For those of you who didn't see the race, here's what happened.
At 200m into the race, Montano moves into the lead. She then proceeds to run the entire freaking corner on the outside of lane 1. This is pretty dumb, but maybe we can chalk it up to her not wanting to "cut off" anybody on the inside of lane 1 (aka The Smart People).
They hit the straightaway, and Montano stays in the outside of lane 1. Uhhh okay, maybe she's just making it harder for people to pass on the outside. But she's leaving room for people to pass on the inside. Ummm, surely at the next corner she'll move to the inside of lane 1.
First lap is done and we're on the corner again. Montano clearly has more than enough space to move into the inside of lane 1. But, with the lone kernel of a brain cell she has bouncing around in her head, she decides to stay on the outside of lane 1 and run a few unnecessary extra meters. Now we're on the backstretch. Surely she can't be dumb enough to leave enough room for somebody to pass her on the inside.
Yep, she's that dumb. At the 600m mark, competitors pass her on the inside and the outside at the same time. Martinez passes her on the outside as well. Just a moment after Martinez passes her, Montano moves outside to get in position. She follows right behind Martinez around the corner. Martinez is on the outside shoulder of the leader coming around the bend. She looks good. She's in the perfect position. She looks poised to make the Olympics.
What's this? Montano decides that running into Martinez from behind is a brilliant idea! Montano apparently thought, "Well, I have to pick up the pace now. Hopefully the person DIRECTLY IN FRONT OF ME isn't made of matter. Maybe I can just pass right through her. Two people can occupy the same space at the same time, right?"
Montano clips Martinez's legs, which cause Martinez to stumble. Montano, figuring out how matter works, realizes that Martinez actually takes up real space in the world. Somehow, her brain processes this information fast enough for her to realize that she must push Martinez down in order to get through her. Commence pushing.
Montano's pushing succeeds in getting Martinez out of the way. But Montano herself falls. Not content at just robbing a more worthy individual of a potential Olympic spot, Montano decides she has to try to steal the show from everybody else. She must have met the NBC TV people and realized they're all as dumb as she is.
In one of the whiniest moments in TV history, Montano cries and whines her way to the finish line, practically begging for sympathy and attention. She then tops that a few minutes later with the most crybaby, woe-is-me interview ever.