Dobriskey over Jamal, Rowbury third again!

as expected you know nothing 1st hand about ethiopian athletics

just a shit-kicker

If you watched this race in Rieti, you'd have seen that Jamal, once she realised Dobriskey was still with her in the final 100m, kept moving further and further to the right into lane two, then lane three, to try to keep the Brit at bay. To no avail.

There was absolutely no-one else near the two of them and no legal reason for Jamal edging out to lane 3 at the finish line. Somebody from IAAF ought to smack her wrists for this. Glad to see it did not put off Dobriskey.

Jamal should have been disqualificated. She does that every time.

sdfgh wrote:

Jamal should have been disqualificated. She does that every time.

Deja Vu Worlds

You had to be there wrote:

If you watched this race in Rieti, you'd have seen that Jamal, once she realised Dobriskey was still with her in the final 100m, kept moving further and further to the right into lane two, then lane three, to try to keep the Brit at bay. To no avail.

There was absolutely no-one else near the two of them and no legal reason for Jamal edging out to lane 3 at the finish line. Somebody from IAAF ought to smack her wrists for this. Glad to see it did not put off Dobriskey.

Everyone at that level does that or has done that. It is a tactical move. Nothing illegal about it unless you really cut someone off. Watch the 800 or 1500 at most NCAA finals. The winner usually ends up in lane 2 unless there is nobody around.

If you are a strong kicker, you should always begin a tangent for lane 3 coming off the final curve. That way you are much less likely to have interference, and you can always adjust and stay in outer lane 1 or lane 2 if those channels stay open, all with little cost in terms of distance run. The problems come when you have to head outside with 50m or less to go.

It amazes me when even national/world class athletes don't have this figured out *cough* Brenda Martinez *cough*

Here is Video of the Race!

Guess what?....NO ONE FELL!

http://www.runnerspace.com/video.php?do=view&member_id=3026&video_id=16303

ventolin^2 wrote:

eh ?

i assume you didn't see 1'42.01 effectively solo on a windy day, today ???

Rudisha was rabbit for more than half the race, you whiny bone-smoker. Go back to your thumb-worn Hasbara Playbook. It won't help, but it might keep your idiocy off the board for a while.

There's no doubt ventolin^2 wears Depends, he's been bent so often.

I just watched the video and Jamal did not do anything like what was described here.

Exaggerated but she did slowly push Dobriskey into lane 4 to pass.

They were never anywhere near lane 4

So you didn't see Dobriskey finishing in lane 3 w/Jamal flailing at her elbow? About time to get your prescription adjusted. BTW what Jamal did was legal...JUST.

Picayune wrote:

I just watched the video and Jamal did not do anything like what was described here.

Like I said...they were nowhere near lane four. Hyperbole sucks.

ciego no más wrote:

Ethiopians generally don't focus on the middle distances. Their middle distance runners are the ones who aren't able to make the 5000m teams.

That was true a couple of years ago (Meskerem Assefa is a 3000/5000m reject) but is changing (Gelete Burka switched from 3000/5000/cross-country to 1500m) now that the athletes are starting to realise that there is a lot of money and prestige in the middle distance races (Kalkidan Gezahegne is 18 and is a 1500m specialist!).

You're correct that many of the Ethiopian long-distance runners would also make good middle-distance runners but that the interest just wasn't there....however this is changing very quickly (case in point Deresse Mekonnen!).

Whilst I agree that it wasn't that bad, Dobriskey did finish the race in lane 4.

She's a lovely mover in full flow.

Picayune wrote:

Like I said...they were nowhere near lane four. Hyperbole sucks.

Just watched the video - sort of a shame that Dobriskey is peaking now.

She was forced to finish in Lane 4 to get round Jamal who finishes in Lane 3. Would have been good to have seen a fit Burka and a fit Rodriguez in that race.

An astonishing end to the season for Dobriskey given her injury problems - if she stays healthy she will get gold at Commonwealths next year and the Russians and Spaniards will have trouble outkicking her at the Europeans.