Dirtiest thing you ever seen in a race

w due respect. Just because it is not a typo and it is not flattering to the user or board: "Saw" or "have seen" (preferable) not "seen." Why am I apologizing?

Famously, local guy who was pretty quick ie low 30s 10k, filled his drawers in a cross country race, didn't want to stop. He was scooping feces out of his liner by hand and trying to shake it out. Finished all splattered.

Well, one time in high school XC I elbowed a kid as hard as I could in the sternum. The situation was that I was on paper the best runner in the league, and the best team in the league thought it was a good idea to completely surround me and box me in (5-6 kids just completely impeding me). I just remember feeling completely claustrophobic, and frustration got the best of me so I lashed out and elbowed the one guy of the group I actually respected. It was really crappy thing to do and I massively regret doing it. Just stupidity all around on that one.

Another time in a rainy xc meet in high school one of our runners decided to jump and roll in a puddle covering himself in dirt so that was pretty dirty.

I think that about does it....but who remembers, THIS?

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4 is crazy. Was the saboteur outside of the top 7?

I saw a guy who got tripped by a bro during the NYC marathon while this guy was trying to take an illegal bottle from a friend, that was dirty

Way back in HS, a teammate took a fall during an indoor race and blamed it on this kid from another team. So in a later race — 1000m I think it was — he had his gf stand next to lane 1 with her back facing the track. When the kid came around he signaled her to stick her calf out and trip him. The kid went flying.

In a 4x4 relay, opposing runner used his baton to repeatedly beat my arm and hand as I tried to pass on the back-straight. I was pretty shocked - never experienced that before or after. I complained to an official who said he didn’t see anything. Indeed it would have been hard to see from the finish area.

Any 800m of Djamel Sedjati this year, in particular that Paris Diamond league race with Gabriel Tual (also dirty)

I’ll tell you about a dirty race.

Indoor conference, girl in the 3k (important note, second to last event of the meet, the whole stadium was locked in)

She doo doo’d bad ALL over the track. They were wearing white uniforms.

delayed the end of the meet by 45 mins for clean up

Senior year of track, I tripled in the 4x800, 1600, and the 3200 at conference (simply because my school didn't have a lot of depth in distance runners). The 1600 rolls around, and on paper I had the fastest PR (4:30). The gun goes off, and a competitor who ran around 4:38ish sprinted to the front, which was usually his strategy as a primarily 800 runner. We closed the first lap in 1:02. I drafted off him until the final lap, and I started making my move with around 450 to go. I tried to pass him on the outside so I wouldn't have to worry about the curve, and he moves to the outside as well. I didn't think much of it, so I moved to the inside to try to pass again. He moves back inside, starts chicken-winging, and nearly knocked me off the track. I was getting annoyed, so I said "screw it" and tried to pass on the curve. He moves back outside, forcing me into lane 5 into some runners who we were lapping. We pass his coach side by side, and I hear the coach say "rough him up." The other runner starts elbowing me and changed his stride to spike me. I was done with this crap, so I kicked earlier than I usually would just to get space. I ended up winning the race by 8 seconds (over the last 200 meters). When he crossed the line, he started cursing me out and slapped me. He got DQed for that, and ultimately was banned for the rest of the season.

1. Mary Akor repeatedly spitting and cutting me off from passing in a race. It happened before her doping ban, but she had a history of being a straight up shi**y competitor as corroborated by others.

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2. This didn’t happen to me, but I witnessed a neck to neck indoor track race and a guy who was first place’s teammate getting lapped on the bell lap sped up as the second place guy was coming off the curve behind first and impeded from winning the race. These two schools use to have a big rivalry in past and it nearly came down to the two head coaches that already a history of dislike for each other, almost getting into a brawl.

3. A high school kid finishing second and giving the bird to first place because he simply lost.

Not the dirtiest ever, but a clean shot and clearly intentional.

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Personally I was involved in 2 incidents in high school.

Sophomore track season I was running a B heat of the 3200 and there was just one other decent runner in the field. I made a couple attempts to pass this guy and each time he accelerated dramatically and then returned to slower than I wanted to be running, which is legal but still annoying. The 3rd time this happened approaching 800 to go, I shrugged my shoulders and said “what the hell?” He replied angrily “stop trying to cut me off b1tch,” at which point I really accelerated and got ahead of him in lane 1. He then shoved me in the back, which caused HIM to lose balance and fall to the track and I beat him by ~80m.

Senior XC season some nobody from Hicksville squeezed me into some woods in the first mile, and again there was a verbal exchange, basically me asking what the hell and him calling me a b1tch or something. Being an idiot I told him “my fo’ fo’ make sure all your kids don’t grow” from “Hit ‘Em Up” by Tupac as I surged away from him (he finished like 1:30 behind), but the interesting part came after the race. My coach told me that this kid’s coach had approached him, and that this kid was alleging that I had kicked him in the balls during the race. I of course was incredulous and explained what had happened and that no, I didn’t turn around and kick this dude in the nuts mid-race, and the other coach accepted it pretty quickly because I’m sure this kid had a reputation.

Probably the turkey trot a couple years ago with the hip check. Probably the worst when considering the violence of the incident, the insanely low stakes, and the blatantly stopping his watch and trying to pass it off like it was unintentional.

This is the correct answer.

Maybe one of the unemployed posters has time to get a link.

45 minutes???

Was every staffperson/volunteer in the building mentally impaired?

I have seen vomit cleaned off the track with ZERO delay to a meet.