illegal act from Uganda - not allowed to have a pace maker

What an odd post

zEthiopians wrote:

The Ugandans knew a fast pace race was key to them winning gold as our boys, the Ethiopians can out kick them.

They employed a pace maker who stepped off the track and stopped his watch. Clearly a pace maker. That is against the rules.

Barega had to chase down an illegal pace maker , rejoin the main group and come back to win. Some effort. Clearly has an engine and a half.

We Ethiopians own distance racing. Mo F and was drugged up to his eye balls to deny us glory and now Sifan. Both Salazar stable.

Ethiopia and East Africa cannot be touched when it comes to distance racing.

Barega is going to get a hero's welcome in Addis...Whoooooooohooooooooo

MF Solomon Baregaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Girma will win the 3,000 steeplechase on Monday and more golds to come

strangely worded.

reminds me of advice from my journalism professor:

people with caribbean accents should never use the word 'focus'.

zEthiopians wrote:

The Ugandans knew a fast pace race was key to them winning gold as our boys, the Ethiopians can out kick them.

They employed a pace maker who stepped off the track and stopped his watch. Clearly a pace maker. That is against the rules.

Barega had to chase down an illegal pace maker , rejoin the main group and come back to win. Some effort. Clearly has an engine and a half.

We Ethiopians own distance racing. Mo F and was drugged up to his eye balls to deny us glory and now Sifan. Both Salazar stable.

Ethiopia and East Africa cannot be touched when it comes to distance racing.

Barega is going to get a hero's welcome in Addis...Whoooooooohooooooooo

MF Solomon Baregaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Girma will win the 3,000 steeplechase on Monday and more golds to come

An excellent piece of journalistic investigation. Maybe you can send this to the USATF so they can use it to lodge an official complaint and have him disqualified. This would make Grant Fisher a medallist, which would be a great day for most Letsrunners.

He was a qualified/registered runner in the race and dropped out. What's illegal about it?

he also ran 40m ahead of the field for most of his "pacing".

Please list the rue. Are you really claiming that a runner is not allowed to lead the race? Or are you claiming that a runner can't DNF? I doubt that you can find a rule that was violated.

z the Ugandan wrote:

Please list the rue. Are you really claiming that a runner is not allowed to lead the race? Or are you claiming that a runner can't DNF? I doubt that you can find a rule that was violated.

I heard that he dropped out of the race to focus on his mental health. He should be applauded.

Kissa, 25 year old Ugandan. He’s legit, bests of 13:10.93 (2018), 27:26.46 (2021), and especially 58:56 half marathon in Delhi, 2020.

Not sure if there was a plan for what he did but even if there was a planned it would be difficult to prove and the many other races Kenyans and or Ethiopians collaborate.

Going with this argument what about Rhonex (Kenya) and his front running tactics for a portion of the race would you say that was pacing also? You see, it’s difficult to show all these things for what they really mean.

You make a good point about the rules but I’m not sure that this is a slam dunk. Doubtful..

Profile here:

https://www.worldathletics.org/athletes/uganda/stephen-kissa-14677961

I volunteer to pace the 1st 100m of the 10k next olympics

Difficult to prove what? He went out hard to try to get others to follow while his teammates laid off. That was the plan. Nothing to prove. What rule does that violate?

It illegal.

He qualified for the event and was a participant.

Anyone can lead and drop out.

It would have been illegal pacing if he allowed himself to get lapped and then starting pacing a teammate.

Or ran on the inside of the track to pace someone.

In 1992, a lapped Moroccan did help pace his teammate Khalid Skah who went on to win Gold.

Skah was initially DQed. The Gold was to be given to Chelimo from Kenya.

The DQ was reversed and Skah kept the gold. His defense was that it wasn’t planned and his teammate didn’t really help him. I don’t know if they made the right call.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=f6ISseFy3Fg

Star wrote:

It illegal.

He qualified for the event and was a participant.

Anyone can lead and drop out.

It would have been illegal pacing if he allowed himself to get lapped and then starting pacing a teammate.

Or ran on the inside of the track to pace someone.

In 1992, a lapped Moroccan did help pace his teammate Khalid Skah who went on to win Gold.

Skah was initially DQed. The Gold was to be given to Chelimo from Kenya.

The DQ was reversed and Skah kept the gold. His defense was that it wasn’t planned and his teammate didn’t really help him. I don’t know if they made the right call.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=f6ISseFy3Fg

Are you claiming it is against the rules or not? You seem to contradict yourself.

