So if Mead is in? Does this mean Farah is out?

Zero sum game guy, this is your moment...

Can you provide a link for Mead being put in? He is not listed on the start list.

Yippee! Mead is in!!! Wahoooooo

Sometimes "accidents" just do happen...

The relevant rule states that for a nonqualifier to be gifted into a later round they must be "seriously affected" and not at fault (163.2 Obstruction), but doesn't say that someone "responsible" (if anyone, to whatever degree) must be DQd, only "shall be liable" therein.

Is Mead in?

Stickler for reading the rules wrote:

The relevant rule states that for a nonqualifier to be gifted into a later round they must be "seriously affected" and not at fault (163.2 Obstruction), but doesn't say that someone "responsible" (if anyone, to whatever degree) must be DQd, only "shall be liable" therein.

It will be interesting if Mo has another no fault accident in the 5k final. Twice he has moved in when the space wasn't available. Something is amiss with Mo.

Mo should be out of the final, considering how not picky they were with Kemboi, but he will be there. My guess is the IAAF saw the fall and was like "f*ck this was Mo's fault, but we can't DQ him". So they denied Meads appeal to get everyone outraged at that, and off the fact that Mo cut in on him. Then when they reinstated him, everyone would just be happy that he got in the final, and not care enough about whether Mo deserves to be DQ'd or not.

FWIW, I don't think Mo was trying to trip Mead, and the lack of intent should mean a no DQ. But if they are going to take a medal away from Kemboi who ran a step or two on the line (unless he cut the corner, he would be adding distance, same thing as stepping off the track on one of the straights) then they have to keep that same level of consistency and DQ Mo.

Biggest pet peeve with officials in all sports with judgement calls is lack of consistency. An MLB Ump might be giving a few extra inches off the plate, but as long as that stays the same the whole game for both sides, no team is advantaged/disadvantaged.

You probably nailed it. 3 white girls = Hassan Mead. Really no harm no foul though since none of the four are going to be near enough to the front to interfere with a potential medalist (unless they aggressively defend their lane when they're being lapped).

As for Kemboi, I think his transgression is at least as bad as taking his shirt off (which was why Mekhissi lost his gold medal at the Euro Championship). The Olympics bronze should be considered compensation for that earlier DQ.

taking his shirt off (which was why Mekhissi lost his gold medal at the Euro Championship).

My recollection is that Spain appealed on behalf of the 4th place athlete in that incident. Everyone wants the bronze. :)

It is great that Mead is in. I have seen many runners allowed to advance without another disqualification so I am not sure what the issue is. I guess the rest of the post is moot. I think D'agostino and the NZ runner were advanced because they fell due to the lapped runner causing havoc. It was not there fault and technically the lapped runner did not do anything to be DQ'd. Where is the implication of women being weak?I find that people who use the term SJW are often the ones who employ the terms racism and sexism the most. They just like it when it fits their preferred narrative at the moment. It's a meaningless phrase used in place of real argument.

sjw is a silly term wrote:

I find that people who use the term SJW are often the ones who employ the terms racism and sexism the most. They just like it when it fits their preferred narrative at the moment. It's a meaningless phrase used in place of real argument.

I find this not to be the case at all.

on looker wrote:

Is Mead in?

No.

I can sleep happy tonight now

Imagine how much money the BroJos would make if they ran this site like professionals.

So Mo got CLIPPED from behind FIRST and stumbles, the guy who clipped him stumbles and fall as a result, and you dummies want Mo to be disqualified? If this is not a race incident i dont know what else it is....

I hope HM wont get reinstated because this sissification of T&F has frankly become a joke....

KAV wrote:

So Mo got CLIPPED from behind FIRST and stumbles, the guy who clipped him stumbles and fall as a result, and you dummies want Mo to be disqualified? If this is not a race incident i dont know what else it is....

I hope HM wont get reinstated because this sissification of T&F has frankly become a joke....

No, Mead should have, and has been, reinstated and the officials did the right thing in the end, ipso facto, calling it inadvertent, no harm, no foul, everyone who was going to go through.

Rojo probably hates Mo, and really wanted Mo DQ'd.

The reality is, it is a kinder gentler era. Back when Jim Ryun fell, he was out, and screw the athlete / USA, that was it.

Better to see that accidents happen, and let the athletes live another day to entertain us and for the IAAF / IOC to make bank.

Grow up, idiot wrote:

Imagine how much money the BroJos would make if they ran this site like professionals.

two white girls go down

A black dude goes in and he wasn't getting i.

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Oh boy.

Aric Van Halen has already proved that Mo was in lane 2, cut in early and clipped Mead. It is definitely Mo's fault.

The difference is that a protest was filed against Kemboi. Mead's protest may not have blamed Mo but merely asked to be reinstated.

If Mead is in, why isn't he on any of the start lists for the final (from iaaf.org or rio2016.com)?