Stunned this has not been reported here yet.
Yesterday at the Dellinger Invite the women's race had no official results because the only system they were using to collect results was a chip system and it failed. No tearaway tags, no cards, no video. Nothing!
To protect their image and according to some I talked with to keep the results official and prevent thier women from having to attend the pre-National meet, they are posting official results even though the results are based totally on the coaches telling Mike Reilly where their athletes finished. Coaches were lying by 25-40 spots or more.
These results can not be allowed to be official and count towards NCAA qualifying points as tragic as that is for all that attended and to the Ducks who will be embarrassed at such a screw-up.
But worse is to try and cover it up. Cover ups are always worse ala Nixon, Bush, etc.
The word I get is the guy running the chip system for Oregon is the same guy who was the video replay official for the Oregon-Oklahoma football game last fall.