Here's my question to GG about her race......

Well said. She's a big DQ right on her forehead.

I don't believe this is her first DQ either. Does anyone have more information on her past infarctions?

I remember watching an interview where she admitted that Uceny was mad at her after a race because she was repeatedly clipping her heels. GG was laughing about that in the interview.

Now I've been spiked and had incidental contact plenty of times over the last 15 years, but it's always been in tight packs and inconsequential. What I saw GG do at USATFs boggles my mind.

I'd hate to see how she drives on the freeway!

Clear DQ.

Most people haven't noticed, but she was texting her hubby on that last lap. She finally wised up and threw the I-phone onto the infield after the near-collision with Shanrow.

"XOXO Justy lol watch what Im about to do to thees nop bitchs OMG!!!"

We may never know. One can only hope she learned her lesson. Hopefully she gets another chance to compete at a WC. Anyone close to her know why she did this?

In this race she absolutely cuts off her teammate Katie Mackey at the end.

http://www.flotrack.org/coverage/248557-2012-USATF-Oxy-High-Performance-Meet/video/635503-W-1500-H01-Gabriele-Anderson-spectacular-kick#.UwrUEn-9KSM

SchumacherFanboy wrote:

In this race she absolutely cuts off her teammate Katie Mackey at the end.

http://www.flotrack.org/coverage/248557-2012-USATF-Oxy-High-Performance-Meet/video/635503-W-1500-H01-Gabriele-Anderson-spectacular-kick#.UwrUEn-9KSM

What was more telling in that video was that she ran in lane 3!!!!! to pass the other runners. That proves she does know she is allowed to run outside of lane 1 when passing.

You're posting this everywhere...there's no foul.

SchumacherFanboy wrote:

In this race she absolutely cuts off her teammate Katie Mackey at the end.

http://www.flotrack.org/coverage/248557-2012-USATF-Oxy-High-Performance-Meet/video/635503-W-1500-H01-Gabriele-Anderson-spectacular-kick#.UwrUEn-9KSM

She goes out to lane 3 and then cuts back to lane 2. There is no reason for that.

Yeah I don't see a foul there. She could have gone wider so the girl second from the left could have passed. Still wanna hear an explination from the horses mouth.

Since Lauren F. called out Hasay and told her to "woman up" and tell her accounting of the contact, why not ask the same of Gabe? Maybe hearing their (honest) sides of the story would provide some clarity regarding the nature of the contact.

Yep, it's weird people are just outraged about the dq. It's too bad she got it, but there is nothing shocking there. She pushed her luck and the ref threw a flag. She needs to learn from it and move on. She would have been even faster if she didn't always try to mow down everyone from behind. She already had a bit of a reputation.

And it seems as though she had a bit of a run-in with Rowbury too AFTER her problem with Hasay. If I were running that race and accidentally bumped somebody to the extent that she bumped Hasay, I'd be darn sure not to bump the next person I passed in the same way.

Still don't quite know where I stand on the DQ, but it's troubling to me that she did pretty much the same thing to Rowbury, and I'm surprised that's not getting more attention.

not in the know wrote:

And it seems as though she had a bit of a run-in with Rowbury too AFTER her problem with Hasay. If I were running that race and accidentally bumped somebody to the extent that she bumped Hasay, I'd be darn sure not to bump the next person I passed in the same way.

Still don't quite know where I stand on the DQ, but it's troubling to me that she did pretty much the same thing to Rowbury, and I'm surprised that's not getting more attention.

besides the fact the announcer called her out and says "She (Gabe) is like an out of control toy car, she ran into the back of Hasay and the back of Rowbury".

I agree it's hard to DQ someone who one the race, but she did it to herself with poor race tactics.

You can be sure that at the world champs in Europe, this wouldn't be cause for a disqualification.

I don't think even Imane Merga had ever done something quite like that. And that is saying a lot. In of itself it may have not been the worst contact. But she did it free and clear of any pack and there was no point to it whatsoever. She just didn't want to go around Hasay.

Yeah, there are several issues here:

1) she ran dumb and deserved the DQ

2) why the heck didn't any officials call it, even after 2 appeals? That's incompetence

3) after exhausting the appeals process, that should have ended things. Bad call, we move on. But then nike opens the triple secret appeal process. That's corruption.

Just crappy all the way around.

Justmythought wrote:

I agree it's hard to DQ someone who one the race, but she did it to herself with poor race tactics.

This is the second person that I've seen today get "one" and "won" confused.

What the hell is happening with our society?

Mark Hansen wrote:

You can be sure that at the world champs in Europe, this wouldn't be cause for a disqualification.

Ding, ding....you got it. We've got a winner! In Euro racing, it would be good to have someone like Gabe in there. As I said on another thread, Europeans, and the rest of the racing world would find this DQ laughable. It's also quite telling that the dq appeals were turned down TWICE. No harm, no foul.What happened on the final appeal, we probably will never know....between Nike and U$ATF. And it's not good for our sport!