Thank you for streaming this! THANK YOU. For the split screen to show the field and the leaders. Not even the big networks seem to do this at major events and you miss the other race battles. AI love watching the leaders sure but great to be able to see moves others make and bring them back to the leaders.
Lexi Holladay Lowry is redshirting for BYU I believe so her time would have been like the 2nd fastest ever in college history if it counts!!! Amazing!! Excited to see what she does next year in college!
@@Islandmidfielder no. What kind of conversion do you think it comes to? 4:26? I just added one second to the pace she was at, 4:24, but I know you get more tired as you go farther
When we have races where an athlete is way out ahead, can we focus the camera on the rest of the runners please. Sifan is going to be Sifan. We love her. Yet we came to see many of our other athletes we support. The others deserve to be seen by their supporters or whats the point?
Is this the same meet that used to be called the Portland Rose Festival where Chi Cheng set WRs in the 100y and 220 of 10.0 and 22..7 in 1970? Chi Cheng was the Bolt of 1969-70. Even John Carlos lost during that period, which was his peak. Here's an article about Cheng and the WRs she set in Portland. I watched the broadcast of the meet, I think on CBS Sports Spectacular. SINGAPORE - Summers pass and legends get left on the forgotten shelves of time. Fifty Junes ago at the Rose Festival in Portland, Oregon, an Asian woman took brilliant flight in front of the world's most celebrated astronaut. On a Saturday in 1970, Chi Cheng, the sprinter who first ran barefoot among the rice fields of Taiwan, exploded off the blocks in the 100 yards. Her time was 10 seconds. It was a world record. An hour or so later she ran the 220 yards in 22.7sec and it was another world record on a day that was unforgettable also because of her meeting with the chief guest. "I met Neil Armstrong," Chi, now 76, recounted last week. "He was very polite, such a gentleman." The first man on the moon had seen her become the fastest woman on the planet. Fifty summers have passed and we forget that Asians could once outsprint the world; we forget the daughter of a Taiwanese postman who moved quicker than air mail; we forget a schoolgirl who ran hard to win the first prize of a pencil case and writing sheets because "the more prizes I won the less my father has to pay for all those things". We forget old heroes and their lightning summers. In June-July 1970, Chi set six world records from the 100m to the 200m to the 100m hurdles, in Portland, Los Angeles, Munich and Vienna. She was fast everywhere and in everything and in July 1970, Time's story on her had a neat headline: "The Taiwan Flash". "Those were really great days," Chi remembers. "Heide Rosendahl the long jumper approached me (in Munich) and said you broke the world record and I jumped up and down in happiness and stepped on her foot with my spikes." Chi is a tale forgotten outside her shores which we need to resuscitate. This year we celebrate 50 years of Brazil's 1970 football team and yet we sometimes forget the shine of athletes from our own continent who reshaped the athletic universe. In the 89-year history of the AP Athlete of the Year Award only two are Asians and both women: Golfer Pak Se-ri in 1998 and Chi in 1970. She won an Olympic hurdling bronze in 1968, but the world records comprise an astonishing history, especially when only one women's track world record is currently held by an Asian (Wang Junxia, 3,000m). In an hour-long video chat, Chi emerged as an energetic, charming storyteller wrapped in a smile and humility. The fastest woman, my god, how did it feel? "It didn't affect my life much," she said. "It was nice to be honoured as the fastest woman in the world. But I was still very much Chi Cheng." Still, what a distance she has come from the teenager who asked her father for spikes and wept when he first said he couldn't afford it. Yet after dinner that day her father summoned her and gave her the money. He had borrowed it from a friend. Champions grow from such love but they also need luck. A US coach, Vince Reel, came to Taiwan in 1962 and when he returned, she says, he wrote several letters to officials praising her world-class potential. And so she went to America in 1963, following in gifted footsteps, for also in California was C.K. Yang, her inspiration and compatriot, who'd won Olympic decathlon silver in 1960, set the world record in April 1963 and was on the cover that year of Sports Illustrated under the headline: World's Best Athlete. There's a story in it about Yang killing a cobra when he was 11, but Chi just wanted to move like one. She competed constantly, had her technique filmed on an 8mm camera by Reel - who she married - and for all her talent was not resented. If prejudice lurked, she did not feel it. "No. Not at all. As a yellow skin Asian, I