Breaking news: Resolution has been reached - Jordan Hasay will not be going to 2014 World Indoors

LetsRun.com wrote:...

What has been resolved is Grunewald is the champion. Let's hope we win the battle and the war, not just this battle.

The war is far more important.

"War"??? WTF? Really?

Come on, boys, don't play silly games. Try to be a LITTLE better than this.

This whole incident just shows what kind of an egomaniac/jerk Al Sal really is.

GG has to thank LR and Twitter for this. This is great news. In every rules system there is such thing as precedence... the contact in that race was not wise by GG but def no DQ material. I believe it would make a difference if it was clear Hasay had a good shot at making the team (i.e. she was accelerating and the bump slowed her down). Finally Al was put in his place.. this guy was becoming too big to fail. Nike owns USATF but the public owns everyone.. you lose fans and customers and you have nothing. The people were def heard, this was about to easily get swept under the carpet. There is justice! We are sending our best runner, this is the way it should be.

GG - tone down the aggressive racing style and use your spacial reasoning to reduce amount of unnecessary contact

Hasay - nothing to say here except tough luck. You tried but this wasn't your day. Stop weaving when you slow down

Al - you don't run the world buddy.. everyone has to follow the rules. Learn some sportsmanship. Good luck retaining your good runners

Nike - no lesson learned, $ always wins. You don't lose by not sending Hasay, she had no shot anyway

USATF - you are very close to getting broken up, ppl are ultra sensitive about the beauracracy

Nike is a disgrace wrote:

How do you interpret this?...

"Our women’s track & field meet officials, who volunteer their time to serve the sport, made a field-of-play decision based on the video evidence they saw,” Siegel said. “They followed the process laid out in our competition rules, with no USATF employee or officer part of the appeal or the decision. We are all looking forward and will address our processes to try to minimize the potential for controversy or misunderstanding in the future.”

So the USATF had nothing to do with the appeal or the decision? They just stood around while nike decided everything?

The statement is a bit of a play on words that a lawyer would appreciate (and I am one).

Two of the three people on the panel (initials H and T) have been involved with USATF for 30-40 years. At times they have been USATF officers and employees but, at this very moment, they have volunteer status. So Siegel can say that only volunteers were involved and no (current) USATF officers and employees were.

That's two of the panelists. The third is yet to be identified.

distance running people are the best - football gets bloody richard sherman, baseball gets arod, basketball any number of poor sports.

We get jordan hasay. We win.

If Salazar and USATF were in the right on this matter, there is no way Hasay withdraws. Nor should she.

Someone at Nike must have finally figured it out that this was not going to end well for everyone involved. And Hasay was their only way out of it without making Salazar, USATF and Nike look bad. Now they have to hope it just gets swept under the rug.

Poor girl gets decisively beaten to take fourth and then due to the actions of her coach, has her name dragged through the mud for 48 hours.

Of course, she's probably being paid a tidy sum from Nike to get them off the hook in this fiasco....

"1) Were the rules followed and was 'enhanced video resolution' involved."

"The final disqualification was made on the basis of enlarged, digital footage of the legs and feet of both athletes"

Reading. Try it.

I'm sure Hasay is a wonderful person. But as much as people are praising her for doing the right thing, chances are, she is just doing what she has been told to do.

So did she get reinstated because Jordan withdrew the protest?

Skooled wrote:

I'm sure Hasay is a wonderful person. But as much as people are praising her for doing the right thing, chances are, she is just doing what she has been told to do.

This^ and I feel the protest wasn't her idea either. After the dust settled, Nike says "Al, what have you done?" The result is where we stand now, the only way to end this clusterf%$k and make Al still smell like a rose.

agip wrote:

distance running people are the best - football gets bloody richard sherman, baseball gets arod, basketball any number of poor sports.

We get jordan hasay. We win.

ummm...it was distance runners that caused this mess in the first place!

Blitzcraig wrote:

How can Hasay withdraw a protest after the final decision has been made?

I don't understand this either. Anyone have reasoning? Isn't it similar to the following: An acquaintance steals a bunch of my stuff, I find out and press charges, he goes to trial and is found guilty and receives some sentence. I then say, "you know what, I recant pressing charges" and he no longer needs to serve?

Either Gabe was at fault or she wasn't. The protest just starts the inquiry. Once its opened, why does it matter what Jordan says?

ray wrote:

Skooled wrote:

I'm sure Hasay is a wonderful person. But as much as people are praising her for doing the right thing, chances are, she is just doing what she has been told to do.

This^ and I feel the protest wasn't her idea either. After the dust settled, Nike says "Al, what have you done?" The result is where we stand now, the only way to end this clusterf%$k and make Al still smell like a rose.

seems like Al bowed under the pressure of Wejo and the Letsrun rats.

lagsun wrote:

If Salazar and USATF were in the right on this matter, there is no way Hasay withdraws. Nor should she.

Someone at Nike must have finally figured it out that this was not going to end well for everyone involved. And Hasay was their only way out of it without making Salazar, USATF and Nike look bad. Now they have to hope it just gets swept under the rug.

Poor girl gets decisively beaten to take fourth and then due to the actions of her coach, has her name dragged through the mud for 48 hours.

Of course, she's probably being paid a tidy sum from Nike to get them off the hook in this fiasco....

Are you kidding? She only did this because of all the sad display that some of the runners gave and pressure put on her by other athletes like some kind of bullying to support their friend rather than what was right. She felt ostracized when GG was the one who should have been apologizing to Hasay. Letsrun will lose more fans than Salazar will with their biased display in all this.

Will Lear and those girls who held hands are nothing but mean girl bully's.

It's a figure of speech winning the battle, but not the war.

Instead of getting Gabriele reinstated I personally agree it is far more important that we make sure this can't happen again. If everyone just says "she's going to Poland, problem solved" then the same thing can happen again.

How did this happen? There certainly is the appearance of different rules for different people. At the very least there is almost no transparency at the very least.

The reason the athletes were so upset is that there is the perception at nearly every USATF championship that USATF officials makes capricious decisions on DQs, who gets into the meet, heat draws, or whatever it is. The athletes had finally had enough and protested in this case.

The mainstream media was picking up on this story.

Everytime with the meet entries, essentially when you look into it is becomes "the head meet ref can let into the meet whoever they want." Personally, I think there is a better way to do it than that, but don't have a problem with a somewhat flexible system to let stars in to a meet.

However, once the gun goes off, everyone needs to be treated the same at national championships. That includes which coaches get access to which areas and all the way through the DQ process. I don't feel confident that is always the case.

I really like Jordan Hasay, as I've watched her race since middle school and she's such a classy young woman. I believe she was not any part of Salazar's crap. I believe she was dragged into his ugly power play. But I also believe that she didn't pull "her" protest but was told to by the Nike powers that be. They knew they were NOT going to win this battle. THE PEOPLE vs Nike and the people won. POWER TO THE PEOPLE! It's nice to see in some small arena our voice is still heard.

I agree, let's be realistic here. The only reason for the withdrawal was because of the firestorm and backlash.

While I am sure Jordan is a nice person, she knew there was only one option in this.

I'm very glad this worked out for GG. Wouldn't be outraged if she'd be DQed under normal processes, but the way it happened was absurd and infuriating.

This is very minor in comparison, since the Worlds team wasn't impacted, but in the sentiment of "the war not the battle," I'd still like to know why Bumbalough was DQed. Salazar filed that protest, too, and it seemed punitive and personal rather than warranted. And yet Bumbalough was DQed with little explanation and seemingly no cause. Seems like USATF waved the white flag under duress with GG but got away with one on AB and will likely continue to pull similar shenanigans.