USA DQ in mixed 4x4

Karma Police wrote:

dadoffourcs wrote:

Just saw on Twitter that the US is going to appeal being placed in the wrong exchange area.

So why were the others in the right spot?

Would you not look at the track beforehand and see where the two blue ticks are and know you change between them?

i don't think so. she is lined up just in front of the blue marking, just as it appears everybody else is. she just happens to be in the front of the blue marking 20 meters in front of the correct one.

It's just bizarre. She f'd up or an official actually told her to go there. I don't know what it's like down there, but I feel bad for her.

i mention the high school thing, but in high school meets you have teammates, officials, your coaches and often times even opposing coaches to correct such blatantly bad positioning. Everybody is there to support the runners and the racing.

an official either screwed them over or they were just pathetically prepared by the relay coaches.

Same old yanks,cheating as always.

high school xc coach wrote:

an official either screwed them over or they were just pathetically prepared by the relay coaches.

or both

What I don't understand is how nobody noticed this. I put 90% of the blame on the runner herself, but what about the 3rd and 4th legs of the relay? They use the same exchange zone and are standing nearby waiting for their leg. Did neither of them take a look at their #2 and think, "One of these things is not like the others?" They could have corrected her. What about the coaches? It is an empty stadium. The coach could have called out her name from the upper deck of the backstretch and she would have heard him. How did nobody notice this? The blame falls on several people in my opinion.

missed heat1 wrote:

It looked like heat 2 had a lot of runners moving to a different mark for that handoff, did the officials not know where they should be and she didn’t want to move? That picture looks like different lines she’s likely used to triangles clearly marking the zone and was probably nervous to begin with

Yes, at least Italy and Brazil in heat 2 came back from somewhere far away to the zone start markers shortly before the exchange. It may well be that they were instructed to go to the back of the zone by the officials. I didn't see anyone moving in heat 1, but the zone wasn't shown that much before the exchange.

Still, you'd think that the athlete would know the rules well enough to know where she should have been.

here we go again wrote:

What I don't understand is how nobody noticed this. I put 90% of the blame on the runner herself, but what about the 3rd and 4th legs of the relay? They use the same exchange zone and are standing nearby waiting for their leg. Did neither of them take a look at their #2 and think, "One of these things is not like the others?" They could have corrected her. What about the coaches? It is an empty stadium. The coach could have called out her name from the upper deck of the backstretch and she would have heard him. How did nobody notice this? The blame falls on several people in my opinion.

I'm fairly certain that legs 3 and 4 do not start where the 2nd leg does, as they do not need to run the turn as a stagger.

There are still plenty to blame for this mistake. First, the runner who should know better. Second, the officials for not making sure they started in the correct place. Third, the relay coaches for not preparing them better.

yup, the third and fourth runner are lined up behind the start/finish line. They probably don't have a clue. The runner is to blame, but at the same time, with a boatload of nerves, if an official tells you something is correct, you are going with it and trusting them.

Lenny Leonard wrote:

At the first exchange it looked like the USA forgot to put a second leg on the track. Maybe she went to the wrong mark?

We are the Worst Of All Time in any relay. Will always find a way to screw up handoffs.

Actually the exact opposite. The United States has far outpaced the second place nation in relay medals in Olympic history. It is literally news when the United States doesn't win gold in the 4x1 or 4x4.

How very like the US. To lose a relay in such a fashion.

347893 wrote:

Lenny Leonard wrote:

At the first exchange it looked like the USA forgot to put a second leg on the track. Maybe she went to the wrong mark?

We are the Worst Of All Time in any relay. Will always find a way to screw up handoffs.

Actually the exact opposite. The United States has far outpaced the second place nation in relay medals in Olympic history. It is literally news when the United States doesn't win gold in the 4x1 or 4x4.

Anytime the US wins a relay, it is because of some percentage of the team being dopers.

347893 wrote:

Lenny Leonard wrote:

At the first exchange it looked like the USA forgot to put a second leg on the track. Maybe she went to the wrong mark?

We are the Worst Of All Time in any relay. Will always find a way to screw up handoffs.

Actually the exact opposite. The United States has far outpaced the second place nation in relay medals in Olympic history. It is literally news when the United States doesn't win gold in the 4x1 or 4x4.

And any time we (The US) don't win a relay, 95% of the time, it is our own doing, in the form of a DQ. Rarely are we actually beat.

Man Bear Pig Man wrote:

347893 wrote:

Actually the exact opposite. The United States has far outpaced the second place nation in relay medals in Olympic history. It is literally news when the United States doesn't win gold in the 4x1 or 4x4.

And any time we (The US) don't win a relay, 95% of the time, it is our own doing, in the form of a DQ. Rarely are we actually beat.

Yes doped up us americans are rarely beat. But people who dope arent clever so they fail from time to time

It's too bad about the DQ. The team ran very well.

I just watched the race replay and it did look like one official (an older white guy?) right outside lane 9 by the exchange was trying to yell to the US runner right before the exchange possibly about her bad positioning. A real shame.

Liberal Logics wrote:

Hollywood will make a Hidden Figures 2 movie and she will be hailed as a genius who helped the USA Team to a total medals victory in the Olympics!

The one consistent thing about you bigots is your demonstrable stupidity.