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New York Post
2 days ago
- Sport
- New York Post
Dad of high school track star disqualified over celebration believes decision came with racial motivations
Clara Adams and her father, David, continued to speak out after the teen sprinter had been disqualified from the California state championships over an 'unsportsmanlike' celebration. David Adams believes the penalty is motivated, in part, by race. Clara Adams, 16, was competing in the CIF State Championships when she won the 400-meter dash, leading the North Salinas High School sophomore to celebrate by using a fire extinguisher on her running spikes, in homage to famed sprinter Maurice Greene. Advertisement 3 David Adams, handed his daughter Clara a fire extinguisher, and away from her competitors, she sprayed on her shoes as if they were on fire. Oceanside Dolphins Track Club/YouTube CIF officials almost immediately approached her and eventually stripped her of her state title and disqualified her from her other events. Since then, the story has garnered national attention, and Adams' father has alleged that there is a racial component to the situation, explaining during an appearance on 'The Will Cain Show' on Fox News that the belief stems from a 'history in our country.' Advertisement 'I say that because you look at the governing body, you look at the officials that are on the grass, on the grass area,' David Adams said. 'I know for a fact, with the history in our country when it comes to celebrations, when a white girl celebrates or a white boy celebrates, it's called, he's passionate. He's good for the sport. We need this for the sport. 3 Clara Adams was disqualified from the race. Oceanside Dolphins Track Club/YouTube 'But when a black girl or a black boy or a brown girl or a black boy, they celebrate, it's deemed as unprofessional, unsportsmanlike. It's ghetto. So why is it OK for one to celebrate, not the other? We have seen that before. It's nothing new. I'm not making this up.' Cain did acknowledge that 'there is some merit to what you're saying' in response to David Adams' explanation. Advertisement Clara Adams has said she was 'set into shock' when she was disqualified from the state championship. 'It was just really disappointing, because they just took my moment away from me that quick,' she told Cain. 'You know, you think about, like, how long I have taken, me and my dad, to work for this moment. And then just for them to take it in minutes, it just — it's unbelievable.' 3 Clara Adams, the high school track star stripped of her Calfornia state title over celebration paying homage to Olympic gold medalist, sits with her father David. ksbw Advertisement The CIF has not publicly commented on the controversy surrounding Adams. Adams does have support from one track star, with Green telling local outlet, KSBW, that if the celebration 'was away from everyone and not interfering with anyone, I would say reinstate her.'
Spectator
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Spectator
Wake up, babe, new Dot Wordsworth just dropped
On X, that old-fashioned site still used by people like me, someone called Henri tweeted: 'babe wake up Waste Land new hard as hell cover just dropped'. Appended was a Penguin Classics cover illustrated with an apocalyptic picture which I think was a work from 2010 called The Harrowing of Hell, by David Adams. It turned out to have been put together with the help of an online device called Penguin Classics Cover Generator, which allows you to use your chosen picture to design a paperback. The site has no connection with Penguin. But 'Wake up, babe, new [something] just dropped' is a catchphrase or meme that has been around since 2020. Drop, a verb favoured by the trendy to mean 'arrive' or 'be published or released' has been used since the 1980s for records, but is still thought to be hip. Drop is having a creative time at the moment. People who use X are worried about drop shipping. Handy gadgets are advertised for sale, but the advertiser doesn't stock the dog-toy, or whatever the thing is. He merely gets a supplier (perhaps in China) to deliver it to the buyer and makes money from his mark-up as middle-man. Another thing that drops is the other shoe, for which we wait. 'Waiting for the other shoe to drop' must date from the advent of flat-living, and expresses the suspense with which downstairs neighbours await the next percussion after the warning shot, as the man upstairs prepares for bed. There is no recognised begetter of the phrase. It became popular between the wars, when Pont's cartoon 'Life in the flat above' showed the family upstairs jumping and thumping, with the daughter pulling a little wagon unstably piled with pots and pans and even the dog wearing boots. The indefatigably reliable Michael Quinion in his World Wide Words blog traced an American quotation from 1921: 'If nine out of ten of us hadn't heard that 'drop that other shoe' chestnut and molded our lives accordingly for the sake of the neighbor below us, what would be the end of us?' Today, I think we've seen what.
