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Tiefsa
Have any of you been following this? The USATF said Grunewald won the 3k championship, and then later said she was disqualified.
The story sounds like it is straight out of the WWE with Salazar playing the heel.
Track Runners React to decision
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The Internet won:
BREAKING: Grunewald reinstated as USA indoor women’s 3,000m champion: http://www.usatf.org/News/83.aspx
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Yeah, I saw everything blow up on Twitter. Glad she's been reinstated as the winner, but it seems like there are still some conversations that need to be had re: corruption, etc. One of my friends from graduate school is on the USATF social media team, and I'd love to pick her brain about it but I doubt she would say much!
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Sounds like Jordan Hasay understands more about sportmanship than her coach...
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I understand that as a coach you want to fight for your athlete, but I watched the race. There really wasn't enough there for the DQ. Besides. Hasay got killed in the last lap. She never went down. She could have fought for second or third at least, but she looked dead.
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Just when you think USATF has sunk as low as possible, they find new ways to dig a hole...
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Well this gets to the two parts of it, intent and impact. Pretty clear there was no intent to impede. And the contact cost her nothing -- in fact she probably got hit because she was slowing down more than Grunewald expected and she simply ran up on her by surprise. Contact or no contact, she was going to get destroyed in that last lap.
My only comment was that Gabe really needs to learn how to pass -- she did the same thing to Rowbury on the back stretch.
If you are gaining on someone, move out to lane 2 and pass...
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Rob
My only comment was that Gabe really needs to learn how to pass -- she did the same thing to Rowbury on the back stretch. If you are gaining on someone, move out to lane 2 and pass...
Yeah, but then you run the risk
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LOL - thanks for posting that link - I had forgotten all about that incident.
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Well, she's not exactly a newb, I give her some slack on this. I don't think she anticipated how fast she was going to blow by them (particularly Hasay). Spending more time than necessary in lane 2 on a 200m track is also pretty costly.
LOL, I think we can agree that's a foul...
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Besides. . . She never went down. She could have fought for second or third at least, but she looked dead.
And so "The Flop" enters the track vocabulary.
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The replays I watched, it looked like GG stumbled on her own, before she was close enough to Rowbury to make contact.
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