Holy cow. The NOP does it again, pulls a France and tries to get Eric Jenkins into the final on a DQ

Coach Cookie wrote:

You better get with the program, son... when the French do it, it's despicable behavior. When we do it, it's justified.

- Bam! & Bump!

- For some reason we don't get excited when football coaches "throw the red flag" or harrangue the refs/umpires for advantage .... why not in track & field.

- Plenty of room on the track for another man in the 5K

Would have loved to see Jenkins in the final but he ran stupid. When he wasn't boxed in he was wasting energy flying up the outside in lane 5!

It's a fact that he was impeded. It may have been unintentional, and hence, allow him into the final. It was at a key moment. Jenkins did not do much after that point--was he affected badly by it? He didn't have his usual kick. Too bad.

Gotta bee wrote:

You're clearly f'd up in the brain and just trying to whine about NOP again, people on this board yesterday right after the race were saying he was impeded and how he should file a protest.

Btw USATF has to file a protest not NOP, you don't even have any evidence NOP has anything to do with this.

But don't you see: USATF is just an extension of NOP like a wholly owned subsidiary.

The appeal was legit even if it as denied. Not much to lose in filing it. I am pretty sure USATF would have done it if the guy was wearing Hokas.

print journalist wrote:

Have you seen this? I almost fell out of my chair.

Not fair!

FTR, only USATF can plead a case to the IAAF, not NOP. Also, they are not trying to get another athlete DQed. With that said, I think Jenkins current results should stand.

Excuse the ignorance --- someone fill me in on the meaning of the abbreviation NOP?

Pure life.

Completely unrelated, but how is China so bad a track and field. I know it's not a part of their countries culture, but still, you'd expect them to have someone entered in every event since they have 18% of the world's population.

Anthony Traina wrote:

Excuse the ignorance --- someone fill me in on the meaning of the abbreviation NOP?

Pure life.

Nike Oregon project. The nike training group that trains under alberto Salazar.

I didnt watxh it until i saw this thread. I was expecting something a lot more. Sure, someone tripped in front of him and it wasnt ideal, but it was not the reason he didnt advance..... at all.

There is a difference between trying to get into a final and trying to get a medal by dqing someone else. Also Salazar isn't even in London

bolt is in trouble wrote:

Completely unrelated, but how is China so bad a track and field. I know it's not a part of their countries culture, but still, you'd expect them to have someone entered in every event since they have 18% of the world's population.

It might have something to do with the lack of protein in their diet.

NERunner053 wrote:

Watching the race live my first thought with 150 to go was that Jenkins was gaining momentum, had to stop, and then couldn't get going again. I'm okay with a protest like this, it looked like he was impeded. This wasn't for a medal but he's of the caliber to be in the final. I think he would've finished higher if he didn't hit a brick wall at 150.

You don't protest because you race stupidly.

You race smarter the next time.

OP is rojo