USATF drops the ball again!

What role did sleazy sal play in this outrage?

Oh my god. That sucks. What a disaster.

Unbelievable. USATF need to get it the f*ck together.

Did Al DQ her?

This is terrible. Simply pathetic. The moron responsible should apologize personally to this poor girl.

If only USATF officials spent more time DOING THEIR JOBS and less time coddling certain coaches, helping them appeal races and so on, maybe they could carry out their mandate instead of disgracing themselves.

How did she finish "2nd in 16.33m" when the start list indicates the other American only has SB/PB of 15.56?

Whatever..terrible error and this is what you get when you have silly unreasonably rigid rules that do not allow for honest simple mistakes to be corrected.

I'm sure that this could happen in the tour dee France and the authorities would correct the mistake and allow the competitor to participate.

Did anyone get fired for this? Seriously. In the business world, I would equate this to being able to bid on a huge work contract only once every 2 years. If I didnt submit the paperwork, I would be fired for negligence.

Cory young u of Miami

THE U!!!

I'll give PASSES to those who do not seem to be in a position to be involved. I'll give *s to those who might reasonably be expected to work in concert with those in mirror positions on the other gender staff.

Women's Staff

Dana Boone, Head Coach - Sprints/Hurdles

Lisa Morgan, Assistant Coach - Distance-PASS

Tim Cawley, Assistant Coach - Jumps/Multi_PASS

Cory Young, Assistant Coach - Throws/Multi

Kristin Heaston, Head Manager

Men's Staff

Thomas Johnson Head Coach*

David Smith Assistant Coach - Distance-PASS

Norm Tate Assistant Coach - Jumps/Multi-PASS

Ty Sevin Assistant Coach - Throws*

Clif McKenzie Head Manager*

Event Managers

Danielle Siebert Event Manager

Randall Flimmons Event Manager

Medical Staff-get a pass on this one

I suggest we begin a "Stan Wright Award," which sadly we will have to presnt every year to a US coach whose blunder costs an athlete a chance to compete. Of course, we could always give one to the USATF, because they rarely assign coaches with the athletes' best interests at heart (no pun intended).

Skeptic/Sceptic wrote:

I suggest we begin a "Stan Wright Award," which sadly we will have to presnt every year to a US coach whose blunder costs an athlete a chance to compete. Of course, we could always give one to the USATF, because they rarely assign coaches with the athletes' best interests at heart (no pun intended).

I doubt one award per year is enough.

Jogger to be wrote:

Did anyone get fired for this? Seriously. In the business world, I would equate this to being able to bid on a huge work contract only once every 2 years. If I didnt submit the paperwork, I would be fired for negligence.

You must be the guy I responded to on twitter.

I don't think I'd fire anyone about this. I've always got a big heart - we're talking about people's jobs.

I think your analogy is off. If this were the Olympics and it was involving Matt Centrowitz I'd say it was a huge work contract.

No offense but this is world juniors, and involves a less marquee event and competitor.

i'm happy that USATF owned up to the mistake quickly and didn't convene a 4 month panel to tell us what we all know within 15-seconds - someone made a mistake.

To be honest thought, they should have internal protocals to make sure that this NEVER happens again. As it is unaccepatable that it happens. Their should be a process of reviewing entries that is the same for world juniors, worlds, olympics.

Job? These people get paid? I thought all the coaching positions and admin staff were volunteer. Free tickets and gear. All these athletes have there own coaches.

LetsRun.com wrote:No offense but this is world juniors, and involves a less marquee event and competitor.

i'm happy that USATF owned up to the mistake quickly and didn't convene a 4 month panel to tell us what we all know within 15-seconds - someone made a mistake.

I agree with the second part of what you say above. But try saying the first part to Aaliyah Pete's face. "The world is coming to Oregon" only she doesn't get to participate because of a clerical error that was outside of her control. I suspect she took quite a bit of offense - for her, this was THE marquee event.

Mistakes happen and often have consequences both apparent and occult.

Tangentially did the USATF take the 'correct' action concerning Friday's 100 false start and non-inclusion in the 4x100m pool?

Answering this question might be impossible now that we know it would have kept the 2014 champion home? Did LR take an editorial position on this?

my position on July 6th

Jogger to be wrote:

Did anyone get fired for this? Seriously. In the business world, I would equate this to being able to bid on a huge work contract only once every 2 years. If I didnt submit the paperwork, I would be fired for negligence.

You cannot fire volunteers. The structure of the USA team is that they select team managers who are volunteers. There is someone appointed to do this. That someone is a volunteer.

Remember when the US forgot their bibs in the relay back in 08 and had to write USA on blanks w a marker? That was a vintner team manager.

I wonder if they would have let the alternate compete - the girl who was inadvertently entered. Granted it's a last second situation...but it is World Juniors

This had nothing to do with Cory Young. Coaches don't do declarations at IAAF meets. Managers do.