Reynaldo Walcott: Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce & Elaine Thompson's Coach On Sha'Carri, Olympics + More

Excellent interview. ETH for the olympic gold medal.

Well said 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

The man who took SAFP to levels Francis couldn't sub 22 and sub 10.70 love how he really didn't answer some questions Franno would never dodge training question 😂

Queen Shelly all the way!! The greatest female sprinter!! Queen of consistency!! You deserve more flowers for your years of dominance!!

Love you girls shelly you are the goat God bless you girls

OLord is going to be miss God bless her love

Phenomenal speach coach Walcott 👍interview was great😊

Never knew Reynaldo was this sharp and well spoken. He’s always so quiet! Loved this interview.

If and when Elaine is injured free no one can touch her no one cant

Queen shelly all the way.

This men doing the interview is Elaine and Shelly fans

Elaine Thompson to the world 🇯🇲

Brilliant & Thoughtful Coach!

Great interview, all the best to the athletes. ❤

Thank you, Citius, for the excellent interview!!! Coach Walcott expressed himself so well & I thoroughly enjoyed this interview with a smile on my face 😊

Great interview coach.

Proud of you Reynaldo. Keep flying the STETHS flag!

Great interview Coach Walcott.

I absolutely agree with him about the difference in treatment. Yes Shelly and Elaine have indeed achieved so much and haven't been given the same respect or celebration from my perspective

I coach and athlete not an event. Fabulous job interviewer/ee!

I agree with Walcott and it’s so sad. Sha’Carri won ONE championship and got so much attention (which she deserves), yet Elaine and Shelly have been winning for YEARS yet they don’t get as much recognition and it sucks. Shelly was going sub 10.7 weekly at one point in 2022 and it was barely highlighted.

Imagine if a male athlete went 9.6 SEVEN times in a year. We’d never shut up about it. Wish we’d show everyone the same recognition regardless of nationality or gender.

Tiene toda la razon Shelly ann Fraser ejecuto 7 veces en la temporada 10.60 😅 algo increíble gano el campeonato mundial por quinta vez en el 2022 gano la final de la liga diamante e hizo la mejor temporada jamas vista 😅 pero eso si sha carri solo corrio una vez en 10.60 y la alaban y dejan atras a shelly

Eso si es tristezs

Yes this was a great interview coming directly from in the house. I couldn't agree more with this coach more. Shellie-Ann and Elaine has achieved so much consistently and are not given their well deserved flowers and revenue as they should. Even Usain Bolt 🔩 who has done so much to market this amazing sport to the 4 corners of the world. And some of these American athletes has not even come close to their achievements. Because of the hidden agenda in the midst of this society, our jamaicans are not compensated for the hard work and effort they've placed on this important sport. Your to be paid according to 1s labor and talent that you that God has blessed you to achieve the best potential in this journey called life 🙏 FASTLANEELAINE & Rocket 🚀 mommy at this time. 1bless 1love to you all team Jamaica to the fullest keep on shining like the sun. As we continue to run setting speed above and beyond all the rest. B.O.A.T. S. BEST OF ALL TIMES STANDING . Who is talking about goat 🐐. 😅😅😅

I agree with that
People talk about Richardson as the greatest .
But see how much Jackson has achieved.

Some of this talk is giving ‘jealousy’. No one deserves anything.
Shelley and Elaine has ran for over a decade and has never had Americans tuning into track in non Olympic years. ShaCarri draws interest to a sport that people only watch once every 4 years. And why would America promote a foreign athlete in our country? That doesn’t happen in any sport.

I guarantee you Jamaica doesn’t promote foreign athletes over their own.

good interview..

'Deserve' dont have shyt to do with endorsements! Its about:
1) Charisma 2) Having Agents who can aggressively sell you. If Shelly or Elaine aint getting what Usain got commercially, its on them.
(For the record I never even felt Bolt's team marketed effectively to the American market. He had a Puma national commerical in America..and it was always linked with reggae music & Jamaica in the background. He should've crossed over to the point where he could do Geico, car, credit card commercial. Hes a guy with humor, he should've gotten Blake Griffin, Chris Paul type commercials. And if youre gonna wait for a company to offer, blame yaself.
YOUR team should be going out & aggressively selling you to mainstream brands to overcome the bias that u can only sell "3rd world themed" items

Wow! What a great interview!!!

This is an excellent interview

JAMAICA all day everyday… when we win, when we lose, when we draw!

