It is that time of the year when the ISSA Grace Kennedy Boys and Girls Championships roll in the Jamaican track. Widely known as Champs, fans understand the contest for unearthing Jamaican track and field talents from the school background. The annual meet has been doing this for years. However, as the contest is on the corner already, some nonessential issues are brewing in the scene. This one is coming from Noah Lyles’s fiancé, Junelle Bromfield. 

Sharing the same Jamaican athletic tradition, Junelle Bromfield had her development started at the ISSA Grace Kennedy Boys and Girls Championships. In her childhood, she didn’t have many options to make her dream of becoming a successful athlete real.

Instead, once she mentioned that in her childhood, the biggest profession in her eyes had been to become a teacher in Jamaica. Fortunately, in her childhood, she had two names to fulfill her dream of becoming a track and field athlete.

One was St. Elizabeth Technical High School, and the second was the ISSA Grace Kennedy Boys and Girls Championships. Surprisingly, in her latest tweet, both these names came together once again. How so?

On March 6, the Jamaican athlete posted a few lines on X. The line read, “I have represented STETHS  6 years ISSA girls and boys champs. My mom paid for her ticket all those 6 year. So please stop coming to me about this podcast. I never said the tickets were for free.” Is it about the hate she has faced since last year? A similar post with the same plea went live on her Instagram story.

Although she took down the tweet and Instagram story, it became noticeable for fans across the internet.

This time, Noah’s fiancée’s words read, “Leave me out this one please because mi and unuh find out the same time!!!!!” Is Junelle facing questions about her morality? Or is she getting requests for tickets for the ISSA meet? Remember, the meeting is scheduled for Mar 25 this year.

However, in both cases, the situations might not pose well for her. Her experience with the Jamaican track and field sports fans might signify something. 

Last year, Junelle Bromfield had to face tremendous online hate from Jamaican track and field fans. The fans even termed her a “traitor” and “backstabber”, suspecting her of someone leaking news from the Jamaican dressing room to her then-boyfriend Noah Lyles. Their suspicion of her was increased after watching the American athlete claim to know about all the ‘drama’ from the Jamaican dressing room in the podcast, Track World News. Since then, Junelle has been facing the wrath. 

Subsequently, the Tokyo Olympic medalist lost support from her home crowd. Her identity came under attack, and people even started to speak rubbish about her mother’s name. Those things hurt the athlete badly or anyone, we say. She had no option to return to her Jamaican home after the Paris Olympics. But Bromfield was in no support for asking forgiveness from the Jamaican fans. 

Last year, in her appearance in the Sim Soul Sessions, Junelle said, “Honestly, I would say I’m not looking for forgiveness, especially from the people who came in my DM, talking about my family, talking about my mom. Those are the people asking for forgiveness, and I’m like, How are you going to forgive somebody who did not do anything?” From the moment of her birth, Junelle’s mother had been her pillar of support. Because of her mother’s effort, Junelle and her siblings didn’t face any hardships in their childhood. 

Explaining her mother’s contribution to her and her siblings’s lives, Junelle said in SIM Soul Sessions, “When I grew up, I didn’t see a profession bigger than a teacher at the point when I was in there. So growing up, I would say my mom did a pretty amazing job of not letting us know that we were poor because we all we never went to bed hungry or anything.”

But see, Junelle’s late mother’s name has come up again. Junelle had to clarify that she had paid for her mother’s tickets during her years of participation in Champs. Nonetheless, are you not curious about the root cause of the ticket issue? Well, Noah Lyles enters the scene again. 

Noah Lyles sets yet another fire 

On March 5, the latest installment of Beyond The Records went live on YouTube. Like on the previous occasions, Noah Lyles and Rai Benjamin were in the hosts’ seats. Vernon Norwood joined as the guest. However, in the podcast, Noah spilled a few big claims regarding Champs. He said, “Boys and girls’ Champs is free.”

That piece of information was misleading. The Champs have tickets. Yet, those tickets cost money, and Noah had to face the wrath right after the podcast was uploaded. Later, the Olympian had to do something huge. 

In the late hours, Noah shared a video message and uploaded it through the X-handle of Beyond The Records. It was basically an apologetic clip. In the clip, he said, “I said that Boys and Girls Champs was free to attend, and thankfully the community informed me that that is not the case. I’m sorry that I spread this misinformation. It was never my job to mislead. It’s just I didn’t fact-check enough and I’m trying to, you know, grow from this moment.”

Well, in the meantime, Junelle had to face the rough end without any reason. A repeat occurrence? You can take a call.