Michelle-Lee Ahye gets Gold medal for T&T at Commonwealth Games

[Duane 3NE 2NR]

[steverandolph]

Congrats. Nothing like a Gold medal.

[VexXx Dogg]

Fantastic stuff!

rep the 868

[Dizzy28]

good job!!!

[zorced]

Real good race, real good win. Congratulations!

[K74T]

Nice!!!

[meccalli]

Well played!

[stev]

very nice!!!

[hydroep]

Nice...some good news for a change...

[MarlonSam]

niceness

[MarlonSam]

Holiday tomorrow ??

[shogun]

Nice.

[redmanjp]

Congrats!

[Dizzy28]

Jereem Richards with T&T's second Gold in the 200m Men's final!!

[Duane 3NE 2NR]

Hughes came in first but was disqualified for blocking Richards

Strange though this pic shows Richards' leg in front across the line

[hydroep]

Nice, nice...we takin' dat...

[ADONI]

England as usual eh!

[toyolink]

A careful look at Richards race head-on shows the English-man's leg position at extreme left of lane and his left hand well into Richards lane, with first a possible fist impact first and then arm spread to almost chest position.
Malice is not evident from either party but the rules are clear.

[Rory Phoulorie]

Hughes came in first but was disqualified for blocking Richards

Strange though this pic shows Richards' leg in front across the line
Screen Shot 2018-04-12 at 3.32.05 PM.jpg

Isn't the deciding factor whose torso crosses the line first?

[TriP]

Camera Highlights Replay - 200 metres race

[buscax]

A careful look at Richards race head-on shows the English-man's leg position at extreme left of lane and his left hand well into Richards lane, with first a possible fist impact first and then arm spread to almost chest position.
Malice is not evident from either party but the rules are clear.

Hughes was slowing down because he thought he had it in the bag. When Jereem kick into flash mode he stretched out his hand deliberately to slow him down.

[ElSoc]

Hughes came in first but was disqualified for blocking Richards

Strange though this pic shows Richards' leg in front across the line
Screen Shot 2018-04-12 at 3.32.05 PM.jpg

Isn't the deciding factor whose torso crosses the line first?

Yes you are right it's torso first.

[ElSoc]

A careful look at Richards race head-on shows the English-man's leg position at extreme left of lane and his left hand well into Richards lane, with first a possible fist impact first and then arm spread to almost chest position.
Malice is not evident from either party but the rules are clear.

Hughes was slowing down because he thought he had it in the bag. When Jereem kick into flash mode he stretched out his hand deliberately to slow him down.

If you're name isn't Bolt or a prime Michael Johnson, prime Yohan Blake(when Bolt is not present). You are not going to be slowing down in a FINAL at a major competition. You get the point. If you aren't miles ahead in terms of form when compared to the rest of the field you DO NOT slow down. Heats is a different story but a FINAL. Esp the fact that he is competing against Jereem Richards who is the current World Championship bronze medalist, who was the favourite and is a 400m runner meaning superior endurance at the end of the 200m. Both had similar times going into the games too. It wasn't like Hughes was running 19.6. Hughes is a 100/200 runner, they usually tend to not be able to maintain top end speed as well in the 200 as the solid 200/400 runners. Factoring all of that in he simply was being overhauled by Richards who would have won in any case. The line was coming too late for him so he had to do something. Whether it was a knee-jerk reaction or deliberate we don't know.

[buscax]

A careful look at Richards race head-on shows the English-man's leg position at extreme left of lane and his left hand well into Richards lane, with first a possible fist impact first and then arm spread to almost chest position.
Malice is not evident from either party but the rules are clear.

Hughes was slowing down because he thought he had it in the bag. When Jereem kick into flash mode he stretched out his hand deliberately to slow him down.

If you're name isn't Bolt or a prime Michael Johnson, prime Yohan Blake(when Bolt is not present). You are not going to be slowing down in a FINAL at a major competition. You get the point. If you aren't miles ahead in terms of form when compared to the rest of the field you DO NOT slow down. Heats is a different story but a FINAL. Esp the fact that he is competing against Jereem Richards who is the current World Championship bronze medalist, who was the favourite and is a 400m runner meaning superior endurance at the end of the 200m. Both had similar times going into the games too. It wasn't like Hughes was running 19.6. Hughes is a 100/200 runner, they usually tend to not be able to maintain top end speed as well in the 200 as the solid 200/400 runners. Factoring all of that in he simply was being overhauled by Richards who would have won in any case. The line was coming too late for him so he had to do something. Whether it was a knee-jerk reaction or deliberate we don't know.

It was very much deliberate

https://youtu.be/OyMnA_P_ZtE

[Morpheus]

^^That basically...

[mitch1980]

hand in the face ...slowed Jareem's momentum....or else he would have overtaken Hughes