Men's 800m - 2023 NCAA indoor track and field championships

After a protest, Texas' Yusuf Bizimana won the men's 800m in 1:46.02 at the 2023 NCAA indoor track and field championships. Mississippi State's Navasky Anderson originally won the race in 1:45.90 but was disqualified after a protest for flagrantly impeding as they crossed the finish line. Watch the full race here.

[wells]

I am one of Navasky's biggest fa and I say disqualify him yes. He did not need to do that.

[AirOnTheAir]

Very deliberate and he didn’t even HAVE to do it… literally would’ve won and now he’s DQ’d!🤷🏾‍♂️

[CalvinHikes]

That kid from Texas waited patiently and made an excellent run. Good win.

[jchibzzchhh-tulf]

He knew he was gonna get caught up, for anyone saying he got robbed you guys are blind . The brudda went across a lane and tried to marshal him like a corner back wtf

[arvandero]

"that move was clean" - Paul Chelimo

[JCJeffrey]

Play dirty, get dirty results! I ran collegiate D1 800. He knows that move is never tolerated, pretty ridiculous when he had the lead.

[nirobimills]

Yeh buddy that’s a DQ😂😂wtf he moves to lane THREE not just swung out a little into lane 2.

[steddie]

If he had continued in lane he was in, he would’ve won, he panicked and ran wide to block Yusuf🤷🏻‍♂️

[jeranimo.gaming]

He would’ve won, but he decided to play dirty

[tonydiaz]

If Paul Chelimo wasn't DQ'd at the US Trials 5k in 2021 for going out to lane 5 to cut off Grant Fisher, then Anderson shouldn't have.

[Leo-svr]

Regardless of the ending, Navasky been that guy. He winning the outdoors this year

[matthewflores]

Moving to the outside at the end was kinda dirty

[blainejohnson]

Good, if he had only gone into lane 2 that’s be one thing, but into lane 3/4 in the span of 20 meters is obviously impressment. There’s a difference between defending your position by slow and gradual push outwards and blatantly cutting someone off. Good DQ, maybe he’ll have learned his lessons

[runnerman]

1:45.90 should still count as the Jamaican national record. He still ran the time he ran, and the person he cut off isn't Jamaican.

[mjn]

Would have been nice to see the official results after the DQ. And what happened to Will Sumner? DNF?

[NickCager]

He clearly impeded the guy about to pass him. He tainted the guy's victory.

[tylerr]

Going to be real knit picky here but it seems to me that the DQ was due to the abrupt run out to lane 3 in the home stretch. Based on the rule cited though, that does not seem to be the case. The rule cited was 7.5-3a which implies that this was not due to the lane drift as 7.5-3b or maybe even 7.5-3c(can't remember which off the top of my head) more explicitly denotes. Based on the cited rule, seems that the implication was the sort of flailing towards the finish was what ultimately DQ'd him. I just find that very strange that this is the cited rule on the results.

[anibaljrbalt]

Absolutely a DQ. That's an Easy Button decision.

[gardenoftwitty]

People do this all the time and no yellow flag or any comments.

Dude didn't even touch guy from TEXAS. Commentators and judges throw shade like a hammer throw

[rubixcubesolve]

He was disqualified for anyone wondering. That’s what you getting for trying to cheat your way to a victory. 0 honor