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No room for Simpson at Ja invitational
file - Sherone Simpson
Ryon Jones, Star Writer
Olympic silver medallist Sherone Simpson, who is currently trying to get back to the pinnacle of her profession, following an injury-riddled 2009, has seen her request for a lane in tomorrow's Inter-national Invitational Meet denied.
Simpson, who copped silver in the 100m at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, and four years earlier helped Jamaica's 4x100m relay team to gold at the Athens Olympics, has in recent weeks publicly stated her desire to participate in the 100m, where she would have faced compatriot Kerron Stewart and world's fastest woman Carmelita Jeter.
The invitation to be part of the meet was originally extended to Simpson and her MVP teammates. However, according to meet director Donald Quarrie, the MVP camp advised that Simpson was among a number of MVP, who would not be available to participate.
"It is totally unfair to her for them (MVP) to have taken her out of the meet, they should never have done that, she doesn't deserve that, to put her in limbo like that was not right," said Quarrie.
already allocated
"She should have had a say, early enough, if she wanted to come out or not. So everyone needs to question the MVP administration, coaching staff and management staff, as they should give Jamaica an explanation as to why they took her out.
"I would have been willing to put her back in but the lanes were already allocated. Whatever they did, they did not have her interest at heart and I guess they realised it after the fact," he added.
MVP's president Bruce James however, puts forward a possible reason for Simpson having not been originally entered to compete at the meet.
"The coach knows her level of preparation, the coach knows what type of form she is in, for example she was entered in the UTech meet on the 17th of April, she was entered in the Penn Relays on the 24th of April. Therefore, when the coaches at first determined that the April 17th race and the April 24th race would be enough for her, I was satisfied with that decision by the coaches," said James.
"After further reflections the coaches determined that she could handle April 17, April 24th and May 1st back to back, again I supported their decisions," he added.
Following the coaches' decision for Simpson to run, her agent Paul Doyle made contact with the meet organisers requesting a lane for her, but one could not have been found.
"Initially, we told them that she wasn't going to run and then a few days later we realised that it would have been in her best interest to run," said Doyle.
"So around three weeks ago, we decided that she would like to run. I contacted Donald Quarrie and Howard Aris but ultimately they weren't able to find her a lane," he added.
Simpson will, however, be in action this weekend as she left the island last night for where she will compete in the 100 at a meet on Saturday.
http://jamaica-star.com/thestar/2010...s/sports1.html
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Aside: Think James' words say - the truth is the Twitter post was a lie!
Why was it done?
Who knows? ...but it may have been to pressure Quarrie to 'bump' someone and put Sherone in? ...good management tactic or no?
No room for Simpson at Ja invitational
file - Sherone Simpson
Ryon Jones, Star Writer
Olympic silver medallist Sherone Simpson, who is currently trying to get back to the pinnacle of her profession, following an injury-riddled 2009, has seen her request for a lane in tomorrow's Inter-national Invitational Meet denied.
Simpson, who copped silver in the 100m at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, and four years earlier helped Jamaica's 4x100m relay team to gold at the Athens Olympics, has in recent weeks publicly stated her desire to participate in the 100m, where she would have faced compatriot Kerron Stewart and world's fastest woman Carmelita Jeter.
The invitation to be part of the meet was originally extended to Simpson and her MVP teammates. However, according to meet director Donald Quarrie, the MVP camp advised that Simpson was among a number of MVP, who would not be available to participate.
"It is totally unfair to her for them (MVP) to have taken her out of the meet, they should never have done that, she doesn't deserve that, to put her in limbo like that was not right," said Quarrie.
already allocated
"She should have had a say, early enough, if she wanted to come out or not. So everyone needs to question the MVP administration, coaching staff and management staff, as they should give Jamaica an explanation as to why they took her out.
"I would have been willing to put her back in but the lanes were already allocated. Whatever they did, they did not have her interest at heart and I guess they realised it after the fact," he added.
MVP's president Bruce James however, puts forward a possible reason for Simpson having not been originally entered to compete at the meet.
"The coach knows her level of preparation, the coach knows what type of form she is in, for example she was entered in the UTech meet on the 17th of April, she was entered in the Penn Relays on the 24th of April. Therefore, when the coaches at first determined that the April 17th race and the April 24th race would be enough for her, I was satisfied with that decision by the coaches," said James.
"After further reflections the coaches determined that she could handle April 17, April 24th and May 1st back to back, again I supported their decisions," he added.
Following the coaches' decision for Simpson to run, her agent Paul Doyle made contact with the meet organisers requesting a lane for her, but one could not have been found.
"Initially, we told them that she wasn't going to run and then a few days later we realised that it would have been in her best interest to run," said Doyle.
"So around three weeks ago, we decided that she would like to run. I contacted Donald Quarrie and Howard Aris but ultimately they weren't able to find her a lane," he added.
Simpson will, however, be in action this weekend as she left the island last night for where she will compete in the 100 at a meet on Saturday.
http://jamaica-star.com/thestar/2010...s/sports1.html
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Aside: Think James' words say - the truth is the Twitter post was a lie!
Why was it done?
Who knows? ...but it may have been to pressure Quarrie to 'bump' someone and put Sherone in? ...good management tactic or no?
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