Andrew Bumbalough, photo by PhotoRun.net
The other DQ: Andrew Bumbalough, by Jon Gugala, for Spikeduppsychedup.com
Andrew Bumbalough, a Nike athlete trained by Jerry Schumacher in Portland, says he was at his hotel at least an hour after the end of the men’s 3000-meter final in Albuquerque when he was told by a teammate that he’d been disqualified, nullifying his eighth-place finish.
USATF official results currently list Bumbalough as a DQ for “Interference”, and he says Schumacher and assistant coach Pascal Dobert appealed the ruling at the track, but it failed. The reason given to his coach by USATF, he says, was that he “looked over and deliberately stepped out in front of Galen Rupp and made contact at some point, which impeded [Rupp’s] progress illegally.” Bumbalough does not know who filed the protest, but he’s pretty sure his coach does.
To read the entire story, please go to:
http://spikeduppsychedup.com/2014/02/25/dq-andrew-bumbalough-mens-3000-meter-final/
(Editor’s note: I have to admit that I did not know about Andrew Bumbalough’s DQ until I was posting the results last night on FB. )
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Larry Eder has had a 52-year involvement in the sport of athletics. Larry has experienced the sport as an athlete, coach, magazine publisher, and now, journalist and blogger. His first article, on Don Bowden, America's first sub-4 minute miler, was published in RW in 1983. Larry has published several magazines on athletics, from American Athletics to the U.S. version of Spikes magazine. He currently manages the content and marketing development of the RunningNetwork, The Shoe Addicts, and RunBlogRun. Of RunBlogRun, his daily pilgrimage with the sport, Larry says: "I have to admit, I love traveling to far away meets, writing about the sport I love, and the athletes I respect, for my readers at runblogrun.com, the most of anything I have ever done, except, maybe running itself." Also does some updates for BBC Sports at key events, which he truly enjoys.
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