This dude knocked over all the water bottles in the men’s marathon

I've been watching and competing a good few years less than yourself, but I agree - this whole event is quite strange.

I love that you did this math.

When I watched it live I thought WTF, that is 100% intentional.

Rewatching it later I still think the same.

I get that most people will have a hard time comprehending someone doing this on purpose though.

Thank you re. the math. I was thinking about it last night before going to bed but didn't want to get the abacus out of the closet. Felt like this was a good time and place to post it.

I understand why a lot of people would think this was intentional, and watching the first time it did look like it was - I just still think that the evidence against intentionality outweighs the evidence for.

At the end of the day, I would (hopefully) think most people can agree that it had 0 outcome on the race results, and the guy probably doesn't deserve a lifetime ban from competition.

Ban this a-hole from competition for life.

Does he have any sponsor? They should drop him today or suffer the consequences.

epo shassan wrote:

I get that most people will have a hard time comprehending someone doing this on purpose though.

I don't have that problem. I ran an XC course in hs that had a single-track path around a lake with a steep drop off. Many people swam part of the race. Go figure?

All the bottles are the same and there are still plenty more there. What difference does it make? It is dumb and it's funny to those of us not in the race, but it didn't hurt anybody

Hahahaha this is the funniest thing I’ve ever seen. Hey this is what you want. Win at all costs baby. If you ain’t first to the water then you ain’t getting any. Make this like the first marathon when they were drinking alcohol or whatever.

Lets go. Lets see people dying. This event was supposed to be extreme lol. Now it’s the most boring event in all of t&f.

Morhad Amdouni (Tunisia) has no trouble grabbing the LAST bottle on the table.

Sounds like most of the commenters here and elsewhere don't know a lot about running in intense competition, under adverse conditions, at a very fast pace. If they had personal experience with it, they might understand how something like this can happen inadvertently.

ilonggo wrote:

Sounds like most of the commenters here and elsewhere don't know a lot about running in intense competition, under adverse conditions, at a very fast pace. If they had personal experience with it, they might understand how something like this can happen inadvertently.

20 bottles?

VroomVroom wrote:

Make this like the first marathon when they were drinking alcohol or whatever.

Literally rat poison mixed with brandy (see 1904 Olympic Marathon)

messi wrote:

ilonggo wrote:

Sounds like most of the commenters here and elsewhere don't know a lot about running in intense competition, under adverse conditions, at a very fast pace. If they had personal experience with it, they might understand how something like this can happen inadvertently.

20 bottles?

Bashir Abdi tries twice, and knocks 5-6 bottles off the table at 1:12:28 into the same race (overhead view from far away is the best angle I've got, but I'm pretty sure it's him). I don't think he ends up with one from this table either.

Should Abdi be DQ'd? I think most people would be understanding that this was accidental while trying to hydrate. Where do we draw the line on the acceptable number of bottles knocked off the table?

Source: L’équipe du mardi 10 août 2021 (+Ghost1 edit -Fr/Eng)

« Bonsoir, je pense qu'il n'est pas lucide et qu'il était en surrégime dans le sens où au bout de 30 km de course à un niveau plus élevé que le sien il était dans le brouillard. Les apparences sont trompeuses. Il n'a aucun intérêt de faire cela sauf si c'était les seules et uniques bouteilles de la course. Et vous n'avez jamais vu des marathoniens faire des choses totalement bizarre. Le coureur qui va droit dans le tram ou Diniz qui se vide et essaie de courir pourtant juste avant rien. »

Translation:

“Good evening, I think he is not lucid and that he was over-extended (exhausted) in the sense that after 30 km of racing at a higher level he was completely out of it. Appearances are deceptive. There is no point in doing this unless it was the one and only bottle in the race. And you've never seen marathon runners do totally weird things. The runner who goes straight in the tram or Diniz (The famous French 50 km walker ) who empties himself and tries to run, before falling down or losing consciousness.”