attract all the attention. They were quite curious that this yellow-skinned Asian girl was able to run so fast." She cooked meatballs for her peers and then won an Olympic medal by altering her diet. "I was told," she said, "that Western people and Europeans, the reason they are able to run faster and jump higher and further is because they ate a lot of beef. As an Asian, I loved pork and porridge. But this idea stayed in my mind when I went to the Olympics in Mexico City. It was the first time I had three meals a day which were all beef. This is how much I wanted to get a medal." Chi, at 1.72m, says she had the fastest speed in the 80m hurdles field, but her height was a disadvantage. "I was the tallest among the medallists and penalised for my height. Every hurdle I had to chop my steps. After Mexico they changed to the 100m (for women's hurdles) and between the hurdles there was more distance." Still, perhaps the result was foretold, written not in her stars but on her vest. "My number was 223 and I truly believed in numbers. I was second in my heat, second in the semi and third in the final, so 2-2-3." Only one Asian woman before her - Kinue Hitomi, 800m silver medallist in 1928 - had won an Olympic medal on the track and its value was significant to Chi. The medal released her, it made her even faster. "I was sent to the States in 1963 and I knew my responsibility was in following C.K. Yang's footsteps to get a medal in the Olympics. When I won bronze, I had finished my responsibility. For me it was such a relief. After that bronze I started to enjoy competition. There is such a difference in the psychological state of mind. And all of sudden I broke world records." It started in 1969 with the 200m hurdles and then very quickly she left the world in her wake. As we talk and she invites me to come to Taiwan, Chi does not ever preen but gaily points to a story of failure from her first Olympics in 1960. "I was only 16," she remembers, "and I came last in my heat in the 80m hurdles. This story I loved to tell the kids. Thing is I didn't quit and if I wasn't last in my heat I wouldn't have won bronze in 1968." Chi's story matters, especially for Asian sprinters, because her name in the record books is a proof of possibility. Fifty years later she is worth copying just as she was 50 years before. Asked about the finest compliment she got, the story she tells is not about what anyone said but what some young girls did. In 1970, she went to northern California for a meet and came down one morning for breakfast in her hotel. "There was a group of young American athletes also having breakfast and they paid attention to what I ate. They jotted it down. It was the greatest compliment because they cared about what I ate." Getting a taste, one might say, about what it meant to be extraordinary. WORLD RECORDS BY CHI CHENG 1) 200m hurdles 26.2 secs (May 25, 1969) Walnut, California 2) 100 yards 10.0 0s (June 13, 1970) Portland, Oregon 3) 220 yards 22.7s (June 13,1970) Portland, Oregon 4) 220 yards 22.6s (July 3, 1970) Los Angeles, California 5) 100m hurdles 12.8s (July 12, 1970) Munich, Germany 6) 200m 22.4s (July 12, 1970) Munich, Germany 7) 100m 11.0s (July 18, 1970)
They contested the steeple Saturday night at Mt Hood CC in Gresham, since Lincoln HS doesn't have a steeple pit. This meet was originally scheduled for Lewis & Clark College, but there's apparently some issues with the facility, prompting a change in venue.
23:1328:55 WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS NEWSCASTER? He is an embarrassment to KGW. His is racially biased and rude beyond belief. He called Sifan an “annoying” person “he’s never heard of”, then threw a fit and said he needed a cigarette after she won. Then after she won showing remarkable athleticism, he proceeds to complain that the race has “completely changed” and then he resentfully describes her win as “she just decided to test herself and make it a competition”. KGW HIRED THIS PERSON. He presents her as a villain, a implying she is not worthy of her titles. He is blatantly biased in favor of the white women. His aggression towards Sifan Hassan is unacceptable. He distracts from the story by attacking Sifan over and over, showing he is unprofessional and unable to hold back his racial biased contempt. “Never heard of her - what’s she done recently? “Is it what she does? Don’t screw things up for the rest of us.” “PAY NO MIND TO SIFAN HASSAN.” He says, devaluing her accomplishments and tearing her down while he raves about how amazing and hard working the white girls are. 28:5538:24 “…metabolically …physiologically biologically …mentally attacking Sifan Hassan.” 39:15 I need a cigarette. blatant unprofessional behavior that he can make the 5K has changed. It’s a different game. She knows that. She just went up and decided to make it a competition.” NEWS FLASH: IT IS A COMPETITION. And the best won! Congrats Sifan Hassan!!!!!!!
