Men's 110m Hurdles Final | World Athletics Championships Oregon 2022 

It's not often you see an 11 minute long 110 hurdles final

I ran the 110m high hurdles in high school. This race is really special, challenging, and exciting. These guys are world-class of course.

One of the most controversial races ever

New fear unlocked: reacting too fast 💀💀💀

Not to take away Grant Holloway's win but the disqualication of Daven and injury of parchment ruined the energy aftwards. Hope Budapest offers a different scenario

I was there. The DQ sucked all of the energy out of the stadium. Something was off with the timers in Eugene, that much is sure.

"The 100 ms limit is based on research from the 1990s in which the total response time of eight male Finnish sprinters was investigated [2]. The average response time between the start signal and reaching a value of 110% of the force exerted on the starting blocks in the ‘ready’ position was 121 ms with a standard deviation (typical variation) of 14 ms for the front leg and 119 ms with a standard deviation of 11 ms for the rear leg (Figure 1). A limit of 100 ms should, on the basis of these results, ensure that most correct starts are not incorrectly labeled false, while most real false starts are disqualified. However, no elite sprinter was investigated in this study. It is possible that elite sprinters react faster than sub elite sprinters, so the lower limit of 100 ms may not be correct for use at international top matches. Furthermore, the response time in this study was not measured in a race situation, while athletes in a race situation may respond faster due to increased arousal and motivation. The question that arises is therefore whether it is possible to respond to the start signal within 100 ms." That rule is so dumb ffs

This race still stings. Allen was in WR shape, and he even intended on breaking it here. The technology is great, but the rules behind it are just dumb. If he didn’t break the WR, at least the sweep would have been possible.

First the number one ranked runner gets an injury right before the race, then the number two in the world gets disqualified for basically being good at something that he's supposed to be good at. I feel really bad for Devon Allen here.

when i saw this i was pissed , The whole point is to react fast and win the race But if u react too fast is a disqualification!?!?!

Holloway and Cunningham great work!

Like here if that stupid rule has to change.

Well done to Asier Martínez. He is from a tiny town in Navarra. He makes me be proud to be Spanish.

Thank you for sharing this video 💯

Not letting allen run under protest was bullshit. As well, His reaction time most likely really is Under a tenth of a second. The wrong kind of people are running things

I don't care about computers and cameras. That is a fair start by all. 😢

I always loves this guys energy Grant holloway

Devin Allen was robbed, if you react after the gun regardless of whether it’s a guess or reaction time it should be legal because you still went after the gun.

Allen's DQ was a set-up... He would've won. 🤩

Grant needs to give the flat 100m a try. He might surprise himself . Gail Divers used to run both events and was successful at it

Didn't realise that there were people booing after Holloway won

Allen From the USA correctly started. Why is he disqualified? It's totally unfair. What a crazy judgement

Anybody talking about the kind of sub title that says men’s 100m hurdles 💀

Not long ago there used to be the 2 false start rule in which if an athlete false started it was charged initially to the entire field. If there was another false start following that, then that specific athlete was disqualified. I feel we should go back to that rule again for maybe a FINALS of a particular sprint event. Fans pay a lot of money at elite level track meets to see their favorite elite level athletes compete. Yes there's a lot of pressure and anxiety especially in a finals of a particular sprint event and no one is absolutely perfect. Mistakes are made. By allowing 1 false start for the entire field you alleviate the tension sprinters may have and will allow them to focus so that they don't make that mistake again and it also gives the fans their money's worth to see their favorite athletes compete. I say this b/c in 2011 I went to Daegu to watch Usain Bolt compete in the World Championships 100 meter final. I paid a lot of money including airfare, accommodations, transportation and food only to have him false start out of it. This silly rule is hurting track and field not helping it

American Superior Super Athlete !

If +/- .005 of a sec is impossible to catch with the human eye Allen was robbed of a race.

What reason disqualifies Allen? I think he is the perfect start please share detail.

