Man breaks tape set up for women's winnner at Glass City Marathon

You sound triggered. Maybe you should start identifying yourself as a male.

Avocado's Number wrote:

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.

If Harvard guy ran the full marathon then he was in the correct finishing chute...........yes?

They both come off looking pretty stupid for a doctor and a Harvard grad.

ummmmmm...undertones of adding a weird race imagery to it?

"Amy Manning was all set to celebrate her victory as the top woman when suddenly — as the kids would say — she got Kanye’d. The 36th-place man unwittingly hustled past her on the home stretch and ran through the tape reserved for the female winner, depriving Manning of the photo-perfect finish."

Also the kids would say that? That Kanye thing happened 10 years ago. "The kids" these days had a bedtime earlier than the VMA's broadcast time back then. Terrible writing.

Anyway, no one's paying for a Toledo Blade subscription and it's poorly written so here you go:

Here’s the part you might have missed.

The profusely apologetic tape crasher looking more mortified than the guy in a Wanna-Get-Away commercial. The runners shaking hands. (No hard feelings, Manning assured.) Life moving on.

For good measure, at the urging of race officials, Manning later reenacted her run through the finish line.

“I felt really bad,” said the man, Christian Floyd, a 23-year-old analyst for Cardinal Health in Columbus.

After we heard from — and celebrated — Manning on Sunday, I wanted to talk to Floyd, too, for the full story on the finish.

I tried to put myself in the runners’ shoes.

But, really, unless you have ever sprinted the equivalent of downtown Toledo to Fremont, who among us can?

Here were two high achievers on the best day of their athletic lives, Manning, a 31-year-old doctor from Cincinnati, winning her first marathon, Floyd an Ivy League grad running his first one, their lives colliding after 26.2 miles in a tinderbox of exhaustion and emotion.

Floyd had dreamed of the moment since he arrived at Harvard and took aim on qualifying for the Boston Marathon.

It was no easy road, detoured by one injury after another, most recently a stress fracture in his foot.

But, finally, his day was here, and as Floyd neared the finish line on pace for Boston, he remembers his mind going blank.

“I didn’t actually know [Manning] was the leader,” Floyd said by phone. “We ran the last mile neck and neck racing. At that point in the marathon, it’s my first, and your brain is dead. ... Your mind is foggy, and the last mile or two, it was just put one foot in front of the other. I wasn’t even looking at my watch at that point. Your mind is on only one thing: crossing the finish line.”

It was only after he ran through the ribbon — two steps ahead of Manning in a Boston-qualifying time 2 hours, 52 minutes, 42 seconds — that the light bulb exploded.

As did Manning. (Hey, she graduated from Michigan. Isn’t cursing someone from Columbus — or a same-to-you-pal Buckeyes fan returning fire — just another Sunday at church!?)

Our thoughts: The ending was unfortunate. While no one is suggesting a a sweeping procedural review for a one-off occurrence at a well-run event — “I don’t know if we would change anything,” race director Clint McCormick said — someone could have made sure Floyd knew to run off to the side.

Manning deserved her stage.

But let’s follow her lead and spare the federal case.

“In the grand scheme of things, that doesn’t really matter,” Manning said.

It was a human mistake. A human reaction. And a human response.

Before collapsing to a knee himself, Floyd waited by Manning’s side for a minute as she, um, left it all on the field. The runners shook hands. He apologized again and congratulated her.

similar experience. Miles 20-25 getting updates I was top 3, mile 26 I hear I am 4th...was never passed so wtf?. Awards ceremony concludes and rumors are buzzing about a guy who cut the course. I was mad and confronted the guy for stealing my podium/trophy/paycheck. Confrontation gets ugly and caught on video and goes viral. Was teaching at a private school and called into office and dismissed because of exposure for the school (I was wearing a school singlet) Local sponsors drop me also due to nature of vocabulary I used. This entitled chick, (I assume she used Dr. Amy Manning in every conversation and even when ordering pizza or making reservations) should avoid vocal outbursts which might go viral?

go tell buzzfeed about it wrote:

Unbelievably wrote:

Wow, I never knew that men experienced these things in races too. Do men regularly get one male runner running behind them the entire way in a 10k, despite your changes in pace - slowing down, speeding up, fetching drinks and so on, who then sprint past you at the finish. Then in the finishing chute, try to talk about your hairstyle and say things like 'I was following you the entire way'. Wow I never knew that happened to so many men as well.

Here's a running tip, don't change your pace just to drop a competitor, especially one you're not even racing. Waste of energy. Just keep an going at an even pace.

"Unbelievably:" you're saying that men follow you during a race silently, wait for you at water breaks, match your large changes in pace that you make to try to ditch them, then follow them into the chute, then follow you afterwards while telling you they were following you and commenting on your physical appearance?

