Ugh I feel bad for Valby for all the heat she is taking for this race. Olemomoi still would have won but they would be about 2 seconds closer if she had run the full distance.
Maybe, maybe not. Who knows how much of a positioning and pacing advantage (or disadvantage) Olemomoi got by cutting the stagger in half? Had she run the complete stagger, maybe she would have ended up in such a worse position that it cost her 10 seconds. Or maybe she would have somehow gotten even better position by running the complete stagger that she would have run an even faster time. There's just no way to know.
What is 100% clear, however, is that she violated the rules, ran less than the full distance, and undoubtedly should have been disqualified.
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