(CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS COMMENT) Or the 400 metres in­ 41 seconds if you want to argue she was sprinting. And­ let's not forget the Spanish girl was overtaking­ her, so what the Spanish girl's speed was can only­ be left to even wilder speculation, but it must have­ been something close to the speed of light.

Dear goldentouch,
please let's leave nationalities­ out of this discussion. Do you really believe an­ athlete should be given a gold medal because she was­ pushed 250 metres from the finish line? (Even if we­ assume this really is the case) This statement totally­ disqualifies the rest of your comment.
Dear miguel­ b,
"whist running at 22 miles an hour"? 35­ kilometres an hour that is. Or the 1500 metres in 2­ minutes and 35 seconds. Pretty impressive that is. ­ Better go back to school and keep working on your­ maths.

Rodgiguez pushed Burka twice and has even admitted she­ was at fault. Chichoso if you really believe what you­ have written then you are living in cloud cuckoo land!

Burka is running through the middle of the lane,­ possibly trying to block the Bahrain runner, so she­ leaves enough space on the inside for Rodriguez to pass­ her. Rodriguez sees the gap and does the logical­ thing. Now, go on youtube and pay attention to­ Burka's footwork. How does she go from running­ through the middle of the lane to stepping a few­ centimetres from the edge? As she realises she's­ going to be passed she dives and pushes the Spaniard­ off the track with her HIPS. Watch the hips,­ that's where all the action is. Rodriguez stepped­ on the grass, so tough titties for her, but shame on­ Burka for her maneuver and for playing the victim. No­ way she could have won anyway.

Natalia Rodgiguez has admitted her mistake and said she­ should have been more patient and waited for the home­ straight. She saw a gap and went for it, but it closed­ before she got through. She lost a medal too, surely­ gold or silver, and is sincerely sorry she was the­ cause of Burqa's fall. It was a tactical mistake,­ that's all, not a deliberate attempt to hobble a­ rival as some posts suggest.

There was clearly not enough space, but even with that­ on the first pass she couldn't get through and she­ could been let off if she had not tried it again! This­ is different to the jostling that goes on in a tight­ group of runners where it's normally someone­ running on the one ahead's heels or runners who are­ running abreast of each other trying to get ahead. You­ cannot push people over to get through or people would­ just take others out all the time to get past them,­ this is supposed to be a professional sport, it would­ the same if she had tampered with a field athletes­ equipment in order to get ahead. And to the person who­ said she did it deliberately obviously does not know­ anything about running, if you are travelling at speed­ it does not take much to knock you off balance plus the­ dangers of falling down when people are running with­ spikes and at speed not lightly considered...

The­ spaniard was too passionate and focussed on winning and­ made a very bad decision, I don't think she­ deliberately pushed her other but it was a lack of­ judgement which she should have known better.

sorry that the spanish girl is clearly at­ fault push­ BUrqa if Burqa not pushed'SHE DESERVED THE GOLD­ MEDAL' she will win the rase the IAAF give­ attention to her re-conseder tO do somthing for­ BURQA

goldentouch clever athletes who pay attention overtake­ on the inside, in the last 100m of a race watch what­ the average athlete out in front generally does, they­ drift out from the inside of the track leaving space­ for somebody to take advantage of, she went down really­ easy and it looks like she was about had it, the pack­ behind her cut her small lead down in a blink of an eye­ which probably contributed to her falling as you dont­ usually catch somebody up that quickly

i am shocked and disgusted to see such ameature and­ cheating behaviour from ESPANOL ATHLETE, there was no­ room to pass on the inside lane so she proceed to push­ the leader out of the way and then step off the track­ and continue to run as if what she did was justified,­ IDOT BEHAVIOUR the ETHOPIAN should be given the GOLD­ medal because a clear message needs to be sent to all­ gutless cheats it dose not pay so just run a clean race­
but let us remember this is a non contact Sport!!! so­ penalty should be severe and fitting of the breach­ committed

FOOTBALL-NUTZ - STICK TO YUOR FOOTBALL MATE EBCAUSE YOU­ KNOW BUGGER ALL ABOUT ATHLETICS - PEOPLE WHO ARE SHOVED­ IN THE SHOULDER BY A HAND AND SHARP ELBOW FROM THE SIDE­ AND BEHIND WHILST RUNNING AT 22 MILES AN HOUR DON'T­ GENERALLY FALL TO THE TRACK ON PURPOSE - IDIOT

I think she fell on purpose as she has seen others do­ it, all for attention, she wasnt going to win anyway

so sad that gelete was pushed by this spanish girl.

I can't believe this is happening to the poor girl­ Burka. It is obivous that she could get the gold­ medal.What is she thinking? i mean the spanish girl?­ did she think by winning this way she will be­ famous?well, she is wrong , now she will be know for­ her bad behaviour.The IAAF should something for Burka,­ not only disqualify the girl. Even if the race will be­ done again,Burka cannot do it, because she was hurt.

Well its obvious that she was pushed and the spainian­ gal was out of the trackin field so she desrves to be­ disqualified...what is very disappoinitng is that our­ Gal Burka from Addis was in a good shape and sprit and­ could have reached in the top 3 if not clinching the­ gold medal...all of us here in Ethiopia was devastated­ by the action and am sure th IAAF must do somthing for­ her....

She deserved to be disqualified. It wasn't normal­ jostling. Rodriquez used here forearm to push Burka.­ Then the force of her own push forced Rodriquez into­ the infield.

What a joke ,,,, what will happent to the poor ethiopia­ ,,,
SHE DESERVED THE GOLD MEDAL

MacroV, from what I saw the Spanish girl is clearly at­ fault. There was not enough space for her to pass on­ the inside and you can see that she actually ran on the­ infield. You can also see that she physically pushed­ the leader in order to pass.

I would be interested to see different replays, as the­ one I saw (side view) suggested to me that Rodriguez­ had a decent amount of space on the inside to pass. So­ I'm not sure that anybody was really at fault. ­ Maybe a front view would be more enlightening.