Talk:Athletics at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's 800 metres

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Confusion about heats

The article says: "The top two runners in each of the initial eight heats automatically qualified for the second round. The next eight fastest runners from across the heats also qualified. Those 25 runners competed in 3 heats in the semifinals"

But 2*8+8 is 24 runners, not 25; where does the 25th runner come from? I also see from the tables that Marvin Watts qualified for the semifinals, despite having the slowest time; why was this? I assume he is the mysterious 25th runner, but the article does not include any explanation of how he qualified. 152.208.24.217 (talk) 14:18, 23 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]