This is the MOST UNHINGED rant I've seen in quite a while... and being a YT and Reddit regular I see a lot of unhinged hot-takes. But Alyssa takes the prize! I dunno if Alyssa is just a moron or if she's being intentionally dishonest, but either way it's obvious she sees what she WANTS instead of what's ACTUALLY there. Let's take her CRAZY TOWN accusations one-by-one: >> WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS NEWSCASTER? He is an embarrassment to KGW. His is racially biased and rude beyond belief. I have NO IDEA whether or not the presenter is racially biased. Maybe he is? Maybe he isn't? BUT NOHTING SAID BY EITHER spokespeople during this event would lead ANY sane individual to Alyssa's 100% crazy-town conclusion! LIE #1 !!! >> His is racially biased and rude beyond belief. He called Sifan an “annoying” person “he’s never heard of” Are you an idiot? He DIDN'T call Sifan an annoying person. He called HER ACTION "annoying"!!! The comment is in regards to AN ACTION... an apparent ELBOW Sifan threw to the PACER... who was running SOLO, ON THE RAIL, on a WIDE OPEN TRACK. Since Alyssa appears to be a moron, let me explain things simply. It's RUDE and it's UNNECESSARY to elbow the PACER, who isn't even competing. You get that right???? The pacer is a PAID job. They "pace" the race for X laps and then HOP OFF the track! They aren't racing. They don't run to the finish! You aren't supposed to elbow ANYONE, much less a non-competing athlete... and u especially shouldn't be throwing elbows on a WIDE OPEN TRACK! If Sifan doesn't feel she has enough room to pass the Pacer who is RUNNING ON THE INSIDE RAIL, then Sifan needs to run WIDER in Lane 2; NOT elbow the pacer for more room. Alyssa's INTENTIONAL LIE about the announcer's comment is LIE #2 >> he’s never heard of”, “Never heard of her - what’s she done recently? It's MIND BOGGLING how disingenuous Alyssa is being here! OMFG!!! The announcers are actually COMPLIMENTING Sifan here!! But Alyssa is such a whack-job, she LIES about the context (LIE #3) and LIES about the ACTUAL WORDS SAID (LIE #4)! Folks, let me set the stage for yall... The announcer's comments happen during the introductions! The announcers are making an ironic joke... Sifan is a multi-gold medalist who's recently & repeatedly shattered records on the track. She's a BIG F-ing DEAL!! She's a SHARK. EVERYONE knows about Sifan and obviously everyone knows her RECENT accomplishments on the WORLD STAGE. They are joking about not being familiar w/ her accomplishments Announcer #1: But don't forget about the last person on this list... Sifan Hassan Announcer #2: "(I) HEARD of her... what she done recently?" (being obviously ironic) Announcer #1: HAHAHAHAHHAAHA!!! (laughing at the irony... Obviously he's heard of her. EVERYONE HAS) NOTICE how Alyssa LIES about what Announcer #2's ACTUALLY said? He joke, '(i) "HEARD" of her... what's she done recently?' Alyssa LIES (LIE #4)... claims the announcer said he's "NEVER" heard of her. He didn't said "NEVER". He said he's "HEARD of her". But EITHER WAY, it doesn't matter. The point is they are complimenting Sifan's AMAZING talent & race record. They're being sarcastic. It's like referring to Taylor Swift and saying "Taylor Swift??? Yeah... I think I've heard that name somewhere." Ya think???? >> then threw a fit and said he needed a cigarette after she won. I've watched this video repeatedly. NO "fits" where thrown you IDIOT! THIS NEVER HAPPENED! This is Alyssa's LIE #5! The two announcers are blown away by Sifan's meet shattering winning time! They are GUSHING over her amazing performance! They are essentially saying, "WOW!!! THAT WAS CRAZY FAST! Whew!!! I need a cigarette after watch that super fast performance." Alyssa is a manipulative & dishonest person! This is a FACT. She INTENTIONALLY takes comments out of context and she also straight-up fabricates things that are never said or implied. >> Then after she won showing remarkable athleticism, he proceeds to complain that the race has “completely changed” This is where Alyssa shows her true stripes and also reveals SHE KNOWS NOTHING about track, knows NOTHING about competitive running, and knows NOTHING about recent advances in running shoe technology! YES Alyssa, both road racing, and more recently Track racing, has changed dramatically since the advent of super-shoes (road) and super-SPIKES (track). Over the past 