It is USA's fault. They claimed they were going metric in the 70s, so we changed. Then they changed their minds.
It is USA's fault. They claimed they were going metric in the 70s, so we changed. Then they changed their minds.
Staged race to get clicks and attention for their league. Essentially FAKE NEWS.
CanadianParent wrote:
Just registered my kid on NCAA so she can race in a real college league.
what a joke.
sorry Paula, Terry, Boyd and DST you ain't getting my kid on your team.
I was going to say that I felt sorry for your kid... but then I thought... oh, maybe moving as far away from dad would be a good thing.
brilliant wrote:
Apparently lap counter changed laps to go from 8 to 6 so they were being misinformed from over a k to go.
That's what happens when you count using the metric system.
I'm thinking that your daughter should receive guidance from the good people at the witness protection program. To get away from you.
electron1661 wrote:
So the question becomes, who is at fault? The guy who dropped out at 2800m is not at fault, for the official rang the bell at the wrong time. Right?
Sure they are. They didn't run the full distance. It's like when a course marshall sends you the wrong way in a road race. It's your responsibility to know the course and run the correct course. You run off course, you are DQ'd, not BQ eligible.
Same thing here. If you don't count the laps, your fault.
They are doubly at fault if they are contesting the results. Are they contesting this?
Bill Corcoran wrote:
The announcer is not a lightweight, my friend. Gord is extremely knowledgeable and experienced. He's doing this alone, calling the race, and providing lap splits - I can forgive him if lost track of the laps and total time. Why don't you try doing 3 things at once live, Einstein.
As for the last lap, Gord was as dumbfounded as the rest of us. That was a huge screw up, no doubt, but don't lay the blame the guy on the mic.
I take it you are from Canada and either quite old or not yet 19. Nothing but raw defensiveness or mental deterioration/immaturity would explain so pathetically mindless a statement.
You act as if doing any three things at once, however interrelated and simple, constitutes a supreme feat of intellectual power. Calling out names and lap splits at the same time is not on a par with solving differential equations while playing Beethoven's Ninth.
His job is precisely to NOT be "as dumbfounded as the rest of us." You're like someone who watches an NFL kicker choke and miss a 23-yard field goal attempt and says, "Well, I'd be nervous too and I'm kind of pigeon-toed!"
And I clearly didn't blame the announcer for the meet organizers' screw-up, you ass. I just expected him to say SOMETHING.
And this is why all Canadians have trashcans for heads on South Park.
Same thing happened last year in the ncaa indoor champs, women's 5k. Once the bell is rung, that's the last lap.
Now they know what it feels like to buy gas in Canada for the rest of the world.
Just double it
I always counted my own laps because I usually lapped all the other runners and didn't want to run an extra lap.
Jogger to be wrote:
http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=6375057Same thing happened last year in the ncaa indoor champs, women's 5k. Once the bell is rung, that's the last lap.
Sorta like playing musical chairs!
former CIS runner wrote:
ignore mistakes made by others wrote:My HS coach told me it is my responsibility to keep track of my lap count. Not the announcer not the official bell ringer or lapcard guy nobody but me.
That makes sense at your average low-level meet, where numerous runners are being lapped, but at a championship-level meet the lap-counter's job is not difficult and competitors should be able to rely on them to do their job.
At the AAU indoor Nats held on the 11 laps to the mile boards in Madison Square Garden the 3 mile was a regularly run event. Often you saw 10 or so guys on the track.
33 laps
I saw Ron Clarke set an indoor 3 mile world indoor record (13:18 x) at the National AAU Championship MSG 1964 I believe only Pete McArdle & Gerry Lindgren were on the same lap with him at the finish.
Was not easy to keep track of the laps.
Easy-- Shirley you jest!
To summarize your position - Bill is an idiot because he recognizes that multi-tasking can occasionally result in errors (a fact that innumerable peer-reviewed studies have established beyond any doubt) and he is capable of forgiveness. Your family must hate you.
thiebeault no fault win wrote:
former CIS runner wrote:The problem with the officials' idiocy was that none of the competitors in the race, who knew how far they had actually run, knew before Thibeault's decision whether they would be running 2800 or 3000m. The bell was rung at 2600m and the clock stopped at 2800m.
His decision? Well, maybe he DECIDED to run 3000m and knew 7:40 at that pace was ridiculous. Way to try and blame Thibeault. You're trying to make it like he played dirty. The competitors behind him followed. They knew it was rung at the wrong time.
Are you daft? He is not 'blaming' Thibeault for anything. The 'decision' he is referring to is that the top 3 likely knew 1) the laps were wrong, or 2) the clock was wrong, and had to decide to acknowledge the bell as the official last lap. People who say "they knew they weren't running 7:40...' are only thinking of 1). Thibeault would have won anyway, but Black went from 2 to 4, missing a guaranteed medal. The clock is there for the spectators, too. I have run a couple races where the clock didn't match the splits. So, 2 of top 3 figured the bell trumps the clock. Not their fault.
In the overall points, Guelph men won in a landslide so at least the loss of points didn't effect team scores.
traveling runnerd wrote:
Having 100 idiots on the track probably didn't help, either. WTF.
Yes! I thought that, too. I think all Laval(?).
This happened at the NAIA meet last year
Well, at least the cameraman was on the ball -- he didn`t even flinch when the two guys mistakenly finished. The cameraman is the superstar here.