JENNY SIMPSON WINS DIAMOND LEAGUE - Dives over finish line, beats Rowbury by .01!

LetsRun.com wrote:

The race has only been finished for 10 minutes and people already are arguing for a DQ - but NOP fans think Simpson deserves the DQ, others say Rowbury.

What drama.

This is the culture the brojos and letsrun.com admin have helped create through their specific actions (how they word their posts/articles, changing thread titles to increase drama, selectively deleting and not deleting posts in order to foster an environment that exaggerates drama, especially when NOP is involved, etc.).

What about the sport?

Sacred Heart Cathedral wrote:

some perspective wrote:

No one pushed or blocked or cut anyone else off. They were racing for the win.

Why do some people have to analyze and find fault when anything exciting happens in T&F? Get a life.

^ This

Count me in.

The one thing that I saw was that Jenny almost lost the race by leaning too soon.

Rowbury is running while Simpson is breaking to start her lean and Rowbury makes up a big gap in that time.

Rowbury leaned right at the line and that's what brought it down to a 0.01 s differential.

800 Coach wrote:

Yes, I don't like the bad sportsmanship here. I don't care what happened. Go over and congratulate the other on a good race. I hope Salazar's athletes aren't copying his lack of class.

Great season by both Jenny and Shannon, but have some respect for each other.

Brenda Martinez helped Shannon Rowbury up and they congratulated each other.

Brenda Martinez looked over at Jenny Simpson then walked in the opposite direction.

Of the 3 american women in this race, it is Jenny Simpson who appears to be the odd one out post-race. As Martinez is not teammates in any form with Rowbury, this highlights the point even further.

watch the video wrote:

Of the 3 american women in this race, it is Jenny Simpson who appears to be the odd one out post-race. As Martinez is not teammates in any form with Rowbury, this highlights the point even further.

That seems odd. Even though they don't train together I would guess that their tie within NB sponsorships would bring them together. Have they never been photographed together?

Absolutly no DQ of Jenny or Shannon. It was simply not enough space for Shannon on lane 1 to pass Jenny on the inner side. Jenny hold her line and Shannon's only option was to go on the outside which of course would take too much time. She gambled and tried to squeeze in and both fell.

Jenny has won the two last DL races by pure willpower beating whoever was with her on the homestrait.

This is T&F at its peak.

Why Shannon leaves Jenny lying on the track whithout a glance is a sad ending of a great race.