What the F!!!!!! wrote:
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"Misguided" What planet are you on pal? They can take their "complete subjectivity" and stuff it! If you QUALIFY! YOU QUALIFY and if you dont, YOU FU#%king dont!
Don't give me your infantile speal about how, "They'll do what they want to!"
Not with my clients aynmore or with the dozens of athletes who have spent years and life savings in preparation for this! The USATF is completely corrupt at the highest levels and needs to be dismantled and restructured from the ground up with clear and distict criteria for qualification that is adhered to religiously, honestly and ethically!
Whenever an organization operates in such an "Omniscient manner" like they have here by allowing Webb into the 5K, it sends a clear message to all participants there in, that your efforts will not be honored and your legal rights are secondary and subject to our control at any given moment.
This autocratic and shambolic management style is akin to living under some despotic nutcase where you never know where the line of the law is!
If Allen Webb had an ounce of integrity to his character, he'd stay in the 1500m where he earned a shot at it like everyone else and let those who qulified for the 5k run their races.
If no "Ranking System" exists then why have seeded times or qualifcation standars at all? Why not make it a free-for-all where they justbgather as many people around a 400 meter track as they can fit onto it and the first three guys around four times get to be on the Olympic Team?
This has got to be the most asinine decision I think USATF has ever made to date!
Alan Webb is not taking anyone's spot who qualified. 21 runners ran the US Olympic trials A standard. 21 runners qualified. The rest hit provisional times. By your "If you qualify you qualify, if you don't you don't" argument, only 21 runners should be running. Running a B standard is not qualifying.
No one claimed that a ranking system doesn't exist. Run the A standard, and you will get in. Run the B standard, and you may get in. So your free-for-all argument is invalid.
I think the rules should be changed to lessen the propensity for favortism, but what they did is completely within their current rules and has been done before - facts that seem to escape you.