Kipyegon DQ was deserved.

Exactly, that’s why the officials who know the rules (and not the emotional, starstruck fans) make the decisions.

I've watched the replay a few times, and I agree. Kipyegon makes contact BEFORE Tsegay cuts her off.

OP thanks for sharing the video (and I"d like to see 2-3 seconds more) but it doesn't seem to show what you think it does. While I'd like to 2-3 seconds previously, the first thing I see if Tsegay's elbow in front of Kipyegon's chest. That's a foul on Tsegay. Tsegay was planning on cutting in and Kipyegon grabs it and is like 'No you aren't doing that.'

Look at where Tsegay's arm is:

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Faith doesn't have to just sit there and let Tsegay hit her in the chest.

It was aggressive by Kipyegon but not worthy of a DQ.

Update. I've found a clip of the previous few seconds. She does proactively appear to grab Hassan. Thus I actually can kind of see what she was DQd.

You mean the officials don't know as much as the LRC??

Would love to see her DQed for a certain something else come the end of this meet. You know what I mean.

This is also exactly how I saw it too. What's with swinging arms with such a wide span right into other runners ribcage?

Any news on the appeal? Was it officially denied?

If Kipyegon is DQed Tsegay 100% should be DQed as well. She cut in when there was no room and initiated the contact. Is Kipyegon supposed to just sit there and let Tsegay hit her and impede her space?

These things (appeals and counter-appeals) take hours.
Maybe tonight, or tomorrow morning we will know what they decided.

Faith NEVER had the lead ..never. Much like 100% the Slaney/Decker & Budd debacle from 1984. Learn the difference between what you want to see and what actually happened.

This is why I almost never pay attention to the message board. How bout a filter we can opt to turn on and tune out all the doping accusations?

I don't understand how OP's title could be perceived as remotely controversial. Kipyegon just ran in a historic Olympic final. I don't think it is outlandish to say she deserves a little Diary Queen at the very least. Lord knows she could put some more meat on her bones.

Yeah, that actually proved the opposite of OP's point. It seems Tsegay's obstruction was deliberate, while Kipyegon just responded instinctively. You're 4k into a 5k race, and somebody just elbowed you in the chest, I don't think it's an unreasonable reaction from Kip to grab it. Actually it's pretty mild.

Please look the video and take off your simp fan boy eyewear. Faith NEVER had the lead ..never. Faith tried to move into the space where Tsegay was already occupying.

False appeal to authority, Bruns. It's actually possible for fans, or even a running site with continual news about the subject, to know the rules better than an official. The difference is the power to make a ruling. Having a better opinion, however, not so much.

Incredible. All these losers with their unfounded doping-accusations are just taking the joy out of celebrating the sport. Since there is no way for us to know anything before anti doping agencies announce something, how about a perma-ban for anyone who accuses someone without proof?

i still havent made my mind up on who was more at fault, havent seen enough of the very beginning of it - but right before tsegay throws her arm out wide and "elbows" kipyegon, kipyegon had just hit/brushed tsegay's upper arm, one of the clips posted makes that clear.

others have said one of the peacock feeds showed the whole thing develop but i cant find it and nobody has posted it - nothing anyone has posted yet make it clear to me if tsegay was encroaching or who initiated the contact.

It was definitely on purpose. Kipyegon probably felt justified, but you can't grab someone's arm in a race and try to pull them backwards. That's nuts.

Except that is almost never the case. Here it's just mostly hobby-joggers, who can barely tell their left shoe from the right one, being loud.