lol where are you people going to high school?
If someone tried to challenge that finish in my conference, the officials would have told them to get a life.
lol where are you people going to high school?
If someone tried to challenge that finish in my conference, the officials would have told them to get a life.
Chelimo made it very easy to root against him in the future.
Nothing to see here.
If Grant had finished 4th and said the same thing, I would take his words to heart. In this case ... nah. He made the 5k squad, so he's not going to complain. You can't draw any real conclusion from his answer.
Grassrunner wrote:
RossiCheated wrote:
Only idiots will be drawn into a discussion about whether he violated a rule of the sport.
1) Yes, he violated the rules.
2) Yes, he intended to impede them. He admitted that he did.
3) My quess is that nothing came of protests that were lodged because USA Track and Field wants those three to go.
4)If he had pulled this in the Olympics, a Diamond League or World Championship, he would be GONE. Anyone who follows the sport for any length of time knows that if you push people into lane four in a major meet with judges who don't have some skin in the outcome, you are gone.
5) Some high school kid who just watched this race thinks that is a fair strategy and will replicate it. That kid will be GONE.
The only question for me, which we won't know an answer to, is if Teare had come up lane one and nipped Kincaid for the third spot, would the rules have been applied? I think so. I think they went with "no harm, no foul" but if there was a harm they couldn't ignore the obvious foul.
So Grant Fisher is either ignorant of the rules or was being politically savvy.
Agree with the 5 points posted by Rossi.
To Grassrunner; Grant Fisher is furthest from ignorant.
Every single conference in the US. Did you not follow the story of the runner DQed in lane 2.