Anyone notice Mills also stumbled with about 600 to go? Ran right into the back kick of either Mo Ahmed or Thomas Fafard of Canada. May have even indirectly led to Ahmed's fall, as Ahmed surged ahead right after that to get out of traffic (but ended up running into someone's back kick himself)
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By the time that hay extends his elbow mills has already tried 2-3x to get into space that isn’t there. One was right before this getting off the turn, one a few hundred meters earlier.
dude just really doesn’t known how to move around the pack
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Coevett wrote:
you have it backwards wrote:
The French runner gave him a good push and caused him to stumble to the right, which started the pinball effect and the falls.
Exactly.
Lol how many VPN changes did you need, to give yourself all of those upvotes?
Mills said in a post-race interview that because that happened with a French athlete, and in France, he didn't expect to advance to the final.
What a stupid attitude.
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Imy two pennies wrote:
Ever heard the saying "if someone is an a-hole to you, they're just an a-hole, but if everyone is an a-hole to you, then you're the a-hole"?
Mills has fallen three times in major races this year and been involved in another two or three falls/shoving matches. I felt bad for him initially but at some point it becomes clear that he is 100% at fault for these incidents, he's the only runner this seems to happen to every time he steps on the track. Disgraceful that he was advanced and I find it hard to support him until he cleans up his tactics.
To the extent I'm aware of George Mills (apparently a 2nd tier British runner), it's because of his history of being involved in these "falling" incidents. I don't see him as the victim here. But the authorities don't seem to agree.
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With all the reinstatements there are now a bustling 22 in the 5000 final. Which must increase the odds of someone taking a tumble though I think they will not be going through 3k outside 9 minutes.
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my two pennies wrote:
Ever heard the saying "if someone is an a-hole to you, they're just an a-hole, but if everyone is an a-hole to you, then you're the a-hole"?
Mills has fallen three times in major races this year and been involved in another two or three falls/shoving matches. I felt bad for him initially but at some point it becomes clear that he is 100% at fault for these incidents, he's the only runner this seems to happen to every time he steps on the track. Disgraceful that he was advanced and I find it hard to support him until he cleans up his tactics.
Yeah I think I'm with you here - at what point is the common denominator in all these incidents actually the guy we should be looking at instead of accepting him as the victim.
Then again his father was a professional footballer in England so he's almost certainly had smoke blown up his arse his entire life of privilege, it's not overly shocking George reacts this way every single time he's involved in chaos.
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George Mills at fault there, wish I can support him as a fellow Brit but it leaves a bad taste that he’s through to the final now.
Boxed himself in the whole race, trying to find gaps and space which isn’t there. Why on earth go through a gap that isn’t there, no wonder why he was knocked to the ground. If you’re running last 100m final straight and you feel pressure and pushing from behind you’re going to knock it off, don’t blame the Frenchman at all, shocking tactics from Mills.150 -
ItalianJob2024 wrote:
Another British runner taking out competitors, this time in the men's 5k heats. Very poor form from Mills. Wrongly went after French athlete afterwards too. Bullyboy tactics. Should be DQ'd. Hopefully others get a reprieve & pass into final for fall that wasn't their fault.
I disagree. Mills should have punched that French geek in the neck.
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my two pennies wrote:
Ever heard the saying "if someone is an a-hole to you, they're just an a-hole, but if everyone is an a-hole to you, then you're the a-hole"?
Mills has fallen three times in major races this year and been involved in another two or three falls/shoving matches. I felt bad for him initially but at some point it becomes clear that he is 100% at fault for these incidents, he's the only runner this seems to happen to every time he steps on the track. Disgraceful that he was advanced and I find it hard to support him until he cleans up his tactics.
WTF is wrong with the Paris officials, that they keep rewarding the person everyone on the circuit knows as a really dirty runner, and penalizing the person who reacts to the dirty runner's dirty tactics?
Christ is it stupid.
