Well they did get there first, thanks to Ike incompetence.
It was not incompetence that caused Eisenhower to forsake Berlin. There had already been agreements before 1945 to establish zones of occupation in Germany; Eisenhower decided it was not worth American blood to take a city due to fall under Russian occupation.
Who could have managed the land war in Europe better than Eisenhower? Not Montgomery or Patton; not Bradley; and definitely not Clark. The only general who was a better manager in coalition warfare was Foch, and he was dead those 15 years.
Ike was absolutely correct to let the commie hordes take Berlin. Why needlessly waste American lives to take an area that was already decided to be in Russian occupied zone? Besides, we still had the Japanese to worry about.
The Red Army lost over 100,000 men on the final assualt on the pile of rubble formally known as Berlin.
I guess you would rather that had been 100,000 dead Americans.
Eisenhower made the correct decision.