Sam Ellis DQ in 800m Semis

People who watched the broadcast said that he ran on the inside line for most of the 1st 100m of the race.

I was at the meet and saw that he stepped multiple times on the inside lane, glad the officials did their job as it clearly was for a advantage

Andy Powell said a Long Beach State coach, who didn't even have a runner in the race, was the one who put in the protest.

Nature of the sport. $hit happens and you dont even have to be directly involved to have it affect you/your team score. Butterfly effect.

long beach state athlete moved from 17th to 16th which makes him a second team all american. small move. not sure what that matters as a coach or a program but it made a difference.

the Tom Wambsgans of coaches

heat 1 you can see him very very close to inside of his lane on turn 1

I'll give you that he stepped on the line, but how was it clearly for an advantage? He went straight to the back, so it's not like he was doing it to try to get out ahead of everyone else. And then he just closed harder than the rest of the heat for the 2nd big Q. There's no way it was material. Not to mention that, according to Powell, the protest was filed for Ellis cutting someone off, which clearly didn't happen, not for a lane violation.

BS, it’s not clear from the video and zero chance your vantage point allowed you to see the line clearly

Close to the line isn’t on the line.. flag doesn’t go up so the call should be irrelevant. Won’t be surprised if he gets reinstated.

That's a tough way to get DQ'd... not sure how any coach could have been close enough to the action (and paying attention to Ellis enough) to be able to protest that.

lol I did not try to look so close so as to see if he stepped on theline. I assume they did and he did. I was not implying he should have been DQd for stepping close to the line.

I listened to the interview. The protest wasn't even about the lane infraction - the cited reason for the protest was something else - i think they complained Ellis cut someone off. But when they reviewed the race, they then noticed the lane violation and DQd for that. The interview is interesting b/c he questions whether a coach with no athlete in the race should even be allowed to protest and whether they can DQ for something not under protest.

as a graduate of real good college as he went to price town before as going to Washing ton as he should know better as so he should be DQ'd

Too much time has passed- they aren't going to reinstate him.

just for you I looked closer and in slow motion and around 8-9 seconds into the race he does seem to repeatably step on the inside line.

So the protest was about one thing, which turned out to be a non-issue, and while looking they discovered something else and DQ'd him for that??? Double my Wowww!!!

Especially since it's kinda hard to tell from the video how egregious the lane violation was. And there is no way they had 5 different other camera angles like they do in hoops.

If you don't know what the subject of the protest was, maybe it was the lane violaion.