Douchebagsanonymous wrote:
NAU women.
Literally their #1,2,4,&5 position runners missed overtaking the racer's finishing directly in front of them by under a second. Any one of them could've altered the final score with just a little more effort. ...And of course, their actual #1 runner bombed and finished as their #3 enabling NcSt to win.
This is an incredibly dumb argument. It's nationals, once the first few runners come in there's scarcely a second that goes by without a finisher, so of course most of their runners finished within a second of the next runner. Even if they passed 10 runners in the last 200 meters that would still likely be the case! Certainly not justification to accuse them of not trying hard enough.
I'd also be hard-pressed to call any super-close 2nd place result a choke unless they were expected to sweep the meet or something. Similarly, it's pretty harsh to call a top-20 and All-American effort as "bombing" at such a competitive meet.