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After keeping their top athletes out of the JII meet, now they are trying to disrupt things by trying to get Sherone into the 100m at last minute..
Let us hear from the apologists now...
Let us hear from the apologists now...
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Solidarity is not a matter of well wishing, but is sharing the very same fate whether in victory or in death.
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They tried to get her in from 3 weeks ago.
Still, its a storm in a teacup.
This happens all the time in Europe. You dont get in one meet, just move on and try another. I dont see any disruption here. Just the facts of life.
MVP is free not to enter and JAAA is free to not accomodate. No harm no foul. -
Quarrie blames management team for doubts on Simpson’s participation at JIIM
Posted by admin on Apr 29th, 2010 and filed under Featured
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Sherone Simpson
KINGSTON: Donald Quarrie, JN Jamaica International Invitational athletes’ liaison, has blamed Sherone Simpson’s management team for the reason the athlete is still without a lane, two days ahead of Saturday’s (1 May) event, an IAAF Area Permit Meet.
“It is totally unfair what they did to Sherone … to withdraw her and now having her pondering if she will be running,” Quarrie told trackalerts.com
The issue of Simpson’s participation started at the press launch on April 9, when Quarrie, who on the same day said all the lanes in the women’s and men’s 100m were full, had disclosed that Simpson’s management team advised them that she would not be running in Kingston. Quarrie said this was after they had accepted the invitation to the meet.
Quarrie, the 1976 Olympic 200m champion, disclosed the content of some of his communication with one of the group’s (MVP) managers.
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“Regarding Asafa Powell, Shericka (Williams), Brigitte Foster-Hylton and Sherone, I received the schedule of requested meets from coach (Stephen) Francis, and the Kingston meet was not included for these athletes … The first major meet for these athletes will be the Diamond League in Doha on May 14.”
However, when contacted on 19 April, Simpson’s agent Paul Doyle said there was a mix-up in communication.
“It was just a mix-up in communication, so we are hoping she will be running (at the meet),” he said.
On Thursday (29 April) Simpson’s club, MVP on its twitter page, said: “despite our efforts, the organisers of the Jamaica International track meet have refused to offer a lane in the 100m to Sherone Simpson.”
However, Donald Quarrie, who is responsible for getting athletes to the meet, said the door has not been closed on Simpson.
“If anything opens up she will get a lane,” said Quarrie, who went on to say it must not be taken as anything personal against Simpson.
Quarrie added that by Friday it would be decided if Simpson will get a lane in the women’s 100m, in which fellow Jamaicans Kerron Stewart, Aleen Bailey and Simone Facey, along with Americans Camerlita Jeter, Marshevet Myers and Alexandra Anderson are confirmed to run.Last edited by Karl; April 30, 2010, 08:54 AM.Solidarity is not a matter of well wishing, but is sharing the very same fate whether in victory or in death.
Che Guevara.Comment
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Sigh“Life is a system of half-truths and lies, opportunistic, convenient evasion.”
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She is already in Guadeloupe where they gave her a lane in the 100m.
As I said, no harm no foul.Comment
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Blame Doyle - him talk outta 2 side of his mouth
“Life is a system of half-truths and lies, opportunistic, convenient evasion.”
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bolt mi seh!
BLACK LIVES MATTERComment
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Why blame anyone?
They all do as they please.
No harm, no foul. Dont everybody gets to run somewhere? Free market.Comment
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Bolt actually goes without saying! LoLComment
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Originally posted by Willi View Post
Goes without saying that people were ready to roast DQ over the coals
“Life is a system of half-truths and lies, opportunistic, convenient evasion.”
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...so how is it the MVP folk in their public release on their Twitter page is reported as having said the following:Originally posted by Willi View Post?
“despite our efforts, the organisers of the Jamaica International track meet have refused to offer a lane in the 100m to Sherone Simpson.”
If true, would that not be a clear instance of lying publicly? ...another instance of attempting to set the public against the organisers?
MVP, it seems to me, has issues that need internal focus and external professional help for, at the very least, some of its principal officers and workers."Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."Comment
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Lying?
Please explain.
dem try get her in from 3 weeks ago and Quarrie said no a day or 2 ago and so dem call Guadeloupe (who they said no to before) and Guadeloupe find space fi her by bumping a local.
I see no inconsistency.Comment
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===============================================Originally posted by Karl View Post
Yikes, if they were wearing skirts, they couldn't be more contentious!
“Life is a system of half-truths and lies, opportunistic, convenient evasion.”
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Certainly not Doyle.
Franno give DQ some payback by pulling his senior athletes, except he never meant to pull SS. So the screwup is on MVP there.
DQ vex from the press conference when he announced the pullout...the tone was clearly bitter. MVP 4 days later tried a reversal for SS and got a provisional yes/more than likely, but up to yesterday no confirmation and it turn to unlikely.
They then called Guadeloupe on short notice and get her in there.
As I said...MVP is free to withdraw and DQ free to refuse to shuffle the deck to fit in SS. However, who suffers more? I think DQ does as his hand is a bit weaker, but it is not detrimental to either side. If SS end up being ranked number 1 in the world this year, will she accept DQ overtures to run in 2011? Long run, short ketch. Still, DQ was provoked in thsi instance. LoL
With the history of bad blood between those people,flexibility and accomodation is not to be expected.Comment
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hehehe .... 'as the world turns in the days of our lives all my children follow the guiding light to santa barbera but beware of the dark shadows lurking at peyton place!"
Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe. Thomas PaineComment
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