At each water stop Galen Rupp chucked off his old soaked hat and grabbed a new one from his coach. Rules?

The caps were filled with ice at every water station. Oregon Live link below.

http://www.oregonlive.com/trackandfield/index.ssf/2016/08/rio_olympics_galen_rupp_bounce.html

Ice would melt in the hats. The only way to keep the ice as ice is to replenish it during the marathon. I did not see any ice buckets for any other athlete to use ice hats. Something is not right here.

refreshments wrote:

Oblivion wrote:

A new hat could be considered a refreshment. No rules were broken.

Ummm, a hat is NOT a refreshment within the context of the sentence describing refreshments in the rule.

So you are saying when you go to refreshment stand at a professional sporting event, you don't ask for a hat with mustard to go with your beer?

trytokeepup wrote:

It's been established much earlier that Rupp's hats had cooling gels packs.

Yes, Salazar mentioned this in an interview.

Personally, I don't like it. How far will they go with different technologies? Maybe a hat with a neural stimulator. Maybe gloves filled with some kind of pain-numbing cream. Whatever Nike can cook up in their laboratory like that stupid tape Galen wore at the Trials. Just run. Just damn run. Don't make running like triathlon and all its tech douchey-ness. Next marathon I run I known there is going to be at least one dork whose wife drives to different points on the course to hand him a new hat with cooling gel pack every 5 miles.

Ice melts wrote:

Ice would melt in the hats. The only way to keep the ice as ice is to replenish it during the marathon. I did not see any ice buckets for any other athlete to use ice hats. Something is not right here.

Well it's a good thing you guys are on the case. Crack internet detectives will blow this wide open. While you're at it, find out the real reason for 9/11 and who was on the grassy knoll, K?

Ice melts wrote:

Ice would melt in the hats. The only way to keep the ice as ice is to replenish it during the marathon. I did not see any ice buckets for any other athlete to use ice hats. Something is not right here.

After the race, they openly declared exactly what they had been doing. The race strategy was even published online. Everyone watching the marathon, including officials, other competitors, and other coaches saw what was going on.

No one with the exception of a group of you morons here cares about it at all.

Seriously, what's wrong with you people?

llort_vbo wrote:

Ice melts wrote:

Ice would melt in the hats. The only way to keep the ice as ice is to replenish it during the marathon. I did not see any ice buckets for any other athlete to use ice hats. Something is not right here.

Well it's a good thing you guys are on the case. Crack internet detectives will blow this wide open. While you're at it, find out the real reason for 9/11 and who was on the grassy knoll, K?

Fool, the claim it was ice was made by oregonlive.com.

You seem to be unaware how long it takes ice to melt.

Seyta wrote:

After the race, they openly declared exactly what they had been doing. The race strategy was even published online. Everyone watching the marathon, including officials, other competitors, and other coaches saw what was going on.

Only one athlete in the race had a special ice hat to wear.

A hat certainly is a refreshment:

We've all heard the phrase "I'll Eat My Hat"

DQ.

Ice melts wrote:

Seyta wrote:

After the race, they openly declared exactly what they had been doing. The race strategy was even published online. Everyone watching the marathon, including officials, other competitors, and other coaches saw what was going on.

Only one athlete in the race had a special ice hat to wear.

I heard that Meb ran with an enchanted jockstrap. Better go check that out too

There is no such thing as "jumping the shark" when it comes to anti-NOP conspiracy theorists but it does tickle the hell out of me when you guys make such fools out of yourself to those of us who see through you.

Ice melts wrote:

Seyta wrote:

After the race, they openly declared exactly what they had been doing. The race strategy was even published online. Everyone watching the marathon, including officials, other competitors, and other coaches saw what was going on.

Only one athlete in the race had a special ice hat to wear.

And, we want transparency on why this was allowed.

You heard. You are the one who needs to make the inspection.

The ice is a direct quote from oregonlive.com from something Salazar told them.

Understand the difference between the these two claims?

only Americans would seek every possible reason to get one of their own medalists disqualified.

No, Americans believe in fair play and everyone allowed to compete using the same advantages. If one coach can set up fresh ice hats on a marathon course then all coaches must be allowed to do the same.

Taking advantage wrote:

No, Americans believe in fair play and everyone allowed to compete using the same advantages. If one coach can set up fresh ice hats on a marathon course then all coaches must be allowed to do the same.

They were. They just decided not to. The fact that no coaches of the 100+ athletes in the race even bothered to protest this shows that it was the case.

Taking advantage wrote:

No, Americans believe in fair play and everyone allowed to compete using the same advantages. If one coach can set up fresh ice hats on a marathon course then all coaches must be allowed to do the same.

Well you guys go straighten it out then. I'm sure that Seb Coe is waiting for your call. He told me he's been waiting for the anti-NOP tinfoil brigade's report. Thank goodness you guys are so diligent!

Seyta wrote:

They were. They just decided not to. The fact that no coaches of the 100+ athletes in the race even bothered to protest this shows that it was the case.

Oh really? All coaches were allowed to put items out for their athletes during the marathon. Please do provide a link to prove this claim of yours.

Taking advantage wrote:

Seyta wrote:

They were. They just decided not to. The fact that no coaches of the 100+ athletes in the race even bothered to protest this shows that it was the case.

Oh really? All coaches were allowed to put items out for their athletes during the marathon. Please do provide a link to prove this claim of yours.