It is against the rules but anytime it’s done they let it slide due to the strategy not working most of the time. Hicham El G had that one unofficial pacer in several meets and championships but he still got beat in 2000. The Eritreans said they where gonna pace each other to beat Bekele in 2008 10,000m and didn’t happened. It’s frowned upon but no one protest over it. 1992 was different because it was a lapped runner.

No one told him it was 25 laps

zEthiopians wrote:

The Ugandans knew a fast pace race was key to them winning gold as our boys, the Ethiopians can out kick them.

They employed a pace maker who stepped off the track and stopped his watch. Clearly a pace maker. That is against the rules.

Barega had to chase down an illegal pace maker , rejoin the main group and come back to win. Some effort. Clearly has an engine and a half.

We Ethiopians own distance racing. Mo F and was drugged up to his eye balls to deny us glory and now Sifan. Both Salazar stable.

Ethiopia and East Africa cannot be touched when it comes to distance racing.

Barega is going to get a hero's welcome in Addis...Whoooooooohooooooooo

MF Solomon Baregaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Girma will win the 3,000 steeplechase on Monday and more golds to come

Pacemakers usually have the guys they are pacing trail them. Kissa was in no-mans land. I am confused at your post

zEthiopians wrote:

The Ugandans knew a fast pace race was key to them winning gold as our boys, the Ethiopians can out kick them.

They employed a pace maker who stepped off the track and stopped his watch. Clearly a pace maker. That is against the rules.

Barega had to chase down an illegal pace maker , rejoin the main group and come back to win. Some effort. Clearly has an engine and a half.

We Ethiopians own distance racing. Mo F and was drugged up to his eye balls to deny us glory and now Sifan. Both Salazar stable.

Ethiopia and East Africa cannot be touched when it comes to distance racing.

Barega is going to get a hero's welcome in Addis...Whoooooooohooooooooo

MF Solomon Baregaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Girma will win the 3,000 steeplechase on Monday and more golds to come

The EPOpians have been doing this for years ;-)

zEthiopians wrote:

The Ugandans knew a fast pace race was key to them winning gold as our boys, the Ethiopians can out kick them.

They employed a pace maker who stepped off the track and stopped his watch. Clearly a pace maker. That is against the rules.

Barega had to chase down an illegal pace maker , rejoin the main group and come back to win. Some effort. Clearly has an engine and a half.

We Ethiopians own distance racing. Mo F and was drugged up to his eye balls to deny us glory and now Sifan. Both Salazar stable.

Ethiopia and East Africa cannot be touched when it comes to distance racing.

Barega is going to get a hero's welcome in Addis...Whoooooooohooooooooo

MF Solomon Baregaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Girma will win the 3,000 steeplechase on Monday and more golds to come

Whaaaat? Take a look at the 1968 Mexico Olympic men’s 1500.

I’ve posted numerous times before the Africans sacrificing their own race for country glory is not new.

Read and watch some T&F history. You’ll be surprised. Nothing that is being done today is new,

It just looks like a typo - meant to type "legal".

People are posting opinions, but no links or excerpts to rules stating that pacing and dropping out might disqualify anyone or alter the finish result.

Some confusion may arise from former rules requiring pacers to finish the race - under some circumstances.

IAAF track rules do require registered entrants compete with honest, bona fide intent.

A pacer dropping out for non-medical reasons can have their result ammended to DNF TR4.4.3 -- and cold be disqualified from further events at the competition. It's a judgment call by officials. I doubt they'd even consider it without protest.

Other pacing rules are as Star outlines - e.g. cannot be a lapped runner.

Interestingly, I once saw Wejo lapped in a 10K and then pace a runner shooting for an Oly A standard.

zEthiopians wrote:

The Ugandans knew a fast pace race was key to them winning gold as our boys, the Ethiopians can out kick them.

They employed a pace maker who stepped off the track and stopped his watch. Clearly a pace maker. That is against the rules.

Barega had to chase down an illegal pace maker , rejoin the main group and come back to win. Some effort. Clearly has an engine and a half.

We Ethiopians own distance racing. Mo F and was drugged up to his eye balls to deny us glory and now Sifan. Both Salazar stable.

Ethiopia and East Africa cannot be touched when it comes to distance racing.

Barega is going to get a hero's welcome in Addis...Whoooooooohooooooooo

MF Solomon Baregaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Girma will win the 3,000 steeplechase on Monday and more golds to come

I hate ethiopians!