Bor needs to be DQ'd

No contact at all and Bor is a poor excuse for a sportsman. Learned from Chelemo I suppose. Any other sport, probably get his butt kicked but running is mostly a non contact sport.

I don't think so but that was really bad. I didn't mind Chelimo's move as much because everyone was at least in a full sprint. Bor looked back, was fading, knew he was gonna get beat & made an intentional choice to move over while running slower than McGorty. Surprised McGorty didn't just run him over. He had enough time to change his line & make the inside pass. That shouldn't happen out in lane 3.

This should be a DQ to 1) not encourage more stuff like this in the future & 2) bump up the prize money for everyone else.

Agreed. If you're going to pass someone you will do it takes more energy to try to block someone and look backwards in my opinion

It appears that there was no contact. McGorty never flinched, hesitated, chop his steps, or anything like that.

Bor went from lane 1 to lane 3. I would call that more than a little.

If the officials don't start DQ'ing people for this, it will keep happening. C'mon officials, do your job!

Shades of last year's 5000m trials when Chelimo pushed Woody and Grant out to late 4 or 5. The only difference was that Bor was dying and tripped, whereas Chelimo had enough left to carry it out brazenly.

From looking at the replay, I see that it was even worse than I remembered. McGorty was out close to lane 3 while Bor was in lane 1. Another guy, whom I believe was probably Kipchirchir earlier in the homestretch tried to block McGorty as well but was too late to the spot, then Bor sees McGorty coming and drifts out to lane 3 to block him, McGorty shifts left toward lane 1 to get out of the way and Bor shifts left to try to block him but trips--maybe contact with McGorty, and goes down. That was karma. Bor had that 13 flat breakthrough indoors. Too bad he used illegal tactics like Chelimo to try to preserve his spot.

Good summary, but not “maybe contact with McGorty.” there was no contact other than Bor with the track.

^This

The rule states you are supposed to run a straight line to the finish on the last 100m only moving to pass, seems obvious if there is any movement with intent block a DQ should be simple to enforce, but we dont - - yet a toe on the line coming out the steeple water is immediate DQ.

Chelemo was terrible and should have been protested /DQed, yesterday as well.

100% If you are leading with 100 to go you should get a dq for leaving lane 1. Chelimo drifted 4 lanes. That shouldn’t be allowed. It should be the lead runners responsibly to hold their line.

Knew him in HS, he's a really nice dude

Yep. They should have clipped him/tripped him and said, "Well, he kept moving in front of me, not my fault."

Since Bor ended up tripping himself and missed making the team, this is the perfect opportunity for USATF to set a precedent. There will be no controversial DQ that costs someone a spot on a team, like the Chelimo incident last year would have. But USATF can certainly put everyone on notice that racing like this will result in a DQ.

He tried to use his position to his advantage? The horror.

Moving from lane 1 to lane 3 to block someone is against the rules. Are you not aware of that?

Not any rule that I care about or agree with.

According to Bor's interview, he was losing form down the stretch,
and when someone loses form, they tend to veer in the direction they're looking.

Jumping to the erroneous conclusion that he was purposely slowing down, wasting time and distance in order to finish ahead of someone else is quite a ridiculous notion and wouldn't make any sense.

Dirtiest US runner of all time is Molly Huddle. But of course everyone is saying Bor learned it from Chrlimo because they are both from Africa, haha.