Howard Cosmell wrote:
trollin' along wrote:
Blanckenship looked like he jogged it in and ended up qualifying by 0.4 seconds
What a joke distance qualifying is.
a COMPLETE joke. a whole round to eliminate 4 out of 29 runners? come on...
This is is the kind of backward bureaucratic "by the book" thinking that cripples our sport all too often.
When I ran in the USATF junior olympics, I was made to run a heat BY MYSELF when there were only 5 runners in the previous heat. The explanations from the official was that "this is the Junior Olympics here, rules are rules." Smh.