Double dumb of Hocker to not just wait it out. Gourley was directly behind him and got in. Farken was going backwards. Be patient and go through when it opens up. He would have qualified.
Americans are so funny. How is it on the unfair side ? You just can't do something like that without consequences. Well deserved and you should all learn from it. Stop acting like bullies and crying for getting punished
The funny thing is European and international racing used to be an absolute dogfight. Americans couldn’t handle it. Now they’re the bullies? Soft.
Hand Laros the gold medal, although I'm praying for Koech's hamstring. Hocker put himself in terrible position, probably deserved, and he looked in insane shape. 5K field should be worried.
5k field gonna have a couple angry non-finalists coming back from the 1500m, and a few angry 10k runners looking to get on the podium.
Cole will have a great shot in the 5000 if they run it like they did the 10000.
i am so done with following professional track. I don’t even care about the final or this meet anymore. I hope the corrupt body of WADA and World Athletics collapses from the inside.
Cole - you deserve to be in that final.
Man, if you hated this DQ, you're gonna really hate his incoming ban
It’s time to annex New Zealand and make our 51st state. Especially because Armstrong would be so happy
They'd join Aus before the American sh1tshow.
I wasn't trying to turn this into a political debate. Just saying he's lived in the US for a long time and I think most of us are fans. But come on, now. Who doesn't like Geordie Beamish (other than El Bakkali)?
Exactly...GST is tiddlywinks, unproven money, compared to what Mondo makes with Swedish sponsorships. Over there, he's a real star. In the U.S., you're trash.
Nordas and strand both ran the same terrible race.
Strand looked awful from the start. Inexperience and maybe a little over-raced. He had nothing for the last 100 in a slow race. All great experience for him though
I agree, the last 100 just made me think he might’ve had a bit more to be in a better position. Nordas dropped another absolute dud today though.
Guy who hasn’t lost a global final in 5 years is sad to lose. Absolutely puzzling stuff apparently?
Right that’s what I’m thinking. He hugged Beamish and looked like he congratulated him at the end, and that’s all I can ask of someone I feel like. I don’t think he can control the crying, the punching the face is weird but I think he was probably just trying to stop the crying. I feel like being in that state and still congratulating the guy who beat you is very sportsmanlike, but that’s just my take.
Was SCREAMING for Beamish down the last 100. He was SO far out of it with a lap to go (again), I just thought he had no shot (again), but he ripped one of the most insane kicks I’ve ever seen (again). The love of my life <3
The end of the international feed was about 5 mins of athlete reactions, about 2 mins of it was Dan Michalski going around hugging fellas and picking El Bakalli up off the track.