There's some straight vitriol in here. Rocky Mountain haters and Rocky Mountain fan boys. I'm glad to see the other boys get added back in. It does seem like a CYA move, especially if it's true that meet officials were firm about bumping them and now aren't.
Rocky mountain’s top 2 runners DQ’d at districts for holding hands across the finish line
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AidingAnother wrote:
The meet officials aren’t the ones who added them back in. That’s a separate games committee that did that. The games committee wouldn’t be adding kids to the field if they weren’t trying to make the problem go away. They were firm that these kids were bounced from the meet up until people started threatening lawyers and then they suddenly had flexibility.
They should have stood up to the threat. There is no case. The NFHS rule book specifically states that it is a disqualification to grasp hands with another competitor during a race. This was not a judgement call. It was as clear as it gets.
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Joey Tempest wrote:
AidingAnother wrote:
The meet officials aren’t the ones who added them back in. That’s a separate games committee that did that. The games committee wouldn’t be adding kids to the field if they weren’t trying to make the problem go away. They were firm that these kids were bounced from the meet up until people started threatening lawyers and then they suddenly had flexibility.
They should have stood up to the threat. There is no case. The NFHS rule book specifically states that it is a disqualification to grasp hands with another competitor during a race. This was not a judgement call. It was as clear as it gets.
Any purported rules that in 2023 are only available in print form are invalid.
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Joey Tempest wrote:
AidingAnother wrote:
The meet officials aren’t the ones who added them back in. That’s a separate games committee that did that. The games committee wouldn’t be adding kids to the field if they weren’t trying to make the problem go away. They were firm that these kids were bounced from the meet up until people started threatening lawyers and then they suddenly had flexibility.
They should have stood up to the threat. There is no case. The NFHS rule book specifically states that it is a disqualification to grasp hands with another competitor during a race. This was not a judgement call. It was as clear as it gets.
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Update: They went 1-2 at their state meet with Heemeyer running 9:10 and Sainsbury running 9:12. The athlete who got 3rd at districts, Andrew Ringert, got 3rd at state, running 9:16
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Thanks for the update. Glad it seems to have worked out fairly for all involved.
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The Altra Escalante Racer is still hanging on by a thread.
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