Crying foul over fall: LA’s Allyson Felix robbed of 400 gold?

Allyson Felix of Santa Clarita is still smarting from her loss Monday in the 400-meter dash in Rio — edged by a diving Bahamian sprinter.

A day later, experts mainly agreed that Shaunae Miller’s fall (see NBC video) across the finish line was legal, and it worked.

But many fans of 30-year-old Felix, the Los Angeles Baptist High School and USC product, cried foul. An ESPN online poll asked: “Do you think Shaunae Miller’s dive across the finish line in the 400 meters was cheap?”

As of late Tuesday morning, the vote was 46 percent yes to 54 percent no, agreeing with those quoted by The New York Times in its widely read front-page story.

But questions of the dive’s legality remain.

“We do continue to look at our rules to make sure they are current,” Chris Turner, an IAAF spokesman, told The New York Times. “If we start seeing a pattern of these sorts of things, we’d look at that. But it’s first across the line, not the first across the line in the most graceful way. It’s very well policed what crossing the line means.”

Miller, 22, said the fall was not intentional. “I’ve never done it before,” she said. “I have cuts and bruises, a few burns. It hurts.”