Hocker almost falls on the track with BYU's Troutner in 1500m prelim- FULL VIDEO

Reed Brown should be DQ'd for running on the infield. Clearly a meter or more inside the rail.

Looks like Hocker ran up on him from behind and the guy fell. Not saying he did it intentionally as he was going to win the Heat easily regardless. But still you can't run up on someone like that. I mean he clearly caused the guy to fall. And almost fell on top of him

I mean maybe someone else can explain the rules a little better but if you run into a guy from behind isn't that an automatic d q. I don't know it just seems like you got to be responsible for not running up on another Runner and taking their legs out

I wonder if it's the fact he's the best runner in the country will affect the decision-making

I agree with your assessment. I think Hocker got nervous about being boxed with a lap to go, and ran up and onto the BYU guy, causing him to fall.

Did the runner that got tripped file a complaint? What's the process is it if they don't DQ him immediately then he's good to go

Just curious cuz I don't think it was intentional but I think you probably should get disqualified if you trip another Runner like that

Troutner got automatically advanced to the next round, but didn’t make it out of the semis.

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Looks like Hocker ran up on him from behind and the guy fell. Not saying he did it intentionally as he was going to win the Heat easily regardless. But still you can't run up on someone like that. I mean he clearly caused the guy to fall. And almost fell on top of him

I mean maybe someone else can explain the rules a little better but if you run into a guy from behind isn't that an automatic d q. I don't know it just seems like you got to be responsible for not running up on another Runner and taking their legs out

I wonder if it's the fact he's the best runner in the country will affect the decision-making

Looks like the bunch got faster on the last lap and the troutner guy didn't

Nothing to see here

If you rear end someone in a car, you are at fault. That's not a rule in track

How did troutner get to advance? What rule allowed him to advance? Also what's the actual rule? Is it just if the judges decide that you impede another Runner. Is it basically just the discretion of the judges or is it pretty specific about what actions constitute a infraction

Anyway it was kind of weird because I've never really seen a guy just run over someone from behind and then it didn't really get mentioned much like. I mean this thread isn't that much discussed. So I'm curious how he got to advance and if this was obvious foul or if it really was just part of the race

Yeah seems like there was ground to DQ Hocker, though glad they didn't do it since that wouldn't have been a good result for anyone. Glad they let Troutman into the next round.

This is the weird thing about running - how everything is so black and white with either a DQ or no penalty. Part of what was weird about the 2016 Olympic 5K race where a bunch of people were DQ'ed originally.