Ingebrigtsen should have been disqualified for cutting off Mechaal in the 1500

Hehe. This Ingebrigtsen is now one of my heroes. The Kenyans tried their hardest to pull away and he kept reeling them in. Mechaal was just a lucky passenger on the Inge train.

I guess you are the guy who starts all the "New fantastic result by Ingebritsen brothers" threads which are abundant here.

klubkip1 wrote:

Norwegians seem to be above the law, as if they can do no wrong.

Didn't even care about this thread, decided to finally check it out, the only reason anyone thinks he should be dqd is because they don't like him

Nobody honestly has an actual unbiased race reason, and you are all so against doping but ignore the fact the Spanish guy is a doper? Pretty convenient

Gotta bee wrote:

klubkip1 wrote:

Norwegians seem to be above the law, as if they can do no wrong.

Didn't even care about this thread, decided to finally check it out, the only reason anyone thinks he should be dqd is because they don't like him

Nobody honestly has an actual unbiased race reason, and you are all so against doping but ignore the fact the Spanish guy is a doper? Pretty convenient

I like him but believe that to be an infraction warranting a DQ.

Why does it matter if they are white? lol Still not buying it. THe Kenyans are surprised Philip went after them in the 1500m finals?? What did they think? that he would just let them win. Everyone wants to shoot for a medal in the 1500 so I don't know why it's so surprising that Ing was chasing them...

No, I mostly read the posts that are top 10 at the moment and I rarely see anything about Ingebrigtsens there, except for a few about Jakob earlier this year when he was on fire with the mile.

alsharir wrote:

Why does it matter if they are white? lol Still not buying it. THe Kenyans are surprised Philip went after them in the 1500m finals?? What did they think? that he would just let them win. Everyone wants to shoot for a medal in the 1500 so I don't know why it's so surprising that Ing was chasing them...

Same reason Brojos acts like kids when a white american beats africans at a distance above 800m: its very unusual at the world stage. Why are you acting like you don't understand something so elementary?

You'll have to ask them, I guess the same reason they expected that none of the other runners would dare go with them. Which was correct.

And they are right in both cases:

1) Kejelcha shouldn't have veered to the right because he left the inside on lane 1 open. He might even got DQ'd in case he blocked someone on his outside but it wasn't the case.

2) Ing realized that someone was about to try to pass on the inside which had space and proceeded to cut him in the off chance that he had a bit of energy left . It was well after the final curve, so it's a rightful DQ that didn't actually happen.

I too was surprised to see that arrogant j**k present in the medal ceremony (see Monaco speech) after that, they probably didn't complain because a 4th place is better than a busted 3rd place anyway.

shady but I dunno if dq worthy

kipchoge and lagat pulled the same thing in 03 and 07 5ks

"other runners wouldn't dare go with them? You mean Couldn't go with them if they tried... I've never seen anyone gets worked up over"whites" beating Africans (Black African) in distance races. People were shocked when Centrowitz won because he was an American who hasn't won the event in years. Not because he was white. People were shocked when Murphy took third in the 800 because he was american.. not white. People arent rooting for Ing because he is white. People don't hate him because of he's white. People dislike him because he is a dirty trash talking runner. Nobody cares that he wears a speed suit. When people talk crap about it, they are only joking. Nobody actually gives a damn about the speedsuit for crying out loud. You're wrong about him being worshiped if he was American. People on here talk crap about centro all the time.. including me. I care about the character of a runner more than how cool their story is. Not impressed by FIng, the only one who impresses me is Jakob but he has yet to beat Hamza Driouch's Mile record of 3:50 (17-year-old age group record)

Lots of people on this thread want to make the issue about something other than the last 50m of this particular race.

I don't have a horse in this race, I don't know or care much about either runner. But I care a lot about the sport. I am strongly against DQs unless there is a very good reason, but I stand by my initial comment that this looked to me like a rules infraction that may have cost the fourth place runner bronze. I am not saying it's 100% DQ-worthy, but at the very least worthy of a long look by the officials and probably an official statement justifying the lack of a DQ.

objective observer wrote:

Lots of people on this thread want to make the issue about something other than the last 50m of this particular race.

I don't have a horse in this race, I don't know or care much about either runner. But I care a lot about the sport. I am strongly against DQs unless there is a very good reason, but I stand by my initial comment that this looked to me like a rules infraction that may have cost the fourth place runner bronze. I am not saying it's 100% DQ-worthy, but at the very least worthy of a long look by the officials and probably an official statement justifying the lack of a DQ.

I think a DQ needs to be fairly flagrant, too. In this case I think it was borderline. Ingebrigtsen was definitely trying to cut him off, but my have moved in just early enough to make it legal. Close enough that he deserved to get shoved. A DQ would have been fairly intrusive officiating.

No, I mean dare. At that point in the race a lot of runners could've gone with the kenyans. Doesn't mean they would have medaled though. But take Holusa, had he gone with Filip its not unlikely he would have been the one getting the bronze.

Then you haven't followed letsrun very much, have you never seen the brojos endless talk about "the great white hope" etc?

The 800m is different, and as I commented: Everything above the 800m. I've never said people hate him because he is white, you need to read what you comment better.

He dirty talked once, once, right after a race and shortly after retracted that. As a person he is very calm and cautious from what I've seen, you're assuming a lot based on one comment.

They trash talk Centro mainly because of Salazar and the shadyness of the NOP. Haha sure, not impressed. How would you, just one of the best 1500m runners in the world this year.

Oh please, Hamza is a dirty dirty cheat.

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agreed

alsharir wrote:

agreed

Ok, but that should b the title of another thread.

Perhaps there is a correlation here, but worthy of a totally other thread.

Part of me kind of wishes that Holusa would have outkicked both of them at the line, dude probably had the fastest last lap of the whole field but came from too far back.

yoman wrote:

And Mechaal missed those 3 tests last year, so i am not shedding tears for him.

What 3 tests? He didn't even get out of the heats in Rio last year anyways.

the guy looks like he was dropped as a child