounds to sue for defamation of character?? 🤔 this is crazy.
If Assinga's B sample comes back clean..."Athlete Integrity Unit" might need to revise the "integrity" part 😳
Last 100m of the 800m for Athing Mu 🇺🇸. She seemed a little tentative but in control. Very low arm carriage, which means she wasn't really working. Definitely didn't want to let Goule 🇯🇲 pass her over the finish line. Mu winning her Heat in 1:59.59.
I can't stop watching this video of
@MKambundji
🇨🇭 as a little kid running out of the blocks... with NO SHOES ON!? 👀😯🤪
Aww... and look at her mini Kambunji technique! ☺️👌🏾💫
How many achillies ruptures/tears is that now??🤯😓
Usually, you'd look to the spikes... but Jazmin is with Adidas & Rojas with Nike. Maybe its not the brand, but the recent big push in technology to make "the best super shoe."
Are athletes' bodies struggling to adapt?🤔🥴🤷🏾♀️
❤️🩹 “I have bad news. I won’t be competing at the Olympics this summer – won’t be anywhere competing because I ruptured my Achilles on my takeoff leg.”
2023 European Indoor long jump champion Jazmin Sawyers shares the news that she has undergone surgery and will miss Paris 2024.
The womens 400m was EX-CI-TING!!😝
Sydney McLaughlin🇺🇸 (49.71) went out like a TRAIN!!😲 unfortunately, she seriously paid for it in the home straight!🥴😮💨 Paulino🇩🇴 (49.12) wasnt phased THEN came through like a STREAM TRAIN!👀💥🙌🏾. Nasser🇧🇭was 3rd (49.95).
#ParisDL
We are IN THE HOUSE!!! 🙌🏾🏟🇭🇺
Not gonna lie,
@WorldAthletics
hooked us up with some great seats! We are literally on the finsh line! Prefect view to see who's looking ready in the prelims of the Mens 100m coming up soon! 😃👌🏾🤩
#Budapest23
This is SO devastating to see! 💔 this young star with such a bright future ahead has a "complete rupture of her achilles tendon." Heartbreaking after such a great start and an Olympic year ahead! 😰
She's only 22 years old, so we wish her a speedy recovery! 🙏🏽
😱Por favor, no, por favor no...
😢María Vicente se lleva la mano al tendón de Aquiles... No no gusta nada esta imagen...
😔Con lo bien que estaba la española
#WICGlasgow2024
@wicglasgow24
🔴EN DIRECTO:
@Jellington100m
And, just for the record...I agree 100% with your original point...Males should NOT be allowed to participate in female sports. Inclusion for one at the mental, emotional, and potential financial expense of another is UNFAIR.
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce is one of the greatest sprinters ever – accustomed to winning Olympic and world titles – so when she took part in a race at her son’s sports day, no one else really stood a chance.
So, basically, her recognising that there are athletes that do, in fact, "duck" each other. The athletes getting mad at the suggestion that this happens are probably the ones who be doing tue ducking 👀🤪🦆...
Marcell Jacobs has posted this to IG after deleting all his other posts.
This is REAL, honest, and EXACTLY what connects the fans/public to the HUMAN BEING!
Showing vulnerability ISN'T weakness, just as pretending all is well ISN'T strength. This was brave! 🙌🏾
@crazylongjumper
Well, if you put athletics on on a palce everyone can find it easily, and they don't have to search for it like they're desperate, then sign up AND pay a fee to watch it...this is what happens🙄. It's NOT rocket science! 🤷🏾♀️
Around five million viewers from the UK tuned into the World Indoor Championships 🔥
The event was live on BBC 2 across the three days in Glasgow 🏴
It was the third time that Great Britain has hosted a World Indoors after Birmingham in 2003 and 2018 🇬🇧
This is DISGUSTING!!! 18 yrs old. 17.54 WJR!!! 😱🤯
We also saw THREE men over 8.35 in the LJ. 😳🔥
Yes, the sprinters went OFF...but the jumps were going CRAZY!!! 🥴🤩
Let's give the jumpers the VALUE & flowers they deserve. 💐👏🏾
#NCAATF
Can't stop watching this kid jump. Honestly, he's special. What he's doing is crazy! His technique is SO gooood! The balance he has of all the phases is 🤌🏽 He's gonna break that WR in a few years mark my words. 18 years old 17.17 from 10 strides 🥴😴
This is a SUPER impressive list of achievements! 😯 He's won EVERYTHING there is to win in this sport, & yet really isn't as well known or talk about as much as he should be. 🤔
Imo, we NEED to see more on Tentóglou, as I don't think people really know who he is outside of T&F.
