I remember being at a middle school area championship and they rang the bell after 3 and 3/4 laps in a 1500. All the kids that knew they were wrong stopped after 1500 m and the results showed they had DNFed . Lesson learnt that day was a teacher refuses to admit they are ever wrong .
How much of a PB did people run? Like did almost everyone PR?
Alex M. wrote:
They DQed everyone except those who started in the first lane (and except women's A race).
Should be invalidated not a dq
Most the field ran PR’s and 3 guys thought they run under 1:45 for the first time ever. I message one of them after the race saying congrats as I know how hard he has worked over the years.
The race was a little messy as the guys in the outside lanes broke in the back straight a lot further ahead of the pack they they normally would have, which meant the guys with the faster PR’s got stuck in the middle of the pack. The rabbit was also confused as he hit 200 quicker than he thought he was going (give he only really ran 180m and slowed the pace down.
Agree with some other comments, the results should just be scrapped and not show as a DQ, as it was hardly the athletes fault this happened. They all have a DQ next to their names on World Aths!!
The commentators were markedly more quiet anf subdued during the final 800, the women's A race. They had obviously gotten word through their earpieces that the starting blocks had been in the wrong place, and therefore all their race after race raving had been misguided.
This was colossal fail on all levels. Forget about the runners. How could none of the fans, officials or commentators pick up on a gaffe of this magnitude.
Just after the men's A race, but before the slow motion replay, there is a pow wow of 4 people standing in a circle in the middle of the track. It was either all women or mostly women. Runners in the women's A race. I think that's where the clarity began.
To avoid embarrassment the producers focused exclusively on lanes 1 and 2 prior to the women's A race. Otherwise we would have seen all the numbered blocks moved back, and no doubt plenty of discussion among those runners and the official as they were shuffled back.
Lane 1 should not be a DQ or invalidated though...
Who were the athletes starting in lane 1?