Crashes, cramps and accusations run rampant during heated Olympic track and field qualifying session
SAINT-DENIS, France (AP) — Pushing and shoving in one race on the track. A cameraman walking into the action in another. Leg cramps and untimely misses in the field.
The often-routine qualifying rounds at Olympic track and field took some strange turns Wednesday with a four-man pileup in one men’s 5,000-meter heat, a cameraman who walked into the other and drama in the high jump that left the defending co-champions in dire straits.
The biggest crash came in the first of two men’s 5,000 heats when Britain’s George Mills and France’s Hugo Hay traded elbows, triggering a pileup involving Mills and three others who came crashing down like dominoes.
After the race, Mills shoved his
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