<p>What do you think of this?</p>
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<p>Yep, and Delgado’s homerun against the Yanks *was *a homerun.</p>
<p>Don’t know what the answer is, though it seems even more unfair for a kid then a well-paid (albeit struggling) professional.</p>
<p>The part where all the runners passed their medals up to the next runner was stunning.</p>
<p>“he part where all the runners passed their medals up to the next runner was stunning.”</p>
<p>Wasn’t it? Someone raised them well and should be proud.</p>
<p>I agree that it sounds like these kids have integrity and values…and empathy. Kind of amazing the disqualified gal is running for Harvard in the fall… she will continue to build strong character…</p>
<p>We had an interesting disqualification here in Maine last fall at a big X-country meet…two gals (great friends) from the same school held hands as they crossed the finish line…and they were both disqualified because the rules prohibit anyone helping anyone else finish a race…even though they were not “helping” the simple fact of holding hands is verbotten and as a result they were out…I seem to remember their team also lost out largely due to this disqualification because they needed their places for the strong finish they had accomplished. </p>
<p>Another rule that is a sleeper rule is that kids are not allowed to watch video of their performances during a meet…so if someone films them on any device, they cannot watch it and perform again… we had a boy disqualified for watching footage of his throws at a meet… as a parent of a track guy, I know I had no knowledge of this rule…</p>
<p>This is unfortunate for the girl, but it happens in every high school sport. After almost any game the discussion is about bad calls, the team got robbed, or the refs were for the other team. Some are truely bad calls but most are judgements by officials doing the best they can. If everyone disputed or sued there wouldn’t be time left for the actual sport. It sounds like this girl is on her way to Harvard and she shouldn’t waste her last precious moments in high school over it.</p>
<p>It happens all of the time. Mistakes are made. We had a bad situation at a swim meet where the swimmer who came 2nd (clearly) slammed the timer pad so his time was immediately recorded while first place sort of glided in and his touch did not record. Back up were the hand timers who also showed second place as first. When someone barrels in at full speed to the finish, the tendency is to lean over and anticipate the touch. When the person is slowly coming in, you are not as hyped. The place judges were not paying attention, so first got second, and second got first even though anyone watching the race saw who came in first.</p>
<p>momkaes: There’s judgment calls, and bad calls, and then flagrantly counter-factual idiotic exercises in ignoring what actually happened. This is the latter. And it deserves to be disputed.</p>
<p>The most obvious difference in this case is the fact that the call was the right call. It was just made on the wrong runner. The only mistake was assigning it to the wrong person, which isn’t a “judgment call” at all. It seems that it doesn’t violate the “we don’t change our calls” to correct the assignment of the lane violation to the correct runner.</p>
<p>It was very cool how the girls handled it.</p>
<p>Wow, just wow. I’m glad to see that the girls handled the situation in the most sensible way. Too bad the adults can’t. I hate to say, but WIAA is a big mess.
(cpt, I used to time swimmers when my D was involved with the sport, and I know that some very savvy swimmers send a big splash in front of them coming to the finish wall to fool the timers. And if there is a certain discrepancy between the two stopwatches/“pickle” and the touchpad, the officials can go with the hand times.)</p>
<p>Boy. What a proud moment for her parents. Andrea Nelson’s parents , I mean. 
That took some guts, some courage, some chutzpah, and a great sense of self. Grace under pressure. She was probably the person with the best view, too.</p>
<p>This is the second time Washington State women athletes were in the news for outstanding sportsmanship…</p>
<p>‘Unbelievable’ sportsmanship in softball game’</p>
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<p>erewhon, I was thinking the same thing. ;)</p>
<p>She may have been inspired. That’s a good thing.</p>
<p>I guess my point was that a mistake was made but it does happen. I couldn’t figure out the reason to protest to the point of a lawsuit when there didn’t seem to be negative outcome other than losing one race. It seems the kids handled it in an adult manner and the adults could follow suit. I would be so proud if one of my kids gave up a medal because that was the right thing to do. Parents should take notice.</p>
<p>momkaes, it wasn’t “losing one race” . It was the state championship . Her senior year state championship at that.</p>