Ok, if there was a DQ in the men's 800, the has to be one in the women's 1500 - Bye Bye Mary Cain?

I think it is Cain not McGee. I think Cain\\\'s right knee got Ucency\\\'s lefy lateral shin or foot. That said, I think this is incidental contact. No DQ for Cain.

However, if Cain says that she didn\\\'t have any contact with Ucency, she was too focused on the running to notice.

Deadman Running wrote:

Like I posted earlier, I reviewed the footage frame by frame. I saw three touches of Uceny's back kick to McGee's leg. after the first touch it was McGee's responsibility to back off or go around. Same with the second. The third time Uceny went down. Apparently the officials saw the same thing and DQ'd McGee.

Didn't appear to be anything prior to whatever contact caused Uceny to fall. When was McGee DQd?

Cain didn't even flinch in the video which shows them running directly at the camera, she wasn't involved.

MU needs to figure out her problem and stop flopping on the track. This is a pattern.

Uceny falls in big races.

DaveW wrote:

Who cares where their shin, knee or leg was since they had no chance to do anything of significance in this race.

Does LR plan a feature on Mary Cain as the most accomplished women HS runner to date? I think we should require Rojo to write it, but please have his less than minimum wage interns edit it as best they can, which typically results in giggles despite the effort.

Morgan had no chance to do anything of significance in this race ? She was side by side with Cain when she went down. Doubtful she would have won against Simpson, but top 3 was in the cards.

On a tangent, if Uceny ever wins a big championship again I think a movie is in order because Hilary Swank is pretty much the perfect actress to portray her. Pretty sure they are related.

Except Hillary Swank dies at the end of Million Dollar Babies ... oh, wait.

She's becoming quite the joke now. Morgan needs to go back to training and figure out how to run in a crowd. This is unacceptable and hardly a THIRD coincidence. She's her own worst enemy

inverted pendulum, would this explain why she falls to the outside of the track? She sort of rolls into the outside lane. Otherwise she would almost certainly get trampled. Many falls and lucky to never be seriously injured.

inverted pendulum wrote:

i swear her problem is that she is kicking herself, literally. her left foot comes forward and hits her right calf, then she loses her balance and dives.

In both 2011 and the olympics, the fall was also to the outside of the track. On straight-aways. So it could be self tripping (unintentional) left foot into right calf as described by pendulum.

Ironic that Simpson also won the race in 2011 when she fell the first time.

This is good news because it can be fixed and overcome. It's not just bad luck.

let's not get our panties up in a bunch. Uceny was never going to win this race or beat Cain. She couldn't even hold off Viola lagat in a shit dick hoka one one race in a middle of no where high school. Plus getting tripped for the 3rd time in a championship race is more than a coincidence. sigh...

inverted pendulum wrote:

people hit their foot on their opposite calf all the time. you see the telltale mud marks in xc. but it's usually the less talented athletes.

Cross is also different from track.

I know that this sounds very strange, but one of my teammates once noticed hair-free portions on his inside calves. We checked around and almost everyone on the team had them. We figured that we were all kicking our calves so much that we were rubbing them bald.

The initial discovery was during cross. For what it is worth, we checked again during track season and most of the bald portions were gone.

Is she kidding me, she hardly lead at all. Jenny lead most of the way from the gun. Truly, get real!

The GIGO Gecko wrote:

DaveW seems to be saying that Uceny takes the dive in big telivised finals in order to make her (and not the winner of the race) the biggest news.

I almost hesitate to say it, but I don't disagree. She was big news on the TV and has anyone counted how many threads she generated here? How many did Jenny's win generate?

Folks, please tell me I'm not the only one who thinks it's obvious that this can only be rojo posting under a different name.

Yes. Yes you are the only one. To call you an idiot would be a disgrace to the title.

This is the biggest crock of BS I have read in days.

It looked like #4, McGee, ran up on her. She was very close to Uceny from behind, not giving any room. Uceny does not have a real high back kick so it's on the trail runner.

No one's fault but Uceny's. At this point, all I can hope is for her to be a better sport when she does fall.

Les wrote:

It looked like #4, McGee, ran up on her. She was very close to Uceny from behind, not giving any room. Uceny does not have a real high back kick so it's on the trail runner.

McGee didn't moved forward on Uceny at all. If anything Uceny moved slightly to her left putting her closer to McGee.

They, as admins of the site, could easily still have multiple accounts...which kinda kills your theory.