Triathlete punches woman en route to win!!!

there are 3 sides to every story: hers, his and the truth

Yeah....whatever. The pictures speak for themselves. Runners don't have inferiority complexes Brian. You must have issues. Is that why you're doing tri's now?

Pappas12 wrote:

Yeah....whatever. The pictures speak for themselves. Runners don't have inferiority complexes Brian. You must have issues. Is that why you're doing tri's now?

so you were dumped by a triguy. was it really 'cause he liked the bike more?

i guess he didn't have to put up with that constant lip you feel compelled to run. probably a better ride, too.

Go back to your Tri site Troll.

It's all about "character." wrote:

She has every right in the world to back up into him, because she is a great humanitarian who had helped a blind competitor in swim. What did this guy do to help other people? Apparently nothing.

... She had no obligation to pay any attention to the traffic, because she is a kind, friendly and wonderful person. Where were his family and friends cheering for him? No where in sight. That proves she is a better person than him. Case closed.

She sounds like an evil hypocrite. Look at me, doing some charity, that entitles me to wave at all my fans and pay no attention to the actual race because it is all about me, me, me. Oh, look, someone bumped into me because I wasn't paying attention. If it was assault or a crime, I'd prosecute them, but clearly I'm in the wrong. I know, I'll post this guys name and try to ruin his real life, because of this. After all, he's a horrible person, only a horrible person would push me. I'm such a great humanitarian, I deserve revenge, total revenge, hahaha.

I agree that she appears to be at fault to wandering around the course, oblivious to other runners and apparently backing out of her lane. It also appears to not be a punch, but either a shove or quickly putting his arm straight out to prevent someone from backing into him. I think the blog post misrepresented what happened at least to some extent and relied to irrelevant facts (volunteering, Sandy Hook) to create an emotional response.

Maybe the runner did have time to avoid her. Maybe he shoved her. Or maybe not. Creating a blog post based on two pictures when there is a video available I think is inappropriate. Post the full video and let people make up their own minds.

Maybe we should do a time motion study to truly understand what happened. Also a slow mo verison of the video frame by frame.

Look, this gal was somewhat unaware of her surroundings or she would realize that she was in the line of fire but it also looks like there is plenty of room for the guy to maneuver around her and not have to reach out and "hit" her.

Offsetting penalties.

You know how friggin' hard it is to steer a top fuel dragster? No? than shut up, azzholes. Hobby jogger mom got what she deserved. You don't jump in front of a semi on the highway, and you don't get in the way of runner's finishing their race.

Is this the Blair Cullen who works at ESPN:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:XwgpK_gTNQIJ:www.linkedin.com/pub/dir/Blair/Cullen+&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

That would make sense.

ESPN wrote:

Is this the Blair Cullen who works at ESPN:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:XwgpK_gTNQIJ:www.linkedin.com/pub/dir/Blair/Cullen+&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

That would make sense.

Yes

It was a competition, Blair was giving it his best like any stud should in anything that is called a competition.

Hobby-jogger-I-do-charity-and-announce-to-world-mom stands in the way to talk to family, which I presume she has not seen since 2 hours before complains because Stud could not stop in time?

Sorry, but, stay out of the way 'good lady'

Semis actually can go pretty fast. So many Cullen defenders out in force. 1:40 half and can't take a step laterally? Have to admit, the husband is a puss too.

I'm guessing 90% of the Cullen defenders have the initials BC.

Both are clearly hobby-joggers. Or hobby triathletes which is another step down. It's likely one of the two has not come to terms with that status.

This is the problem with combining serious racers with a parade atmosphere. You give awards, time people and create an air of competitiveness and then humiliate someone for being competitive.

There's a reason only a couple stills have been posted. The video would show her pretty much motionless as he approached. He had no reason to give space since she wasn't moving. When he was almost right next to her, she inexplicably walked backwards, how could he have anticipated her to go backwards, and ran into him. He threw an arm up and tried to avoid a head on collision which would have turned out much worse for both of them.

100% her fault and she's lucky she didn't get hurt worse. A half second later and she would have been directly in front of him. He would have run into her full steam and come down on top of her. (Of course then people here and on that idiot blog would want him prosecuted for attempted rape.)

She has taken the "high road" by insulting him with names such as ahole, narcissist, and I'm not even going to bother checking the rest. What's the "low road" for her, taking out a hit on him?

But this is what happens when people think they're in a parade and all those reckless maniacs come barreling through actually caring about their time and place. Same thing happens in running. (Only USATF would never sanction a race that let this happen nor DQ the actual victim in the incident.)

One thing is for sure, I'll never do another USATriathlon event. Not that they'll miss me but if the pervading attitude of the federation is to 1) not protect its participants and 2) punish those that protect themselves, I'll stick with neighborhood tris tat don't bother with the sanction and actually protect their competitors.

In case you're wondering, I have nothing to do with this situation. I live thousands of miles away and haven't done a tri in over 10 years. I have been hurt by people who wander into a path (or their dogs, or their kids) with no respect for another person who might also be there. If this were a traffic accident, which it really is, her insurance would go up by 3-4x after this and he would have a settlement.

(-1/0)/10

bingo lingo wrote:

ESPN wrote:

Is this the Blair Cullen who works at ESPN:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:XwgpK_gTNQIJ:www.linkedin.com/pub/dir/Blair/Cullen+&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

That would make sense.

Yes

Someone let Deadspin know about this & they'll break it wide open. Deadspin hates ESPN!

Enough conjecture, find the VID

The most likely explanation by far is that she backed into him because he was concerned with time and would not have gone out of his way to hit her. But that does not mean that he could push her so hard out of the way. He should have then stopped running in order to avoid having to push her out of the way because he is a slow guy.

So, they were both at fault. The key lesson to learn from this, and I've said this for years, is that triathlons are not races for the participants; they are sporting competitions put on for show, but not races.

Did anyone notice how some of those swim times are close to world record 1500m pace? Was the swim downstream or something?