3-4yrs, LONG STANDING, TRACK world records have suddenly being falling in droves. These are records that have stood for 20-40 yrs (records set pre-doping checks)! And it's 95% due to super-spikes! So yes Alyssa, track racing has "completely changed" relatively recently. THAT'S A FACT. The introduction of SUPER SPIKES has totally warped reality. Once-upon-a-time going sub-4 used to be rarified air. In the U.S. the number of ppl who could go sub-4 USED to be LOW, LOW, LOW double digits. BUT NOW with super-spikes, going sub-4 is just a Tuesday afternoon HS track workout. The fact that Alyssa doesn't know ANY of this is laughable. >> and then he resentfully describes her win as “she just decided to test herself and make it a competition”. KGW HIRED THIS PERSON. He presents her as a villain, a implying she is not worthy of her titles. He is blatantly biased in favor of the white women. His aggression towards Sifan Hassan is unacceptable. He distracts from the story by attacking Sifan over and over, showing he is unprofessional and unable to hold back his racial biased contempt. Is this another example of intentional dishonesty or just stupidity? I dunno? But at this point Alyssa DOES NOT deserve the benefit of doubt! So I label this LIE #6! The Announcer is making an ASTUTE professional analysis concerning Sifan's race strategy and her SUPERIOR athletic ability. Since Alyssa doesn't know anything about competitive running, let me explain like she's a total idiot. There are TWO major strategies when racing. You either TT the race (time trial), OR you "Make it a competition". TTing a race generally means going out hard, locking into a PRE-determined FAST pace (as prescribed by your coach ahead of time), and finishing even HARDER. When TTing, you are NOT COMPETING/RACING other athletes. You are essentially racing YOURSELF and the CLOCK. The actions, moves, & pace of OTHER athletes on the track are completely irrelevant to YOUR race! You are NOT "racing" THEM! You are "racing" YOURSELF! You are trying to hit a specific time goal in your head. Sifan went out HARD and then mysteriously SLOWED DOWN. She started out Time Trialing and then decided to slow down to Pack-pace. Why? THIS is the question the announcer is attempting to analyze... you know, cuz he's a race analyst. He explains Sifan starts off TTing... and then something goes wrong... so she drops back to a COMPETITIVE RACE strategy... and decides to run THEIR pace, to FIGHT for race positioning, to cover THEIR moves, and then SIT & KICK for the finish! The announcer is saying Sifan wasn't worried about defaulting to Plan B bc of her MASSVIE weapon... her kick! Switching strat. mid race isn't optimal most athletes. But for an athlete of Sifan's caliber it isn't a problem. BOTH announcers PRAISE Sifan effusively!! They talk about the MASSIVE hurt Sifan puts on Cranny over the final 100m. They talk about her meet shattering time. They talk about her multiple gold medals. They talk about her inevidible success at the Olympics REGARDELESS of which event(s) she decides to compete. Neither announcer is denigrating Sifan. Alyssa just continues to blatantly LIE, LIE, LIE!!! LIE #7. Do grok any of this Alyssa?? Or are you still completely ignorant & blinded by your insane rage? The rest of Alyssa's rant is simply nonsensical, imaginary, or pure delusion. Just more Alyssa intentionally "misunderstanding" clearly spoken English words... or pulling words out of context... or Alyssa YET AGAIN flat-out LYING. BTW Alyssa, I'M a hard-core PROGRESSIVE and you make me embarrassed being an ally to your delusional irrationality.
Thank you for streaming this! THANK YOU. For the split screen to show the field and the leaders. Not even the big networks seem to do this at major events and you miss the other race battles. AI love watching the leaders sure but great to be able to see moves others make and bring them back to the leaders.
OMG sifan Hassan competed in 5k and 1500 after just sub 15 min performance
What a great running event and definitely the best running commentary ever! Great job!
Lexi Holladay Lowry is redshirting for BYU I believe so her time would have been like the 2nd fastest ever in college history if it counts!!! Amazing!! Excited to see what she does next year in college!
Go Daniel Simmons! Glad the announcers finally realized that the 5K High School record was broken - amazing!!!
