Mallard Creek 4x400 DQ'd from North Carolina state meet for celebrating; team loses meet by 2 points

This perspective completely ignores the fact that multiple other athletes celebrated before the line with hand or arm gestures, or went crazy after the line like he did, and were not given warnings or DQ'd. It was seemingly on an issue for the officials when this one athlete celebrated.

Taunting and showboating? Are you serious?

You’ve lost the plot. No one but bad high school officials believe this sentence.

If true, that needs addressed as well. My instinct is that this athlete and/or team has a reputation and perhaps drew unwanted attention and scrutiny. I wonder if anyone can chime in on that who is closer to the situation. There are always athletes who will be scrutinized harder because they have a reputation for misbehavior. Lots of things Draymond Green does in the NBA, for example, would never be a tech if someone else committed the same act. I don’t know for sure, but I suspect. Though, his antics and yelling and screaming after the first race may have already drawn the eyes of the officials, regardless of whether there was in fact a warning.

Correct. It’s on the video. Back when I ran, carrying on like that after the first race is a good way to get hit by another athlete or to have your coach sit you out for a meet. I thought that was much more egregious than the 4x4. Act like you’re been there before.

are we really suggesting celebrating life's big moments is bad or undoes social harmony? don't celebrate winning the account? getting engaged or married?

look, i don't want people whacking others with batons, fighting, getting in each other's faces. the sport also has technical rules that get enforced just like any other sport.

but this has hints of neocolonial lesson-teaching. like in certain parts of some towns with racial issues they enforce petty stuff like jaywalking with more zest than downtown or the suburbs. if questioned, well, we have to teach "them" to follow rules. same infraction in the suburbs, no biggie, the suburbs don't need the lesson.

let's be real. Dude was going to a tiktok/ insta reel of "his" win. Didn't even congratulate the other races.

Punk

at your next wedding through up a 5 for your 5th marriage and see how your bride likes it.

You are so soft. Celebrating a win is not taunting. Raising your hand right before the finish line is not taunting. Stop making the meet about officiating.

i am surprised fewer conservatives haven't leapt on this one -- and instead show up law and order side -- because my sense this is an anti-excess, anti-taunting rule -- "don't go nuts," "don't clog the track with your celebration," "don't get in his face" -- has been stretched out into "don't celebrate demonstratively" -- because we don't make the other kids feel bad by displaying success.

don't folks usually come out the other way on "participation trophies?" (i don't, but hey)

He’s not celebrating a win. He’s taunting. And he’s trying to push the envelope as far as he can every time he does it. They put a spin on the story to try to save face rather than being honest. He was well ahead and was pretending he was holding up a mirror and saw no one. It’s classic taunting. We don’t do right by the kid by allowing his coach and team to spin the situation either. I don’t agree with the DQ to be clear, but I also don’t agree with everyone hopping on board with whatever spin the coach and team puts on the situation, just because the flavor of the day is attacking and questioning officials for every little thing.

This celebration is even more tame than Cole Hocker's famous outstretched arms at the Olympics.

It's clearly not worth a DQ.

And regardless, unnatural stride movements before the line (especially in a final) will get you wanted or disqualified by many high school crews. This is not new. We were warned about this a lot in high school. But now the flavor of the day is for coaches to apparently let their athletes do it and then cry foul when the rules are enforced.

High school has always been treated differently. There’s a higher expectation of sportsmanship we expect at younger ages. Some may argue that this is exactly backwards, and I see that argument, but this is nothing new.

kid does same thing next year at NC state. what happens. not this.

kid does same thing at the pro level. what happens. it's probably replayed on loop on the DL telecast.

it's not even a useful lesson for how other levels get officiated.

to spell out what i was just saying, holding 5 fingers up for 5 state titles, not looking back or sideways, not saying nasty things to other teams, is only "taunting" if we view that term in some sort of "woke" sense (and i am a fairly liberal dude saying this) where any celebration of my success diminishes you as runner up by watching me do it in front of you.

that's not really taunting. that's your feelings are hurt losing.

taunting is more like trolling. i am provoking or mocking you as i win, to get a rise or confront you. all. the guys turned sideways looking at the next lane. hopping over and confronting them. maybe a push.

I’m working to confirm, but I think the 5 state titles thing was already proven incorrect, no?

I’m seeing conflicting things. Some articles say 3 titles, some say 5. If anyone knows much about how to find out directly from a good source (not a media article), that would be great

https://ncpreptrack.com/team_tk.html