🥇 Olympic champion
🥇 World champion
🥇 European champion
🥇 World indoor champion
🥇 European indoor champion
Wishing a very happy birthday to long jump king Miltiadis Tentoglou! 🥳
Geez😒. This is exactly why athletes have trust issues with certain media. This was NOT the time...isnt that obvoous??😮💨
This is the relatability issue ive been talking about in FULL effect! This is why athletes will only start talking to certain media they feel "safe" with.
Guys, THIS is last years WORLD CHAMPION they are just casually ignoring while he's in the MIDDLE of his jump, as well! 😱💀 like I said... the disrespect and disregard is crazy!
@actual_random_
Of course he felt bad lol he walked across the runway while the world champion was actually hopping and stepping into the pit. He also realised how close he came to potentially injuring said current world champion a few months away from the Olympic Games 😮💨🤦🏾♀️
This interview
@realtalkwithtee
did with Jaydon Hibbert 🇯🇲 after his Qualification round is SO funny, real, & authemtic. EXACTLY why relatability is so important. How things have been in the past when it comes to the media, is no longer (good) enough.
@MJGold
@LillzTIL
@kxnaomi
Sitting here watching the Xiamen DL after watching Zurich 2 days ago. I'm just really struggling to understand how we're supposed to get excited about these meets. It just feels kinda pointless 😕🤷🏾♀️
TA LOU 🇨🇮!!!! 🙌🏾🔥🙌🏾
@majotalou
's been waiting. watching, & even replying to her competitors' performances on twitter!😅🤪 She comes back with THIS 10.75! 💥
Sha'Carri gets a cramp in warm-up and pulls out. 😬
@dinaashersmith
🇬🇧 10.85
@sherickajacko
🇯🇲 10.94
#LondonDL
The interview
@sherickajacko
told
@LillzTIL
after her Semi she would SPECIFICALLY come and give her.💫 Winners of the 100m & 200m have not been allowed to do mixed zone interviews. Like Sha'Carri & Fred, Shericka is overtly SUPPORTING her people.🙌🏾👑🇯🇲✨️
Yesterday after the 200m semi finals, Shericka Jackson stopped me & said to wait for her after the Finals for my interview.
Despite being told by World Athletics officials not to, she came to the media zone, crept under the barrier & told them she is doing my interview 🥹💜
YIKES!!!! SHA'CARRI!!!! JEEZ!!!😯😯
@itskerrii
🇺🇸 runs down
@sherickajacko
🇯🇲 & takes the win in 10.76 to Jacksons 10.78
Both women ran the 100m AND 200m at their National Champs so to come back, to EUROPE, and run so well is CRAZY!!!🥴🔥🤩
But, it has to be said Kerri 🙌🏾🫡🙌🏾
Over at the Women's LJ Final. Davis-Woodhall🇺🇸 went into the lead with a 1st round of jump of 6.91. Until Vuleta 🇷🇸 took it STRAIGHT back with a SB of 7.05! 🤪🔥🙌🏾
Tara Davis got the better of Quanesha Burks today on her final jump.
The rivalry talks have been fun, but it was good to see them show mutual respect after the competition.
But… Feel free to get back to the trash talking next week.
🎥's of the 3 FASTEST times in the World THIS year!
1.
@sherickajacko
🇯🇲
⏱️ 10.65(+1.0)
📍100m Final. Jamaican National Champs
📅 7th July 23
2.
@itskerrii
🇺🇸
⏱️10.71(+0.1)
📍100m Semis. US Outdoor Champs
📅 6th July 23
3.
@majotalou
🇨🇮
⏱️10.75(+0.9)
📍100m Oslo DL
📅 15 June 23
What else needs to be said... Fred Kerley is in a different zone right now. He really has gotten in everyone head. He's beating these guys before the races even begin! 🥴💥🤪🔥
#RomeDL
There's something really trippy about meeting one of the world's greatest athletes you watched as a kid & were in total awe of!😳
Especially when they know who you are🙈 & THEN you get to have a chat about the Women's Long Jump Final, you both just watched live! 😝🥹💫🙌🏾
#JJK
👑
Jeeez...
