Zola Budd and Dan O'Brien were not DQ'ed in the mentioned incidents.
Zola Budd and Dan O'Brien were not DQ'ed in the mentioned incidents.
i thought he no-heighted?
Old Runner Guy wrote:
Ancient One wrote:Dorando Pietri.
Look it up.
I agree this is hands-down the winner. The rest of this thread is about the second most famous DQ.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorando_Pietri
Did you see that they named a dish after him because they wer so pissed about the US win?
Budd WAS DQ'd, but later reinstated.
In the decathlon, one is Dq'd for not attempting the event, O"brien was not Dq'd for his no height.
Amos Moses wrote:
Old Runner Guy wrote:[quote]Ancient One wrote:
Dorando Pietri.
Look it up.
I agree this is hands-down the winner. The rest of this thread is about the second most famous DQ.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorando_Pietri
One of the people who picked poor Dorando off the floor was Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes stories
Another good contender for most famous DQ is Chris Brasher, pace maker to Roger Bannister, co-founder of the London Marathon and 1956 Olympic 'chase champion. He was disqualified for impeding the second finsher but was subsequently re-instated.
In the intervening period between the race and the delayed presentation he went for a drink or three with the press. Consequently he is one of a very exclusive group of people to be presented with an Olympic gold whilst smashed out of his mind
How can anyon say Pietri is the most famous DQ. Few of the other DQ's being discussed need a link to help us remember it.
Noggin wrote:
Consequently he is one of a very exclusive group of people to be presented with an Olympic gold whilst smashed out of his mind
Yeah, but could he make it through an interview with the ladies of The View whilst smashed out of his mind?
Gotta be Brit Jim Peters in the 1954 Commonwealth Games marathon. Midday start in 90F temps, little water on the course.
He was primed to be first under 2.15. He staggered into the stadium well ahead of second, fell a dozen times, was helped by the team masseur, and phhhhhttt! DQ.
He spent a week in hospital and never raced again.
Try doing some research into the history of track and field and you will find that Dorando Pietri was easily the most famous DQ in Olympic history, prior to Ben Johnson who probably holds the 'most (in)famous' title now. Another contender, though not strictly a DQ if my recollection is right, would be Jim Thorpe having his medals taken away for alleged professionalism.
An Inconvenient Truth wrote:
Jim Peters in the 1954 Commonwealth Games .
Point of pedantry, it was the 1954 Empire Games.
This was on the same day as the "Race of the Century" where the worlds only (at that point) sub-4 milers met. History shows that Landy finished second to Bannister
What did Holman do at the 1997 nationals?
Old Runner Guy wrote:
I agree this is hands-down the winner. The rest of this thread is about the second most famous DQ.
Four years prior to Dorando, two guys should've been DQ'd, but only one was...
Thomas J. Hicks (January 7, 1875 – December 2, 1963) was an American track and field athlete, winner of the Olympic marathon in 1904.
Hicks, a brass worker from Cambridge, Massachusetts who had been born in England and won a second place at the 1904 Boston Marathon, was the winner of a remarkable marathon race at the 1904 Summer Olympics, held as part of the World Fair in St. Louis, Missouri. Conditions were bad, the course being a dirt track, with large clouds of dust produced by the accompanying vehicles. Hicks was not the first to cross the finish line, trailing Fred Lorz. However, Lorz had abandoned the race after 9 miles. After covering most of the course by car, he re-entered the race 5 miles before the finish. This was found out by the officials, who disqualified Lorz, who claimed it had only been a joke.
Had the race been run under current rules, Hicks too would have been disqualified, as he had been given a dose of 1/60th of a grain (roughly 1 mg.) of strychnine and some brandy by his assistants as he was flagging badly during the race; the first dose of strychnine did not revive him for long, so he was given another. As a result, he collapsed after crossing the finishing line. Another dose may well have proved fatal. Strychnine is now forbidden for athletes.
(Strychnine more commonly known as rat poison!!)
XCTC wrote:
...and an on-fire Ana Quirot.
Good one. (Ouch.)
Haas wrote:
What did Holman do at the 1997 nationals?
He was boxed with about 250m to go in the final and kinda sorta threw Karl Paranya out of his way. Perhaps a bit of panic with the 1996 Trials disaster on his mind. Despite the ding, he might have wound up going to '97 Worlds anyway because of the lack of "A" qualifiers, but I'd have to research that.
toro wrote:
One year in the '90's- The Alabama women were DQ'ed in the 4X400 for one of the runners having one foot oustide of the exchange zone while waiting for the baton.
It gave them no advantage in the race but the DQ cost them first place in that race and in the team title where LSU won by less than 10 points over Alabama.
Personally I was DQ'ed in high school in a 400m race when I leaned and fell across the line when the starter said "set" (I did a standing start).
In college, my team had the #1 time in the country in the 4X800 going into NCAA's. My coach ran an alternate in my place in the trial round. I was to run the final until we found out that we would have been DQ'ed since the first round race was considered a substitution and I couldn't be substituted back.
I watched the final from the stands while our first leg (my leg) ran bad and the team clawed back to finish 3rd.
That was my last college meet and I naver made All America.
Woulda, coulda shoulda...
That was in 1986 at LSU where Alababma's 4 x 4 was disqualified. I have the television tape. It shows the pissed off Alabama coach giving a good talking to the head official Bill McClure, an old-time coach himself.
further pedantry:
according to wikipedia, the name became empire and commonwealth games in 1954.
In the final of the 1908 Olympic 400m the race was stopped because of obstruction by the US runner Carpenter, a rerun was ordered for the next day but the American runners refused to participate and so the British runner got a walkover and only a gold medal was awarded.
doobermckgnarkill wrote:
I'd agree that Roise Ruiz is one of the most famous DQ's ever
Famous, but not a real DQ because her case was outright fraud. I think of DQ's as being subtler...wearing the wrong uniform, doing drugs, sabotaging the opponents, generally engaging in unsportsmanlike behavior.
Dave, for me, has hit the nail on the head. Jim Thorpe was the greatest athlete of the first half of the last century. His DQ remains another brick in the AAU wall that screwed so many people who failed to follow their guidelines (ask no questions).
Linford Christie was good theater. Pietro would've made millions had ESPN covered the event.