Fox News
2 days ago
- Politics
- Fox News
Track athlete who lost medal for celebration laments her punishment while trans athlete took girls' titles
California girls' track and field star Clara Adams and her father called out the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) for stripping her of her state title over a celebration while allowing trans athlete AB Hernandez to win two gold medals at the state championship last weekend. Adams was stripped of her title and disqualified for a celebration that involved her spraying a fire extinguisher on her shoes after winning the girls' 400m. Meanwhile, Hernandez took first place in high jump and triple jump and second place in long jump, despite President Donald Trump ordering the state to follow his Keeping Men Out of Women's Sports executive order prior to the event. During an interview on Fox News' "The Will Cain Show" on Wednesday, Adams addressed the controversial comparison between the two athletes' situations. "It just doesn't add up to me in my head," Adams said, adding that she now also has to potentially worry about a biological male competing against her in the future. "It's just not fair, and then comparing the situation, it's just like, 'So, what I did was just so not OK and inappropriate that I had to get DQ'd, but this, what is going on over here in the jumps, is appropriate and OK." Adams' father, David Adams, expressed his stance on the comparison during the interview as well. "It's being celebrated," he said of Hernandez's victory, saying his family is "lost" on the decision. "I watched AB Hernandez jump. AB Hernandez is talented. She can jump against those girls, she can jump very well. I watched her jump, I watched myself, I saw it, and they celebrated AB Hernandez on the podium, and Clara was disqualified for having a celebration, so that's where we're kind of lost. Our families are lost on that, we're lost on that right there, we're very lost on that. "I'm confused now. Do I have to worry about AB Hernandez jumping into the 400m next year?" David Adams also doubled-down on the belief that the decision to revoke his daughter's title was racially motivated. "I know for a fact that the history of our country when it comes to celebrations, when a White girl celebrates or a White boy celebrates, it's called, 'He's passionate. It's good for the sport. We need this for the sport.' But when a Black girl or Black boy or Brown girl or Brown boy, they celebrate, it's deemed as unprofessional, unsportsmanlike, it's ghetto," he said. "So why is it OK for one to celebrate but not the other?" Trump sent a warning to California Gov. Gavin Newsom and the state last Tuesday, threatening to cut federal funding to the state if a trans athlete competed in the girls' track and field championship. The CIF responded by amending its rules to accommodate female athletes who finished behind a trans athlete in the three events Hernandez competed in, thus granting them qualification and podium finishes they would have earned had a biologically male athlete not competed in those events. This resulted in Hernandez having to share podium spots with the female athletes who finished one spot behind Hernandez after the finals on Saturday. A bipartisan survey by the Public Policy Institute of California found the majority of California residents oppose biological male trans athletes competing in women's sports. That figure included more than 70% of the state's school parents. "Most Californians support requiring transgender athletes to compete on teams matching the sex they were assigned at birth," the poll stated. "Solid majorities of adults (65%) and likely voters (64%) support requiring that transgender athletes compete on teams that match the sex they were assigned at birth, not the gender they identify with. An overwhelming majority of public school parents (71%) support such a requirement." Meanwhile, Newsom said he believed trans athletes competing in girls' sports was "deeply unfair" during an episode of his podcast in March. Follow Fox News Digital's sports coverage on X, and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter.
Daily Mail
3 days ago
- General
- Daily Mail
High school track star cries as she breaks silence on controversial 'unsportsmanlike' celebration
Clara Adams, the high school athlete disqualified for celebrating her 400m victory by spraying her shoes with a fire extinguisher, has tearfully spoken out on the impact the incident has had on her. Adams, 16, copied the celebration first made famous by the American former 100 meter world record holder Maurice Greene when she crossed the line in first place at the California state high school track and field championships. But the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) decided that the celebration was unsportsmanlike and stripped Adams of her championship. 'I worked so hard for that title,' she said in an interview with KSBW 8, fighting back tears. 'Even if everything goes in my favor in regards to like getting my title back, I'll still never get that moment back, like standing on the podium as a sophomore. I'll never get that back because they took it from me.' Her father and coach, David, handed her the fire extinguisher before racing onto the field when he saw there was an incident unfolding. He accepted that he broke rules by climbing over rails to get to his daughter, but insisted he felt outraged when he saw an official grab Clara by the arm. 'You can't come over the wall, you can't be on the in-field. It is a rule, I respect it,' he said. 'But at this point, I explained before about being a coach and a fther and wearing different hats. I saw an official grab my daughter by the arm, yelling in her face. 'When he grabbed her by the arm, I went over the wall. I'm a father now. I'm not coaching anymore.' Adams was disqualified from the meet as a whole by officials for her celebrations - denying her the chance to race in a 200-meter event later. She also received some support from none other than Greene himself, too. He told KSBW 8: 'It happened and people started calling me - this girl won the 400 and did your celebration. 'If it was away from everyone, and not really interfering with anybody, I would say reinstate her.' Adams told the Monterey Herald at the time: 'I'm disappointed and I feel robbed. I am in shock. 'They (officials) yelled at me and told me "we're not letting you on the podium." They took my moment away from me.' Adams crossed the line with a time of 52.24 seconds, just one-hundredth slower than her state-leading time she achieved the week prior. This came at the same state championship meet where a trans woman athlete was allowed to compete in events.
Fox News
5 days ago
- General
- Fox News
California girls track star gets disqualified from state championships over celebration
The California state track and field championships were under increased scrutiny because of a transgender athlete who participated in and won the girls' high jump and triple jump events. A separate controversy flew underneath the radar, and it had to do with the varsity girls 400 finals. Sophomore Clara Adams, of North Salinas High School, finished in second place in the prelims and came off the starting line quickly in the finals and ran her way to a first-place finish, or so she thought. Adams celebrated with her father after winning the race. She took a fire extinguisher from her father and sprayed her shoes with it, alluding to her being on fire, the Monterey Herald reported. Clara's father, David, said the celebration was done away from opponents. "She wasn't disrespecting anyone," he told the outlet. The California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) determined that Adams' celebration was unsportsmanlike, and Adams' state championship was taken away. She was also disqualified from the meet and lost an opportunity to compete in the 200-meter race as well. David Adams told the outlet that the CIF's decision was protested and said he felt like the disqualification was "racially motivated." Clara Adams is Black. The decision was upheld. "It's a very unfortunate event," Alan Green told the Monterey Herald. "We are all heartbroken. Clara ran an incredible 400 race and is the fastest 400-meter girl in the state. "She was trying to have some fun at the finish line after the 400. It was interpreted as unsportsmanlike. What an incredible season and run. It's unfortunate." Clara Adams said afterward she felt like she was "robbed" and was "in shock." Fox News Digital reached out to the CIF for comment. Adams finished in first place in the 400-meter dash at the Central Coast Section Championships and finished first in three races at the Pacific Coast Athletic League Masters Meet last month. Follow Fox News Digital's sports coverage on X, and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter.
