RossiCheated wrote:
Just watched the recorded race and came here to see how many threads there were on this, as there should be.
1) Yes, he violated the rules.
2) Yes, he intended to impede them. He admitted that he did.
3) My quess is that nothing came of protests that were lodged because USA Track and Field wants those three to go.
4)If he had pulled this in the Olympics, a Diamond League or World Championship, he would be GONE. Anyone who follows the sport for any length of time knows that if you push people into lane four in a major meet with judges who don't have some skin in the outcome, you are gone.
5) Some high school kid who just watched this race thinks that is a fair strategy and will replicate it. That kid will be GONE.
The only question for me, which we won't know an answer to, is if Teare had come up lane one and nipped Kincaid for the third spot, would the rules have been applied? I think so. I think they went with "no harm, no foul" but if there was a harm they couldn't ignore the obvious foul.