GEORGIA ROBBED!

The championship is for the NCAA Track and FIELD!

Got news for you. wrote:

It never was. Particularly in Oregon, that great state where people go to jail for collecting rain water on their own property.

and get massive fines for refusing to bake wedding cakes.

Wow. Penis

michael t smith wrote:

On the other hand, for some unfathomable reason, Rogers veered wide into lane two as she started, allowing the USC runner to simply slide by her in lane one. Kind of a counter impede.

There was nothing unfathomable about it; it is called middle-distance tactics. Sprinters & quarter milers have no clue about running a 1600 relay. Rogers was inviting USC to pass so she could draft and allow the USC girl to break wind.

Gotta bee wrote:

It's not a BS protest, the rules are the rules and apply to everyone if Oregon broke the rules why should they be allowed to just because they're almighty Oregon?

Except for that key issue of Oregon not breaking any rules. I would agree with you if not for that little nugget of info.

I didn't really give 2 sh!ts who won, but both protests were ridiculous and come off as pathetic. The minor bumping of elbows in the 4x4 paled in comparison to every 1500m heat and final. No reasonable grounds for protest. The other protest that Stevens was ineligible because she DNF w/o giving an honest effort is laughable, mostly because she was quite obviously DQ'd, either for impeding the runner to her left or because she was helped up (i.e. received assistance) from her teammate and some dummy who came out of the stands to help her. [And let's use some common sense. The honest effort rule is to prevent distance runners from jogging their backup event at regionals after qualifying in their primary.]

I get that folks don't like Oregon, but you all make yourself look stupid with these arguments for a DQ in the 4x4. At its most basic, the Georgie coach demonstrated a complete lack of sportsmanship and class.