Should Sifan Hassan be DQd?

rojo wrote:

Al Sal got GG DQd. Is it time one of his athletes gets DQd?

I personally don't think a DQ is the right penalty. I think there should be a penalty where you put Muir 2nd and Hassan 3rd but I'm sorry - you can't do what Hassan just did.

Her coach would have filed a protest. If they did it was not accepted. The tape shows no clear physical contact. Officials are there on the track, plenty of angles to look at the finish on tape.

Its really a non issue.

jerry shoeeater wrote:

had this been a bowerman tc athlete doing the cutting off I'm sure they would be celebrated for great tactical racing. the witch hunt really is getting old

Ding ding ding we have a winner!!!! These clowns are simply trying to create another story involving NOP. Hassan likely drank an illegal amount of Gatorade to recover as well - this could be your next LRC headline.......

I wanted Muir to get past more than most of the Americans here, but I don't think Hassan did anything wrong.

She always runs with her elbows out, people that have seen her run knows she does that even when running solo out in front. It's just her arm swing.

And as for the gliding out of lane 1 into lane 2, I personally don't think that's illegal and if it is it definitely shouldn't be.

The runner in front has worked hard to gain an advantage position, it's madness to say they have to run in a dead straight line for the finish and must no deviate. Does everyone realise that running at a diagonal also increases the distance the athlete in front is running? So if they are tying up it's a risk to run further.

I personally think it's a completely fine tactical move no worse than a bit of barging in the middle of the race.

If you've decided to leave your kick until the last 50m of the race to pass me after using me as a windshield/pacemaker for 1450m then you better prepare to run in lane 6

We don't want a DQ but thinks the rules should be changed so she could be placed 4th.

http://www.letsrun.com/news/2018/03/sifan-hassan-dqd-impeding-laura-muir/

countrydrugcheatsout wrote:

She suddenly decides to veer over a lane or two when sensing someone closing on her? Pure coincidence, I'm guessing.

Dibaba ahead of her also veered over to avoid the lapped runner the way I so it.

LetsRun.com wrote:

We don't want a DQ but thinks the rules should be changed so she could be placed 4th.

http://www.letsrun.com/news/2018/03/sifan-hassan-dqd-impeding-laura-muir/

Nonsense.

Actually total nonsense.

LetsRun.com wrote:

We don't want a DQ but thinks the rules should be changed so she could be placed 4th.

I believe they do that in horse racing

watched the race live in real time

looked like completely normal tactics by hassan. that one photo at the end looks bad, but thats all it looks that way. hassan didn't touch and didn't reach out and block like huddle did.

muir should have gone inside when she saw hassan swerving so far that way

This fuss is only because Muir is a Letsrun darling due to her “great white hope” status. Nothing DQ-worthy here.

yssgdqdb wrote:

She should absolutely be DQd. She made that move in an offensive way and it threatened Muir physically (hitting/elbowing).

I didn't get to see the entire race yet because the recording cut off just after 5:00 minutes (stupid DVR things).

European countries should not have taken these Africans anyway. Most are drug cheats too.

#TriggeredMuch

Rockstar Games wrote:

I get your point but you can't bend the rules like that when it suits "your/whoever's purpose.

Either she isn't DQ'd and stays 2nd, or is simply DQ'd. Remember what happened to Chelimo in the last Diamond League race?

Either the glass is full or empty, there's no middle ground.

"Either the glass is full or empty, blah blah blah"

Actually it can be half full, quarter full mostly full, and many other fractions.

Subjectivity. Look it up. Use the Cambridge dictionary if you don't like Websters.

Muir would have lost anyways.

bebop and rocksteady wrote:

Candian dutchie wrote:

No, if you watched the from the BBC angle a girl was almost lapped and Hassan didn't want to run into her which she would have done had she continued sprinting in lane 1.

Not a chance, have you absolutely no judgement of speed and distance? Bobocea crossed the finish line nearly two seconds before Hassan and Muir. Dibaba doesn't even come close to running into her.

Wouldn't want to be in a pack with you.

So.. 2 jackasses are in the fast lane of a 2 lane highway... you’ve never tried to speed in lane 2 only to run into a slow moving car in that lane before you can pass the others?

Literally happens to me every single day on the way to work. Sometimes you misread the situation and make moves to assure that doesn’t happen again.

donotunderstand wrote:

You can debate all day whether you want to let them fight it out instead of using the rules, but if you want to follow the rules, it seems an obvious lane impedance, which is specifically covered in the rules as "shall be disqualified"

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Lane Infringement, 4(b)

An athlete shall not be disqualified if he steps or runs outside his lane in the straight, any part of the diversion from the track for the steeplechase water jump or outside the outer line of his lane on the bend,

* with no material advantage thereby being gained and no athlete being josteld or obstructed so as to impede his progress. If material advantage is gained, the athelete shall be disqualified.

Yep and Muir isn't impeded or obstructed. She has 4 empty lanes to her right and it's her choice to run in them or run through Hassan.

The rules do not state that every athlete should be allowed to run exactly where they want on the track when they want, otherwise inside lane runners would have to move out to allow a faster finishing athlete to pass them on the inside.

Swerving across the lanes to lane 1 to block someone trying to overtake you on the inside would count as lane diversion in order to impede the progress of another athlete, because they have nowhere else to go. Muir could go wherever she wanted.

Clearly Muir was going to move past Hassan before reaching the finish line.

Needs to be negative consequence for that kind of tactic.

The norms of the sport - especially when you were competing - may have been that this move was acceptable and there is no clearly no consensus about the rules here as the British team did not lodge a protest.

But it is abundantly clear that Muir was obstructed: Hassan moved out into her path to force her further wide. How can you claim that Hassan didn't claim a material advantage from her move into Muir's path?

Hassan said she didn't realize she veered out and Muir said she did not realize it either...this should pretty much end this thread. The high insight of replay and slow motion can sometimes give an impression that's different from what the athletes' experience in real-time. Btw, I went back and watched a couple of Hassan races and she has veered out before even when there was no one behind her. Veering out actually happens quite a bit when you become completely lactic approaching the finish line. In fact, most athletes who are tieing up, veer to the right as they approach the finish line, which sometimes opens up the inside lane to pass. With that said, Hassan is a bit of an erratic racer, with a long back kick and sharp elbows; I would try to stay away from when competing.

TrackCoach wrote:

Veering out actually happens quite a bit when you become completely lactic

When you become completely lactic? This is some pretty embarrassing jargon to be using in 2018.

Muir knows perfectly well what happened, she's being a good sport.

you understand that you don't have a lane in this race, right? that's for people running a lane race

this guy's thought wrote:

watched the race live in real time

looked like completely normal tactics by hassan. that one photo at the end looks bad, but thats all it looks that way. hassan didn't touch and didn't reach out and block like huddle did.

muir should have gone inside when she saw hassan swerving so far that way

Impeding someone's progress is not normal tactics. If you need a stride and a half clearance to cut inside, you should also need stride and a half clearance to cut outside.

An athlete shouldn't have to file a protest. Officials should automatically review in sketchy circumstances irregardless of what the injured party wants. The athletes should have no part in the process. Refs make calls in basketball all the time, without input from players.