Kipyegon DQ was deserved.

Tsegay is just not good at running in traffic. That should have been a no-call. Let the runners decide the race!! If you look at their feet, you can see Tsegay pinching Kipyegon off the track. She got into it with Battocletti and then again with Cranny just 80 meters before the Kipyegon altercation. And Cranny was just running next to her minding her own business. Tsegay had a phobia during that entire race about being crowded. She threw elbows five or six times during that race.

I just added this to my earlier post.

Update. I've found a clip of the previous few seconds. She does proactively appear to grab Hassan. Thus I actually can kind of see what she was DQd.

It doesn't matter if Kipyegon wasn't leading Tsegay. If you don't have enough lead to cut in on someone, you can't just run them off the track. Tsegay didn't even have a half stride lead. Tsegay initiated contact and Kipyegon should be able to occupy her space on the rail. If Tsegay moves in from the outside to dislodge, then she should be the one disqualified.

Agreed!

I'll say no more.

Thanks.

All in all, Sifan gets Silver and someone else bronze. I forget who was fourth.

Chelimo gets fourth.

WE move on.

I disagree with it. I think it is stupid and dumb but we have to move on.

Except Bruns' reply was to Rojo, who actually does know the rules fairly well.

I haven't seen the race or the incident yet, so I'm just going by what I've read - but from the sounds of things, even if there was some "bad behavior", it didn't affect the outcome (correct me if I'm wrong). As in, Kipyegon would likely have gotten silver whether the incident happened or not, and Tsegay would not have medalled.

So in that sense, the ruling feels somewhat vindictive and authoritative. It especially seems silly that the 4th-placer (Battocletti) gets a medal now and Kipyegon doesn't, even though Kipyegon beat her fair and square. I can understand upgradings of place in some situations, but it just seems somewhat absurd in this case to rule, in effect, "Battocletti finished 3rd in the Olympic 5000m". 3 people beat her and presumably none of them fouled her.

Ok fair point. I agree, Rojo and Wejo obviously do know the rules well.

the way Tsegay reacts it almost looks like Faith was pinching her behind. LOL

Great. Just as you were discovering this "new evidence" which you think enhances the DQ....WA was reinstating her.

I'm not like a lot of ahole LRC posters. I admit I was wrong too. I was wrong! Great for her! Silver medal.

The DQ was overturned.

Turns out that the "emotional, starstruck fans" and "hobby joggers" knew more than the officials after all.

Italian dodgy politics at play. If Tsegay had rightly been DQ'd it wouldn't have impacted medals. Kipyegon was impeded. Silly decision. Mafioso work of the Italian Olympic Committee at work.

This post didn't age very well. 55 minutes at most!

This is Ethiopia running as a 'Team'.

Tsegay got no benefit, but screwed up a medal for Kenya.

I can't wait for the negotiations with meet promoters post the Olympics.

I just re-watched the race. What do you mean Faith never had the lead? Faith was in the lead when Tsegay tried to muscle her way in. What are you watching????

Nobody cut anyone off. That's obvious. But tsegay threw a small elbow and fk kind of grabbed it a bit. Moving along.

Urine idiot

It doesn’t always have to be somebody’s fault.

Two runners clashed and they exchanged blows.
Neither gained or lost anything from the altercation.
It didn’t affect anyone else’s race.

Now Kipyegon was nearly forced to the inside of the track, and would have been if she hadn’t grabbed back.
She grabbed back a little long but that was out of anger. If you get hit, you hit back harder.