Runners Slam Into Official in Men's 1500 at Stanford (video)

josh Thompson mentioned in his flotrack interview that either him or someone else (I cant remember) yelled "track" before the collision.

Love the Old Fat Guys wrote:

Those guys work for free and pay for their own food, gay bar, and airfare.

LOL. Nice.

Love the Old Fat Guys wrote:

Those guys work for free and pay for their own food, gay bar, and airfare.

Cruel but fair.

Well played.

Seems Pat McG has a knack for collisions on the backstretch

Someone call an orthopedist, now !!!

Make the man a bowl of chili.

He's earned a visit from Zola Budd.

I can't stop laughing at that vid. What a putz.

Hmmm.....wonder what could be happenin' over here on the track....what's that? What? WHAT????? There's guys running on the track? Where? BOOM!

Rupp's 62 minute warm up wrote:

I thought he was going to be in Mar-a-Lago this weekend.

Hahaha! Best comment on here!

They rolled the official out on a stretcher....

I was able to restraint myself from all out laughing until I heard the announcer yell "Oh my God, someone just hit an official!" at which point I lost it.

At Florida Relays today while no officials got in the way, an errant shot rolled a good distance down a small grassy grade until someone found it. If only it had made it to SW 2nd Avenue and into traffic, I expect it would have bemused many a motorist.

A Florida Coach wrote:

I was able to restraint myself from all out laughing until I heard the announcer yell "Oh my God, someone just hit an official!" at which point I lost it.

At Florida Relays today while no officials got in the way, an errant shot rolled a good distance down a small grassy grade until someone found it. If only it had made it to SW 2nd Avenue and into traffic, I expect it would have bemused many a motorist.

Would have resulted in the Bomb Squad being called and Jethro worrying whether it was a terrorist event.

Seriously, it probably would have! Thankfully, someone—I think a UConn athlete—saw it and returned it to weigh-in and saved the day.

A Florida Coach wrote:

I was able to restraint myself from all out laughing until I heard the announcer yell "Oh my God, someone just hit an official!" at which point I lost it.

It was actually: "Ohhh my-god-they-just-ran-into-an-official. Ohhhh, goodness gracious."

easy weeks wrote:

Mmmm, bacon! wrote:

What made him jump? Looked like he saw a snake or something.

By the video, it looks like someone probably said "watch out!" to him or something to that effect when it was clear a collision was possibly going to happen, and instead of moving to the outer side of the track he quickly stepped to the inside lanes area to get out of the way, instead of realizing that the runners were going to be there.

Dementia.

Too bad it wasn't the official who was lap-counting the men's 3000m at CIS this year.

I do feel bad for him since it seems he may have been injured—and I do very much appreciate all the hard work our officials do—but how in the world do you spend this much time involved in track events and not realize when there is an event underway on the track?! I mean, really?

stoog wrote:

Interesting is how puny and ineffective a runner's mass is in a collision. He was running 15 mph and barely budged that official.

The runners' mass is a lot healthier than the official's

The coach rabbiting was pat mcgregor who coaches at Samford. Never seen a coach still out rabbiting at the same meet they're coaching their athletes at. Was a pretty sick slam though.

Don't worry the IOC will grant everyone involved direct access to the final.

how many times does the crap happen on bike path or local high track?

When I come up on someone like this, meandering aimlessly between lanes, I don't even yell track or on your left.

About the only thing you can count on is the idiot will do exactly the opposite of what you would anticipate. Yell on your left and 90% of time they'll swing hard to their left to looks whats coming.

I come to the realization the best thing to do is to say nothing and go as wide as possible away from their mindless drift

what official thinks the best thing to do when you hear someone yell track is to jump from lane 3 into lane1