I had nothing to do with the protest.
I found out about the protest as I was waming down on the warmup track after the race. Our team coaches informed me that they filed a protest against East.
I assumed that the protest would be overruled since we both made the final. That is when our coaches told me that they did not file the protest based on loosing a qualifying spot since that did not happen. There is another rule that deals with sportsmenship and that is the rule that our coaches filed under.
Again, I had no knowledge of the protest until after it had been filed. But, if you saw the race, you would understand why the protest was filed. There was aboslutely no reason for what happened as we were both well clear of 5th place when the incident occured.