Viva Navarra, viva Martínez, viva España.

it would have been a clean sweep in 110 hurdles again if Daven Allen was not disqualified

This one still bugs me. I understand the need for a false start system, I know exactly how it works. But reaction time? And not just reaction time, but by a thousandth? Hell, I'd say we call a +/- .005 if we're going to be so nitpicky. More than that, the fact that we're limiting reaction time in a sport where your time and place are dependent on how quickly you react as much as how fast you run is completely bogus. We should not train people to react to a gun and then penalize them for doing just that. We clearly have the technology to tell when your foot moves on the pad. At no point should we need to be judging how fast you can do that *after* the gun goes off. And, as a more selfish note from a US track point of view, having Devon Allen in that race would have had trickle down effects that brought more people to watch the sport, more people to join the sport. We are seriously shooting ourselves in the foot on trying to grow track and field.

Being disqualified for being a THOUSAND of a second too fast might be the biggest BS in all of Track&Field history

Why no second chance? Or if they know start time and finish time, they can subtract those to see who is best so no need for a gunshot

and what if he did world record of the best reaction time?!?!?! What a shame from judges

Minha opinião, o atleta americano foi injustiçado.

They better place the margin of false start somewhere around 0.07 seconds. This 0.1 sec rule is ridiculous.

Get it

They just picked him out because they can!

Records are measured in 1/100". Disqualification for 1/1000" seems pretty nonsensical.

I hope world athletics knows that their dumb DQ rules ruined this event. Oregon 2022 was great but this event was a disappointment. Only ever call back a race if somebody starts BEFORE the gun. If somebody is in the "reaction time window" simply give them a time penalty. Since Devon Allen started 0.001 before the 0.1 second window, add 0.001 to his time at the end. Easy.

What a stupid rule. Penalized for being too fast!!!

We shouldn't disqualify athletes for a stupid thing !

Why couldnt he run under protest, noah lyles did it

Stupid rule and if the runner protests, just let him run it at the end you do the investigation and determine the results afterwards

not a genuine race without competitors...

What a robbery

so stupid rule.i lost national record for this stupid rule.let the man run

Do not check only the athletic check the Shooter too

BRING BACK THE YELLOW CARD. ATHLETES WORK TOO HARD TO DQ ON FIRST ERROR

One of the most overrated finals ever

These stupid rules should be challenged in the court of law and un-disqualify that usa guy

Whats wrong ref

there is absolutely 0 chances thats a DQ

So sad for Jamaica - so close to ……and this disappointment

Very bad teknology now

soo sad he false started in such an important race 😢😢. It could happen to anyone

Wrong dicetion

Referee needs a beat down. 🤜

1 year later… trash

some BS

Second one 😂

First one😂

Watch the video frame by frame and you will see that the athlete in lane 4 lifts his fingers off the line before Allen in lane 3.... ie. starting slightly ahead of Allen. Perhaps Allen's equipment sent a false signal, but in any case the video illustrates that Allen did not start before everyone else, and therefore did not false start, and should not have been disqualified. What we have here is adjudicators relying solely on equipment signals without any double check via review of the video footage. We also have a ridiculous rule which, when followed blindly by officials, can result in the very best athletes being disqualified for no good reason. These events take months to prepare for, and such effort needs to be recognized and not dismissed with such disregard. No athlete deserves to be disqualified because their reaction is too quick to the start signal, only if their action happens before the start signal. If they stick to this absurd system, and don't review video footage in such cases, then we are going to get more such unfair disqualifications, because it's perfectly clear that in this case it was not the athlete that was at fault, but the system which unfairly disqualified him.

亂搞一通，亂

Stupid rules - gun goes off is a point in time - athlete leaves at a point in time - if one follows the other, then the athlete is good to go - simple - why make it complicated and controversial with an arbitrary, unscientific parameter. The athlete can actually legitimately start after the gun has gone off and before the sound has physically registered in his brain. There is a part of the brain that can be used in crisis situations like being attacked by a lion so that instead of quickly thinking how to react you just react which is quicker and can mean the difference between dead or alive. Bizarrely, when younger, I could use this brain function to answer mental agility tests with numbers - I could actually start answering a question before I had heard all of it - and I could freak some people out by doing so.

What a joke

Disappointed ☹️!

Black bad

Well, that is a lame race. Who wants to watch a race where there isn't enough competition?

Parchment and Allen were non factors. Holloway was taking it either way.

Jamaica 🇯🇲 would have won

Bad

I'm glad he hurt himself so Grant could win😂😂😂