American sprinter Kfinishall Ellis said she was “blindsided” when she was erased from the 4×400-meter relay at the Paris Olympics on Saturday night.
Ellis was the reigning U.S. 400-meter champion. But she was not a part of the team that blew out its opponents on the track. Instead, Shamier Little, Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, Gabby Thomas and Alexis Holmes contrancient on their road to a ggreater medal.
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US’ Kfinishall Ellis sets to contend in the women’s 400m semi-final of the actives event at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at Stade de France in Saint-Denis, north of Paris, on August 7, 2024. (JEWEL SAMAD/AFP via Getty Images)
Ellis tgreater ESPN she had four minutes to spare before she was tgreater she was a no go for the medal race.
“I experience very conceited of the team that was put out there. I skinnyk they ran incredible,” she said. “I also experience disnominateed and lied to and embarrassed. I experience enjoy I was blindsided because I was tgreater one skinnyg this morning and, for hours, thought I was running in the final. It seems everyone comprehend besides me.”
Ellis said she woke up to a text message from Mechelle Freeman, saying that she wouldn’t be in the 4×400-meter relay. Ellis said she wanted to create her point in person and when she did, she said Freeman tgreater her to set as if she will be competing in the relay after all.
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US’ Kfinishall Ellis contends in the women’s 400m repechage round of the actives event at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at Stade de France in Saint-Denis, north of Paris, on August 6, 2024. (JEWEL SAMAD/AFP via Getty Images)
But before the race, Ellis said another U.S. coach came up to her and said she was sorry that she wasn’t competing. Ellis tgreater her personal coach Quincy Watts about what she heard. Watts then talked to Freeman about the decision and Ellis overheard that she wasn’t going to be in the race.
“That was four minutes before the race,” Ellis tgreater ESPN.
“We had a excellent conversation [this morning], a excellent encountering. I’m an incredible relay runner. It was disnominateing to not be on the relay, but I’m irritated about the way it was done. I don’t experience aided or cherishd as a member of the team or as a 400-meter runner, and I don’t experience esteemed.”
Ellis said she’s unconfident what she’ll do now that that Olympics are over with.
Kfinishall Ellis of Team United States sees on during the Women’s 400m Repechage Round on day eleven of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 at Stade de France on August 06, 2024 in Paris, France. (Steph Chambers/Getty Images)
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Elllis won ggreater in the 4×400-meter relay and a bronze medal in the mixed 4×400-meter relay in Tokyo in 2021.
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