It's a DQ, but i think there would be less complaining if the officials were more consistent. They also only seem to call this in the final 100 and let it go in the first 1400
Yeah, because a lot of argie bargie happens in unimportant parts of the race. By your way of operation they'd be DQ's 10 m after the start
I absolutely hate to see Hocker gone, but that was a pretty egregious move.
It just wasn't. Like what is wrong with you people? He literally just snuck around him, this DQ is so bad. It's bad for the sport and it's blatantly wrong.
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.
By the logic of this DQ, Matthew Centrowitz Jr should have been DQ’d in Rio in 2016.
This is not a DQ, people!
Can someone please explain how what Cole did is any different than what Centro did in 2016?
It's a DQ, but i think there would be less complaining if the officials were more consistent. They also only seem to call this in the final 100 and let it go in the first 1400
Yeah, because a lot of argie bargie happens in unimportant parts of the race. By your way of operation they'd be DQ's 10 m after the start
I mean, yeah. If that kind of contact is not allowed in the last 100m or a race, why should it be allowed by a rules perspective during the first 100m. Either the contact should be allowed or it shouldn't.
sucks because he looked really relaxed but it's deserved
Yeah im a cole fan but he deserved it. Kinda wild cuz who even makes the final if he checks out and swings wide like he shouldve. Sure looked like Gourley only made it using the space Hocker created. Koech had more options.
Obviously no one believes this is a genuine call, just ragebait to try and attract more American viewers... crazy how trackcels are all of a sudden too fragile for XC tactics
I've watched too many 1500s with occasional moments of jostling to feel good about this disqualification. The judges of these events are simply too capricious to take rulings like this seriously. Ultimately, the sport loses.
I have to admit that I'm not a Cole fan but he definitely deserved the DQ. Maybe he could get away with that in a DL race, but this is a WC with a worldwide broadcast.
I have to question his tactics generally -- he leads the first couple laps, then lets himself get swallowed up, and then thinks he can create a hole coming through the inside lanes of a crowded field? He just doesn't seem to know how to position himself.
The final will be less interesting without him but he has only himself to blame.
Imagine hearing last year after the Olympic final that the following year, only one American would make the WC 1500 final and his name would be Koech. My brain would have exploded.
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.
Not true. He completely cost Farken his race.
Stop it.
Farken was going farken slower and backwards. in the race.
He barely touched him, but them's the rules.
Very soft DQ.
But Hocker only has himself to blame. He is his own kryptonite.
He's way ahead of his developmental curve. Having that Gold Medal and all.
I honestly think it can be simultaneously true that Hocker's move did not really have much of an actual impact on Farken's performance and it being correct to disqualify him nonetheless.
What??
the intent of rules is not for the sake of rules. Rules are to protect the outcome on performances.
If our impacted athlete was able to give his best effort and he admits regardless of impact it would not have effected the result. Then there is no infraction to the impacted athlete’s performance. And no foul to fair play
Actually, now after watching the full video at full speed for the first time (turning down the audio of any dreadful commentary), it does appear an impeding by Hocker could be ruled. Farken’s exaggerated response, with his flailing arms going backward, helped sell it.
I don't think the German's response was exaggerated. Running top speed at end of a race, and someone bumps you like that, you can lose your stride and balance quite easily. And it would be a crazy attempt at a sell -- he wasn't going for the win, he just wanted top 6, which he pretty much had locked until Hocker interfered. No way he'd throw away qualifying in hopes Hock would get DQed.