The pace of his time is 8:35 for 3200m that's insane
Great announcing
Diljeet and Courtney Wayment are SO happy for Lexy!
Great gullvier singh paaji for breaking national record❤
Great coverage, team! 🙌🙌
Great job Anna Camp! I know she ran 4:08 in college. How is that compared to her PR?
That Womens 1500 was fantastic. Love a kickers race especially when it upsets a well know talent everyone expects to win.
Sadie Englehart the Junior in high school ran the equivalent of 4:25 in the mile roughly
Are you familiar with the debate about conversions?🎉
@@Islandmidfielder no. What kind of conversion do you think it comes to? 4:26? I just added one second to the pace she was at, 4:24, but I know you get more tired as you go farther
They put together a pretty good track meet, for a backwoods town.
When we have races where an athlete is way out ahead, can we focus the camera on the rest of the runners please. Sifan is going to be Sifan. We love her. Yet we came to see many of our other athletes we support. The others deserve to be seen by their supporters or whats the point?
There was a split screen for a great deal of the race, plus Hassan was caught. There is very little to complain about with that particular race.
Lex’s young record****
Is this the same meet that used to be called the Portland Rose Festival where Chi Cheng set WRs in the 100y and 220 of 10.0 and 22..7 in 1970? Chi Cheng was the Bolt of 1969-70. Even John Carlos lost during that period, which was his peak. Here's an article about Cheng and the WRs she set in Portland. I watched the broadcast of the meet, I think on CBS Sports Spectacular.
SINGAPORE - Summers pass and legends get left on the forgotten shelves of time. Fifty Junes ago at the Rose Festival in Portland, Oregon, an Asian woman took brilliant flight in front of the world's most celebrated astronaut. On a Saturday in 1970, Chi Cheng, the sprinter who first ran barefoot among the rice fields of Taiwan, exploded off the blocks in the 100 yards.
Her time was 10 seconds. It was a world record.
An hour or so later she ran the 220 yards in 22.7sec and it was another world record on a day that was unforgettable also because of her meeting with the chief guest. "I met Neil Armstrong," Chi, now 76, recounted last week. "He was very polite, such a gentleman." The first man on the moon had seen her become the fastest woman on the planet.
Fifty summers have passed and we forget that Asians could once outsprint the world; we forget the daughter of a Taiwanese postman who moved quicker than air mail; we forget a schoolgirl who ran hard to win the first prize of a pencil case and writing sheets because "the more prizes I won the less my father has to pay for all those things".
We forget old heroes and their lightning summers. In June-July 1970, Chi set six world records from the 100m to the 200m to the 100m hurdles, in Portland, Los Angeles, Munich and Vienna. She was fast everywhere and in everything and in July 1970, Time's story on her had a neat headline: "The Taiwan Flash".
"Those were really great days," Chi remembers. "Heide Rosendahl the long jumper approached me (in Munich) and said you broke the world record and I jumped up and down in happiness and stepped on her foot with my spikes."
Chi is a tale forgotten outside her shores which we need to resuscitate. This year we celebrate 50 years of Brazil's 1970 football team and yet we sometimes forget the shine of athletes from our own continent who reshaped the athletic universe.
In the 89-year history of the AP Athlete of the Year Award only two are Asians and both women: Golfer Pak Se-ri in 1998 and Chi in 1970. She won an Olympic hurdling bronze in 1968, but the world records comprise an astonishing history, especially when only one women's track world record is currently held by an Asian (Wang Junxia, 3,000m).
In an hour-long video chat, Chi emerged as an energetic, charming storyteller wrapped in a smile and humility. The fastest woman, my god, how did it feel? "It didn't affect my life much," she said. "It was nice to be honoured as the fastest woman in the world. But I was still very much Chi Cheng."
Still, what a distance she has come from the teenager who asked her father for spikes and wept when he first said he couldn't afford it. Yet after dinner that day her father summoned her and gave her the money. He had borrowed it from a friend.
Champions grow from such love but they also need luck. A US coach, Vince Reel, came to Taiwan in 1962 and when he returned, she says, he wrote several letters to officials praising her world-class potential.
And so she went to America in 1963, following in gifted footsteps, for also in California was C.K. Yang, her inspiration and compatriot, who'd won Olympic decathlon silver in 1960, set the world record in April 1963 and was on the cover that year of Sports Illustrated under the headline: World's Best Athlete.
