Great post. Is this how you saw the fall, "Athing Mu got clipped from behind 200m into the race and fell hard?" I watched it 10 times at .25 speed and this is what I saw:
Mu slid half a lane to her left, then after moving over. Mu then turned her head to her left just before she went down. It is not clear to me that Mu was clipped, although if she was, she bears a great deal of responsibility for it as she slid directly in front of Rogers in tight traffic. It appeared more likely to me that Mu's back kick clipped Rogers, causing Mu to lose balance and fall.
Either way, it was an awful result for Mu, but even more so for Sage Hurta-Klecker, an innocent party whose race was ruined my Mu's fall. Moving forward, I'm very excited to see what Akins (now #4 in the world) and her teammates can do in Paris.
Great post. Is this how you saw the fall, "Athing Mu got clipped from behind 200m into the race and fell hard?" I watched it 10 times at .25 speed and this is what I saw:
Mu slid half a lane to her left, then after moving over. Mu then turned her head to her left just before she went down. It is not clear to me that Mu was clipped, although if she was, she bears a great deal of responsibility for it as she slid directly in front of Rogers in tight traffic. It appeared more likely to me that Mu's back kick clipped Rogers, causing Mu to lose balance and fall.
Either way, it was an awful result for Mu, but even more so for Sage Hurta-Klecker, an innocent party whose race was ruined my Mu's fall. Moving forward, I'm very excited to see what Akins (now #4 in the world) and her teammates can do in Paris.