intoronto Posted August 19, 2016 Report Share Posted August 19, 2016 5 minutes ago, Faster said: Evan Dunfee finished 4th. He was passing the Japanese athlete for 3rd when the Japanese guy nailed him in the back. Eric Lamaze rode clear again (only rider to go clear for the entire competition) and is into the finals. 13 riders went clear. So it will be an interesting final. Any grounds for a dq? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faster Posted August 19, 2016 Author Report Share Posted August 19, 2016 I would assume that the Canadian coaches would launch a protest. The results are not official yet. I doubt anything would happen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
intoronto Posted August 19, 2016 Report Share Posted August 19, 2016 Appeal is successful. Dunfee gets the bronze, but the Japanese will likely counter appeal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krow Posted August 19, 2016 Report Share Posted August 19, 2016 it was a dirty elbow. i started watching it because darcy wouldn't shut up about the race. it was especially dirty to do to a polite canadian, who would have probably moved out of the way and said a breathless sore-y if the situation had been reversed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faster Posted August 19, 2016 Author Report Share Posted August 19, 2016 2 hours ago, intoronto said: Appeal is successful. Dunfee gets the bronze, but the Japanese will likely counter appeal AFAIK once an appeal is launched, reviewed and decision announced there is no longer grounds for appeal within IAAF. The only way I could see the Japanese try anything is if Abby Hoffman didn't recuse herself of involvement in the decision. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faster Posted August 19, 2016 Author Report Share Posted August 19, 2016 2 hours ago, intoronto said: Appeal is successful. Dunfee gets the bronze, but the Japanese will likely counter appeal AFAIK once an appeal is launched, reviewed and decision announced there is no longer grounds for appeal within IAAF. The only way I could see the Japanese try anything is if Abby Hoffman didn't recuse herself of involvement in the decision. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faster Posted August 19, 2016 Author Report Share Posted August 19, 2016 (edited) 2 hours ago, intoronto said: Appeal is successful. Dunfee gets the bronze, but the Japanese will likely counter appeal AFAIK once an appeal is launched, reviewed and decision announced there is no longer grounds for appeal within IAAF. The only way I could see the Japanese try anything is if Abby Hoffman didn't recuse herself of involvement in the decision. So gutted for Eric Lamaze, one fault in the entire competition and it comes in the jump-off. Edited August 19, 2016 by Faster Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
intoronto Posted August 19, 2016 Report Share Posted August 19, 2016 16 minutes ago, Faster said: AFAIK once an appeal is launched, reviewed and decision announced there is no longer grounds for appeal within IAAF. The only way I could see the Japanese try anything is if Abby Hoffman didn't recuse herself of involvement in the decision. So gutted for Eric Lamaze, one fault in the entire competition and it comes in the jump-off. He would have won gold, had older rules been in place (people with faults in qualifiers are not allowed to compete in the tiebreak for medals). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faster Posted August 19, 2016 Author Report Share Posted August 19, 2016 Hyhaug finishes 5th. He just left it too late in the final. But 3 medals is good. Just wish 1 of them had been silver or gold. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krow Posted August 19, 2016 Report Share Posted August 19, 2016 tory makes it so hard to love him sometimes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faster Posted August 19, 2016 Author Report Share Posted August 19, 2016 @intoronto What are the chances Melanie McCann is in medal contention at the end of the modern pentathlon? I just cannot believe either Canadian is so far up the leaderboard. Also since when is a Canadian on the FIFA ExCo? WTF Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faster Posted August 19, 2016 Author Report Share Posted August 19, 2016 Well back to 20 medals, somehow the Japanese counter was successful. Very strange. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
intoronto Posted August 19, 2016 Report Share Posted August 19, 2016 26 minutes ago, Faster said: @intoronto What are the chances Melanie McCann is in medal contention at the end of the modern pentathlon? I just cannot believe either Canadian is so far up the leaderboard. Also since when is a Canadian on the FIFA ExCo? WTF Depends on her equestrian performance. If she can do well with a horse she doesn't know (like all athletes) she has a chance at a medal. Victor was elected as the president of CONCACAF recently, and that automatically places him on the ExCO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faster Posted August 19, 2016 Author Report Share Posted August 19, 2016 So medal chances left Canada in 4x100m relay Melissa Bishop in 800m Mark de Jong in K1 200m Catharine Prendal and Emily Batty in Women's Cross-Country Mountain Biking de Jong didn't look great this morning. So 2 more medals to match Atlanta's total. So need to go 50% on remaining medal chances. Unless McCann can give the most shocking result in my memory for a medal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krow Posted August 19, 2016 Report Share Posted August 19, 2016 we've all just silently agreed to ignore 1984 since it's kind of tainted? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faster Posted August 19, 2016 Author Report Share Posted August 19, 2016 Partially. Canada would have still done incredibly well in Los Angeles given that it was the Olympics with some of the greatest Canadian summer athletes. But yea at least 40% of those medals wouldn't have been won if there had been a full field. So for comparisons sake Los Angeles really is a 22 to 27 medal total. Canadians generally view the medals won by Davis and Baumann as not tainted because they were won with world records or near world records. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krow Posted August 19, 2016 Report Share Posted August 19, 2016 so you didn't get the race walking bronze? medal ceremony just held in the stadium and dunfree wasn't there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faster Posted August 19, 2016 Author Report Share Posted August 19, 2016 No Japan is a more important nation to the IAAF it would seem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krow Posted August 19, 2016 Report Share Posted August 19, 2016 dunfee being the polite canadian he is said he didn't really want it anyway under the circumstances. contact is an unwritten part of the sport he said. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faster Posted August 20, 2016 Author Report Share Posted August 20, 2016 So Japan f-cks us again. So now two medal chances left and need to go 100% to get to 22. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krow Posted August 20, 2016 Report Share Posted August 20, 2016 oh i dunno, with the team we sent you might get the bronze fedexed to you in two or three years anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trebor204 Posted August 20, 2016 Report Share Posted August 20, 2016 USA DQ, Canada Wins Bronze, Japan still gets SIlver (Did the USA drop the baton at the finish line?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave199 Posted August 20, 2016 Report Share Posted August 20, 2016 Why haven't the Japanese been dq'd as well? They clearly stepped on the line. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faster Posted August 20, 2016 Author Report Share Posted August 20, 2016 I am sure Canada and China are protesting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krow Posted August 20, 2016 Report Share Posted August 20, 2016 don't care about japan's lane violation or w/e but so happy our drug cheat team is out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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