Talk:Athletics at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's 50 kilometres walk

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IOC decision

With the pending disqualification of Kirdyapkin, I corrected the wording to say the advancement of medals might fall I was reverted by saying "He will claim Gold if Kirdyapkin is stripped of his medal. Might is not the word to use." I think "might" is the correct word to use. The IOC has not spoken yet. They are the only ones to make the decision. There have been instances where they have not advanced the medalists. Now I agree this is unlikely to occur because Tallent, Si and Heffernan do not have doping violations in their history. Yerokhin (already DQed) and Bakulin would not get advance to a medal position. Trackinfo (talk) 07:17, 10 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I agree it should be might, otherwise it is WP:CRYSTAL.--Ymblanter (talk) 07:37, 10 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Might is a terrible word to use. I've never seen that used in a encyclopedia before. If you really want to remove my line in this. Im going to change it to "If Kirdyapkin is stripped of his medal, the IOC will deliberate on if the medals will be advanced" Basetornado (talk) 13:57, 10 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

We can assume the IOC is already deliberating on the decision, since the WADA and IAAF have taken action regarding the athlete. There simply have been no announcements of the IOC's final decision. Anything we mere mortals declare in any of these affected events, 50K walk, Women's 800 and 1500 etc etc are speculative. Logically the medal advancement looks the most likely but is not guaranteed. IOC has made other decisions when other doping accusations have been made. See Athletics at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metres, Athletics at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Women's 4 × 400 metres relay, Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's hammer throw, Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's shot put. We don't see those here but we don't know what is being discussed in the back rooms. Because the outcome is likely but speculative on our parts, we need a word to so indicate. Trackinfo (talk) 18:43, 10 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]