Still upset at being knocked out of the 2021 Tokyo Games because of a positive coronavirus test, Kendricks is considering skipping Paris if he qualifies.
“Why not?” Sam Kendricks said Friday of potentially refusing an Olympic bid to Paris after clinching a spot in Sunday night's pole vault final. “It won’t mean anything if I don’t make the squad. But it is expository to say it. Why should I go? They left me behind and never even said, ‘I was sorry.’ ” EUGENE, Ore. — The men’s pole vault qualification at the U.S. Olympic track and field trials is not a place frequently mined for shock and controversy, but it provided both Friday night.
The controversy came after in the mixed zone. Sam Kendricks, a two-time world champion, said he will consider declining his spot on the Olympic team if he qualifies because of what he considers his mistreatment at the hands of Olympic governing bodies in the wake of aEnd of carousel “I compete against the best guys all the time,” Kendricks said. “Everybody doesn’t understand: The Olympics is for the mamas. It’s for the mamas and for Facebook and everybody back home who wants to have something to watch and a dog in the fight. But the sport is done every day for four years in advance.“Guys like me are professionals all the time. Sometimes, you don’t get the spotlight until the Olympics, and they think it’s charity. I don’t think so. I work all the time.
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