Why did the other girls let Alexa Efraimson get away with that!?

Badass

Efraimson looked like she was trying to be first to get to the electronics section at the WalMart Black Friday sale.

She (Efraimson) should've saved her energy for last 100. She shot her wad with 500 to go. Rookie mistake

BMart is on her shoulder and crowding into her lane. No problem at all with Alexa asserting herself. She will have to do this and more against more aggressive Europeans in future championship races.

To BMart - go by someone or tuck in, but don't run beside them and block them from a clear path. They will push you. Your fault. Make a move to go by - this running beside at critical times in the race has to stop or more falls are inevitable. When you drive a car do you stay beside someone as you come up to an interchange? They may want to get off the highway but you are in the way. Same thing as you come up to the bell. People on the inside want out so don't be the one in their way. Coming into the homestretch swing wide and get some clear space. Trying to crowd into lane one isn't a good idea.

Sofa king. We todd it.

You're in between two people who are in front of you.

You push yourself between them.

Then throw a huge elbow into the chest of one.

Then push the other one off the track.

This is asserting yourself as someone to be DQd.

If anyone wants to know the level of interpersonal contact that the IAAF signs off on in International competition:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gkmem-t5RVE

There were no DQ's.

She wasn't DQ'd though. Seems like others including the officials don't see things your way. With regard to BMart she doesn't need to ask herself why these contact situations keep happening. She's putting herself in a position to be pushed out of the way when the real racing begins. She can easily change this tendency.

Top Coach wrote:

She wasn't DQ'd though. Seems like others including the officials don't see things your way. With regard to BMart she doesn't need to ask herself why these contact situations keep happening. She's putting herself in a position to be pushed out of the way when the real racing begins. She can easily change this tendency.

Nobody petitioned for a DQ. If they had, she would've been.

Karma Police wrote:

Agreed Uceny started it off. Efraimson's "hit" on Brenda was just an arm flailing out. There was no intentional karate chop or similar. The girl on the inside copped it worse.

Agree with both of you. Watched in slow-motion several times. Uceny is on the outside of lane 2 and slowly moves in, Brenda has little room and edges in. Alexa starts getting tripped and tries to remain upright. She stays on the line after the "incident" and thus was not trying to do anything but stay upright. No gain of position, no move to the outside or inside. But a total bummer. If anything is unfair here, it's Uceny moving in without open space to move into. Chain reaction from there. And no, I am not blind. 20/10 vision on last test. :-)

Thanks for the tip on creating slow-motion.

PrZ wrote:

Badass

Alexa has a lot of spunk.

Hey Morgan Uceny.

You should stay from Alexa if you don't want to (you know what) again.

"Just an arm flailing out"?

"No gain of position"?

Efraimson is behind Martinez and the other runner on the left.

Then Efraimson surges up in between them,

throws her elbow into Martinez and loses her balance,

then pushes the runner on the left off the track.

Complete thug move.

Deserves a DQ even if nobody petitioned.

In watching it just in regular time, it is very clear that Morgan Uceny's very rapid cut in on Martinez leads to all of the problems. From there, Efraimson overreacts to Martinez's necessary adjustment--Martinez was near the inside of lane 2 before but Uceny within a few strides moves all the way to the very same space without having sufficient room ahead of Martinez.

jjjjjj wrote:

In watching it just in regular time, it is very clear that Morgan Uceny's very rapid cut in on Martinez leads to all of the problems. From there, Efraimson overreacts to Martinez's necessary adjustment--Martinez was near the inside of lane 2 before but Uceny within a few strides moves all the way to the very same space without having sufficient room ahead of Martinez.

Why do you repeat what was established long ago?

Is it just because you're a moron?

thePrimer wrote:

Top Coach wrote:

She wasn't DQ'd though. Seems like others including the officials don't see things your way. With regard to BMart she doesn't need to ask herself why these contact situations keep happening. She's putting herself in a position to be pushed out of the way when the real racing begins. She can easily change this tendency.

Nobody petitioned for a DQ. If they had, she would've been.

This mere fact seems to have escaped too many. If she had finished 3rd, there would have been a protest lodged.

You young punks need to watch some international racing. Stop with the softness America.