Unbelievable: The French have done it again & filed a protest to get Evan Jager DQd for stepping on the line

disgraceful_admin wrote:

I think you're all being too hard on Mekhissi.

There's a reason the rules are there for the lines. If you pass someone on the inside you can gain an enormous advantage. Whether or not this actually happened is not relevant - rules are rules and breaking them has consequences. I am surprised that the largely conservative population on these boards doesn't support that ideal.

It's more that this guy is flat out the biggest jerk on the world stage.

Assaulting mascots. Ripping off his jersey in the home stretch of European champs. Sucker punching his teammate. Getting Kemboi DQ'd last year.

The guy is the only track athlete I've ever rooted against, and I hope this protest doesn't go through. Jager never passed him on the inside and the DQ on Kemboi last year was a farce at best.

What a looser! He was the fourth best on the track for two years in a row and cheated his way to third and then trys to do it again. Just like all the liberals who can’t accept that Trump won and try and push the crazy Russian witch hunt.

FriendJoe wrote:

If this protest is successful, France will be met with fire, fury, and... frankly,

power the likes of which this world has never seen.

While it seems to have gone unnoticed, I really appreciate this post. Timely, and well played. Bravo.

Typical Liberal wrote:

What a looser! He was the fourth best on the track for two years in a row and cheated his way to third and then trys to do it again. Just like all the liberals who can’t accept that Trump won and try and push the crazy Russian witch hunt.

Lol. I could tell you voted for Trump merely by your spelling. Love

It.

runnerdave wrote:

Typical Liberal wrote:

What a looser! He was the fourth best on the track for two years in a row and cheated his way to third and then trys to do it again. Just like all the liberals who can’t accept that Trump won and try and push the crazy Russian witch hunt.

Lol. I could tell you voted for Trump merely by your spelling. Love

It.

You're denigrating someone for their spelling; and using "lol" in the same reply?

Haute Couture wrote:

You're denigrating someone for their spelling; and using "lol" in the same reply?

It was a fair beef, the spelling is painful.

Looser, trys.

Tron wrote:

disgraceful_admin wrote:

I think you're all being too hard on Mekhissi.

There's a reason the rules are there for the lines. If you pass someone on the inside you can gain an enormous advantage. Whether or not this actually happened is not relevant - rules are rules and breaking them has consequences. I am surprised that the largely conservative population on these boards doesn't support that ideal.

Do you think Farah should be DQ for stepping inside the track on last lap?

I was thinking the same thing. For that matter, wasn't Farah's inside-stepping while on the curve???

800 meter man wrote:

disgraceful_admin wrote:

I think you're all being too hard on Mekhissi.

There's a reason the rules are there for the lines. If you pass someone on the inside you can gain an enormous advantage. Whether or not this actually happened is not relevant - rules are rules and breaking them has consequences. I am surprised that the largely conservative population on these boards doesn't support that ideal.

It's more that this guy is flat out the biggest jerk on the world stage.

Assaulting mascots. Ripping off his jersey in the home stretch of European champs. Sucker punching his teammate. Getting Kemboi DQ'd last year.

The guy is the only track athlete I've ever rooted against, and I hope this protest doesn't go through. Jager never passed him on the inside and the DQ on Kemboi last year was a farce at best.

Some might say he's the best thing that's happened for the sport. There's no better way to attract media attention than with unexpected violence. Jager was on the right track - no pun intended - with his 8:01 barrier crash, but Mekhissi took it to the level this sport needs to compete with football and futbol.

He probably assaulted the mascot because he was insulted - there's no need for mascots when the athletes are entertaining enough themselves, though this is rarely the case.

The funny thing is that people on the boards were calling it even before the race started and right after the race finished that the frogs would try to get their guy a medal. This guy is a disgrace.

Again, why are we still having these issues in 2017? GET A REAL RAIL FOR THAT SECTION OF THE TRACK!!!!! It's insane that this is still an issue and they're using cones.

That said, the French are ridiculous on these challenges. How about their guy just run faster.

Its a good point but only if made on a curve or impeding another runner. On any straight part of the track it provides no material advantage and actually is a longer route.

Isn't Farah's stepping was caused by contacting with another runner, therefore allowable by rule?

I think it is time we started calling McD's fries Freedom Fries again.

800 meter man wrote:

Ripping off his jersey in the home stretch of European champs.

Letsrun loved that at the time. A lot of hate for the officials when he was DQ'd

Great night for the French last night. It is going to be three medals!

I didn't know bout the french dirty trick last year. Their waste of air runner was miles away from kemboi. The judge that authorized this is an ostridge brain human garbage. Didn't the Kenyans try to object?

I have one more bad thing to say about this garlic cakes snobbish cheap go to bed with the kitchen sink nation

Take this stinkin cheese eaters

https://youtu.be/qt3eyeO0R94

Why is it unbelievable that the French would file a protest, as is their right?

More unbelievable is that a so-called running website doesn't have photos/video of the two line touches that IAAF admits occurred.

SEDave wrote:

Again, why are we still having these issues in 2017? GET A REAL RAIL FOR THAT SECTION OF THE TRACK!!!!! It's insane that this is still an issue and they're using cones.

That said, the French are ridiculous on these challenges. How about their guy just run faster.

You is correct. I chalk up the cones to laziness. At these World Championships in London, I noticed that the officials removed the curbing on the oval long in advance of the steeplechase being run, so the earlier races had only cones in at least two places, the entry and exit to the water jump. And, as you mentioned, there is not any rail/curb along the water jump route itself.

At Hayward Field, they have always had a rail/curb along the water jump route. They keep the rail in place on the oval until the steeplers have run the first curve of the race, then quickly remove the two appropriate sections and set them aside. That's the way to do it.

But the Europeans seem to be very lazy, habitually having curbing out for:

- steeplechase

- high jump

- javelin throw

- and at least once I saw in a Diamond League this year, even for the shot put.

I think they must simply be lazy, and their facilities are usually compromised for the JT and HJ because of that all-important soccer craze.