Can they start doing a 4x400m Hurdles relay?
Athletics might get 50 million new followers.
Yeah, there's always some dumb ass standing around in the exchange zone.
Was Zoe Buckman DQd? Did USATF file a petition to get Australia DQd? Where's the justice!
That was almost as hard as I have ever seen Katie hit anything.
Jogging straight ahead.... not an offense! No DQ.
Good point. 3rd lane ?
AmsterdamAthlet wrote:
Middle distance runners you shouldn't ever hang out in Lane 2.
http://dailyrelay.com/world-relays-4x1500m-crash/
Uh-ohh...Buckman is a NIKE sponsored athlete and Mackey is sponsored by Brooks. Commence with the conspiracy theories on an inadvertent accident
Katie is so pretty, I'd date her in a second. Why does she look so old though? She's only like 26.
That was a blantant blocking by Buckman.
If everyone did that, then no other runners could get through.
It is appalling that Buckman's team was allowed to remain in the standings.
Kenya was in taking up lane 1 and Australia handed off in lane 2. The other runners didn't get in her way, Mackey just wasn't looking
Take a look at the video.
Buckman finished her run then stayed in the lane, jogging with almost no forward movement and making no attempt to get out of the way.
She purposely got the other runner's way, especially Mackey's, she stayed there.
Mackey had no choice but to run right into her.
Buckman and her team should have been disqualified from the race.
Mackey had the choice to look where she was running, instead of taking off blindly. Being the runner behind, she had the responsibility to ensure her own clear path. Was as dumb as it looked.
In a 4 x 1500 they need to instruct the athletes to move to the inside. It is an open pass, not a blind pass, so Katie can't look ahead of her.
This wasn't the 4x100. She was going to spend the best part of 4 and a half minutes out on the track. She couldn't take one second to check the path in front of her ? Every other team managed it.
It was an accident... Every other team managed it? You mean the team in the lead and the team 10 seconds down in last managed to hand off without hitting the invisible people that weren't on the track when they handed off?
Dwayne wrote:
This wasn't the 4x100. She was going to spend the best part of 4 and a half minutes out on the track. She couldn't take one second to check the path in front of her ? Every other team managed it.
I am a professional accident reconstruction specialist and from the lack of apparent skid marks, it appears Buckman got bulldozered.
trackbuff123456789 wrote:
Jogging straight ahead.... not an offense! No DQ.
Unless a Salazar athlete is touched.
swag dome chicks n sht wrote:
Katie is so pretty, I'd date her in a second. Why does she look so old though? She's only like 26.
Sress. She is in a lousy situation with no exit strategy. Things have a funny way of working themselves out. It is called Karma.
Someone set the collision to a Miley Cyrus song