Im gonna b real interested in how everyone is gonna act when little Johnny or little mkayla goes out wide to hold of the competition and the starter dq's them in a distance race next spring for impedment during a high school season. Cant wait to hear that conversation with coach and athlete. Whatcha gonna say then COACHES!!
sprcoach 19.99 wrote:
Im gonna b real interested in how everyone is gonna act when little Johnny or little mkayla goes out wide to hold of the competition and the starter dq's them in a distance race next spring for impedment during a high school season. Cant wait to hear that conversation with coach and athlete. Whatcha gonna say then COACHES!!
Do so much less.
Winners will continue to win and losers will continue to whine.
Sorry you hate yourself so much.
Hey runner 10267(not bad for ur 10 k pr) can i borrow ur butter lnife to commit hari kari.....since i hate myself sooo much. Pls
Will we also see more finger-wagging during races with minimal contact?
Imagine at some dual meet if a kid running 5 minutes in the 1600 pulls that crap? Even his own coach would support a DQ.
Coach of high guys wrote:
Imagine at some dual meet if a kid running 5 minutes in the 1600 pulls that crap? Even his own coach would support a DQ.
Chelimo didn't actually help his chances of winning. He ran wide adding distance to his race.
Worrying about those behind you and trying to change lanes is a great way to slow yourself down. Hug the rail and go.
Alan
Unlikely. But, if/when it does happen, or seem to, I'm sure there will be diehard Chelimo critics aplenty to claim it's his fault.
Reminds me of this from a couple weeks ago
https://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=10623744&page=8
Years ago, my coach told us all that you pick your line and run straight down the homestretch. And he pointed out that there were even lines painted on the track to help those of us with impaired directional sense.
Many more people said that kid should be DQed than Chelimo. That is the logic of the posters here.
Most high school runners couldn’t name an active U.S. Olympian if you paid them $10,000.
I don’t think they know or care about Chelimo’s finish in the 5,000m.
I have seen this movie wrote:
Winners will continue to win and losers will continue to whine.
^
Runningart2004 wrote:
Coach of high guys wrote:
Imagine at some dual meet if a kid running 5 minutes in the 1600 pulls that crap? Even his own coach would support a DQ.
Chelimo didn't actually help his chances of winning. He ran wide adding distance to his race.
Worrying about those behind you and trying to change lanes is a great way to slow yourself down. Hug the rail and go.
Alan
BS
Chalimo did it purposely to improve his chances and hold them off. He was lucky Cooper didn’t have the kick to come up on the inside.
Do you know how hard it is to slow, go around, then accelerate past? They were running at 52 second 400 m pace, the last 80 m was slightly over 18 mph.
Fisher could have bumped Chalimo off and risk getting tangled up with both going down so he smartly didn’t do that. He probably never thought Chalimo would have pushed out to the edge of lane 4.
Fisher and Kincaid were very gracious and diplomatic during their interviews. Chalimo complained about being clipped etc.
I was there. The race was fast then slow, guys were running up on each other getting clipped and spiked. I watched the victory lap after the race. Three guys out of the four were cut up from being spiked - Chalimo wasn’t one of them. Chalimo was wagging his finger and mouth during the race and complained during his interview. Fisher and Kincaid never complained during their interviews. They are classy guys, Chalimo is not.
What was up with Chalimo crossing the finish line and putting a head lock around Fisher then brushing him off. What a clown.
Chalimo is a baby for complaining about others and should have been DQ’d for impeding forward movement down the stretch (rule 163.3).
I remember there was an episode of the Cosby show where Dr. Huxtable was running some masters 400. He had the lead coming out of the turn and took the guy behind him all the way out to lane six and won the race.
It was meant to be funny that he was cheating so blatantly. 80s sitcom viewers could tell that it was clearly unsportsmanlike and borderline cheating, it should be just as obvious to everyone on a running message board when Chelimo did the same thing.
My whole team watched the trials.
Coach of high guys wrote:
My whole team watched the trials.
A lot on my team too. Ask them in October who won the Mens 5000. If more than 20% know the right answer, I'll buy you lunch. They might remember some part of the race but almost no high school track athletes can name the current pros. Maybe some will say Hocker.
Must be different where you are. My guys know Houlihan and Schweizer and Purrier and Mu for women but they kniw all of the guys. They follow the NCAA and pro running.
I have seen this movie wrote:
Winners will continue to win and losers will continue to whine.
This is a really easy stance to take and usually I will take it because the whiners really do not stop whining. But in this case, if you’ve actually watched the video, you know that Chelimo did something that everyone who has ever done it before him has been DQ’d for. This isn’t about winners and losers. Fisher even says “that’s just how you race”, which is pretty good spirited of him and I think he just doesn’t want to cause a stir. This is about officials ignoring the rules for mysterious reasons. I posted my predictions on the forum minutes before the race started and Chelimo was my #1 pick, I just didn’t think he was going to cut off the other two best distance runners in the US to do it.