Dipping for the line is ridiculous, your time should be when either your toe or chest crosses the line.

But Kiplimo didn't dive for the line? He did run a pretty impressive 12:40 for 3rd in the 5000, though.

Tell us you are butthurt without telling us you are butthurt haahaha cheating!? hahahahahaa

If he didn't cross the line first he would have lost. What great insight hahahahaaha

This is a pointless rant because of backwards compatibility reasons. But even if we were to hypothetically start afresh, the current rules seem pretty good for the following goal: the runner’s center of gravity must have traveled at least the race distance and the finish line requirement must induce as small an excess as possible. The torso is a much better approximation of the CoG than any limbs.

In other events like long or triple jump, it’s stricter and akin to requiring every part of your body to have crossed the finish line.

This looks much less silly than speed skating where they stick out one foot.

Jakob's chest did cross the line first. And the determination of the winner in a photofinish uses their chest as the measuring point.... so you've already got what you want?

Personal story to make a point...

I was in a dead sprint in a duathlon a few years ago. Down the stretch we both knew that the winner would be determined by the chip (an ankle wrap on the left ankle), not our bodies. We both had to do some kind of stupid karate thing at the end to make sure our left ankle crossed first. In retrospect, it had to look stupid and be kind of dangerous.

When you have the technology to measure at the chest and to review video, that is the way to go.

my rule is: if you dive/leave your feet, instead of marking by the chest, it drops to the hips.

this will end the diving at the line.

AND????

Did you out-chip him??

Legal or not, diving to win a 3:29 race in a non-championship race is a punk move, compared to when you used to win easily in 3:27.

The old Jakob would never be up to such antics. He would win standing up.

I did, by .06 seconds.

I left that out because I wanted the post to about how it felt kind of dangerous and that the way we do it is better.

I absolutely want to understand the psychology of someone who downvoted a photo. It is just a fact that one person was in front of another person at the line. The part of the person, as it always is, is the chest. That is normal and logical in close races (such as sprints) and any event that comes down to a photo finish.

Is the person who downvoted this trying to make a statement? If so, I would love to know which one...

Alyson Felix lost an OG to a dive in 2016, and CPT won a PanAm gold last fall with a dive. Not against the rules, so why not - although it invites injury if you land badly.

Bravo sir!

But in the spirit of letsrun, I have to ask:

Pics?

The rules are the rules. petition this!

Only dive for champs?

I wonder why baseball players don't dive at 1st base on a grounder. Actually, I know. They have been told it's slower than running through the bag...which we now know is false.

Ask the two NED ladies who leaned too soon while rigging up last summer, S Hassan & F Bol. Just outrun the other gals & guys.