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All right, Bracken, I have a burning question for you.

Let it fly. All right. Do you feel that there should be justice for Cole Hocker or not? That is the question I'm pondering at the moment.

I have an answer. I have a firm answer, but I want to know yours first. So I rewatched it today on the treadmill.

Okay.

And I don't think that should be a disqualification. But I agree with the disqualification,

if that makes sense.

You've got to pick one.

Well, I wouldn't have de-kewed him for that. I don't think. But from, in the German

runner claimed it was fine. But if I'm the German Federation, I'm filing that complaint and I'm livid if it doesn't go through. So I think since you could argue that that guy didn't make it because of Cole, he deserves to be decued, even if I don't think that was an egregious home stretch move. I think it was an egregious positioning mistake by him, but that's also me judging someone who's down there doing it. Yeah, yeah. Well, I think he should have been decued, and I think it was absolutely the right call, and I think he should have been, and I'm a big Cole Hocker fan, and I love watching that guy race, And fun to watch him do it oh it was so fun to watch him do it yeah but when you're anytime he

intentionally engaged I mean he tried to get around but he intentionally engaged with

farkin and his arms it went out of the way to make a proactive move knowing it was going you were you know there was going to be conflict and

bumping I just I just think you can't you can't you got a set of precedence it's a precedence type

rulemaking and and you can't do it and see my take was that he actually didn't make any bad contact

I think Farkin sold it he was tired he was starting to fade little bit of, oh, I could be almost impeded. I might be in touch was like it took him out of his rhythm. I agree with that too. But the fact that it was in there at all is enough to be decued. Yeah. And I agree, but, you know, it was sold. But those are such split second decisions. Farkin was going backwards. He got hit. It certainly didn't help him. But like nonetheless, us, yeah, he, of course, it was sold. But those are such split-second decisions. Farkin was going backwards.

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