EasternWash wrote:
That was funny. Her reaction was a little excessive. I doubt he broke the tape to be a jerk, I'm thinking at that point it just didnt register in his mind that the tape was for the first female.
A lot excessive. It was clearly an accident. People don't think clearly at the end of marathons. We'll forgive both of them, but she should apologize until she's a SJW and wants to milk it.
change until to unless
Article says she is an Ohio State grad, that explains a lot...
just some real thoughts wrote:
The guy looks like he also ran the full marathon, not some half marathon waddler, and it looks like they directed all the full marathon runners to that side of the cones.
The guy ran faster than she did and so did several other runners so neither the guy or this woman should be treated as though they had won the marathon by having a finishing tape set up for them. Treating the sexes equally does not mean that you start separating them out into categories in a sporting event.
This is the same race that got hoodwinked by the Russian manager and her doped-up Kenyans a few years ago. Another time the half-marathon leaders were sent off course. It’s amateur hour.
Congrats you finished 400th! wrote:
Easy solution is to raise the banner overhead to let him pass under it and then drop it o the miserable woman can get her glorious moment.
He probably thought he was getting the Lance Armstrong special tape.
Yes, or direct him to one side. Dumb move by the finish line crew.
Is that a Harvard singlet or Haverford?
This happened to me in a 5k. I laughed afterwords and asked one of the race workers if they got a photo of it that they could post online. Boys are just dumb and oblivious sometimes.
Ivy dumbdumb wrote:
That’s a Harvard singlet. He doesn’t know any better or he is all for equal rights. Funny how a woman gets upset when an average guy beats her to the tape set up after a hundred guys already passed.
+1
You can always tell a Hah-vud guy, you just cant tell him much.
There's a race management company on Long Island that sets up a tape for most of the finishers!
kjkj wrote:
Is that a Harvard singlet or Haverford?
Harvard. I looked the guy up. He graduated last year. Seems like a decent person. I see nothing that justifies the abuse that he received from that woman, nor do I see any indication that she apologized for her rude conduct.
Has anyone given a reasonable alternative to what he should have done? The hat guy was blocking the small space to his right of the tape. He ran across the correct finish for him. Was it his fault they had the tape in front of him? Did anyone try to direct him elsewhere? Or was he in the last few steps of a marathon supposed to process "there's a tape across the finish line, but I know I'm not winning, hmm...., perhaps the woman's winner is right behind me, should I turn around and look and maybe stop to let her pass or should I duck under the tape or maybe push the hat guy out of the way and swerve around the tape?"?
This woman's favorite "pump up song" is Party in the USA by Miley Cyrus. That says all I need to know...
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Raider3817 wrote:
This woman's favorite "pump up song" is Party in the USA by Miley Cyrus. That says all I need to know...
She has some pretty decent times for a masters female.
Schmarvard wrote:
Has anyone given a reasonable alternative to what he should have done? The hat guy was blocking the small space to his right of the tape. He ran across the correct finish for him. Was it his fault they had the tape in front of him? Did anyone try to direct him elsewhere? Or was he in the last few steps of a marathon supposed to process "there's a tape across the finish line, but I know I'm not winning, hmm...., perhaps the woman's winner is right behind me, should I turn around and look and maybe stop to let her pass or should I duck under the tape or maybe push the hat guy out of the way and swerve around the tape?"?
No. No. No. No.
I see nothing that he did wrong, yet the newspaper said that he "mistakenly" ran through the tape, and the woman who finished behind him told him that he was an assh*le. Seems to me that both the newspaper and (especially) the woman who cursed at him owe him a public apology.
Kieruna wrote:
This happened to me in a 5k. I laughed afterwords and asked one of the race workers if they got a photo of it that they could post online. Boys are just dumb and oblivious sometimes.
So he was supposed to carefully look around and give any nearby woman special treatment?
It's a race. Run faster if you want to get through the tape ahead of any random dude.
That lady really needs to relax and have a home brew.
She takes running wayyyyy too seriously... thus the single life..
Really old and forgetful.... wrote:
josh35 wrote:
Are you implying that they only just started having finish line tape or are you 200 years old?
Not at the races I ran. (Except that one race where I won my high school's night invitational and broke the school record in the two mile.) I wouldn't have remembered that but there is a picture of me breaking the tape in the yearbook.
So you're saying you just don't remember? Finish line tape has always been a thing.
Nobody's fault but the race organizers. Mistake #1: Trying to squeeze a half finish area and a full finish area into one. Mistake #2: Never thinking out this scenario, which is easily possible at a medium sized event like this. Mistake #3: Not having an area to redirect the male runners when the top females finish.
So the dude beat the first place woman by a second or two. Not his fault they squeezed him into a narrow chute and put the tape in front of him. Though I understand the woman being upset in the moment at having someone in front of her breaking the tape. We've all dreamed of that moment, even if it's in a small marathon. I'm sure both the H man and the female winner are having a good laugh at it now.