NickSymmonds

T&F must separate itself from the Olympic cycle the way tennis has. Tennis has the Grand Slam events every year and they are HUGE events. Track needs to have 3-4 major events every year. NOT Diamond League bullshit meets.

I think they are full of some really unhappy people. I don't read them, but I did when I was in college. Most of the pros that I know don't read them. Pros are out training and enjoying their lives, not sitting around on their computer whining and bitching.

I ran, and won, many races in high school. Yet my most vivid memory from those days is sitting in the stands at a track meet, goofing around with my friends. I miss that sometimes!

I love energy drinks. Love the way they make my body and mind feel, hate the way they make my stomach feel. I used to drink them before workouts and races, but would often throw them back up after working out. I wanted the caffeine, taurine, and b vitamins but didnt want anything in my stomach. I have a degree in Biochemistry and knew those active ingredients could be absorbed sublingually. I found a manufacturer here in the US that would put them into chewing gum for me.

Thanks so much!! I agree, it is an outrage that 50% of professional American T&F athletes live below the poverty line. I think that if we can get enough athletes to join the #OwnYourSkin movement we could force the governing bodies to change and lift all pro T&F athletes out of poverty with just one rule change.