George Mills should be DQ'd

The French runner gave him a good push and caused him to stumble to the right, which started the pinball effect and the falls.

Exactly.

George Mill's confrontation with the French athlete is now the front headline on the Daily Mail.

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George Mills in furious row with French rival as he tumbles in 5000m

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Mills was sitting in the middle of the pack when he tumbled to the track after colliding with one of his rivals.

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was that after he tried to miley cyrus his way between two guys? i havent rewatched it.

Very unsportsmanlike carry on from Mills. Not in keeping with Olympic spirit. Another reason to DQ.

Mills pushed, shoved & got in the face of French athlete. For that alone there should be a serious reprimand. French athlete held his line. Wasn't near a Kipyegon move. Mills tried barging his way through. Very entitled interview with EuroSport afterwards. Very poor form. Non sportsmanlike.

In real time it did look like Mills was the culprit but in slow motion I see Mills (safely) in between a runner on the rail and a runner on the inside of lane 2, then the runner on the rail drifts out creating a crowd and then apparently pushes Mills out.

Just rewatched. It really doesn't look like the Frenchman was changing lanes or drifting, but mills was trying to get in between the two and if the Frenchman didn't want to step on the inside rail, he had to defend. Hard racing, but just racing from him in my view.

Hmmm I wonder where he gets it from...

Cannot believe Mills has been progressed. How are officials rewarding his dirty tactics?

Him and Giles are as bad as each other.

Ever heard the saying "if someone is an a-hole to you, they're just an a-hole, but if everyone is an a-hole to you, then you're the a-hole"?

Mills has fallen three times in major races this year and been involved in another two or three falls/shoving matches. I felt bad for him initially but at some point it becomes clear that he is 100% at fault for these incidents, he's the only runner this seems to happen to every time he steps on the track. Disgraceful that he was advanced and I find it hard to support him until he cleans up his tactics.

I don't know. At 13:51-52 of the race there is a little bumping but by 13:53 things seem ok. At 13:55.5 the French runner seems to drift out a little off the rail and there is more contact as they near Blanks who was just ahead and at 13:56.2 Mills seems to get shoved out.

Mills has every right to be furious, he’s lucky he wasn’t seriously injured thanks to the stupidity of the Hay. Hay should be banned indefinitely

I can understand the frustration when you're boxed in like that, but they were both throwing elbows well before the actual fall. I suppose on a strict interpretation of the rules, he should be allowed through as he was technically impeded by Hay. But neither of them were perfect and they should allow the two other runners that Mills knocked down as well as that only happened because of Hay's conduct (if that's the position they've taken). A messy situation all round.

Hi George!

Plus European Indoors last year where he tried to cut in on Gourley on the opening lap and fell. Completely egregious behaviour that he has gone on to repeat without any punishment.

What are the rules?? Surely if the ruling is for Mills to be put through Hay should also be DQ for impeding an athlete?

In my eyes Mills is in the wrong trying to squeeze in a gap that isn't there between Hay and the Spaniard thought that at the time and even more after watching the slow mo Hay did nothing wrong Mills is in the wrong. Would love to know what the ruling is by WA not just putting everyone thru who fell in the last 100m.

(Got to feel for Nur and Ahmed for falling too early)

Mills is certainly pushing it within the race. He's engaged in shoving and getting very much in the space of the French athlete. Had to be close to a DQ. Because he clearly took a shove and it led to the fall I see why they advanced him. For the good of everyone, hoping the Ethiopians push it a bit. I really like John Heymans and thought he ran a great heat, but let's separate the men from the boys. Hay and Fafard too. We want to see Grant, the Kenyans, the Ethiopians, Lobalu, Jakob and Chelimo duking this one out.

Let me just say that now is clear that if you are racing and you are in the nearby of Mills, Laros or Fogg there is an high probability you will come down and I'm start thinking that if an athlete always goes down there is a reason. All athletes shall be aware of the ones that usually go down. And maybe it won't be like that forever, but is happening over and over again