And you don't report this obviously deranged person to the police or ask a bystander for help at any point? Because that is very far removed from normal behavior. That isn't chauvinistic behavior that society has silently approved, that is a single crazy person who needs to be dealt with by the police, whether that person is Male or female. Your story, if true, isn't about gender at all, it's about safety and somebody with serious mental health issues.

And yes, women can be creepy stalkers too, mental health disorders dont discriminate on gender, race, economic status, etc.

When I was in high school, I had a female classmate that would slip notes into my backpack, take pictures of me in class, and tell friends of hers that we were together, despite only occasional awkward conversations that she would initiate in passing. I was too young at the time to really understand what was happening. She moved on from me after a while. I was unaware of who she moved on to obsessing over until one of our classmates disappeared, then was found dead a week later. She had killed the girlfriend of the new guy she was obsessed over and later made a full confession and obviously is now in prison for premeditated murder.

My point is, if somebody truly acts like that towards you and you arent exaggerating, you need to report it, for your safety, the safety of the general public, and there is even the chance the person having that mental health crisis will he identified and helped.

Just out of curiosity, what’s the equivalent for a man of a 2:52 by a woman? If it’s a competitive time, I can understand the backlash. If it’s an average time...who even cares, it’s just fun run by a runner who races as a hobby. In my own experience, I’ve done a ton of races at a local competitive level and snafus happen all the time. Also, as someone else noted, practically zero races below the elite level actually use a finishing tape.

Why not treat people as equals? When will women start demanding equal rights? This woman should have congratulated this guy for not slowing down to let her beat him just because she is a woman. He treated her as a fellow runner, an equal.

That guy is my hero...

Seriously though, in my debut marathon they could have lined up beautiful naked women at the finish line and I wouldn’t have seen them. I couldn’t have seen them. I was toast. I don’t blame the guy for running through the tape.

He is going to what, limbo under that sh1t? How about the race organizers get their sh1t together. At the very least put someone who knows what they are doing in charge of the finish line.

Yep. A nice checkered flag looking tape. I've got at least a couple of photos going through it from around '95/'96.

Systemic feminist wrote:

This is now acceptable behavior for women but imagine if a man called a woman this regardless of the severity of the offense? The guy would be pushed out of society. Women claim that they want equality but they really want equal pay for lesser performance in sport, they want to be able to curse at a guy but have a guy thrown in jail if he curses at her, and they still want a guy to pay even though they demand equal pay for lesser work.

*eyeroll*

Utterly classless response by the millennial Instagram hobbyjogger woman. These races are disorganized, a man happened to hit the tape, who the hell cares. This ain't the Olympics and 2:52 is nothing to write home about it. What a loser.

Poor dude. Imagine finishing a marathon and instantly get called an a-hole by some scrawny borderline chick.

Hardloper wrote:

mustache rides wrote:

only 23 minutes outside an OTQ. This lady is going places, just ask her

She's like 7 minutes from the OTQ

She's 37min behind the best woman...Imagine getting excited for some male hobbyjogger who just ran 2:38 thinking that's awesome!

This is ridiculous. There is absolutely nothing he could have done. Was he supposed to come to a dead stop? Is he supposed to be processing at the end of 3 hours of running that he is expected to not go through the finish line? Is the finish line chute so small that they couldn't have put the tape on only one side? His responsibility in this is literally 0%.

The part that I really don't understand is how she was able to recreate the finish. After finishing a marathon, it's never taken me less than a week until I could go at a speed that wouldn't be embarrassing.

Mal Content wrote:

Avocado's Number wrote:

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.

If Harvard guy ran the full marathon then he was in the correct finishing chute...........yes?

Yes.

I'm glad to see that the newspaper provided Floyd's story and perspective in a follow-up article, but the writer of the article, in saying that "someone could have made sure Floyd knew to run off to the side" and Floyd just made a "human mistake," still doesn't seem to understand that Floyd crossed the line exactly where he was supposed to.

Excellent!!! Troll of the year. What rubbish. Total.

He comes around the corner digging hard for the finish line with his head down. As he gets close to the line he fist bumps but doesn't lean in or throw his hands down to "break" the tape. Looks like he didn't realize what happened until a few seconds later, but when he did he apologized and they shook hands. I see no ill will on his behalf. If that were me and I knew what was going on, I would have leaned threw the tape, said equality my left nut, and then asked her about her view on the alleged "wage gap," also known as equal pay for equal play. I hope she didn't get any prize money as that would be "female privilege."

Poorly done article. Thank God I got out of journalism.

Old cultural references. A boomer trying to sound Millennial?

Lots of respect for the Harvard guy.

I bet that one poster is right--she will ask others to call her Dr. all the time. So annoying. My uncle is a doc and a well-respected one, but he never asks us in the family to call him Dr.