There's a story in it about Yang killing a cobra when he was 11, but Chi just wanted to move like one. She competed constantly, had her technique filmed on an 8mm camera by Reel - who she married - and for all her talent was not resented.
If prejudice lurked, she did not feel it. "No. Not at all. As a yellow skin Asian, I attract all the attention. They were quite curious that this yellow-skinned Asian girl was able to run so fast." She cooked meatballs for her peers and then won an Olympic medal by altering her diet.
"I was told," she said, "that Western people and Europeans, the reason they are able to run faster and jump higher and further is because they ate a lot of beef. As an Asian, I loved pork and porridge. But this idea stayed in my mind when I went to the Olympics in Mexico City. It was the first time I had three meals a day which were all beef. This is how much I wanted to get a medal."
Chi, at 1.72m, says she had the fastest speed in the 80m hurdles field, but her height was a disadvantage. "I was the tallest among the medallists and penalised for my height. Every hurdle I had to chop my steps. After Mexico they changed to the 100m (for women's hurdles) and between the hurdles there was more distance."
Still, perhaps the result was foretold, written not in her stars but on her vest. "My number was 223 and I truly believed in numbers. I was second in my heat, second in the semi and third in the final, so 2-2-3."
Only one Asian woman before her - Kinue Hitomi, 800m silver medallist in 1928 - had won an Olympic medal on the track and its value was significant to Chi. The medal released her, it made her even faster.
"I was sent to the States in 1963 and I knew my responsibility was in following C.K. Yang's footsteps to get a medal in the Olympics. When I won bronze, I had finished my responsibility. For me it was such a relief. After that bronze I started to enjoy competition. There is such a difference in the psychological state of mind. And all of sudden I broke world records."
It started in 1969 with the 200m hurdles and then very quickly she left the world in her wake.
As we talk and she invites me to come to Taiwan, Chi does not ever preen but gaily points to a story of failure from her first Olympics in 1960. "I was only 16," she remembers, "and I came last in my heat in the 80m hurdles. This story I loved to tell the kids. Thing is I didn't quit and if I wasn't last in my heat I wouldn't have won bronze in 1968."
Chi's story matters, especially for Asian sprinters, because her name in the record books is a proof of possibility. Fifty years later she is worth copying just as she was 50 years before. Asked about the finest compliment she got, the story she tells is not about what anyone said but what some young girls did.
In 1970, she went to northern California for a meet and came down one morning for breakfast in her hotel. "There was a group of young American athletes also having breakfast and they paid attention to what I ate. They jotted it down. It was the greatest compliment because they cared about what I ate."
Getting a taste, one might say, about what it meant to be extraordinary.
WORLD RECORDS BY CHI CHENG
1) 200m hurdles
26.2 secs (May 25, 1969)
Walnut, California
2) 100 yards
10.0 0s (June 13, 1970)
Portland, Oregon
3) 220 yards
22.7s (June 13,1970)
Portland, Oregon
4) 220 yards
22.6s (July 3, 1970)
Los Angeles, California
5) 100m hurdles
12.8s (July 12, 1970)
Munich, Germany
6) 200m
22.4s (July 12, 1970)
Munich, Germany
7) 100m
11.0s (July 18, 1970)
Nice history. Thx
I guarantee you Chi Cheng did not run 10.0
@@dontlookback3549 hand-timed 100 yards, not meters
No steeplechase. Bummer.
They contested the steeple Saturday night at Mt Hood CC in Gresham, since Lincoln HS doesn't have a steeple pit. This meet was originally scheduled for Lewis & Clark College, but there's apparently some issues with the facility, prompting a change in venue.
23:13 28:55 WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS NEWSCASTER? He is an embarrassment to KGW. His is racially biased and rude beyond belief. He called Sifan an “annoying” person “he’s never heard of”, then threw a fit and said he needed a cigarette after she won. Then after she won showing remarkable athleticism, he proceeds to complain that the race has “completely changed” and then he resentfully describes her win as “she just decided to test herself and make it a competition”. KGW HIRED THIS PERSON. He presents her as a villain, a implying she is not worthy of her titles. He is blatantly biased in favor of the white women. His aggression towards Sifan Hassan is unacceptable. He distracts from the story by attacking Sifan over and over, showing he is unprofessional and unable to hold back his racial biased contempt. “Never heard of her - what’s she done recently? “Is it what she does? Don’t screw things up for the rest of us.” “PAY NO MIND TO SIFAN HASSAN.” He says, devaluing her accomplishments and tearing her down while he raves about how amazing and hard working the white girls are. 28:55 38:24 “…metabolically …physiologically biologically …mentally attacking Sifan Hassan.” 39:15 I need a cigarette. blatant unprofessional behavior that he can make the 5K has changed. It’s a different game. She knows that. She just went up and decided to make it a competition.” NEWS FLASH: IT IS A COMPETITION. And the best won! Congrats Sifan Hassan!!!!!!!
