Explain to me how Felix loses because the other runner dived and she didn't?

Loser crybaby.

If place is determined by running completely across the line then how to you time? All races will now be slower. As it stands now, all times and place are determined by when the torso hits the line not crosses it entirely.

LetsLearnRules wrote:

If place is determined by running completely across the line then how to you time? All races will now be slower. As it stands now, all times and place are determined by when the torso hits the line not crosses it entirely.

And what part of the torso is that? The rule is written for runners upright as they cross the finish. It is not written for crawlers. What if Miller stopped dead at the finish with her upper shoulders on the line, remained in that position, the other runners crossed the finish, and then Miller slithered across the finish afterwards. Who is your winner then?

A Debate for the ages wrote:

Star wrote:

If Felix dove she still would have lost.

The effort of diving slows your stride but it extends your torso.

So it's break even.

Sorry But Felix would have won, by a very small amount if she had dived.

Her hips were well ahead of Miller's.

However it could have injured her and hurt her for the relays.

Their hips were even at the line. Look at the photo.

And the reason Miller's hips weren't ahead was because she stopped running at that point.

If she managed to stay upright and take another stride her hips would have been ahead of Felix's and so would her torso.

No advantage to diving, intentionally or accidentally.

Periewinkle wrote:

It is absolute BS, a trash move, especially from a woman

Why? In a flat-out dive, a woman has more to lose than a man.

Alright this sets up a post Rio race in Europe where "diving" in prohibited!

Felix won that race. The other runnwer still has her legs behind the line laying on the ground when Felix is well passed it. Surely you have to get your torso through the line first in a vetical position, running position as eveybody may as well dive at the line now. I know she wont but Felix should challenge that ruling. The other girl has basically cheated.

Torso is what counts, however you get it to the line first. Learn the rules.

Stick with eharmony wrote:

That's not fair

The rules are wrong and need amending to take cases like this into account.

Holy cow 7 pages. Stick is back baby!

Get your torso to the line first by all means but not in a vertical position. Who runs like a snake. This not swimming. Its running.

I would be embarrassed to win a race like this.

LetsKnowRules wrote:

What if Miller stopped dead at the finish with her upper shoulders on the line, remained in that position, the other runners crossed the finish, and then Miller slithered across the finish afterwards. Who is your winner then?

Miller. She got some part of her torso to the plane of the finish line before anyone else did. That's the rule. (And, yes, the rule specifies what is not "torso"--someone quoted the rule earlier in the thread.)

BTW: 9/10 to the OP for this one. This was genuinely productive trollage that showed how many LRCers are ign'ant of the rules in their own sport. Or else a whole lot of posters are trolling themselves, in which case: well played!

Because the rules are wrong and need amending. Felix is the real champion.

klubkip1 wrote:

Because the rules are wrong and need amending. Felix is the real champion.

I didn't read through all the ignorant comments here but I can guarantee that as Felix reviews this race for the rest of her life she will be upset with herself for not leaning. All she did was dip her head. Any lean at all would have given her the gold.

I mean she was losing until she fell over???????????????

This was cheap, undignified way to win a race, especially for a woman. Felix was poetry in motion, and then this woman is all locking up so she just oafishly flops onto the track. She should have kept her belly off the track, taken a silver, and kept her honor.

Pre wouldn't have dove. He was above that. Or he would have. Because to sacrifice the best is to gift the...either way, 'Merica!

Here what should change - If you 'dive' at the line and your torso crosses first, Ok, fair enough; You 'Win' - BUT....... if the rest of your body just 'lies' there on the track and doesn't cross the line before the next runner fully does, then you loose that spot! You're not technically "finishing the distance" if your 'whole body' does not cross that line - and that's not fair! You're then going less of a distance technically than that of your competitors, why should you then win? It's BS! I think this rule would discourage "diving"and the hanging across the line scenarios. Felix was fully across, while Miller's body was still just still half way there on the ground! Again, a crap win.

So.... if your leading by 30 seconds in a race, cross the line with your torso first, fall down and can't get fully across the line before you next competitor 'fully' does - then sorry, you don't win, period! If they trip as well and are stuck on the line, then the third person 'wins' if they fully come across first, etc....