and as ridiculous as it sounds, you dont know what others have in their bottles. It could be something that doesnt mix with your stomach, it could be something that's going to come up in their doping test post-race.
If it's a personal bottle and not water, I ain't touching it
Serious question: can you get PED cross contamination from sharing drinks bottles?
Hassan offered her bottle to Ayana early in the race. Ayana accepted and drank quite a bit. I think she had missed her bottle.
I saw that live. The TCS version was different than the FloTrack version, which I do not believe carried the bottle gesture to Ayana.
Hassan may have been using some gamesmanship at the end but more likely she was simply doing it again after it was appreciated earlier in the race.
And she had to sprint to catch Ayana and give her the drink! What’s even more impressive, she finished her Ramadhan on Thursday, all her preparations where ran while fasting, this is crazy impressive!
Really? Take a good look a the video. Only Perez Jepchirchir noticed the aid station, then Hassan saw Perez and suddenly veered right to get her bottle. Megertu and Yehaulaw clearly didn''t see it, and continued past. So knock it off with the false narrative. If you want to defend Yehaulaw, don't do it at the expense of Hassan's goodwill gesture. I stand by what I said, Yehaulaw, like you, have no class.
Anything you drink at 40K is not being absorbed during the race. It takes like 12-15mins I think. Any elite athlete should know that, there is 0 point taking a bottle there. Did Hassan know that? No, she's a marathon rookie.
and FWIW if you're offering me a bottle when we're just outside a mile to go, you're clearly not very focused on the race. It's not the same as sharing a bottle at 13M. It's completely pointless and more likely a mindgame.
I hope you are not serious! A bottle at 40km can make a difference! Depends on what you are taking and the athlete!
Anything you drink at 40K is not being absorbed during the race. It takes like 12-15mins I think. Any elite athlete should know that, there is 0 point taking a bottle there. Did Hassan know that? No, she's a marathon rookie.
I would tend to agree that it is too late to get absorbed and don't take fluids this late in a marathon since the only thing it can do is slosh around in the stomach and possibly make you sick. However, after watching this race, I am reconsidering my original belief.
Three of the top-5 women took fluids (not just the inexperienced Hassan) and so did Kiptum. They didn't show the other top men come through the 40K fluid station so many more of them did also. If the best in the world see a benefit to drinking with 2.2K to go and only maybe 6:15 to 7:15 running time left, then I see no reason why I shouldn't grab something with 9:00 to go.
I was thinking, looking at how Hassan veered across the road to get her bottle and if she got hit by the motorbike, she would of just got up and still have won
The last thing u want to do is talk the last km of a marathon. I for my part thought it was arrogans n bragness on Hassans part. She wanted to show off. Look at me, im not tired at all n can even hand bottles left n rite. Besides nowadays the fluids are specific for each runner so if you can not just take any drink. U gotta be sure whats in it...
I think Hassan knew it was a flex! So funny when I watched—I thought she was being genuine and just unaware of how much they had left to run. But here she says about the water bottle she "was having fun with it." Anyway, love her sense of humor actually. She is a fun baller. She also says in this video that they were running so slow when she caught up with the pack.
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Maybe they took the water for a mental boost and not for fluid replacement. Sometimes getting a shot of cool water when your body is hot is just the little extra you need to keep your head in it. It doesn't take 15 minutes for a mental boost to absorb.
Pardon me if this has already been discussed, but did anybody catch the lousy interaction between 5th-place Yehaulaw and Hassan just after the final aide station (after Hassan dodged the motorbike). It took place at 2:26 in the attached video. After Hassan grabbed her bottle and got her fill, she noticed that Yehaulaw didn't get any fluid. In a rather sportswoman-like gesture, Hassan tried to offer Yehaulaw her bottle, not once, but twice. Both times Yehaulaw seemed to deliberately ignore her. Why the cold and unfriendly response? Hassan doesn't have a mean bone in her. Maybe at that point, Yehaulaw realized it was over. Still.
Maybe they took the water for a mental boost and not for fluid replacement. Sometimes getting a shot of cool water when your body is hot is just the little extra you need to keep your head in it. It doesn't take 15 minutes for a mental boost to absorb.
For sure. Or sometimes your mouth is just a bit dry.
The woman was totally exhausted and mustered some response, which is more than she “owed” Hassan.
How should she have gestured?
The OP is also implying that one athlete can essentially require something from another. If you know you’re going to drop out, make your opponent demonstrate social grace 10 times before you bail.
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