Exactly. We certainly can't allow any of this crap:
Posted on 05/18/2026 10:20:45 AM PDT by dennisw
A North Carolina high school was left heartbroken after a brutal judging decision cost their athletes a state championship.
Mallard Creek won the boys' 4x400m relay to secure the title, only for Nyan Brown - who ran the anchor leg - to be disqualified for celebrating too early.
During the meet in Greensboro, Brown cruised down the home straight well clear of his rivals. Just a few meters from the line, he held up five fingers.
It signaled his team's fifth championship but that title was quickly ripped away from Brown and Mallard Creek after an official punished him for unsportsmanlike conduct.
That left Mallard Creek two points behind rivals Jordan High. Victory in the 4x400m - the final event of the meet - would have secured Brown and Co 10 points.
Instead, they ended up with zero. Mallard Creek reportedly launched a protest at the event, only for the call to be upheld.
'Nyan is devastated,' Bryant Bailey, the Mallard Creek athletic director, told the Charlotte Observer.
'He’s very upset, as are we. With the state championship on the line, they decided to make that call and DQ him.
'And if you go back and look at other photos and videos throughout the week, you can see multiple instances of kids celebrating way, way harder while coming across the line than what I think our young man did.
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Try watching college women’s softball if you want to see some real animal behavior. Hockey is about the only sport I can stand to watch anymore.
The athletes were warned.
I find it interesting that a minority chose to believe the warnings don’t apply to him.
His teammates paid the price of his narcissism.
Why does this pattern sound so familiar and why are you defending it?
Yeah, change the legitimate outcome of a state Championship for a BullSchiff feelings rule.
Why are you a soi boi ?
That’s like telling someone in a high speed crash that “you deserve severe injury because the speed limit was posted” ..
maroon
I agree. Yanking a championship for that?? C’mon.
Officials make the rules that aren’t specifically outlined in the rulebooks. Ignore sports officials at your own peril.
Case in point…
Why don’t the rules apply here? Special consideration for minorities, according to you.
Sounds an awful lot like you support DEI.
Are you black? Or a troll? Or both???
I, for one, am not willing to let my ‘feelings’ guide my decision (as you).
Who said anything at all about race here ?
WTF is up with you Ahole ?
Pathetic.
The offending athlete is black. Per the OP.
DUH.
I’m pretty confident that the people here who think this was a lousy call would feel the same if the kid were white.
“The offending athlete is black.”
So were the others. You were the one to make race part of it.
They’re wrong, too.
selfies aren’t good for you ..
selfies aren’t a good idea for you
Boy?
He looks like he is mid 20s. What do they feed him?
Yet boys are allowed to snatch away victories on girls’ teams.
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