Category talk:World Athletics

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I love to watch track and field, especially being a Jamaican. I waited patiently to see my countrymen in Moscow, and we are extremely proud of our athletes. My question lies within the rules. I am greatly disappointed with the Americans getting a silver medal for there part in the 4x100m. It is quite clear Justin Gatlin was in the Jamaican lane and being a fan of track events and watching for a while, I thought that running in another lane in the relays would constitute a disqualification. I notice the same thing with the U.S women team and they were not disqualified either. I think this is a direct double standard, and am extremely upset. The Bahamian and Jamaicans were disqualified for apparent lane violations which where not obvious, whilst it was quite obvious what happened with the Americans. Can you please explain or are we to just accept that the bigger countries have different rules?