He goes up a rung or two in my books (if he did defer to his teammate) to give him a piece of history.
He goes up a rung or two in my books (if he did defer to his teammate) to give him a piece of history.
If he could have won and didn't he is a pussy.
I just like how team oriented he has been and how hard he has run this year, i'm a fan.
As soon as he finished I was asking myself did he let Wheating win? Sure looked that way to me.
Not sure what I think of that unless Wheating offered him som $$$ when he turns pro.
I was actually pretty sure he let him win. That's his choice.
totally wrote:
As soon as he finished I was asking myself did he let Wheating win? Sure looked that way to me.
Not sure what I think of that unless Wheating offered him som $$$ when he turns pro.
That would never happen.
It might have looked like Acosta let up, but he might have been tapped...and you know, these guys are all good friends... So he might have been caught up in the moment of the three sweeping...
It doesn't do Wheating any favors if he did. Forever there will be an asterisk next to his win.
Grow up! wrote:
If he could have won and didn't he is a pussy.
Maybe the overall time was too fast for him.
Right, one of those "some people thought Acosta eased up before the line and started celebrating too early" asterisks.
The victory is tainted, in the back of Wheating's mind he knows he was not the best guy on the track that day if Acosta truly let him win.
I don't understand why this makes Acosta a team player, if Wheating was a team player he wouldn't have cared who got the victory as they would have scored 24 points either way.
Also, Acosta does not have a national title of his own yet, and there is not guarantee he will win it next year. I hope he thinks letting his teammate win so they could get the same amount of points for third place was worth it.
Funny so many people are mentioning this, because it is exactly what I thought.
I would not have thought AJ was going to be the factor late that he was. All he does is make finals and score though!!
Then Acosta who is clearly running fastest of all looks to his left and slightly back and takes a couple of eased up steps to me.
I think if he plowed through he was winning this right at the line.I also thought Centro eased as well, last three steps.
I sure hope he tried to win because anything less than 100% is bad for the sport.
This is why I respect Sileshi Sihine. Despite his many silver medals, he always goes for the win. Proof positive is that one year where he passed Bekele in the final lap of the WC 10000, only to get re-passed again. He went for it, which is what counts.
So this has become fact all of a sudden? Its not clear to me at all that was the case. In truth all three of the Ducks runners probably planned in advance that if they got to that situation they would deliberately form a wall to cut off any other runners trying to get around them. If that is the truth than Acosta gets kudos for placing the team above himself. But it doesn't mean he gave the victory to Wheating.
sillypoller wrote:
He goes up a rung or two in my books (if he did defer to his teammate) to give him a piece of history.
looked to me like he was trying to form the perfect flying V formation... way more fitting than a raising the bar finish had he won.
Wheating won Andrew's fanboys! Deal with it!
sillypoller wrote:
He goes up a rung or two in my books (if he did defer to his teammate) to give him a piece of history.
He certainly didn't sound like he gave Wheating the win when Dan O'Brien interviewed him after the race.
Wow, up until a few days ago, as far as this board was concerned, Acosta was a washed-up loser who never lived up to the potential he showed in high school.
Now everyone figures he's so unstoppable, the only way Wheating can win is if Acosta gives it up to him?
I don't want to say that most people on this board are morons, but... Actually, yeah, that's exactly what I mean to say.
I think it shows character and grace, to be excited over the team sweep. People should remember the year Dan Lincoln and Alistair Cragg finished together intentionally in the 10K at NCAAs, and Lincoln was given the win. Cragg could have taken it for himself but the moment was more important.
These are great moments, and I think Acosta has alot of class, all 3 of these Oregon guys do, and this was an epic race.
If I had been training for like 7+ years and had the opportunity to win an NCAA title in the 1500 I would not let up to some gawky, lanky-ass 6'5'' gargantuan dino just because he is quote "on my team."
This whole discussion is crazy. It's not like the three of them were clear away. They barely were ahead of the next placed runners, and "the sweep" was only apparent in the final second of the race. None of them had time to plot a historical finish for Wheating, and "team oriented" Acosta would not have risked getting passed by another team's runner just to try to get Wheating a win that he probably could care less about in the context of his team finishing in the top 3 spots.