You know all those rojo rants about how you should get DQ'd if you drift wide in the finishing straight? Well, sometimes you don't even need to get DQ'd, you just fall.
This... They should DQ Sifan anyways. Great way to send a warning to athletic to no impede another
Swung too wide and STILL got beat. Justice. Great job by Tsegay and Gidey. Hassan would have been DQd (likely). You have to maintain your line once on the straight. Can't move out. in final meters.
Peacock feed super choppy. Not sure if it’s on my end or not. Missed the Hassan fall completely - but on replay just now I have to agree Hassan cut her off
Great race all around - Ethiopia sweep and incredible performance from Monson
my feed was perfect.
Hassan went to early. she tried to be more patient than usual, but should have waited another 50 at least
Ultra slow mo looks like Hassan’s hip flexor failed to fire and she dragged her leg. This happens to older runners amazing to see it at highest level. Maybe that 1500m just took a little too much out of her or not enough recovery from the marathon and it’s a deep injury when muscle fibers are spent.
Sifan faded out a bit and got clipped from behind.
I could be mistaken but I didn’t even see a clip. There was contact prior to the fall but nothing that seemed to cause it. I honestly just think Hassan was sprinting so hard, so desperately pushing her limit that her coordination went kaput and she fell.
The Ethiopian women are tough and talented. I have a friend who works at the local bagel store who is in the US having immigrated from Ethiopia. She is working her way through school, and all of the family is in Ethiopia and she is here alone so I am concerned for her. I talk to her about the Ethiopian runners all of the time, and I know she watched this race. Can't wait to talk to her tomorrow about the race. Don't have anything against Hassan, but she had to kick later than she did - I think she thought she could run away from the field.
Is that BS what Kara just said? It's worse to run slower first laps because you have an extra minute to run in the heat?
I thought, "Did I hear her right? Is she joking?"
I usually don't even notice announcers. They have to say something truly, astoundingly stupid for me to sit up and say, "Huh?!?!" Kara achieved that today.
Well that was interesting. Not sure why Hassan was doing 90deg. head turns through the whole sprint. Wasted a lot. My take....without those dumb lookbacks and just eyeballed out from 200 to go, she would've won. As it was, I suspect Tsegay would have pipped her.
Sifan faded out a bit and got clipped from behind.
I’d like to see the replay. Hassan drifted, but c’mon, that’s racing. She was pulling a Chelimo. Tsegay was going to get her regardless. Then she fell like Gidey at world cross. Tripped over nothing, but she was beat in those last 10 meters. She gave away the silver, but I guess that doesn’t mean so much to her.
A guy with a PB worse than 10.50 does not belong in the world championship 100m. I don't care what country he's from.
This matters because the WC keeps trying to be the olympics, a multi-week event that costs a fortune to attend all of it. Get rid of this filler and make the thing watchable and affordable.
This is like if all the Canadian hockey teams had bad losing records, but one gets into the playoffs anyway because Canada gets an automatic entry. Ridiculous!
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if and when Canada fails to field a playoff team, they should eat it, eh.