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ItalianJob2024 wrote:
Another British runner taking out competitors, this time in the men's 5k heats. Very poor form from Mills. Wrongly went after French athlete afterwards too. Bullyboy tactics. Should be DQ'd. Hopefully others get a reprieve & pass into final for fall that wasn't their fault.
Looks like English privilege to be allowed back in. I thought he was the main culprit in the fall. Even if I am wrong I don't think anyone should be allowed back into the final because they chose to run a very slow race that caused them to run in such a dangerously fast pack in the last lap. If Mills ran his own race out front he would never have run into any trouble. Blanks managed to stay out of trouble by going wide. Anyone could see this coming a mile away and the commentator talked about it the entire race.
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Korplow wrote:
ItalianJob2024 wrote:
Another British runner taking out competitors, this time in the men's 5k heats. Very poor form from Mills. Wrongly went after French athlete afterwards too. Bullyboy tactics. Should be DQ'd. Hopefully others get a reprieve & pass into final for fall that wasn't their fault.
I disagree. Mills should have punched that French geek in the neck.
I also disagree. All the other starters should beat the hell out of Mills and McSweyn on the start line as neither deserve to be there
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Hay should be DQd.
Yes Mills was going for small spaces, but that is the nature of the race; you cant just push someone over and into everyone else's path.
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Korplow wrote:
ItalianJob2024 wrote:
Another British runner taking out competitors, this time in the men's 5k heats. Very poor form from Mills. Wrongly went after French athlete afterwards too. Bullyboy tactics. Should be DQ'd. Hopefully others get a reprieve & pass into final for fall that wasn't their fault.
I disagree. Mills should have punched that French geek in the neck.
He actually tried to have a fight with the French guy during the race and he ended up falling flat on his face ....
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I came here to see if anybody else had the same take on it as me. Mills was 100% at fault in my book, but then again he has previous. Seems to have his Dad's attitude/chip on his shoulder as well.
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life long chip on his shoulder from being kind of small but brutish-looking?
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This article has a good still shot of Mills beginning to fall. Hay didn’t push Mills (with his arm anyway; he may have put his hip into Mills). Mills pushed off Hay and pushed himself into Ndikumwenayo.30
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Support team GB but Mills should not have been advanced after his unsportsmanlike conduct after the race. Pushing and swearing at the French athlete after the race was totally unnecessary and should have resulted in an immediate DQ and no advancement in my opinion.
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Narrow margins wrote:
This article has a good still shot of Mills beginning to fall. Hay didn’t push Mills (with his arm anyway; he may have put his hip into Mills). Mills pushed off Hay and pushed himself into Ndikumwenayo.Take another look at the photo you're referring to.
They just came off the bend, and there's no one on the inside of Hugo Hay - who has pushed to the outside of lane 1 in an attempt to block Mills from passing him.
You can't just decide to cut a guy off because he's running faster than you in the straight. Mills had every right to try to protect the space, as he was running a direct line to the finish, whereas Hay was not.
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Man Moth wrote:
Narrow margins wrote:
This article has a good still shot of Mills beginning to fall. Hay didn’t push Mills (with his arm anyway; he may have put his hip into Mills). Mills pushed off Hay and pushed himself into Ndikumwenayo.Take another look at the photo you're referring to.
They just came off the bend, and there's no one on the inside of Hugo Hay - who has pushed to the outside of lane 1 in an attempt to block Mills from passing him.
You can't just decide to cut a guy off because he's running faster than you in the straight. Mills had every right to try to protect the space, as he was running a direct line to the finish, whereas Hay was not.
You’re responding to something I didn’t say. I wasn’t assigning blame here, just commenting on the statement some have made that Hay “shoved” Mills. He didn’t. I agree Hay moved off the inside of the lane, but don’t agree that he was 100% at fault or that Mills was entitled to that space. It’s absolutely clear Mills had been trying to cut off Hay for about 30 meters, and had been locking arms with him the whole time. my thoughts on blame were here:20 -
anon1 wrote:
Plus European Indoors last year where he tried to cut in on Gourley on the opening lap and fell. Completely egregious behaviour that he has gone on to repeat without any punishment.
What a spaz.
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