This is the MOST UNHINGED rant I've seen in quite a while... and being a YT and Reddit regular I see a lot of unhinged hot-takes. But Alyssa takes the prize! I dunno if Alyssa is just a moron or if she's being intentionally dishonest, but either way it's obvious she sees what she WANTS instead of what's ACTUALLY there.
Let's take her CRAZY TOWN accusations one-by-one:
>> WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS NEWSCASTER? He is an embarrassment to KGW. His is racially biased and rude beyond belief.
I have NO IDEA whether or not the presenter is racially biased. Maybe he is? Maybe he isn't? BUT NOHTING SAID BY EITHER spokespeople during this event would lead ANY sane individual to Alyssa's 100% crazy-town conclusion! LIE #1 !!!
>> His is racially biased and rude beyond belief. He called Sifan an “annoying” person “he’s never heard of”
Are you an idiot? He DIDN'T call Sifan an annoying person. He called HER ACTION "annoying"!!! The comment is in regards to AN ACTION... an apparent ELBOW Sifan threw to the PACER... who was running SOLO, ON THE RAIL, on a WIDE OPEN TRACK. Since Alyssa appears to be a moron, let me explain things simply. It's RUDE and it's UNNECESSARY to elbow the PACER, who isn't even competing. You get that right???? The pacer is a PAID job. They "pace" the race for X laps and then HOP OFF the track! They aren't racing. They don't run to the finish! You aren't supposed to elbow ANYONE, much less a non-competing athlete... and u especially shouldn't be throwing elbows on a WIDE OPEN TRACK! If Sifan doesn't feel she has enough room to pass the Pacer who is RUNNING ON THE INSIDE RAIL, then Sifan needs to run WIDER in Lane 2; NOT elbow the pacer for more room. Alyssa's INTENTIONAL LIE about the announcer's comment is LIE #2
>> he’s never heard of”, “Never heard of her - what’s she done recently?
It's MIND BOGGLING how disingenuous Alyssa is being here! OMFG!!! The announcers are actually COMPLIMENTING Sifan here!! But Alyssa is such a whack-job, she LIES about the context (LIE #3) and LIES about the ACTUAL WORDS SAID (LIE #4)! Folks, let me set the stage for yall...
The announcer's comments happen during the introductions! The announcers are making an ironic joke... Sifan is a multi-gold medalist who's recently & repeatedly shattered records on the track. She's a BIG F-ing DEAL!! She's a SHARK. EVERYONE knows about Sifan and obviously everyone knows her RECENT accomplishments on the WORLD STAGE. They are joking about not being familiar w/ her accomplishments
Announcer #1: But don't forget about the last person on this list... Sifan Hassan
Announcer #2: "(I) HEARD of her... what she done recently?" (being obviously ironic)
Announcer #1: HAHAHAHAHHAAHA!!! (laughing at the irony... Obviously he's heard of her. EVERYONE HAS)
NOTICE how Alyssa LIES about what Announcer #2's ACTUALLY said? He joke, '(i) "HEARD" of her... what's she done recently?' Alyssa LIES (LIE #4)... claims the announcer said he's "NEVER" heard of her. He didn't said "NEVER". He said he's "HEARD of her". But EITHER WAY, it doesn't matter. The point is they are complimenting Sifan's AMAZING talent & race record. They're being sarcastic. It's like referring to Taylor Swift and saying "Taylor Swift??? Yeah... I think I've heard that name somewhere." Ya think????
>> then threw a fit and said he needed a cigarette after she won.
