The NBA is always about putting up a good tv product. Cleveland wins the lottery when its Lebron. New York when its Ewing and on and on.
Track and field isn't so good at rigging i mean scripting things for tv.
Everyone wanted to see South Africa with Oscar P versus Jamaica with Bolt and Kenya with Bolt and none of them make the final?
Now since there was a fall, they have an out for an appeal to at least get Kenya and South Africa in? Does anyone think they appeals will be successful?
The problem is there are only 9 lanes so they only have room for 1 more team.