Heat 1 - Sunday, August 22, 2004 - 21:50
Order Athlete Country 2004 Personal
1 Heshko Ivan UKR 3:32.88 3:32.01
2 Estévez Reyes ESP 3:35.37 3:30.57
3 de Souza Hudson Santos BRA 3:36.17 3:33.99
4 Damião Manuel POR 3:34.37 3:34.37
5 Kaouch Adil MAR 3:32.86 3:32.86
6 Lagat Bernard KEN 3:27.40 3:26.34
7 Robison Grant USA 3:41.43 3:35.75
he was tripped in the first round. by Iaaf rule, he gets to move on.
Now US 1500 hopes lie with Grant Robison. Interestingly enough, his 3:35.48 PR was almost run exactly a year ago.
If Robison could somehow find his speed from last year he could be in the FINALS!!
METERS wrote:
Now US 1500 hopes lie with Grant Robison. Interestingly enough, his 3:35.48 PR was almost run exactly a year ago.
If Robison could somehow find his speed from last year he could be in the FINALS!!
now I know this was all by a weird chance
and nothing against Robison with this comment, but I think it is funny as hell that with all the hype, bashing, and all around bullshit that lead up to these games
we have one guy out of the rounds...and its Grant Robison
I think one thing is apparent: Grant Robison reads the friggin rulebook. Granted, he did have to run that 3:35 last year, but he used the qualifying rules perfectly to get himself to the games.
Now, he has again showed his mastery of the rules. If you have no shot to qualify for the semis, why not get tripped? Free ticket to the semis.
As another tripping incident will arouse suspicion, we can trust that Grant has another clever rule up his sleeve to make the finals. After that, the only thing standing between him and gold will be the effectiveness of the drug testing.
this may be ugly
YOU LOSERS BEEN DISSING ME ALL SEASON AND WHO'S IN THE SEMIS??? I'M THE MAN, NOT WEBB NOT GRUBER NOT LUNN! I'M THE MAN!!!
i wonder if there's ever been a runner that's gotten further in the olympics/world champs based on nothing. he was slow as shit this yr (3:41), he ran terribly in the us trials (last is the semi? close to it?), and now he somehow makes it to the olympic semi? what is going on, those rules are ridiculous.
I would never have thought after the US trials that Robison would be the most successful US 1500 meter runners at the Olympics.
Go Grant!
this whole situation is pretty funny.
can anyone confirm that's an iaaf rule? why doesn't everyone just trip then in the heats? most ridiculous rule ever?
You have to be tripped by another runner. A runner cannot just merely fall down and be promoted to the next round.
Check out Rule 163, section 2: obstruction on page 107
The poster above is correct.
If an athletes progress is "seriously" impeded by "jostling or obstruction," they move on to the subsequent round.
METERS wrote:
You have to be tripped by another runner. A runner cannot just merely fall down and be promoted to the next round.
This whole thread has me cracking up. The post by Bob Costas is hilarious.
why doesn't everyone just trip then in the heats?
It would be very interesting if this was possible. All the heats would be overcrowded. I would definately be in there! I can trip with the best of them. Crap, I have to make that qualifying time first, hmmmm....maybe Grant Robinson can work his mojo for me.
I hope he surprised people and does really well in the semi's.
-Geb
METERS wrote:
You have to be tripped by another runner. A runner cannot just merely fall down and be promoted to the next round.
That is a dumb rule! Why can't you just fall?
It pisses me off that they're letting this Robison guy onto the next round but they didn't let JIM RYUN into the next round when he got tripped. I'm still pissed about this. Robison doesn't deserve it at all and he's gonna get embarassed in his semi.
Robison has been intelligently shutting it down early the last year to save energy. In the semi we will see something akin to liquid lightning when the reserves are unleashed.
Wow, you have been pissed a long time. Because of injustices, rules are born. Robison may be in due to some situation that occurred in the past.
To quote the crowd in "Bad News Bears", "Let them play, let them play,let them play... (Repeat until you feel all fuzzy inside).
GO Grant, GO USA!
looks like webb should use this as a lesson...next time you get all tripped up with a bloody calf...fall down!
This kind of described the action in Robison's race. He had no chance it sounds like. It is from a spectator near the spot of the foul.
"...the French guy in blue got tripped and went down and Robison was right behind him. There was no where for him to go and he fell over the French guy and went all the way down, too. He actually hit his head on the track surface and did a complete somersault. All this occurred at about 100m into the race..."
I am glad he continued on, some would be done right there.