I've watched this video repeatedly. NO "fits" where thrown you IDIOT! THIS NEVER HAPPENED! This is Alyssa's LIE #5! The two announcers are blown away by Sifan's meet shattering winning time! They are GUSHING over her amazing performance! They are essentially saying, "WOW!!! THAT WAS CRAZY FAST! Whew!!! I need a cigarette after watch that super fast performance." Alyssa is a manipulative & dishonest person! This is a FACT. She INTENTIONALLY takes comments out of context and she also straight-up fabricates things that are never said or implied.
>> Then after she won showing remarkable athleticism, he proceeds to complain that the race has “completely changed”
This is where Alyssa shows her true stripes and also reveals SHE KNOWS NOTHING about track, knows NOTHING about competitive running, and knows NOTHING about recent advances in running shoe technology!
YES Alyssa, both road racing, and more recently Track racing, has changed dramatically since the advent of super-shoes (road) and super-SPIKES (track). Over the past 3-4yrs, LONG STANDING, TRACK world records have suddenly being falling in droves. These are records that have stood for 20-40 yrs (records set pre-doping checks)! And it's 95% due to super-spikes! So yes Alyssa, track racing has "completely changed" relatively recently. THAT'S A FACT. The introduction of SUPER SPIKES has totally warped reality. Once-upon-a-time going sub-4 used to be rarified air. In the U.S. the number of ppl who could go sub-4 USED to be LOW, LOW, LOW double digits. BUT NOW with super-spikes, going sub-4 is just a Tuesday afternoon HS track workout. The fact that Alyssa doesn't know ANY of this is laughable.
>> and then he resentfully describes her win as “she just decided to test herself and make it a competition”. KGW HIRED THIS PERSON. He presents her as a villain, a implying she is not worthy of her titles. He is blatantly biased in favor of the white women. His aggression towards Sifan Hassan is unacceptable. He distracts from the story by attacking Sifan over and over, showing he is unprofessional and unable to hold back his racial biased contempt.
Is this another example of intentional dishonesty or just stupidity? I dunno? But at this point Alyssa DOES NOT deserve the benefit of doubt! So I label this LIE #6!
The Announcer is making an ASTUTE professional analysis concerning Sifan's race strategy and her SUPERIOR athletic ability. Since Alyssa doesn't know anything about competitive running, let me explain like she's a total idiot. There are TWO major strategies when racing. You either TT the race (time trial), OR you "Make it a competition". TTing a race generally means going out hard, locking into a PRE-determined FAST pace (as prescribed by your coach ahead of time), and finishing even HARDER. When TTing, you are NOT COMPETING/RACING other athletes. You are essentially racing YOURSELF and the CLOCK. The actions, moves, & pace of OTHER athletes on the track are completely irrelevant to YOUR race! You are NOT "racing" THEM! You are "racing" YOURSELF! You are trying to hit a specific time goal in your head. Sifan went out HARD and then mysteriously SLOWED DOWN. She started out Time Trialing and then decided to slow down to Pack-pace. Why? THIS is the question the announcer is attempting to analyze... you know, cuz he's a race analyst. He explains Sifan starts off TTing... and then something goes wrong... so she drops back to a COMPETITIVE RACE strategy... and decides to run THEIR pace, to FIGHT for race positioning, to cover THEIR moves, and then SIT & KICK for the finish! The announcer is saying Sifan wasn't worried about defaulting to Plan B bc of her MASSVIE weapon... her kick! Switching strat. mid race isn't optimal most athletes. But for an athlete of Sifan's caliber it isn't a problem. BOTH announcers PRAISE Sifan effusively!! They talk about the MASSIVE hurt Sifan puts on Cranny over the final 100m. They talk about her meet shattering time. They talk about her multiple gold medals. They talk about her inevidible success at the Olympics REGARDELESS of which event(s) she decides to compete. Neither announcer is denigrating Sifan. Alyssa just continues to blatantly LIE, LIE, LIE!!! LIE #7. Do grok any of this Alyssa?? Or are you still completely ignorant & blinded by your insane rage?
The rest of Alyssa's rant is simply nonsensical, imaginary, or pure delusion. Just more Alyssa intentionally "misunderstanding" clearly spoken English words... or pulling words out of context... or Alyssa YET AGAIN flat-out LYING.
BTW Alyssa, I'M a hard-core PROGRESSIVE and you make me embarrassed being an ally to your delusional irrationality.
This is an actual news channel that doesn’t know how to timestamp or section their video? Time to hire someone better.