American sprinter Kendall Ellis stated she was once “blindsided” when she was once got rid of from the 4×400-meter relay on the Paris Olympics on Saturday evening.
Ellis was once the reigning U.S. 400-meter champion. However she was once no longer part of the group that blew out its fighters at the observe. In lieu, Shamier Negligible, Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, Gabby Thomas and Alexis Holmes ruled on their highway to a gold medal.
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US’ Kendall Ellis prepares to compete within the girls’s 400m semi-final of the athletics tournament on the Paris 2024 Olympic Video games at Stade de France in Saint-Denis, north of Paris, on August 7, 2024. (JEWEL SAMAD/AFP by way of Getty Pictures)
Ellis told ESPN she had 4 mins to backup sooner than she was once instructed she was once a deny advance for the medal race.
“I feel very proud of the team that was put out there. I think they ran incredible,” she stated. “I also feel disappointed and lied to and embarrassed. I feel like I was blindsided because I was told one thing this morning and, for hours, thought I was running in the final. It seems everyone know besides me.”
Ellis stated she aroused from sleep to a textual content message from Mechelle Freeman, pronouncing that she wouldn’t be within the 4×400-meter relay. Ellis stated she sought after to build her level in particular person and when she did, she stated Freeman instructed her to arrange as though she will likely be competing within the relay next all.
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US’ Kendall Ellis competes within the girls’s 400m repechage spherical of the athletics tournament on the Paris 2024 Olympic Video games at Stade de France in Saint-Denis, north of Paris, on August 6, 2024. (JEWEL SAMAD/AFP by way of Getty Pictures)
However sooner than the race, Ellis stated every other U.S. educator got here as much as her and stated she was once sorry that she wasn’t competing. Ellis instructed her non-public educator Quincy Watts about what she heard. Watts later talked to Freeman in regards to the determination and Ellis overheard that she wasn’t getting to be within the race.
“That was four minutes before the race,” Ellis instructed ESPN.
“We had a good conversation [this morning], a good meeting. I’m an incredible relay runner. It was disappointing to not be on the relay, but I’m angry about the way it was done. I don’t feel supported or valued as a member of the team or as a 400-meter runner, and I don’t feel respected.”
Ellis stated she’s undecided what she’ll do now that that Olympics are over with.
Kendall Ellis of Staff United States seems on  all the way through the Ladies’s 400m Repechage Spherical on moment 11 of the Olympic Video games Paris 2024 at Stade de France on August 06, 2024 in Paris, France. (Steph Chambers/Getty Pictures)
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Elllis gained gold within the 4×400-meter relay and a bronze medal within the blended 4×400-meter relay in Tokyo in 2021.
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