Sally McLellan/ Osaka meet

[mastermulti]

the 20 year old (blonde) Aussie tonight ran 12.71 (0 wind) to win the
Osaka 100m hurdles event knocking 2/10s from her recently set national
record.
She convincingly beat Lolo Jones and Danielle Carruthers of the USA.
She also PB'd this season with a 11.23 x 100 metre time.

Jeremy Wariner ran 44.02 to beat Williamson by a full 2/3 of a second in
the 400. Looks like he's dominating right from the start of the season.

Both these athletes have "winner" written all over them... neither appear
fazed by competition at all.Edited by: mastermulti

 

[white lightning]

I wonder is she is single.Me and Sally would make a nice couple and get have lots of little white lightnings!Ha.ha.I wish. On a serious note,she is flat out amazing.She is a world class hurdler and she should be one of the favorites at the World Champs in August.I will be pulling for her as well as Mottram and a few other Aussies.We need more people from the land down under to join this board.Congrats to Sally!

 

[highschoolcoach]

Thanks for this post. i usually check up on Ms. McLellan, but have not done so for a while. I wish that there were some U.S.A. girls like her. I wonder what sport she would be doing if she were an American.

 

[devans]

Cheerleading?

(no offence intended!)

 

[highschoolcoach]

Maybe a cheerleader. i like cheerleaders, but, if you've followed some of my posts, i really, really would like to see American white women excell in the sprints and hurdles. Australian, English, Greek, Russian, Swedish, etc. woman can, so why not American?

 

[mastermulti]

it simply must be either cultural or that they've been told (in some form
or another) that they can't compete.

In Australia we'll get a bunch of white or mixed white /indigenous girls
not infrequently who battle it out and at some stage of their careers run
some pretty decent times.
At one time we had Mel Gainsford (11.15PB), Cathy (11.23), Lauren
Hewitt, Tania Van Heer (both 11.28) running together as well as some
11.40-11.60 runners at the same time. We have 20 million people and a
negligible number of African-Australians.
We had Raelene Boyle who ran 11.20A at 16 to be just behind Wyomia
Tyus in Mexico Olympics.

White Americans would presumably be of a practically identical Euro
heritage as white Aussies so being potrntially ABLE to run well isn't the
question here.

But look at the men too. We always have a team of whites/mixed
indigenous guys who run well and especially in relay (where Aussie team
spirit shows out). In 1995 in Gotenburg out team ran 38.17 which is very
decent even today

 

[highschoolcoach]

it simply must be either cultural or that they've been told (in some form
or another) that they can't compete.

In Australia we'll get a bunch of white or mixed white /indigenous girls
not infrequently who battle it out and at some stage of their careers run
some pretty decent times.
At one time we had Mel Gainsford (11.15PB), Cathy (11.23), Lauren
Hewitt, Tania Van Heer (both 11.28) running together as well as some
11.40-11.60 runners at the same time. We have 20 million people and a
negligible number of African-Australians.
We had Raelene Boyle who ran 11.20A at 16 to be just behind Wyomia
Tyus in Mexico Olympics.

White Americans would presumably be of a practically identical Euro
heritage as white Aussies so being potrntially ABLE to run well isn't the
question here.

But look at the men too. We always have a team of whites/mixed
indigenous guys who run well and especially in relay (where Aussie team
spirit shows out). In 1995 in Gotenburg out team ran 38.17 which is very
decent even today

I wish i knew why Australia has more good white female sprinters and hurdlers than the U.S. However, i would not be surprised if potential U.S. world-class female 400 meter runners are running the 800m. (or even farther) instead. It may have something to do with our general assumption than blacks are better.

 

[mastermulti]

I'd say that's EXACTLY the case.... coaches think "OK you're white, pretty
good athlete but WHITE. Maybe you could do ....."

Jenny Adams is a top athlete. Surely she could run 11.20's but I
suppose that wouldn't cut it for U.S selection!

If any of you guys come down under some day, come to training
sessions at Homebush (Sydney) and you'll see Whites who can run and
jump very well.

You guys ever seen our other blonde Bronwyn Thompson long jump 7
metres?

Have to laugh....Jana Pitman was there the other day and a camera crew
was waiting for her on the back straight.
I ran every rep down that back straight whenever she was being filmed
hahaha. I haven't had any sponsorship offers yet thoughEdited by: mastermulti

 

[highschoolcoach]

I'd say that's EXACTLY the case.... coaches think "OK you're white, pretty
good athlete but WHITE. Maybe you could do ....."

Jenny Adams is a top athlete. Surely she could run 11.20's but I
suppose that wouldn't cut it for U.S selection!

If any of you guys come down under some day, come to training
sessions at Homebush (Sydney) and you'll see Whites who can run and
jump very well.

You guys ever seen our other blonde Bronwyn Thompson long jump 7
metres?

Some interesting lines about Sally mcLellan and other Australian women:
<H2 =lead-par>GOLD COAST hurdler Sally McLellan has proved she has what it takes to be the next genuine international star to emerge from Australian athletics.</H2>
<DIV =encompass>If ever there was any doubt, it was erased at Osaka's Nagai Stadium when she smashed her own national 100m hurdles record by 0.21sec, to win the IAAF Grand Prix event in 12.71sec, the fastest time in the world this year. The world record is 12.21sec, set by Yordanka Donkoba of Bulgaria in 1988.


Significantly, McLellan, 20, has the mental and physical hide necessary to achieve big things in a brutally competitive global sport.


On Saturday she was running with a swollen and painful right knee that has limited her training, and against a high class field, including two American hurdlers and one Polish hurdler who, until Saturday, were substantially faster than her.


But that is where the gutsy McLellan shines. Like 400m Olympic gold medallist Cathy Freeman and 2003 400m hurdles world champion Jana Pittman, she is not intimidated on the international stage. Rather, it fires her menacing competitive spirit.


I wonder if constantly hearing and reading that blacks are better has not taken some of the spirit out of white American woman track athletes.