@fkerley99
🇺🇸 was very disrespectful (Anson voice) in that last 40m! 😯😂
Norman🇺🇸 👀 he's got some work to do. Do you think he might go back to the 400m at US World Trials??😬
#DohaDL
These are the 3 FASTEST men in the world THIS year!
@zharnel_hughes
🇬🇧 9.83 (+1.3)
@Ferdiomanyala
🇰🇪 9.84 (-0.5)
@fkerley99
9.88 (+1.5)
Will THIS be the podium at the Worlds come August? 👀
If you think no, WHO will it be??🤔💥🍿
Rai Benjamin prolly knew that it would take 46 low to win The Olympics.
And he did that.
The problem is that Karsten Warholm just ran the 400m Hurdles in 45 seconds.
What did we just see...
#Tokyo2020
#Olympics
#Athletics
@_Kingben_
@kwarholm
SHIT, man... ANOTHER bites the dust! This last 20m of this home straight is takin people out, boi! 😨
Rasheed Broadbell 🇯🇲, the 2nd fastest man in the world THIS year, falls at the second to last hurdle and is OUT! 😱😱😱 Oh, the DRAMA! 🥴
18 year old Mattia Furlani 🇮🇹 jumps 8.23 in the first round of the Long Jump at the European U20 Champs, breaking the 36-year-old championship record! 😱
He also has a jumped 8.44 (2.2) from May this year! Maybe we all need to run like this on the runway! 👀🤪🔥
#Jerusalem2023
Just saw this clip of
@realshellyannfp
again...THIS has to be the BEST hairstyle EVER in sport!
The colour and the way it moves when she's sprinting...actually looks like she set that sh*t on 🔥🔥 because she's running so fast! 🥵👌🏾😅
Now, THIS makes sense. Why... because she's Irish and Ireland will 100% look after her outside of JUST a shoe contract.
I don't think this is always the case for American athletes.
@rhasidatadeleke
🇮🇪
One chapter closes, and a huge one opens for
@rhasidatadeleke
who announces on Instagram that she's going pro.
What a collegiate career it was at
@TexasTFXC
Btw...Femke Bol running 51.45 for 400mh is CRAZY - would be unbelievable if it wasnt for what Sydney has already done in this event!🤯🥴
I hope Sydney understands by NOT contesting the 400mh at Worlds shes unleashed a🐉 & Bol WILL be coming for her at the Olympics next year!😳
THIS is what happens when they say you aint a "journalist" and try and keep you out the mixed zone, lol.
You gotta love the inspiration that comes out of when peeps try and keep you down and OUT! 🤩🔥🫡
OUTSIDE THE MIXED ZONE
This series is created to give professional T&F athletes a creative experience outside the normal media area, where they are relaxed and free to be their authentic self.
SUNDAY MAY 19TH
@PiuzeR
@rhasidatadeleke
@_BraceYaself
✨
Both tear achilles in an Olympic year and STILL manage to smile?!😱😮💨 They are better than me because this is devastating! 😭😭
I just pray they can both come back to their best because an achilles rupture has to be one of the worst injuries an athlete can sustain! 😰😓
What
@ItsGabrielleT
said! 🗣
@brittanyshamere
ran the SEVENTH all conditions 100m time in HISTORY!😳 Why isn't this getting more attention?? 🤷🏾♀️
Alltime/All conditions women's 100m list via
@pjvazel
below ⬇️
Why aren’t we talking about this?? This girl just went from an 11.2 PB to a 10.66w, and it’s only April! If you don’t know track- this is huge. This makes her one of the best sprinters in history. I would’ve liked to win this one but gotta give props to
@brittanyshamere
🙌🏽👏🏽
Steiner vs Naser over 200m at the
@MJGold
invite this weekend.
😯🏃🏾♀️💨🍿
Steiner should clearly win, but its going to be very interesting to see where Naser is physically and how she responds mentally to this head-to-head! 👀🤔🤩
#trackseason
#trackandfield
@ItsGabrielleT
🇺🇸 did her thing! Time was decent, 22.04(-0.4), but it was more about the way she pulled away in the home straight.👏🏾
@dinaashersmith
🇬🇧 got an explosive started but faded badly. 4th, 22.57. Ta Lou🇨🇮 came through strongly for 2nd 22.34. Steiner🇺🇸 3rd 22.34.
#ParisDL
🚨SURPRISE ANNOUNCEMENT🚨
Olympic Year 2024! 💫
I think this might be our BEST collab yet! 😍
Beyond excited and grateful! 🙏🏽
Coming June 2024 📅
#HappyMothersDay
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