Cole DQ'd

Question for me now is - did he make the right move with the info he had at the time? Obviously didn't work out, but does seem like he had to do something to give himself a shot

Probably the correct call. I just wish we could transport these officials through time so they could go back and DQ Paul Chelimo when he was still in championship finals. His moves were a lot worse than Hocker’s. Not saying they got the wrong call here, but they clearly had the wrong call in pretty much every championship race Chelimo ran.

It is not wonderful or even good news. But it is a clear foul.

That’s not a DQ. Lol, come on. People are racing and jockeying for position. Sometimes you just have to use common sense… You have to really shove someone, hit someone or do something that is a very very very drastic impediment to get disqualified from a race. It would be absurd to be setting that as the precedent for a disqualification going forward.

Of course they did. Farken is his athlete, the coach's responsibility is to the Athlete

Thank you for admitting what others in the thread were trying to convey with regard to the clip wejo posted.

#FreeHOCKER

all i see in the clip is standard issue jockeying for position. no thrown elbows, no shoving, no hitting or purposeful tripping or anything out of trying to occupy a line. this is BS

He barely toughed Farken. Two guys fell from contact early in the race and no one was DQ'd for that.

It is a pretty obvious DQ. If you employ bad tactics and get yourself boxed in, don't expect to be permitted to grab other runners while you attempt to squeeze by. If he wants to refrain from leading and hug the rail he will do so at his own peril.

Judges are going to do what judges are going to do, but it sure looked like Semer impeded Mitua in the steeplechase in a very similar way, so why wasn't he DQed?

It would be nice to have some consistency.

If this happened within the first 100m instead of the last 100m nobody would have even said anything. It's a 1500m race, it's physical, come on

As others are saying, wejo’s clip does not show Hocker “grabbing other runners”.

I think the right approach to this one would be to advance the German and not DQ Hocker.

The front is the best angle as it shows exactly how much shoulder room they have. The side angle compresses things and makes the lanes look half as wide as they actually are.

Everyone who's ever run on a track knows you can easily fit two runners in a lane. Look at the video, prior to Hocker's move Nillessen was on the inside of lane 1 and both of Farken's feet are in lane 2. Nillessen tries to hold off Hocker by sliding right a bit, which led to Hocker rubbing elbows with Farken.

Ridiculous to DQ someone for such minor contact when no one fell, no one broke stride, no one was pushed or shoved, and the only runner who might have been affected admits he was already falling back on his own accord.

Interestingly, Steve Cram has said on the BBC that the DQ was for the initial contact, when he used both arms to fashion an opening.

He followed that up by using his right arm to impede Farken. But it was the first move that was penalised.

So we’re looking at the wrong part of the race. It was a fraction before the shown photo.

Admittedly, I thought it looked a lot worse in real time. In hind sight, not much happened.

Go to 4:45 of the video to see it in slow motion. Very little contact by Hocker which should not have been a DQ. FAAAARRR more goes on in every race that don't get DQ's.

His ridiculous tactics have finally bitten him in the backside. Passing on the inside and running up the back of people should have been squelched a long time ago.

But it didn’t.

It happened at the critical moment.