Paris Monday PM live thread: Women’s 5000 & 800 finals (+ Live Reaction Show at 7 pm ET)

BS wrote:

echinoderm wrote:

Checked in at the back of the pack and pretty much stayed there. 8:36.67. Gotta wonder what his strategy was (stay out of trouble and hope that 5 of the athletes would do mass suicide into the water jump?).

Or maybe guy that had run an absurd number of PRs just to get to the games was fried after extending his season 2 months past its expected finish.

D-Run wrote:

D-Run wrote:

This Italian woman is going to have a stressful couple hours. Leigh Diffey naming her a bronze medalist but also recognizing that an appeal could undo that.

So, the appeal did overturn the initial decision. Granted, just because Diffey suggested she could wind up with bronze, she and her team probably kept that idea out of there heads until the appeal was completed.