GB sprinter Jeremiah Azu suffered the heartbreak of being disqualified from the Olympic males’s 100m heats in Paris due to a false begin, after his enchantment was turned down.
Azu fought his case after the sanction, citing the noise within the stadium with the pole vault ongoing and French curiosity getting the group excited.
The 23-year-old Welshman was not allowed to race and his subsequent protest was turned down, leaving him bereft.
“Actually I reacted to a sound,” Azu informed BBC One.
“It is a disgrace, the group is so excited, they have the pole vault occurring, the French followers are in right here.
“It is a disgrace they didn’t let me run below protest. I’m not positive what guidelines are getting used.
“I used to be saying I need to run below protest. Every other race they mean you can run after which afterwards you overview it. It is the Olympics so it’s clearly totally different guidelines.”
Though Azu’s particular person dream is over he can at the very least count on to be concerned in GB’s 4x100m males’s relay subsequent week.
Former Olympic 200m champion Michael Johnson informed the BBC: “You might be on the Olympic Video games, you understand that you would be able to’t begin earlier than the gun and that was a blatant false begin.
“The strain is just not the difficulty as a result of that is the Olympic Video games, you’re a skilled athlete, this what you do.
“The problem is whether or not or not he did hear one thing, as a result of if he did that could be a reliable excuse. No person else heard it although, that is his drawback [with the appeal], he was the one one.
“He’s proper about not understanding the principles as a result of I do not both. Sometimes you’ll be able to run below protest however I assume they’ve a unique scenario right here on the Olympics the place it’s blatant, which it was, they do not mean you can run below protest.
“They need to simply allow you to run below protest and allow you to kind it out later.”