Totally shameful decision to DQ him by officials - what a bunch of losers.
Also equally shameful that some posters are defending this decision. Bunch of bootlickers. You'd probably let the gov't come into your house and bang your wife if it were "part of the rules"
Pro 800m Runner wrote:
Eyeball test wrote:This can't be a 20.44.
yeah no way this was a 20.44.
Since there isn't an official time for him, maybe it was a 20.99 and someone just saw them as 4s. More likely, is that they took advantage of his unpublished time and boasted a 20.44 as a lie.
Like like a 21.0 to me
You are an arse, Mr Trump, and should be grabbed by the p*ssy.
Sdfssfssfsdf wrote:
Pro 800m Runner wrote:yeah no way this was a 20.44.
Since there isn't an official time for him, maybe it was a 20.99 and someone just saw them as 4s. More likely, is that they took advantage of his unpublished time and boasted a 20.44 as a lie.
True that, no way he was more than .1 or .2 ahead of second. Also convenient his coach's video cut off immediately after the finish and doesn't show what was supposedly the actual reason for the DQ, despite his coach's claim that he was DQed for "easing up."
Kid is very talented and well coached, clearly, these times don't happen by accident. But he seems to be lacking somebody in his life with some class to help guide him to being a better person, not just a faster one.
Hope him the best on the track and in life. But shame on the adults in his life, this DQ is on them as much as him.
Shame on his parents?
Unless there is more to the story, I didn't she the need for the DQ. A 17 year old should be allowed a one or two mistakes before being branded a misfit.
TrackCoach wrote:
Sdfssfssfsdf wrote:True that, no way he was more than .1 or .2 ahead of second. Also convenient his coach's video cut off immediately after the finish and doesn't show what was supposedly the actual reason for the DQ, despite his coach's claim that he was DQed for "easing up."
Kid is very talented and well coached, clearly, these times don't happen by accident. But he seems to be lacking somebody in his life with some class to help guide him to being a better person, not just a faster one.
Hope him the best on the track and in life. But shame on the adults in his life, this DQ is on them as much as him.
Shame on his parents?
Unless there is more to the story, I didn't she the need for the DQ. A 17 year old should be allowed a one or two mistakes before being branded a misfit.
A DQ isn't expulsion or a ban from high school athletics. He isn't being branded anything, he was disqualified from one single race. He has many more opportunities this year to prove himself.
The DQ sounds ridiculous. So I take it that raising your arms, or raising your arms and pointing #1 with your index fingers like in these photos would be worthy of DQs?
http://www.irunfar.com/wp-content/uploads/Hayden-Hawks-2017-Moab-Red-Hot-Champion-768x576.jpeg
http://www.irunfar.com/wp-content/uploads/YiOu-Wang-2017-FOURmidable-50k-champion.jpg
Why do they do that? wrote:
Am I the only one here who wishes sprinters would just race through the line? I don't get pulling up short to show boat - it's only a 100m or 200m for goodness sake, run through the line...then celebrate if you must.
Its why you are a distance jogger.
UPDATE: on his instagram, Cooper released a full clip of the video. It looks like he did a little more than just raise his hands up.
https://instagram.com/p/BQxqaWtlsek/
Now the question is, does this little extra deserve a DQ? I'd say no but I would also admit that it's a little fuzzier and more open to debate
exthrower wrote:
Boogieman wrote:The reason most people on here are getting so mad over a little showboating is because when they were athletes they didn't have the luxury. Every day was run through the line, just to get beat anyway. I would never get mad at someone for being passionate and having fun
Even when it's hurting them, or their team mates?
It would only hurt teammates because of officials like these! Otherwise it wouldn't.
And looking at the new video he puts up his arms and does a fist pump after crossing the line. Definitely not worthy of a DQ.
I coach and ref kids these age in the sport whose goals appear on the video.. In my sport I would have had to allow the result because it was not foul, and show a yellow card and a quiet little lecture about why.
It would be fair to punish him far more drastically. Fine him 20% of his pay for place and time and time 50% of his appearance fee. Money talks and people listen.
I suspect most of us have a pretty good idea of exactly how many dollars that adds up to.
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