Know for a fact wrote:
Thank you Letsrun for not letting this pass.
Agreed.
Know for a fact wrote:
Thank you Letsrun for not letting this pass.
Agreed.
fighting the wrong battle wrote:
polevaultpower wrote:There was a delay in posting the hard copy of the results. They didn't go up for, I believe, 20-25 minutes after the end of the competition. Now that everything is online, most athletes don't stick around for the hard copy results since they already know their time, and certainly there was no reason for Bumbalough or his coach to believe they needed to check them.
That might make sense if Bumbalough was Schumacher's only athlete in the race. But that is not the case. And he knew something was going on with Salazar because they had a very loud confrontation over the events of the race. And he's just going to leave before he sees the results?
I don't think so. In any event, even if he did leave the building, I don't see that in itself as a compelling reason for a policy change.
I have a lot of problems with other things USATF did, mostly involving Grunewald. Bumbalough's a nice guy; he shouldn't have been DQd; but that is driving a discussion that is incoherent at the policy level.
Absolute horsesh!t. For one, Al Sal throwing a tantrum is so commonplace for that scum of a "person" that it wouldn't raise any red flags for a guy who ran his own race and finished 7th-8th without ever touching someone to have to make his whole team stick around to see results get posted on a wall that are already way behind.
I can't wait for that dirtbag to be out of the sport for good and it's appalling that he is going to be influencing young minds like Cain's.
As I mentioned in my first post in this thread, I recalled Bumbalough giving an interview right after the meet with a completely different story than the "Schumacher left and didn't know" version of events.
I've gotten around to finding the interview, which was published by Gugala and picked up by Runnersworld.
http://spikeduppsychedup.com/2014/02/25/dq-andrew-bumbalough-mens-3000-meter-final/
http://www.runnersworld.com/elite-runners/why-was-andrew-bumbalough-disqualified-in-usa-indoor-3000
This version makes perfect sense to me. Bumbalough had not one but two coaches on the scene (Schumacher and Dobert). Both were aware of Bumbi's DQ while at the track. They questioned the DQ and were told that Bumbalough had interfered with Rupp by stepping in front of him.
At that point, according to Bumbalough, his coaches made the decision that the matter was not worth pursuing further.
Key quotes from the interview:
"[Bumbalough] says Schumacher and assistant coach Pascal Dobert appealed the ruling at the track, but it failed. The reason given to his coach by USATF, he says, was that he 'looked over and deliberately stepped out in front of Galen Rupp and made contact at some point, which impeded [Rupp’s] progress illegally.'”
And:
"His coaches, Bumbalough says, weren’t satisfied with the reason they were given for the disqualification because he hadn’t made any infractions. But they didn’t push their case with USATF any further because, though they didn’t agree with it, it wasn’t a top-two finish that would lead to a national team spot."
USATF did not want to go with this version because it would sound as though they were blaming the coaches for not following up. Bumbi's coaches only questioned the decision without filing a formal appeal that would have left a record. (Or so I would conclude.)
The mantra of the report throughout is "blame no one for anything." The "Gee, they just didn't know" version was concocted to fit the mantra.