Cole DQ'd

You're saying the participants in an athletic competition should be the referees or judges.

BINGO!

Americans on this forum are insane. If it was an athlete from another country DQ'd for the same thing, you'd be supporting the DQ.

Also, Farken's opinion on the issue is entirely irrelevant.

Maybe Hocker should learn better positioning.

The amount of people saying Kerr are crazy. He probably won’t even medal. I’d say Laros, Koech, and Reynauld cheruiyot

Yeah, American here, it is so obviously a DQ. He tried to forge a path where there was none. The German was definitely impeded and went totally backwards; he had good momentum until Cole shoved his way in front of him.

YEP!

I feel bad for Cole Hocker because the "perfect storm" occurred to foil his strategy. Two guys take the lead with 400m to go, then BOTH slow down in the final 100m but don't swing to lane 2.

OOPS!

My observations

From the 800 on up, judges give leeway to stiff arms and mild pushes in the first 3/4s of the race when they are used to create space rather than make a pass

Judges are pretty strict in the last 150m anytime an athlete uses their upper body to cut in on an another athlete.

Hocker was still slightly behind the German athlete when he shouldered him. The contact was intentional and used to make the pass. That's a DQ.

Sucks for Hocker, sucks for the US and sucks for the sport. Its still the right call. If they don't call that type of intentional contact every homestretch would turn into a scrum.

Also, I feel like Hocker makes a point of winning prelims. No one wants to get 7th but Hocker is good enough he could have slid out to lane 4 with 300 to go, ran the turn in lane 2, and picked his way to the finish line in an easy 4th or 5th.

i am american and fully support the DQ. Hocker impeded a runner and while it sucks for our medal chances, it's the right call sticking to the rules and I respect it.

Bad tactics. He always gets boxed and almost always lane 1 opens up. Today it didnt. DQ and I dont mean dairy queen

Agreed. He always relies on lane 1 opening. And this time it backfired

That seems like a pretty soft DQ. Makhloufi makes this move several times in the 2012 1500m final. Centro and others in the 2016 final. I'm not saying it's right but if you're going to call it, call it consistently.

absolutely false watch NCAAs and USA finals 2021

Would be really fun to see Wightman win another one

Sheeet. If this is gonna be that kind of party, I’m gonna stick my d*ck in the mashed potatoes.

Immediately after they crossed the line I was thinking that was DQ worthy. It was the right call. He completely bullied his way between two runners, absolutely derailing Farley and sent him spitting out the back of the pack (even Farken said it was not significant). Sad thing is the move was completely unnecessary and he could have coasted across the line in the top six.

" perfect storm"??

Hocker 100% did this to himself. Absolutely atrocious tactics.

1. He starts in the back for a bit. Perfectly ok [ stay out of trouble, pace yourself early and don't waste any energy jostling for position, draft of others].

But then.... he immediately sprints on the turn in lane two or three to the lead. More or less defeating the purpose of his early strategy. [ if you're going to go out easy in the back, stay there for a little bit. There's no point in rushing into the lead. Immediately after your easy start ]

2. So now he's basically leading the whole race. Letting others draft off him, but sure, he's staying out of trouble still. But then at the bell When you want to control the race from the front and not get boxed in a la mo farah or centro or El G, he lets two scrubs pass him and others go beside him. So now he is fully boxed in. The leaders are not even running very fast. So he has nowhere to go.

So he's forced to do that ridiculous move.

Start at the back out of trouble chilling. make one decisive move at about 900- 1000 m to head towards the front, and then lead the entire final lap.

He pretty much did the opposite.

Like he said. The perfect storm

Yes racing not wrestling.