MUNICH (from our correspondent) – Following her person semi-last, Czech number one Lada Vondrová has been very careful about the Czech quartet’s ambitions to fight for the closing. “It will be very complicated, the some others run quick, I ran like outrageous, I really don’t know how our other girls are,” she reported.
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But with their associates Terezá Petržilková, Nikoleta Jíchová and Martina Hofmanová, they showed a quality efficiency that would have been enough for the 8 elite Europeans. So Zvela entered the push mixing zone following the next operate, right before the ominous letters DQ appeared on their result in its place of the time.
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“I do not know everything, I really don’t know something, I am very shocked. I was also attentive to the race,” Nikoleta Jíchová asked himself in a tv interview. “Initial we have to come across out what transpired and where by the error was. It really is unhappy,” Vondrová complained.
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Only then did they master that they had been disqualified thanks to a violation of rule 24.8, which is, in layman’s conditions, hindering the handover, which really should have been Jíchová. But from the repeated hits it was distinct that she was in placement in entrance of her Polish opponent and was just striving to capture up with Hofmanová on the move.
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The Czech expedition then filed a protest in opposition to the arbitrators’ verdict, which took a long time to take care of, and was sooner or later rejected. Although the jury acknowledged that Jíchová crossed her opponent’s path due to the referees putting the quarterfinal women incorrectly in the upcoming segment, the disqualification remained in impact thanks to going off the keep track of.
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That was presently indeniable, Jíchová, who in Munich shone in the quarter-finals of hurdles with an advance in the semifinals and a own most effective, really stepped on the line various times in the corner, which is not permitted. “It hurts. But none of us uncertainties that we will repeat this functionality”, wrote Petržilková decided on social media.
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Even so, the Czech Republic will be represented in the final of Saturday’s 4-car relay thanks to the men’s quartet of Matěj Krsek, Pavel Maslák, Michal Desenský, Patrik Šorm. He went on fantastically, as Šorm even drove the pin to the complete line in first location in his run.
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Patrik Šorm triumphantly stretches to the finish in the 4x400m relay.Photograph: Ivana Rohačková
That’s proper, he was aided by Superman’s gesture, when he attained out in entrance of him. Even though the bust of the body is decisive, this can also aid.
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“It transpired to me in the very last meters right before the finish that I would set my hand there, the Poles do it a great deal. In the end I was wanting at the scoreboard, the Frenchman went really significantly from me and quickly he was there, so the I overtook a bit, “admitted Šorm, who defended the acquire, which will assist him qualify for the ultimate.
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In it, the Czechs established an bold aim – the fight for a medal. “I even now believe in it, but there will be about 5 nations around the world,” Šorm estimates. “Perhaps you are,” added the most knowledgeable member, Pavel Maslák.
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