[Jamestown1630]

I don’t see anything excessive or unsportsmanlike about that.

[TexasGator]

“I don’t see anything excessive or unsportsmanlike about that.”

He has some history of this. Warnings were issued just prior to the race.

[BenLurkin]

I disagree sir, I’m so sick of all the show-boating and grandstanding in sports — at every level.

Trying to watch SEC baseball but the players are making strange gestures when they get on base, and jumping around like six-year old girls when they score a run.

[Mathews]

Read the very LAST sentence of the article and all will be revealed. Having said that, I agree with you. Not much of a celebration and he didn’t taunt anyone because they were all BEHIND him.

[thesligoduffyflynns]

its racism that’s what it is

[thesligoduffyflynns]

its racism that’s what it is

[Steve_Seattle1]

"I don’t see anything excessive or unsportsmanlike about that."

Race official Barney Fife explained it: "We've got to nip it in the bud!!! First, it's holding up five fingers. Then, it's pointing fingers at their opponents. Then, they do backflips and somersaults. Then, they pull out a gun and tell the other teams to slow down!"

[mikelets456]

What a stupid ruling. All he did was hold up his hand (5 time champs) and was disqualified. What’s worse is the losing team acted as if they “really” won. Pathetic….it wasn’t even that close of a race which makes it worse.

[PCPOET7]

look at the judge and I bet there is history of him weaponizing his role as judge. there are other ways of handling unsportsman behavior that does not penalize the other kids who had nothing to do with this behavior. I don’t see his actions warranting the penalty.

[Wuli]

It is a mistake to label very obvious “celebration” “unsportsmanlike”.

One comes to mind is memories of more than one PGA golfer finishing their last hole on the last day of a four day tournament with a number of strokes ahead of any other golfer, but with a couple more golfers yet to finish their last round. When it is clear there is no way for the remaining golfers to catch up with the existing top scorer, no one would think any moment of celebratory body language by that leader was “unsportsmanlike”.

Sometimes these decisions cannot be left to single judges and even with multiple judges need to include the team captains at the meet. It should always come from a discussion not a one-man ruling. For instance, was the opposing team “offended”???

[jocon307]

Agreed. What, is exuberance illegal or unsporting now?

[Scrambler Bob]

Gee, we used to have Cheerleaders in out HS Sports.

All kinds of yelling and stuff.

Is that now unsportsmanlike?