Limes wrote:
I hope it's not him. If it is he's in for a rude awakening when his teacher hands out the end of year English grades.
Somehow rojo "earned" a spot at Princeton, and rojo has infinitely worse writing and reasoning skills than this boy. Compared to rojo, he should go straight to grad school.
I'm an Iowa transplant from Maryland five years ago. Haven't really followed HS track/XC here since moving five years ago. Maybe I should.
This is a joke. In all my years of coaching and running, never heard of anything like it. I've seen the bell rung early, but the consequence is just running another lap, tired as you may be. Sucks it happens at state. But you don't stop the race early.
This is on the athlete. Count your laps. Watch the timer. If you're in a state meet, you're a high 9s/low 10s guy, and don't know that a timer reading 7:xx at the bell lap is wrong, that's your problem. The one kid with the brains to realize it get's screwed. Nope.
willroder wrote:
Bro we all stopped... I'm the guy who was rightly give the title ... All of the runners stopped only reason the other guy went again was someone told him to keep going. We all ended up running the 8th lap in utter confusion .it's unfair to tell me u don't deserve the title due to the officials mistake. I raced how I was supposed to . There were 15,000 people in the stands and it was over 100 degrees on the track. Trust me my focus wasn't on counting the laps.
Easy, bud. It's just an eff'd up situation. Lots of mistakes happen in sports, mostly by athletes, but sometimes it's by the officials. And, I can promise you, this will not be the last time you'll find yourself there again. So let this be a reason to 'count' your progress and stick it to the man next time.