Anderson I must commend you on this interview. This was really great. Your follow up questions were on point. I wished however, you would have gone deeper into the Elaine and Shelly not practicing together. Since that is a source of interest from lots of people. In saying that the questions on recognition and rewards were fire. You were able to get inside Reynaldo head and give us an insight on how he trains persons and his philosophy on training was remarkable. Great job to you bruh and Coach Reynaldo. Looking forward to great things from both of you guys. Big up.

Also, more outlets need to visit the Caribbean. The prestigious Bowerman award was swept 🧹 by Caribbean athletes (🇯🇲 🇱🇨). Please put some respect on the West Indies.

I'm never usually interactive but I had to give this a thumbs up. I admire his awareness and he's very articulate ❤

Great interview. Put to rest my perception of coaches.

He said the same thing Michael Johnson said about if they were American they would be bigger. I agree. This man isn't holding back.

Humble coach🙏🏾this man made the queen goat SFP ran sup 10:70 like no other, now he got the other queen ETH🔥🔥🔥🇯🇲🇯🇲

Hold up Shacarri WAS OUT THERE LIVING LIKE A MASCULINE, MASCULINITY WOMAN BLUNT BLOWING UGLY MOUTH GOT DUSTED, LOST,HENCE NY SIS CAME BACK Like HOW YOU FLICK ASHES OFF A CIGARETTE THE HARD TIMES & YES PRAISED THEM QUEENS ALSO

I love this interview and highly respect Coach Walcott! It’s interesting what he mentioned about the American vs Jamaican recognition, and I have two comments on that: 1. As a black American constantly complaining about racism, etc., the “american” thing is largely an issue of USA white supremacy; the only reason they celebrate the black athletes is because they represent USA, which in their minds is white supremacy, and 2. Contrary to what many Jamaicans may understand, Shelly and Elaine are HIGHLY REGARDED! They may not be as wealthy as they should be, but during the Bolt/Shelly dominance, trust me when I say we Americans HIGHLY respected Shelly…trust and believe!

I think we just kinda got over Shelly for a moment, just as we got over Allyson Felix for a moment as well, when they began to lose races mid-career. Shelly was looking like her career was over in the early 2010’s…American folks quickly forget about folks and move on to the next shiny thing. Very short memory in USA except for we huge fans.

Women 10’6 isn’t equal to males 9’6. It’s equal to 9’7. Every other thing I agree with

What jealousy are you talking about? I have heard Maurice Green speak on Bolt on how much of a seperate entity he was, and the imbalances. Bolt made over 80 million from the sport whilst the bearest anyone has gotten to that is about 6 million. However bolt was untouchable and he was known as the mist famous spirt man in his time we talkjng about olympic record, world chsmp record, fiamond league record. Breaking your own record. Now you have a one hit wonder that people want to celebrate over the others with multiple achievements

I totally agree with you coach Shelly deserve much more also Elaine. Coming from Jamaica. They deserve a lot more . Shelly is the greatest and i adore her i am praying for her to get the Gold for Paris in the name of Jesus ❤

So well articulated.
Thank you Coach.

Going by the comments on here it will be interesting to hear what the supporters of both ladies say after the Olympics. Looks like one fanbase will be absolutely pissed if their fav is beaten.

DON'T BE SUPRISE ELAINE BREAK THE WORLD RECORD JAMAICA 🇯🇲 TO THE WORLD

COACH I THINK THE WORK YOU WILL PUT BEHIND THE SCENES WITH THESE LADIES YOU WILL CREATES THE PARADIGM SHIFT

THIS IS A PARADIGM SHIFT

THIS ONE IS A GAME CHANGER

SFP has plenty of personality. The sport (the athletes) is just not well covered and marketed by the gatekeepers. The reasons Sha’Carri transcends the sport is because she is American but also she basically said “F the norms” and she hasn’t cared what the gatekeepers think. This in addition to her suspension for marijuana and her public admonishing and then coming back and getting the world title. So it’s about the story that can be told and sold. She could quit track right now and make more money doing her own reality TV show. But either way, the greatness of ETH and SFP is not fully recognized because the system in place is setup to keep the money and power with the executives and sponsors. For every Bolt or Lyles or Sydney there are hundreds of pros that are treated as expendable. Even the ones that are champions. The sport gatekeepers don’t want the athletes to be bigger than the sport. They don’t want it to grow so much that they lose their power

So proud of my little cousin. Big up Ronny.